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Poster

Established
1996 (28 years old)

First Recorded Event
2012-08-18

Current Season
2024

Sport
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Rugby

Location
Worldwide

Gender
Male

TV Rights
ZA - SuperSport
NZ - Sky Sports
UK - Sky Sports
AUS - Stan Sport/Nine Network
US - FloSports [2021]
South America - ESPN
Europe - CANAL+

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Results
28 Sep	New Zealand	33 - 13	Australia Ru
28 Sep	South Africa	48 - 7	Argentina Ru
21 Sep	Australia Ru	28 - 31	New Zealand
21 Sep	Argentina Ru	29 - 28	South Africa
07 Sep	South Africa	18 - 12	New Zealand
07 Sep	Argentina Ru	67 - 27	Australia Ru
31 Aug	Argentina Ru	19 - 20	Australia Ru
31 Aug	South Africa	31 - 27	New Zealand
17 Aug	Australia Ru	12 - 30	South Africa
17 Aug	New Zealand	42 - 10	Argentina Ru

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The Rugby Championship is an international rugby union competition contested annually by Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. These are the four highest ranked national teams in the Southern Hemisphere, the Six Nations is a similar tournament in the Northern Hemisphere.

Prior to the 2012 tournament, when Argentina joined, it was known as the Tri Nations. The Tri Nations name was temporarily revived for the 2020 tournament due to the withdrawal of South Africa owing to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The competition is administered by SANZAAR, a consortium consisting of four national governing bodies: the South African Rugby Union, New Zealand Rugby Union, Rugby Australia and the Argentine Rugby Union The inaugural Tri Nations tournament was in 1996, and was won by New Zealand – known as the All Blacks. South Africa won their first title in 1998, and Australia their first in 2000. Following the last Tri Nations tournament in 2011, New Zealand had won ten championships, with South Africa and Australia on three titles each. The first Rugby Championship was won by New Zealand, who won all six of their matches.

New Zealand, Australia and South Africa have frequently been ranked among the top rugby nations, with Australia winning the Rugby World Cup twice and New Zealand and South Africa winning it three times. Argentina, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa are the four highest ranked national teams in the Southern Hemisphere.

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