The Springboks have confirmed a house collection in opposition to Italy in 2025, earlier than tackling the Wallabies in two Checks within the residence leg of subsequent 12 months’s Rugby Championship.
The world champions will welcome Italy, Georgia, Australia and Argentina to South Africa in 2025, SA Rugby confirmed on Wednesday.
Whereas the dates had been locked in for the Checks within the Fortress Lager Incoming Sequence in addition to the house leg of the Rugby Championship, SA Rugby will solely affirm venues and kick-off occasions at a later stage.
Italy will go to South Africa for the primary time since 2013 after they face the Boks on 5 and 12 July. Courting again to their first go to in 1999, the Azzurri have solely performed seven Checks in South Africa earlier than.
Per week later, the Boks will tackle Georgia on residence soil for the second time, in step with World Rugby’s plans to show rising nations to prime tier opposition. The Lelos performed one Take a look at in opposition to South Africa in Pretoria in 2021, as prelude to the COVID-impacted tour of the British & Irish Lions.
The Boks will begin the defence of their Rugby Championship crown in opposition to the Wallabies, who host the British & Irish Lions in July, on consecutive weekends in August, on the sixteenth and twenty third.
Away Checks in opposition to the All Blacks in New Zealand comply with on 6 and 13 September earlier than the Boks wrap up the Rugby Championship residence (27 September) and away (4 October) in opposition to Argentina.
Particulars of the venues for the All Blacks Checks, the away match in Argentina and the November tour to Europe might be introduced in the end.
Springbok residence fixtures in 2025 (venues and kick-off occasions TBC):5 July: SA v Italy12 July: SA v Italy19 July: SA v Georgia16 August: SA v Australia23 August: SA v Australia27 September: SA v Argentina
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