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1997 Chiefs (Super Rugby) season

chiefs 1997 rugby season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ25711821 ↗
Source-derived summary

1997 was a tough year for the Waikato Chiefs rugby team in the Super 12 Tournament. They won 4 of their 11 games and finished 10th overall on the table, this year the team was coached by Brad Meurant and captain by Ian Jones.

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The public source identifies “1997 Chiefs (Super Rugby) season” as chiefs 1997 rugby season. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Chiefs, Super and Rugby.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Chiefs, Super and Rugby providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “1997 Chiefs (Super Rugby) season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.