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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.
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]
The 2020 Tri Nations Series was the seventeenth edition of the annual southern hemisphere competition, involving Argentina, Australia and New Zealand.On 16 October 2020, 2019 Rugby Championship winners and 2019 Rugby World Cup champions South Africa confirmed their withdrawal from the originally planned 2020 Rugby Championship due to South African government travel restrictions, player welfare ...
In 2012, Argentina's Pumas joined this competition, [1] which was rebranded as The Rugby Championship. [2] This made this series the last under the Tri Nations name until 2020, when South Africa withdrew due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [3] The 2011 Rugby World Cup was held in New Zealand between 9 September and 23 October 2011. As a result, the ...
The 2024 Rugby Championship [a] was the thirteenth edition of the annual Southern Hemisphere rugby union competition, involving Argentina, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. New Zealand was the defending champion. [4] [5] On 28 September, South Africa won the championship for the first time since 2019 after a 48-7 win against Argentina ...
The 1996 Tri Nations Series was the inaugural Tri Nations Series, a rugby union competition contested by the men's national teams of Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. It was contested from 6 July to 10 August.
The 2023 Rugby Championship was the eleventh edition of the annual southern hemisphere competition, involving Argentina, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.. The competition was operated by SANZAAR, a joint venture of the four countries' national unions, and known for sponsorship reasons as The Castle Rugby Championship in South Africa, The Lipovitan-D Rugby Championship in New Zealand ...
This was the first Tri Nations tournament after South Africa's 2007 Rugby World Cup victory, and they went into the competition as the top team in the IRB World Rankings (having ended a 175-week run for New Zealand). On 30 June 2008, before the tournament began, New Zealand and Australia were ranked second and third in the world respectively.