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Follow the July 2022 Summer Internationals on RugbyPass

By Sam Smith

14 Jun 2022

Follow the 2022 Mid-Year International Rugby Union tests on RugbyPass.

The 2022 Summer Internationals or July International rugby tests (known as the Mid-Year Internationals or July Internationals in the Southern Hemisphere) are a group of international rugby union test match series’ that are played in the Southern Hemisphere during the July International rugby union window.

Follow the mid-year summer internationals on RugbyPass with exhaustive editorial coverage of Australia vs England, New Zealand vs Ireland, South Africa vs Wales, Argentina vs Scotland, Japan vs France and more.

It’s going to be huge, with the giants of the North taking on the Heavyweights of the South in their own backyard!

Which teams will emerge victorious and lay down a marker ahead of RWC 2023?

Stay up to the minute right here on RugbyPass – we’ve got you covered with all the latest summer international rugby news, insight and analysis and more, we’ll keep you posted as these series unfold this summer in July.

Australia vs England | eToro July Series

Marcus Smith is wrapped by Hunter Paisami during the last meeting between these two sides at Twickenham, November 2021. (Photo by PA).

The Wallabies welcome England to Australia for what will be one of the most hotly anticipated matchups this July. Both sides will be looking to build key combinations with the Rugby World Cup looming in 2023.

FOLLOW THE 3RD WALLABIES vs ENGLAND TEST LIVE ON RUGBYPASS

South Africa vs Wales | Castle Lager Incoming Series

Wales lost narrowly to South Africa at the 2019 Rugby World Cup (Photo by Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images).

By all accounts this will be a tough series for Wales who were disappointing in the 2022 Six Nations Championship. Can they rise to the occasion and foot it with the World Champion Springboks in South Africa? 1st test kicks off on 2 July @ Loftus.

FOLLOW THE 3RD SPRINGBOKS vs WALES TEST LIVE ON RUGBYPASS

New Zealand vs Ireland | Steinlager Series

The All Blacks form a guard of honour as Johnny Sexton walks off the pitch after Ireland beat New Zealand in 2018. (Getty Images)

New Zealand host Ireland in a 3 match Steinlager Series kicking off at the All Blacks stronghold Eden Park on 2 July. The home side will be keen to impress follwing some less than satisfactory performances at the back end of last season including a loss to the Irish in Dublin. Ireland will be equally motivated to earn their first win on NZ soil. This will be a blockbusting series.

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Argentina vs Scotland | July Internationals

Scotland’s Jonny Gray (L) competes in the air with Argentina’s Guido Petti. (Photo by Paul Devlin/SNS Group via Getty Images).

Los Pumas face Scotland in what is a hard to predict series and one that could go either way. We’ll keep you up to date with how it all pans out.

FOLLOW THE 3RD ARGENTINA vs SCOTLAND TEST LIVE ON RUGBYPASS

Japan vs France | July Internationals

Kotaro Matsushima takes on the French defence during Japan’s 23-23 draw with France in Paris in 2017. (Photo by Henry Browne/Getty Images).

France have been in imposing recent form and continue to build as a major threat for all opposition at the Rugby World Cup they will host next year. The Brave Blossoms are going to need every ounce if grit and determination they can muster to match it with the high flying French in this two match series starting 2 July.

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2022 Mid-Year International Rugby Fixtures List:

2 July 2022

New Zealand vs Ireland | Eden Park, Auckland

Australia vs England | Optus Stadium, Perth

South Africa vs Wales | Loftus Versveld, Pretoria

Argentina vs Scotland | Estadio 23 de Agosto, San Salvador de Jujuy

Japan vs France | City of Toyota Stadium, Toyota

9 July 2022

New Zealand v Ireland | Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin

Australia v England | Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane

South Africa v Wales | Toyota Stadium, Bloemfontein

Argentina v Scotland | Estadio Padre Ernesto Martearena, Salta

Japan vs France | National Stadium, Tokyo

16 July 2022

New Zealand v Ireland | Sky Stadium, Wellington

Australia v England | Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney

South Africa v Wales | DHL Stadium, Cape Town

Argentina v Scotland | Estadio Único Madre de Ciudades, Santiago del Estero

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Arthos 867 days ago

This article and titled as such has been promoted on Southern Hemisphere news sites. This is a colonialist northern hemisphere centric view of the world and is thus disrespectful to Argentina, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The Oct/Nov series is labelled the Autumn series (given the season of the host nations), the July series is titled here Summer series it seems here, yet it is middle of winter for the home host nations. This should be labelled the Winter Incoming series.

