{"id":500176,"date":"2026-06-28T22:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T22:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/500176\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T22:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T22:35:10","slug":"all-blacks-v-france-nations-championship-test-line-ups-kickoff-times-how-to-watch-all-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/500176\/","title":{"rendered":"All Blacks v France Nations Championship test: Line-ups, kickoff times, how to watch \u2013 all you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rennie named his first squad last week, which features four uncapped players<\/a> in Fehi Fineanganofo, Josh Moorby, Xavier Numia and Anton Segner, while Ardie Savea is the new captain.<\/p>\n

The inaugural Nations Championship<\/a> sees the Southern and Northern Hemispheres square off every two years in a 12-team, two-pool tournament format, featuring the Six Nations, the four Sanzaar nations, Japan and Fiji.<\/p>\n

All Blacks v France history<\/p>\n

Played – 67<\/p>\n

All Blacks won – 51<\/p>\n

France won – 15<\/p>\n

Draws – 1<\/p>\n

All Blacks points scored – 1781<\/p>\n

France points scored – 961<\/p>\n

France tests in Christchurch<\/p>\n

1961 – All Blacks 32 France 3<\/p>\n

1968 – All Blacks 12 France 9<\/p>\n

1979 – All Blacks 23 France 9<\/p>\n

1984 – All Blacks 10 France 9<\/p>\n

1986 – All Blacks 18 France 9<\/p>\n

1987 – France 20 Scotland 20<\/p>\n

1989 – All Blacks 25 France 17<\/p>\n

1994 – France 22 All Blacks 8<\/p>\n

2003 – All Blacks 31 France 23<\/p>\n

2013 – All Blacks 30 France 0<\/p>\n

All Blacks v France line-ups<\/p>\n

All Blacks side: To be named Thursday, 12pm<\/p>\n

France side: TBC<\/p>\n

Form guide (past five tests)<\/p>\n

All Blacks: <\/p>\n

Beat Wales 52-26<\/a><\/p>\n

Lost to England 33-19<\/a><\/p>\n

Beat Scotland 25-17<\/a><\/p>\n

Beat Ireland 26-13<\/a>,<\/p>\n

Beat Australia 28-14<\/a><\/p>\n

France: <\/p>\n

Beat England 48-46<\/p>\n

Lost to Scotland 50-40<\/p>\n

Beat Italy 33-8<\/p>\n

Beat Wales 54-12<\/p>\n

Beat Ireland 36-14<\/p>\n

All Blacks v France referee<\/p>\n

Englishman Luke Pearce is in charge of the test with Christophe Ridley and Katsuki Furuse as the assistant referees. Pearce has refereed six All Blacks matches before, including a famous 35-23 victory over the Springboks<\/a> under Ian Foster. His only All Blacks-France clash was in 2018 at Eden Park when the home side won 52-11.<\/p>\n

All Blacks v France TAB odds<\/p>\n

All Blacks $1.20, France $4.20<\/p>\n

All Blacks 1-12 $2.90<\/p>\n

All Blacks 13+ $1.92<\/p>\n

Draw $26<\/p>\n

France 1-12 $5.75<\/p>\n

France +13 $12<\/p>\n

All Blacks v France – how to follow the action<\/p>\n

For live commentary of All Blacks v France, join Elliott Smith on Newstalk ZB, Gold Sport and iHeartRadio.<\/p>\n

Plus, The Alternative Commentary Collective will be providing commentary on their iHeartRadio stream.<\/p>\n

You can watch the game on Sky Sport 1 and it will be livestreaming on Sky Sport Now.<\/p>\n

You can also find live updates at nzherald.co.nz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rennie named his first squad last week, which features four uncapped players in Fehi Fineanganofo, Josh Moorby, Xavier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[249915,5263,8136,18239,1221,221,34434,6036,34433,17154,5971,111,139,69,1534,213,16674,765,14005,61,16670,197,80],"class_list":["post-500176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-710pm","tag-all","tag-blacks","tag-championship","tag-france","tag-how","tag-kickoff","tag-know","tag-lineups","tag-nations","tag-need","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-saturday","tag-sports","tag-stadium","tag-test","tag-times","tag-to","tag-watch","tag-you","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}