The 2022 Super Rugby Pacific season is the 27th period of Super Rugby, a yearly rugby association rivalry coordinated by SANZAAR between groups from Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, Samoa and Tonga. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the past seasons were supplanted with Super Rugby Unlocked, Super Rugby Aotearoa and Super Rugby AU in 2020, and Super Rugby Aotearoa, Super Rugby AU, and Super Rugby Trans-Tasman in 2021. The 2022 release will Super Rugby Pacific live return to a 12-group contest, with a solitary pool supplanting the topographical meeting framework, just as presenting another name for the reformatted rivalry. With the avoidance or withdrawal of the Argentine Jaguares, the Japanese Sunwolves, and the South African Bulls, Lions, Sharks and Stormers sides at the finish of the 2020 Super Rugby season. The Fiji Rugby Union's homegrown group, the Fijian Drua, having recently contended in the Australian National Rugby Championship from 2017 to 2019, were reported as one expansion to the opposition.
The recently made Moana Pasifika establishment, addressing players from Samoa and Tonga and other Pacific Islands, additionally effectively set forth a bid to join the opposition. The Force likewise got back to Super Rugby, following their prohibition toward the finish of the 2017 Super Rugby season. The 12 taking part groups won't be partitioned into geological meetings, rather playing 14 normal season games: the 12 groups confronting each other once in a Super Rugby Pacific live online home-and-away configuration for 11 games, and the excess 3 games to be played with an accentuation on derby matches; with the Fijian Drua liable to be related with the Australian sides and Moana Pasifika with the New Zealand sides, given they will be based there. Almost certainly, the Drua and Moana Pasifika will likewise foster another contention between them, being both the two Pacific Island groups addressed in and the two groups new to the opposition, prompting their games becoming derby matches.