Pacific Islands Super Rugby team

South Auckland base for planned Pasifika super rugby side

A group of former All Blacks, including two-time World Cup winner Jerome Kaino, are behind the establishment of the first professional rugby union team in Hawaii.

Kanaloa Hawaii has had its bid to join America's Major League Rugby confirmed and is now in talks with New Zealand Rugby about joining a revamped Super Rugby competition.

It would be a separate team to the one that will play in the US, and would be based in South Auckland.