Bay of Plenty will kick off their ITM Cup premiership rugby campaign at home against Ranfurly Shield holders Taranaki on August 25 - although whether Rotorua or Tauranga host the game is a mystery.
New Steamers coach Kevin Schuler's side will play five home games in this season's ITM Cup round-robin, although Bay of Plenty are the only province of 14 still to sort out where their home games will be played.
The ITM Cup is split into two groups of seven, the premiership (first division) and championship (second division), with each team playing each of the sides in their division plus four crossover matches, for a total of 10 matches before the playoffs. All matches carry full competition points.
Mike Rogers, chief executive of the Bay of Plenty Rugby Union, said they had a set criteria which had been used in the past few years to decide which games would be played at Rotorua's International Stadium and which would be in Tauranga.
"Now the draw's confirmed we can allocate games based on the best interests of the union. Right now I couldn't say - historically there's been a 3/2 or 4/1 split, with the majority in Tauranga ... but there's a formula we work through that looks at [financial] return, getting crowds along, venue costs and where we've played opposition teams historically."
