{"id":843237,"date":"2026-08-04T13:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/843237\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T13:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:04:11","slug":"springboks-v-all-blacks-rugbys-greatest-rivalry-tour-match-officials-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/843237\/","title":{"rendered":"Springboks v All Blacks: Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry tour match officials named"},"content":{"rendered":"

World Rugby has confirmed the match official appointments for the Rugby\u2019s Greatest Rivalry tour between the Springboks<\/a> and All Blacks, which begins on Friday.<\/p>\n

Matthew Carley (England), Nika Amashukeli (Georgia) and Angus Gardner (Australia) will referee the first three Tests in South Africa that are set for 22 and 29 August and 5 September.<\/p>\n

Karl Dickson (England) will then take charge of the fourth Test in Baltimore, USA, on 12 September, with Dickson also kicking off the tour by refereeing the Stormers game.<\/p>\n

The quartet will officiate the other four club meetings on tour, against the aforementioned Stormers (7 August), Sharks (11 August), Bulls (15 August and Lions (25 August).<\/p>\n

As mentioned, Dickson will be in charge in Cape Town this week while Carley and Hollie Davidson (Scotland) are his assistants, with Andrew Jackson (England) named as the TMO.<\/p>\n

The following game, against the Sharks, sees Carley in the middle with Dickson and Davidson as assistants and Mike Adamson (Scotland) in the hot-seat as TMO at Kings Park.<\/p>\n

It will then be the turn of Amashukeli to referee a match as the All Blacks<\/a> tackle the Bulls. Dickson and Matthew Carley are his assistants with Eric Gauzins (France) the TMO.<\/p>\n

The final non-Test sees New Zealand face the Lions and Gardner referees the game with Dickson and Amashukeli assistant referees and Brett Cronan (Australia) named TMO.<\/p>\n

Friday, 7 August, 2026<\/p>\n

Stormers v New Zealand<\/p>\n

Venue: DHL Stadium, Cape Town
Kick-off: 19:00 local (18:00 BST)
Referee: Karl Dickson (RFU)
Assistant Referees: Matthew Carley (RFU), Hollie Davidson (SRU)
TMO: Andrew Jackson (RFU)
FPRO: Mike Adamson (SRU)<\/p>\n

Tuesday, 11 August, 2026<\/p>\n

Sharks v New Zealand<\/p>\n

Venue: Kings Park, Durban
Kick-off: 19:00 local (18:00 BST)
Referee: Matthew Carley (RFU)
Assistant Referees: Karl Dickson (RFU), Hollie Davidson (SRU)
TMO: Mike Adamson (SRU)
FPRO: Andrew Jackson (RFU)<\/p>\n

Springboks v All Blacks: Rugby\u2019s Greatest Rivalry is a \u2018throwback\u2019 but also a modern piece of scheduling art<\/a><\/p>\n

Saturday, 15 August, 2026<\/p>\n

Bulls v New Zealand<\/p>\n

Venue: Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria
Kick-off: 19:00 local (18:00 BST)
Referee: Nika Amashukeli (GRU)
Assistant Referees: Karl Dickson (RFU), Matthew Carley (RFU)
TMO: Eric Gauzins (FFR)
FPRO: Mike Adamson (SRU)<\/p>\n

Saturday, 22 August, 2026<\/p>\n

Venue: Ellis Park, Johannesburg
Kick-off: 17:10 local (16:10 BST)
Referee: Matthew Carley (RFU)
Assistant Referees: Karl Dickson (RFU), Nika Amashukeli (GRU)
TMO: Mike Adamson (SRU)
FPRO: Eric Gauzins (FFR)<\/p>\n

Tuesday, 25 August, 2026<\/p>\n

Lions v New Zealand<\/p>\n

Venue: Ellis Park, Johannesburg
Kick-off: 19:00 local (18:00 BST)
Referee: Angus Gardner (RA)
Assistant Referees: Karl Dickson (RFU), Nika Amashukeli (GRU)
TMO: Brett Cronan (RA)
FPRO: Eric Gauzins (FFR)<\/p>\n

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Saturday, 29 August, 2026<\/p>\n

South Africa v New Zealand<\/p>\n

Venue: DHL Stadium, Cape Town
Kick-off: 17:10 local (16:10 BST)
Referee: Nika Amashukeli (GRU)
Assistant Referees: Karl Dickson (RFU), Angus Gardner (RA)
TMO: Eric Gauzins (FFR)
FPRO: Brett Cronan (RA)<\/p>\n

Saturday, 5 September, 2026<\/p>\n

South Africa v New Zealand<\/p>\n

Venue: FNB Stadium, Johannesburg
Kick-off: 17:10 local (16:10 BST)
Referee: Angus Gardner (RA)
Assistant Referees: Nika Amashukeli (GRU), Christophe Ridley (RFU)
TMO: Brett Cronan (RA)
FPRO: Eric Gauzins (FFR)<\/p>\n

Saturday, 12 September, 2026<\/p>\n

South Africa v New Zealand<\/p>\n

Venue: M&T Bank Stadium, Baltimore, USA
Kick-off: 17:00 local (22:00 BST)
Referee: Karl Dickson (RFU)
Assistant Referees: Matthew Carley (RFU), Christophe Ridley (RFU)
TMO: Andrew Jackson (RFU)
FPRO: Matteo Liperini (FIR)<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Rugby\u2019s Greatest Rivalry: Five reasons Springboks v All Blacks is far closer than you think<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World Rugby has confirmed the match official appointments for the Rugby\u2019s Greatest Rivalry tour between the Springboks and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":843238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,36177,818,1182,4127,1736,44,760,1042,1183,85,134440],"class_list":["post-843237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bulls","tag-home-page","tag-internationals","tag-lions","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-rugby","tag-sharks","tag-south-africa","tag-sports","tag-stormers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843237","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=843237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}