The Brumbies (formerly known as the ACT Brumbies) are a Super 15 rugby union team based in Canberra, Australia and named for the wild horses which inhabit Canberra's hinterland.
The team represents the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and southern New South Wales (NSW) regions.
The Melbourne Rebels are a professional rugby union team based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
They made their debut in SANZAR's Super Rugby tournament in 2011. They are the first privately owned professional rugby union team in Australia.
The club shares its name with a former Australian Rugby Championship team, but is unrelated.
The New South Wales Waratahs, the Waratahs, the 'Tahs or the florists are an Australian rugby union football team, representing the majority of New South Wales in the Super 15 Super Rugby competition.
The Waratahs has historically been the name for the New South Wales Rugby Union (NSWRU) representative team, and became the name for the New South Wales team when it entered the Super Six, Super 10 and Super 12 competitions.
The name and emblem comes from the waratah, the state flower for New South Wales. Their home ground is Sydney Football Stadium at Moore Park in Sydney.
The Waratahs are the third most successful Australian Super Rugby franchise, behind the Brumbies (2 championships) and the Reds (3 championship).
The Queensland Reds represent Queensland in the sport of rugby union in the Southern Hemisphere Super Rugby competition.
Prior to 1996 they were a representative team selected on merit from the rugby union club competitions in Queensland. With the introduction of the professional Super 12 competition they moved to a model where players are contracted to the Reds through the Queensland Rugby Union rather than selected on the basis of club form.
Beginning in 2011, they are one of five Australian sides in the expanded and renamed Super Rugby, and are the current tournament champions.
Western Force is a rugby union team based in Perth, Western Australia playing in the international Super Rugby competition.
They first competed in the 2006 season and finished with the wooden spoon in that year, however their performances greatly improved in 2007.
In 2008 they finished in 8th place, just missing out on the finals again. The team is the fourth Australian team to be accepted into the competition.