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The Wales national rugby union team toured Australia in July 2024 as part of the 2024 mid-year rugby union tests.The first test against the Australia national team was played on 6 July at the new Sydney Football Stadium in Sydney, New South Wales, with the second test following a week later at the Melbourne Rectangular Stadium in Melbourne, Victoria. [1]
Since 1908 Australia and Wales have competed against each other in rugby union in forty-nine matches, Australia having won thirty-four, Wales fourteen, with one draw. Since 2007 the teams have competed for the James Bevan Trophy, which was created to celebrate 100 years of rugby between the two nations. [1]
Australia: 30–13 Wales: Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney: 25,386 28 June 1975 New Zealand: 13–8 Wales: Carlaw Park, Auckland: 9,368 20 September 1975 England: 22–16 Wales: Wilderspool Stadium, Warrington: 5,034 19 October 1975 Wales: 6–18 Australia: St Helens Rugby Ground, Swansea: 11,112 2 November 1975 Wales: 25–24 New Zealand
Wales vs Australia talking points: World Cup thumping seems an age ago. 14:30, Harry Latham-Coyle. It was only just under 14 months ago on a Sunday night in Lyon that Wales put Australia to the sword.
Wales 40-6 Australia: Warren Gatland’s side enjoyed a night to remember as Eddie Jones suffered a humiliating World Cup defeat in Lyon
1987 Rugby World Cup Wales: 29 May 1987 Showgrounds Oval Tonga Wales: 16–29 Wales: 3 June 1987 Rugby Park Stadium Canada Wales: 9–40 Wales: 8 June 1987 Ballymore Stadium England Wales: 3–16 Wales: 14 June 1987 Ballymore Stadium New Zealand Wales: 49–6 New Zealand: 18 June 1987 Rotorua International Stadium Australia Wales: 21–22 Wales
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When Australian born Jones-Hughes, whose father was born in Wales, was named in the Wales squad for the 1999 Rugby World Cup, Rugby Australia lodged a complaint with the IRB. The Australians claimed he was ineligible to play for Wales because he had played for the Australian Barbarians against Scotland in 1998, which they said was Australia's ...