The Australian Rugby Championship or ARC (also known as the Mazda Australian Rugby Championship or the Mazda Championship for sponsorship reasons) was a domestic rugby union football club competition in Australia which ran for only one season in August-October 2007. The competition, similar to New Zealand's Air New Zealand Cup and South Africa's Currie Cup, aimed to bridge the gap between existing club rugby and the international Super 14 competition. The ARC involved eight teams: two from Queensland, three from New South Wales and one each from Australian Capital Territory, Western Australia and Victoria.
On 18 December 2007, the Australian Rugby Union (ARU) announced that the ARC would be scrapped due to financial losses of A$4.7 million (US$4.0 million, € 2.8 million, £2.0 million).
