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The 2025 Rugby Championship [a] is set to be the fourteenth edition of the annual Southern Hemisphere rugby union competition, involving Argentina, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. South Africa are the defending champions [ 2 ] and kick off the tournament against Australia on 16 August.
The 2025 mid-year rugby union internationals (also known as the summer internationals in the Northern Hemisphere, and winter internationals in the Southern Hemisphere) are international rugby union matches that will be mostly played in the Southern Hemisphere during the July international window. 2025 will see the British & Irish Lions touring Australia.
The 1996–2011 results were for the Tri Nations; the results from 2012 to the present are for the Rugby Championship. Teams played only four matches in 2007 and 2011, and three in 2015 and 2019, due to the Rugby World Cup. In 2020, the Tri Nations was contested between Argentina, Australia, and New Zealand.
New Zealand ensured there was no repeat of its shock loss to Argentina a fortnight ago as it convincingly beat the Pumas 38-0 at Newcastle on Saturday and took a firm grip of the Tri-Nations with ...
Flyhalf Nicolas Sanchez scored all of Argentina’s points for the second successive test and the Pumas' remarkable Tri Nations continued with a 15-all draw against Australia at Newcastle on Saturday.
The Tri Nations was created amongst the SANZAR partners (along with the provincial Super 12 competition, now, Super Rugby). The tournament involves three southern hemisphere nations; Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The series was created to form a similar competition to the Six Nations Championship (then, the Five Nations). [2]
World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup: Fiji, Samoa, Tonga: 2006: 2022: Annually Originally Pacific Five Nations — replaced the Pacific Tri-Nations. The original teams were Australia A, the Junior All Blacks (New Zealand's official "A" side), and the three Pacific Island nations. In 2008, the New Zealand Māori replaced the Junior All Blacks.
With the Rugby League World Cup being held in 2000, the Tri-nations tournament was put on hold indefinitely. Australia was to dominate international rugby league over the next three years, winning the World Cup, defeating Great Britain 2–1 and 3–0 in Kangaroo Tours in 2001 and 2003 , and defeating Great Britain and New Zealand by large ...