In a live broadcast from Tūrangawaewae Marae this morning, Te Matatini has revealed the draw for 2025′s national senior kapa haka competition.
Te Matatini o Te Kāhui Maunga, which will be held at Pukekura in Ngāmotu, Taranaki next February, is set to welcome its biggest-ever cohort next year, with 55 kapa to take the stage.
The live draw followed two days of wānanga discussing the future of Te Ao Haka in Ngāruawahia.
Te Ihu | 25 Pēpuere
- Te Rōpū Manutaki | Tāmaki Makaurau
- Te Kapa Haka o Ōpōtiki Mai Tawhiti | Mātaatua
- Hikurangi | Te Tai Rāwhiti
- Te Uri o Manumanu | Te Tai Tokerau
- Hātea Kapa Haka | Te Tai Tokerau
- Te Rerenga Kōtuku | Ngāti Kahungunu
- Te Ahikaaroa | Waitaha
- Tūhourangi Ngāti Wāhiao | Te Arawa
- Te Whirikōkō o Rangitāne | Rangitāne
- Te Pae Kahurangi | Tainui
- Te Pou-o-Mangataawhiri | Tainui
- Te Kapa Haka o Te Whānau-a-Apanui | Mātaatua
- Ngā Manu a Tāne | Waitaha
Te Haumi| 26 Pēpuere
- Te Kapa Haka o Ngāti Ranginui | Ngāti Kahungunu
- Te Ringa Kaha | Rangitāne
- Te Tini o Rehua | Rangitāne
- Te Atawhai Puumanawa | Te Whenua Moemoea
- Te Kapa Haka o Kia Ngāwari | Te Tauihu
- Angitu | Tāmaki Makaurau
- Kōkō Tangiwai | Waitaha
- Te Kuru Marutea | Te Tauihu
- Te Kapa Haka o Ngā Hau e Whā ki Murihiku | Waitaha
- Ngā Purapura o te Taihauāuru | Te Kāhui Maunga
- Te Iti Kahurangi | Tainui
- Te Rangiura o Wairarapa | Ngāti Kahungunu
- Te Waka Huia | Tāmaki Makaurau
- Ngā Tūmanako | Tāmaki Makaurau
Te Kei| 27 Pēpuere
- Te Kapa Haka o Ngāti Whakaue | Te Arawa
- Te Kapa Haka o Ngā Pua o te Kōwhara | Tainui
- Te Pikikōtuku o Ngāti Rongomai | Te Arawa
- Te Kapa Haka o te Hau Tawhiti Te Whenua Moemoea
- Ngā Waihotanga | Te Kāhui Maunga
- Manawa mai Tawhiti | Te Whenua Moemoeā
- Te Kapa Haka o Ruatoki | Mātaatua
- Te Reanga Morehu o Rātana | Te Kāhui Maunga
- Ōhinemataroa ki Ruatāhuna | Mātaatua
- Te Tū Mataora | Rangitāne
- Te Poho o Hinekahukura | Tāmaki Makaurau
- Te Taumata o Apanui | Mātaatua
- Te Hekenga ā Rangi | Te Arawa
- Te Kapa Haka o Te Ahi a Tahurangi | Te Whanganui a Tara
Te Awa| 28 Pēpuere
- Te Hikuwai | Te Arawa
- Whāngārā Mai Tawhiti | Te Tai Rāwhiti
- Ngā Taonga Mai Tawhiti | Te Whanganui a Tara
- Tauira Mai Tawhiti | Mātaatua
- Te Puu Ao | Te Tai Tokerau
- Te Hokowhitu a Tū | Te Tai Rāwhiti
- Tū Te Manawa Maurea | Te Tai Rāwhiti
- Te Kapa Haka o Kahungunu | Ngāti Kahungunu
- Waihirere | Te Tai Rāwhiti
- Te Taha Tū | Tāmaki Makaurau
- Muriwhenua | Te Tai Tokerau
- Mōtai Tangata Rau | Tainui
- Ngāti Rangiwewehi | Te Arawa