Ardie Suemalo Savea

Surname:

Savea

First names:

Ardie Suemalo

All Black Player No:

1147

All Black games played:

108

All Black years:

2016 - 2025

Clubs:

Oriental Rongotai

Provincial teams:

Wellington 2012, 2013, 2015, 2018, 2020
NZ Under 20 2013
Nth Island 2020

Super teams:

Hurricanes 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Hurricanes Development 2013
Moana Pasifika 2025

Super captain:

NZ Under 20 2013
All Blacks 2021, 2023
Hurricanes 2021, 2022, 2023
Moana Pasifika 2025

Country captain:

All Blacks 2023, 2025 part

Biography:

2012: Flanker [3], No 8 [7] - 10 games - 7 tries (35 pts)
2013: Hu: Flanker [2], Sub [1] - 3 games
2013: Hu Dev: Flanker [1], No 8 [1] - 2 games
2013: Flanker [9], Sub [2] - 11 games - 4 tries (20 pts)
2013: NZ Under 20: Flanker - 5 games - 1 try (5 pts)
2014: Hu: Flanker [5], Sub [9] - 14 games - 2 tries (10 pts)
2015: Hu: Flanker [13], Sub [2] - 15 games - 3 tries (15 pts)
2015: Barbarians: Flanker - 2 games - 1 try, 1 C (7 pts)
2015: Flanker [6], No 8 [6] - 12 games - 5 tries (25 pts)
2016: AB's: Flanker [11], No 8 [1] - 12 tests - 2 tries (10 pts)
2016: Hu: Flanker - 17 games - 5 tries (25 pts)
2017: AB's: No 8 [1], Flanker [9] - 10 tests, Flanker - 2 games - 2 tries (10 pts)
2017: Hu: No 8 [5], Flanker [10], Sub [1] - 16 games - 6 tries (30 pts)
2018: AB's: No 8 [1], Flanker [6], Sub [6] - 13 tests - 3 tries (15 pts)
2018: Hu: Flanker - 10 games - 1 try (5 pts)
2018: Flanker - 1 game
2019: AB's: No 8 [2], Flanker [6], Sub [1] - 9 tests - 2 tries (10 pts)
2019: Hu: Flanker [10], No 8 [4], Sub [2] - 16 games - 4 tries (20 pts)
2020: AB's: No 8 - 5 tests - 2 tries (10 pts)
2020: Nth Island: Flanker - 1 game
2020: Hu: No 8 [7], Sub [1] - 8 games
2020: No 8 - 2 games - 1 try (5 pts)
2021: AB's: No 8 [7], Flanker [3] - 10 tests - 4 tries (20 pts)
2021: Hu: No 8 [6], Flanker [2], Sub [1] - 9 games
2022: AB's: No 8 - 11 tests - 5 tries (25 pts)
2022: Hu: No 8 [10], Sub [1] - 11 games - 3 tries (15 pts)
2023: AB's: No 8 [10], Sub [1] - 11 tests - 4 tries (20 pts)
2023: Hu: No 8 [10], Flanker [2] - 12 games - 8 tries (40 pts)
2024: AB's: No 8 [12], Flanker [1] - 13 tests - 4 tries (20 pts)
2025: AB's: Flanker [10], No 8 [2] - 12 tests - 3 tries (15 pts)
2025: Mo: Flanker [10], No 8 [2] - 12 games - 7 tries (35 pts)

Sub Total: AB's: 108 games (155 pts)
Super: Hu: 131 games (160 pts): Mo: 12 games (35 pts)
Prov: 36 games (85 pts)
Others: 10 games (12 pts)

Total: 297 games (447 pts)

2013: Age Grade Player of the Year
2019: Super Rugby Player of the Year
2019: All Blacks Player of the Year
2019: Player of the Year
2021: All Blacks Player of the Year
2022: All Blacks Player of the Year
2023: Player of the Year
2023: All Blacks Player of the Year

Born: 14 Oct 1993

NOTE: This site shows Men's rugby history data from 1957 to 2025. In the Women's game it goes back to early 2000s. I am working backwards to earlier years as time allows.

Endorsement

It gives me great pleasure to write this character reference about this website. There would not be a person in this country who doesn’t know that rugby is the national game of New Zealand. The passion runs deep and the profile and exposure of the sport is without peer. A fair chunk of our heroes come from the game and nothing affects the mental psychology of the people more than rugby. Not even politics.

Because of this rich feeling, discussions in society are often based around the game and on the players involved. Memories tend to play tricks on people. They can fade and forget and get things muddled up. For nearly 90 years New Zealand rugby enthusiasts have been superbly served by the Rugby Almanack. It remains the definitive source of information from each season despite the advancement of technology.

However, we must accept that technology has advanced and like rugby, we therefore need to embrace the good that comes with that change. www.rugbyhistory.co.nz is the best rugby history site that is available. It provides comprehensive records of the All Blacks, all the Super rugby sides and most impressively of all, places a large emphasis on the national provincial competition, which remains such a crucial part of the fabric in New Zealand.

Kery Geertson’s dedication to this growing rugby treasure can not be denied. It continues to grow, mature and impress. To paraphrase the late, great Terry McLean www.rugbyhistory.co.nz should be stored as a favourite website for every rugby lover; it provides facts and fairness and hours of one of life’s greatest pleasures – browsing.

Grant Hassall
Wannabe Rugby Historian
New Plymouth

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