The Chiefs Rugby Club (formerly known as the Waikato Chiefs) are a professional rugby club based in Hamilton, New Zealand. Their primary home ground is FMG Stadium Waikato. The Gallagher Chiefs compete in Super Rugby Pacific, and our Waitomo Chiefs Manawa compete in Super Rugby Aupiki. The Chiefs region is made up of the following provinces: Waikato, Taranaki, Counties-Manukau, Thames Valley, King Country and Bay of Plenty.
External link for Chiefs Rugby Club
10 Bisley Rd
Hamilton, Waikato 3214, NZ
Our CEO Simon Graafhuis talking to the Between Two Beers Podcast about the importance of culture in our environment! Check out the whole podcast wherever you listen to your podcasts!
The CEO of Chiefs Rugby Club speaks on the importance of Te ao Māori in their team culture. New episode of Business in Between with Simon Graafhuis is live on all streaming apps now! All links available here: https://lnkd.in/g_V9gpfq #nzrugby #chiefsrugby #nzbusiness
This Wednesday we had the official launch of our mini series Taniwha Unleashed with a screening of episode 1 before it was launched on TVNZ+ yesterday. Andrew Saville headed down for a live cross on One News with Head Coach Clayton McMillan to speak about what it was like having a crew with the squads all season, the appetite for more behind the scenes content from the rugby world, and much more. Watch Here - https://lnkd.in/ga6ENyQ9
With great sadness, we acknowledge the passing of father, grandfather, son, colleague, and friend Paul “Shaver” Galletta. Shaver lived his life in the service of others. He was selfless, caring, kind and generous with his time to help those around him. He will be sorely missed by all those who were lucky enough to have known him. A celebration of his life will happen on Wednesday 27 November at FMG Stadium Waikato, timings to come. Once A Chief, Always A Chief ❤️💛🖤
Looking forward to heading back down to Taranaki for an epic pre-season match up with the Hurricanes to kick off the 2025 season!
In partnership with the Venture Taranaki Trust the Chiefs Rugby Club and the Hurricanes will go head to head at Yarrow Stadium on the afternoon of Saturday Feb 1. Many well-known local players are set to feature in the games including Bradley Slater, Kini Naholo, Arese Poliko, Tupou Vaa’i and Kaylum Boshier. The game will kick off at 2pm for an epic day of summer afternoon rugby. Tickets and corporate hospitality options will go on sale in due course.
Aupiki Draw Drop 💥 ➡️ Pre-season hit out against the reigning champs ➡️ 3 home / 3 away ➡️ 2 home games are double headers with the Gallagher Chiefs ➡️ Winner of Aupiki will play the winner of Super W Read more here - https://bit.ly/3YOKjis
WE ARE HIRING! The Chiefs Rugby Club is accepting applications for Brand Marketing and Communications Lead who will be responsible for - Lead media and brand-led communications in the annual marketing plan implementation. - Provide brand guidelines oversight & implementation across any marketing collateral. - Lead copy writing for all organisational communications. - Coordinate media sessions & interviews with playing/coaching group & assist in tracking player hours allocated to media activities. - And much more in the link below https://lnkd.in/gYpz7gqV
Three and a half years ago the Chiefs were introduced to Xentrix founder and Director Julian Phillips. Julian, a previous CIO with Gallagher, (our men’s team naming sponsor) had developed an organisation active engagement programme and assessment tool that enabled us to start examining and measuring our off-field performance (namely staff engagement and productivity) in addition to the traditional on field performance measures associated with sport and performance. Fast forward three years, we are now using the Xentrix programme across the organisation where it has enabled us to link the boardroom to the field. This includes: Organisation Pulse Checks to assess our organisations health and staff engagement Our own performance competency matrix to guide strategy Team in-season and post-season reviews for the Gallagher Chiefs, Chiefs Manawa and the University of Waikato Men’s U20’s team Staff performance/stay interviews In addition to Xentrix’s Active Engagement Methodology, the value proposition to the Chiefs lies in Xentrix’s ability to provide us with bespoke solutions to our performance management requirements. Unlike other programmes and tools on the market, we have the ability to apply benefits realisation methodology to our processes to ensure we apply and prioritise our key learnings. The platform’s built in AI functions and Power Bi plug-in has supercharged the quality and timeliness of our report generation and has significantly reduced back-end work analysing and collating data and results. Assessment results are immediate and benchmarked to ensure we are accountable for change and performance impact and that we focus our time and energy where it really matters. If you’re wanting to make step-change, we’d encourage you to reach out directly to Julian or to check out www.xentrix.org - what’s exciting for us is while we’ve already seen tangible benefits to performance, we’re only just scratching the surface……..
Our crew 🔥🔥🔥 ➡️ Brodie McAlister joins us after 40 caps for the Crusaders ➡️ Fiti Sa and Josh Jacomb are elevated from NDC and Wider Training groups ➡️ Leroy Carter joins from the NZ 7s after winning Player of the Year in 2024 ➡️ Jahrome Brown adds 50 Brumbies caps to the loose forwards Read More Here - https://bit.ly/4fEeBLK
For the first time ever, we are opening our doors to let you inside the inner workings of the Chiefs Rugby Club. #TaniwhaUnleashed 3 part series dropping on TVNZ+ | November 28th https://lnkd.in/gHZytPWQ