The coaches of New Zealand Super Rugby sides are pushing for a team of Pacific island players to be included in the southern hemisphere competition when it expands in 2016.
The team, based in Auckland, would be part of an 18-club competition under a proposal from the head coaches of New Zealand's five existing Super Rugby teams.
The competition would also include a Japanese team and South Africa's Kings and Lions, who currently compete in an end-of-season play-off for a Super Rugby berth.
Argentina would reportedly not have a team in the proposed competition but clubs would be allowed to sign Argentine players.
But, the chief executive of SANZAR, the competition's governing body, says an Argentinian team is a certainty.
Greg Peters told the New Zealand Herald that a guiding principle of SANZAR is the inclusion of a franchise based in Argentina.
The SANZAR countries -- South Africa, New Zealand and Australia -- are looking to expand the Super 15 tournament when the current broadcast deal expires at the end of 2015.
The move is being driven by South Africa's insistence that it field six teams, rather than the current five entered by all three countries.
