🏉 The Rugby Championship is contested by Argentina 🇦🇷, Australia 🇦🇺, New Zealand 🇳🇿, and South Africa 🇿🇦 – the four highest ranked teams in the Southern Hemisphere. See below for the latest Rugby Championship Predictions.
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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 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. South Africa and Australia are on three titles each. The first Rugby Championship was won by New Zealand, who won all six of their matches.
New Zealand, South Africa and Australia have frequently been ranked among the top rugby nations. The Six Nations is the equivalent tournament in the Northern Hemisphere. South Africa has won the Rugby World Cup four times, followed by New Zealand with three, and Australia twice. These account for nine of the ten Cups. 🏆
FORMAT
The series is played on a home-and-away basis. From the first tournament in 1996 until 2005, the three teams played each other twice. From then until 2012, each team played the others three times, totally six games per team, except in the Rugby World Cup years of 2007 and 2011 when the series reverted to a double round-robin.
With the addition of Argentina, in 2012, the format once again reverted to a double round-robin, meaning each team again played six games. For 2015, to provide the teams longer preparation time ahead of the 2015 Rugby World Cup, each side played the others’ teams only once each. This format was also adopted for the 2019 Tournament.
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