Rugby-Nations Championship launched as rugby offers more purpose to test schedule


  • Rugby
  • Monday, 17 Nov 2025

Rugby Union - Six Nations Championship - Wales v France - Principality Stadium, Cardiff, Wales, Britain - March 10, 2024 General view of a rugby ball before the match REUTERS/Molly Darlington

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) -Rugby’s new-look Nations Championship was launched on Monday with northern and southern hemisphere countries pitted against each other in two separate windows in July and November next year before a weekend of finals matches in London.

The long-anticipated announcement has come three years after the competition was first mooted to replace the traditional mid-year tours that northern hemisphere teams make to countries in the south and then the other way round in November.

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