{"id":524249,"date":"2026-06-29T14:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/524249\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T14:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:18:09","slug":"ireland-rugby-fixtures-and-2026-schedule-in-the-nations-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/524249\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland Rugby Fixtures And 2026 Schedule In The Nations Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.florugby.com\/teams\/6822543-ireland-mens-rugby\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Ireland Rugby\u00a0<\/a>is competing in the inaugural 2026 Nations Championship tournament. Ireland\u2019s first match is away against Australia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what you need to know.<\/p>\n<p>Coming off a 24-13 loss to the South Africa Springboks in the Autumn Nations last November, Ireland is looking to bounce back against the Southern Hemisphere in Nations Championship.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The inaugural Nations Championship season will start on July 4, with 12 nations being represented in the global tournament. Irish Rugby, who are the No. 3 ranked team in the World Rugby Men\u2019s rankings, are amongst favorites to win the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Teams are split into two groups: the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p>Led by team captain Caelan Doris and coach Andy Farrell, the Irish are aiming to give their best performance for the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Here is Ireland&#8217;s team schedule for the 2026 Nations Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland Rugby Nations Championship ScheduleSaturday, July 4th, 11:10 UTC &#8211; Australia vs IrelandSaturday, July 11th, 11:10 UTC &#8211; Japan vs IrelandSaturday, July 18th, 8:10 UTC &#8211; New Zealand vs IrelandFriday, November 6th, 20:10 UTC &#8211; Ireland vs ArgentinaSaturday, November 14th, 20:10 UTC &#8211; Ireland vs FijiSaturday, November 21st, 16:40 UTC &#8211; Ireland vs South AfricaHow To Watch Rugby Matches In The United States On FloRugby<\/p>\n<p>Professional club rugby in Europe all streams on FloRugby and the FloSports app in the United States. FloRugby and FloSports also are the U.S. home to:<\/p>\n<p>FloRugby is also home to match archives and match replays.<\/p>\n<p>Join The Rugby Conversation On FloRugby Social<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland Rugby\u00a0is competing in the inaugural 2026 Nations Championship tournament. Ireland\u2019s first match is away against Australia.\u00a0 Here\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-524249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524249","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=524249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}