2005 National Provincial Championship
Introduction The '''National Provincial Championship''', or NPC, was the predecessor to the current ITM Cup, Air New Zealand Cup and Heartland Championship in New Zealand rugby. 2005 was the 30th and final year of the National Provincial Championship, Auckland were the winners of Division 1, Hawke's Bay were the winners of Division 2, while Wairarapa Bush were the winners of Division 3.
Standings ===Division 1 Standings==='''2005 Air New Zealand NPC Division 1'''PosTeamPldWDLPFPAPDTFTATBLBPts 1   border  9  7  1  1  234  138  +94  25  14  4  1  '''35''' 2    9  7  0  2  290  219  +71  32  28  5  0  '''33''' 3    9  6  1  2  280  158  +122  34  16  6  0  '''32''' 4    9  6  0  3  218  145  +73  24  16  3  1  '''28''' 5    9  5  0  4  268  204  +64  32  22  4  2  '''26''' 6    9  4  0  5  200  256  –56  20  31  1  2  '''19''' 7    9  4  0  5  203  199  +4  23  20  1  1  '''18''' 8    9  3  0  6  188  241  -53  23  25  3  2  '''17''' 9    9  2  0  7  164  215  -51  20  20  2  3  '''13''' 10    9  0  0  9  97  367  -270  11  52  0  1  '''1'''===Division 2 Standings==='''2005 Air New Zealand NPC Division 2'''PosTeamPldWDLPFPAPDTFTATBLBPts 1    8  8  0  0  362  117  +245  54  16  8  0  '''40''' 2    8  7  0  1  320  162  +158  44  18  7  0  '''35''' 3    8  5  0  3  289  192  +97  39  29  3  0  '''23''' 4    8  4  0  4  285  228  +67  36  32  4  2  '''22''' 5    8  4  0  4  201  183  +18  26  23  3  1  '''20''' 6    8  3  0  5  155  200  -45  20  27  2  1  '''15''' 7    8  2  0  6  156  197  -41  20  24  3  2  '''13''' 8    8  3  0  5  161  298  -137  20  30  1  0  '''13''' 9    8  0  0  8  71  423  -362  8  62  0  0  '''0'''===Division 3 Standings==='''2005 Air New Zealand NPC Division 3'''PosTeamPldWDLPFPAPDTFTATBLBPts 1    7  6  0  1  257  94  +163  37  10  6  1  '''31''' 2    7  6  0  1  189  123  +66  29  15  4  0  '''28''' 3    7  5  0  2  220  107  +113  30  14  3  2  '''25''' 4    7  5  0  2  153  149  +4  17  19  2  0  '''22''' 5    7  2  0  5  108  149  -41  9  18  1  2  '''11''' 6    7  2  0  5  131  185  -54  13  24  1  1  '''10''' 7    7  2  0  5  98  191  -93  13  25  1  1  '''10''' 8    7  0  0  7  79  237  -158  11  34  0  2  '''2'''
Division 1 results ===Round 1======Round 2======Round 3======Round 4======Round 5======Round 6======Round 7======Round 8======Round 9======Division 1 Semi-finals======Division 1 Grand Final===
Division 2 results ===Round 1===Bye: ===Round 2===Bye: ===Round 3===Bye: ===Round 4===Bye: ===Round 5===Bye: ===Round 6===Bye: ===Round 7===Bye: ===Round 8===Bye: ===Round 9===Bye: ===Division 2 Semi-finals======Division 2 NPC Grand Final===
References *  thesilverfern.co.nz(  2009-08-01)* The 2006 New Zealand Rugby Almanack, Edited by Clive Akers and Geoff Miller