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Now in its 88th edition, the 2024 New Zealand Rugby Almanack records another huge year, including the All Blacks in the Rugby World Cup, Rugby Championship and the Bledisloe Cup plus the Women's Rugby, Maori Rugby, Super Rugby, Bunnings Warehouse NPC and Heartland Championship and a full summary of sevens rugby. The New Zealand Rugby Almanack is the world's longest running rugby book of record. It was first published in 1935 to cover the previous season's first-class rugby in New Zealand. Since then, it has been published uninterrupted (apart from two combined issues during World War II). About the authors: Clive Akers, Adrian Hill and Campbell Burnes are New Zealand's foremost rugby writers, historians and statisticians. Akers has been a co-editor of the Almanack since 1995. He was joined in 2014 by Adrian Hill and in 2019 by Burnes.