New Zealand Heartland XV

New Zealand

Union	New Zealand Rugby Union
Coach(es)	Guy Lennox
Captain(s)	Joe Harwood
Most caps	(-)
Top scorer	(-)
Team kit Change kit

The Heartland XV rugby team is one of several New Zealand national representative rugby union teams, although it is at a lower level than the All Blacks (the full national side), the second-level Junior All Blacks and the New Zealand Māori (an all-Māori side that frequently plays full international sides from other countries). The side is drawn exclusively from players for provincial unions that compete in the Heartland Championship, a nominally amateur domestic competition below the fully professional Air New Zealand Cup.

The former Divisional XV logo.

Originally known as the Divisional XV, it was designed to expose players from Divisions Two and Three in the Air New Zealand National Provincial Championship (NPC) to rugby at a higher level. Upon the 2006 reorganisation of the NPC into the Air New Zealand Cup and Heartland Championship, the side was revamped into a Heartland-only side and received its current name.

2008 Squad

Forwards

• Daniel Aldworth (Wanganui)
• Aarin Dunster (King Country)
• Joseph Harwood (Wairarapa-Bush)
• William Halgarth (Poverty Bay)
• Sam Henderson (Wairarapa-Bush)
• Dylan Higgison (Wairarapa-Bush)
• Sylvanus Iro (Wairarapa-Bush)
• Sheldon O'Hagan (Wanganui)
• Hayden Rasmussen (Thames Valley)
• Peter Rowe (Wanganui)
• Thomas Solomon (Poverty Bay)
• Michael Tamehana (Wanganui)
• Michael Thompson (Wanganui)
• Ryan Tohaia (Thames Valley)
• Gene Waller (Thames Valley)

Backs

• Patrick Harding-Rimene (Wairarapa Bush)
• Karne Kaufana (North Otago)
• Scott Leighton (Poverty Bay)
• Shane Leach (Poverty Bay)
• Leon Mason (Wanganui)
• Scott Mayhew (North Otago)
• Hamish McKenzie (Wairarapa Bush)
• Daniel Morath (Poverty Bay)
• Nathan Riwai-Couch (Wairarapa Bush)
• Kahu Tamatea (Poverty Bay)
• Fa'aitu Tuamoheloa (North Otago)
• Logan Vaughan (Wanganui)