Watch every second of the 2026 Nations Championship live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cBack-to-back sell-outs to start the 2026 Test season demonstrates just how much the Wallabies mean to the Australian public \u2013 and every one of our players, coaches and staff sincerely appreciate the passionate support,\u201d RA CEO Phil Waugh said in a statement<\/p>\n
\u201cSuncorp Stadium is one of international rugby\u2019s great venues and the Wallabies love playing in front of Queensland\u2019s passionate supporters.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can\u2019t wait to see the Sea of Gold as we take on France in our second Nations Championship match on Saturday and we thank everyone for getting behind us.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Wallabies broke their all-time attendance record last year and the team is working hard to put in performances the country can be proud of as we build toward next year\u2019s once-in-a-generation Rugby World Cup in Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the first time France has played in Australia since 2021, with the Wallabies taking the 2-1 series win.<\/p>\n
The bumper crowd comes off the back of four sellouts in 2025, including the British & Irish Lions Test in Brisbane.<\/p>\n
Further Tests against Argentina and the All Blacks were also at capacity, with the prospect of a packed Suncorp exciting Wallabies skipper Harry Wilson.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere’s nothing better than being in Queensland and playing here at Suncorp, and obviously the extra responsibility of being captain and all that makes it really exciting,\u201d Wilson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve had a really good week…It’s really special and we can’t wait.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rugby Australia has announced the Wallabies\u2019 clash with France at Suncorp Stadium is officially a sell-out. It makes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,2592,44,2500],"class_list":["post-792562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-france","tag-news","tag-wallabies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792562","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=792562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}