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RedWarrior 23 minutes ago

'I don't think Steve Borthwick would pick Jack Willis even if he's playing in England'

Willis won the European Cup for Toulouse last year (and Dupont as expected). He does what he is tasked to do and delivers big. Can picture him winning a few turnovers at big key moments late against NZ/Aus/SA.

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RedWarrior 26 minutes ago

Let's be real about these All Blacks

NZ gave England two probable (>50%) scoring chances to win in last few minutes. England should have won.

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RedWarrior 28 minutes ago

Let's be real about these All Blacks

I appreciate this but you can see from the comments here the love in between NZ-SA where real respect lies. NZ detest Ireland since the series loss inventing narratives of arrogance and conspiracy theories about TMOs. Rugby Union is a Global Mickey Mouse game compared to soccer for example. Nations need to have a more friendly generous outlook towards each other.

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RedWarrior 32 minutes ago

Let's be real about these All Blacks

Losing to Ireland obviously triggers a years long whinge-fest.

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RedWarrior 42 minutes ago

Autumn Nations Series 2024: Everything you need to know about round four

France will turn up. If the bounce goes their way it will be a big win: like NZ and SA inflicted earlier.

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RedWarrior 43 minutes ago

Autumn Nations Series 2024: Everything you need to know about round four

Australia to be brought a little down to earth in this one. This is a hardened Scottish team.

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RedWarrior 44 minutes ago

Autumn Nations Series 2024: Everything you need to know about round four

The big match this week is Scotland against Australia. Australia's plan pre tournament was to beat Scotland and to target a win against one of England and Ireland. It is clear that England was that target. Australia in 8th ranking position will achieve clear 6th and knock Scotland down. 6th is key because the Top 6 fall into the no1 Seeding band for the 2027 draw and Australia must be there to have a chance of getting deep into that RWC. Expect things to get a bit more real tomorrow: Scotland won't be surprised. After going to the well tomorrow I don't see Australia having the depth to beat Ireland with mounting fatigue. It's all on tomorrow.

I expect France to inflict a significant defeat against Argentina tomorrow. France might ease off and allow Argentina some respect but the victory is going to France.

I hope our Welsh friends can pull out some magic tomorrow. The series needs it.

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Boergundy 46 minutes ago

Let's be real about these All Blacks

If you give me a hundred articles written without telling me the writers' names, I can tell you 100% which ones were written by Ben Smith. The problem with the internet, unlike printed media, is that anyone can be a "journalist ". At least in the printed media world articles are vetted by the editor before being published

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RedWarrior 55 minutes ago

Autumn Nations Series 2024: Everything you need to know about round four

Can't have a Kiwi comment without blaming someone else for their defeats. A 14 point try to France apparently the culprit last week!!

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PB 1 hour ago

Let's be real about these All Blacks

Guess you aren’t a SA’can!

Maybe a disgruntled expat!

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RedWarrior 1 hour ago

Jake White: Ireland, Australia and Wales all have the same problem

"They start with Ireland away, and then they go over to Paris to play France."

England are playing France in Twickenham in the 2025 6N.

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RedWarrior 1 hour ago

Andy Farrell faces up to concerning Irish 'trends' ahead of Fiji

There is nothing particularly significant about Ireland in this regard compared to other Tier 1 nations. To look at 'strategy' for illegal play its best to see what teams push boundaries with new laws. SA have milked two tries at ruck block downs. The strategy is to charge the first few before the ball is out at about 4 seconds but pull out and put up hands in reigned apology. The referees usually allow the scum half to clear without awarding a penalty in this scenario. The problem with that being that the scrumhalf is now taking over 5 seconds through no fault of his own. Having achieved a few slow balls > 5s , the SA forward can now pick a scrum to charge dead on 5s. Now if the scrum half waits, he will concede a penalty, as we saw against Scotland. With the new rule in place, any early charge should result in an immediate penalty.

