The Heartland Championship competition, known for sponsorship reasons as the Bunnings Warehouse Heartland Championship, is a domestic rugby union competition in New Zealand. It was founded in 2006 as one of two successor competitions to the country's former domestic competition, the National Provincial Championship (NPC). The country's 27 provincial teams were split into two separate competitions. Thirteen of the original teams, plus one merged side created from two other teams, entered the new top-level professional competition, the Air New Zealand Cup (later known as the ITM Cup, Mitre 10 Cup and currently the NPC). The remaining 12 sides entered the new Heartland Championship, whose teams contest two distinct trophies, both named after famous New Zealand players:

  • The Meads Cup, the more prestigious trophy, named after Colin Meads.
  • The Lochore Cup, named after Brian Lochore.
Heartland Championship on Uus-Meremaa Kesk-Põhjasaare provintside klubide vaheline rugbyliit.
See on kolmas tase Uus-Meremaa rugby liiga süsteemis, allpool Mitre 10 Cupi ja Bunnings NPCi.
Võistlus sai alguse 1976. aastal ja seda on mänginud 12 provintsklubid: Whanganui, Taranaki, Manawatu, Horowhenua-Kapiti, Wairarapa Bush, Wellington, Hawke's Bay, Poverty Bay, East Coast, King Country, Thames Valley ja Mid Canterbury.