{"id":656929,"date":"2026-05-08T04:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/656929\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T04:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:00:13","slug":"nations-championship-2026-wallabies-rugby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/656929\/","title":{"rendered":"Nations Championship 2026 | Wallabies Rugby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-cy3b83\">The Nations Championship arrives in July 2026, bringing a new era of international rugby to fans across Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-cy3b83\">The tournament will feature two groups of teams competing in a Northern v Southern Hemisphere format across six rounds, with three fixtures played in July and three in November, before culminating in a first-of-its-kind Finals Weekend in London to decide rugby\u2019s newest title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-cy3b83\">Bringing together 12 of the biggest international rugby teams in the world, the Nations Championship will see the sport\u2019s best players go head-to-head, where every point, every result and every match matters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-cy3b83\">The Wallabies will open their 2026 Nations Championship campaign on home soil, with three huge Tests across Sydney, Brisbane and Perth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nations Championship arrives in July 2026, bringing a new era of international rugby to fans across Australia.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,64711,85],"class_list":["post-656929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}