SA also got an offside block against England which was pivotal again after a couple of 'apologetic' offside aborted charges forcing England to clear slowly.

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RedWarrior 1 hour ago

Ex-All Black accuses Ireland's Jack Crowley of 'disgusting' act in Argentina win

Yep, you're not the sharpest tool in the shed are you?

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Mark 1 hour ago

Fin Baxter wades into debate over the England losing streak

Totally agree, and with the Greenwood comment you have hit the nail on the head, England have never managed to replace Greenwood.

And although it's a simple analogy if you look at today's England side, how many of them would make a combined world xv?.

As you allude to, they are I'm afraid mediocre.

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Ex-All Black accuses Ireland's Jack Crowley of 'disgusting' act in Argentina win

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Werner 1 hour ago

Let's be real about these All Blacks

I dare say it's an "everyone against the ABs" scrapbook. Only time I've seen him give half a compliment is when he talks about other teams beating the Springboks. Even in this article he puts the Argentina win in NZ down to the ABs being bad rather than the Argentines playing well, which they have been doing all year round.

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AA 1 hour ago

Fin Baxter wades into debate over the England losing streak

Agreed. Borthwick will have to write a new excuse book soon .

I have looked at the two world cup final teams from 2003 and 2020.

2003 team scored 187 tries between them in 389 caps

2020 team scored 113 tries between them in 473 caps. As you can see a huge disparity in scoring rate. Only Johnny May with 36 tries in 78 caps scored a higher amount of tries. Elliot Daly comes close but the rest are frankly very poor.

Farrell and Ford scored a pathetic 20 tries between them in a combined 210 caps.

There again , the 2003 team did have Wilko and Greenwood etc whereas 2020 team had Ford and Farrell .

So much people saying that Fords strength is of bringing others into the game .

Really. The figures totally disprove that notion .

It has been mentioned elsewhere that we have accepted mediocrity far too often and the figures would indicate that players are or have been picked far too often without performing .

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Alex 2 hours ago

Let's be real about these All Blacks

Not disputing that NZ are ahead of Eng. Also not saying Eng are unlucky (though clearly the tone of the article is not that the ABs were unlucky but that they 'should have' won). Your team are looking great and are on the up. I just felt that Pundits have argued Eng 'should have' won the first test against the ABs, when it's more nuanced than that, and very fine margins determine results that Eng didn't get right. Same applies, therefore, to NZ and other nations. Ben Smith though doesn't seem to see it that way. To be clear: I'm not saying I agree with the 'should haves', but more that I take issue with the phrasing.

Good to see your respect for other nations is so strong! Proper rugby fan you are!!!

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RedWarrior 2 hours ago

Did Rassie Erasmus miss a trick with his latest South Africa squad?

GB is England, Scotland, Wales. They are the 3 constituent countries in Great Britain. Ergo playing only those three countries is a tour of GB. The difference between GB and the UK is Northern Ireland. It's not a huge deal to be accurate and call places by their correct name. But please refrain from your idiotic attempts to BS that GB=UK. It doesn't.

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RedWarrior 2 hours ago

'Passionate reunion of France and New Zealand shows Fabien Galthie is wrong to rest his stars'

The 2023 draw was only criticized when it became apparent that the top 5 sides in the world were on the same side of the draw. Nowhere did they discuss the decision to backtrack to 2019 rankings which ensured that England and Wales (ranked #12 in 2023) were ranked top4.

The parties who trashed out the schedule were England Rugby, NZ Rugby and ITV. It is bordering on corrupt that a Rugby nation has the power to schedule its opponents to play a major match the week before facing them in a QF.

You won't find commentary by members of the relevant committees because a committee did not make the scheduling decision. I have never heard members of World Rugby speak out on the draw or scheduling issues.

For example in 2015 Japan were hammered by Scotland 4 days after beating SA. The criticism only happens after a cock up.

A fair pool schedule is pretty straightforward: The lowest two tanked teams must play on last pool day but not against each other. That means that TV can focus on promoting big matches with a Tier2 involved for that Friday.

Why does NZ Always get its preferred slot playing the hardest pool match on day 1?

Why do other teams eg France, Ireland, Scotland get so often scheduled to play a hard match the week before the QFs?

If you believe the rules around scheduling are transparent then please point me in the right direction?

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