2017 Rugby Almanack

The 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). The 2017 Rugby Almanack records another huge year.

Clive Akers is one of New Zealand's foremost rugby historians and statisticians, and author of more than 16 books. He has been a co-editor of the Rugby Almanack since 1995. Adrian Hill is one of New Zealand's foremost rugby historians and has joined the team of Clive Akers and Geoff Miller as co-author of the Rugby Almanack. Geoff Miller is one of New Zealand's foremost rugby historians and statisticians, and statistician for the New Zealand Rugby Union.