Ireland’s Nations Championship fixture against Japan will take place at McDonald Jones Stadium in Newcastle, Australia on 11 July (11:00 BST). <\/p>\n
Andy Farrell’s side open the inaugural tournament against Australia in Sydney on 4 July and will face the Brave Blossoms before travelling to New Zealand to take on the All Blacks at Auckland’s Eden Park on 18 July. <\/p>\n
Ireland have won 10 out of 11 Tests with Japan, the sole defeat coming at the 2019 Rugby World Cup at Shizuoka Stadium. Ireland won the last meeting 41-10 in Dublin last November.<\/p>\n
After July’s fixtures, Ireland will host Argentina, Fiji and South Africa in November at Aviva Stadium.<\/p>\n
The biennial 12-team Nations Championship comprises six rounds of matches across the summer and autumn Test windows before a ‘finals weekend’ on 27-29 November at Twickenham’s Allianz Stadium.<\/p>\n
After each team has played the other six from the opposing hemisphere once, they are ranked within their own hemisphere.<\/p>\n
The finals weekend in London will start with the sixth-placed northern hemisphere side taking on their southern hemisphere equivalent, and culminate in the two group winners taking each other on for the title.<\/p>\n
The results on the finals weekend will also contribute to a north v south overall score and title.<\/p>\n
Ireland’s fixtures (times BST)<\/p>\n
4 July<\/p>\n
Australia v Ireland, Allianz Stadium, 11:00<\/p>\n
11 July<\/p>\n
Japan v Ireland, McDonald Jones Stadium, 11:00<\/p>\n
18 July<\/p>\n
New Zealand v Ireland, 08:10 <\/p>\n
6 November<\/p>\n
Ireland v Argentina, Aviva Stadium<\/p>\n
14 November<\/p>\n
Ireland v Fiji, Aviva Stadium<\/p>\n
21 November<\/p>\n
Ireland v South Africa, Aviva Stadium<\/p>\n
Finals weekend<\/p>\n
27 November<\/p>\n
Sixth-place North v Sixth-place South<\/p>\n
Third-place North v Third-place South<\/p>\n
28 November<\/p>\n
Fifth-place North v Fifth-place South<\/p>\n
Second-place North v Second-place South<\/p>\n
29 November<\/p>\n
Fourth-place North v Fourth-place South<\/p>\n
First-place North v First-place South<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland’s Nations Championship fixture against Japan will take place at McDonald Jones Stadium in Newcastle, Australia on 11…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-412835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}