Canterbury vs Otago · NPC
NPC · 2025Full time
36–28
Match report
Canterbury beat Otago 36-28 at Apollo Projects Stadium, Christchurch in the final of the NPC on Saturday, 25 October 2025.
That makes it four wins in a row for Canterbury.
Written automatically from the match data; updated as results come in.
Head to head
4
Canterbury wins (57%)
0
Draws (0%)
3
Otago wins (43%)
Last 7 meetings, since October 2020
Biggest Canterbury win
34–16
7 Sept 2024
Biggest Otago win
23–16
30 Oct 2020
Last 5 meetings
- 9 Aug 2026 · Bunnings NPCOtago15Canterbury199 Aug 2026Otago15–19CanterburyBunnings NPC
- 25 Oct 2025 · Bunnings NPCCanterbury36Otago2825 Oct 2025Canterbury36–28OtagoBunnings NPC
- 20 Sept 2025 · Bunnings NPCCanterbury36Otago3820 Sept 2025Canterbury36–38OtagoBunnings NPC
- 7 Sept 2024 · Bunnings NPCOtago16Canterbury347 Sept 2024Otago16–34CanterburyBunnings NPC
- 1 Oct 2022 · Bunnings NPCOtago21Canterbury271 Oct 2022Otago21–27CanterburyBunnings NPC
Lineups
Avg. age
26.5
Avg. age
25.7
Canterbury
- 1Finlay Brewis(26)
- 2Brodie McAlister(29)
- 3Seb Calder(24)
- 4Liam Jack(22)
- 5Jamie Hannah(23)
- 6Zach Gallagher(25)
- 7Tom Christie(28)
- 8Dom Gardiner(25)
- 9Louie Chapman(26)
- 10Andrew Knewstubb(31)
- 11Ngatungane Punivai(28)
- 12Dallas McLeod(27)
- 13Braydon Ennor(29)
- 14Manasa Mataele(29)
- 15Chay Fihaki(25)
Replacements
- 16Nick Hyde(33)
- 17Daniel Lienert-Brown(33)
- 18Gus Brown(22)
- 19Tahlor Cahill(23)
- 20Torian Barnes(23)
- 21Tyson Belworthy
- 22Shun Miyake(24)
- 23Jone Rova(24)
Otago
- 1Abraham Pole(28)
- 2Nic Souchon(29)
- 3Rohan Wingham(23)
- 4Will Tucker(28)
- 5Oliver Haig(24)
- 6Will Stodart(23)
- 7Lucas Casey(23)
- 8Christian Lio-Willie(28)
- 9Dylan Pledger(21)
- 10Cameron Millar(24)
- 11Jona Nareki(28)
- 12Thomas Umaga-Jensen(28)
- 13Josh Timu(29)
- 14Jae Broomfield(23)
- 15Sam Gilbert(27)
Replacements
- 16Liam Coltman(36)
- 17Benjamin Lopas(24)
- 18Moana Takataka(22)
- 19Joseva Tamani(29)
- 20Harry Taylor(24)
- 21Nathan Hastie(25)
- 22Josh Whaanga(22)
- 23Finn Hurley(23)