Watch Ireland vs All Blacks series to kick off in Auckland on July 2

Ireland's first Test in New Zealand for a decade will take place in Auckland on July 2, the opening match of three highly-anticipated clashes against the All Blacks announced on Tuesday.

New Zealand Rugby confirmed the three-Test series will begin at Eden Park on Saturday, July 2, followed by Tests in Dunedin on July 9 and Wellington on July 16.

Ireland have toppled the All Blacks in three of their last five meetings, including an emphatic 29-20 win in Dublin in November NZ v IRE Rugby.

However, the Irish have lost all 12 Tests they have played in New Zealand.

NZR revealed a full schedule of home fixtures for 2022 after two Covid-19 disrupted seasons.

There will be three Rugby Championship Tests in New Zealand in 2022 -- two against Argentina and a Bledisloe Cup match against Australia.

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The All Blacks will face Argentina in Christchurch on Saturday, August 27 and again a week later in Hamilton.

Australia travel to Eden Park, Auckland, on September 24 just a week after the trans-Tasman rivals lock horns in Brisbane in the first of two Bledisloe Cup encounters this year, reduced from three because of pandemic-related travel difficulties.

The remaining Rugby Championship fixtures featuring Australia, South Africa and Argentina are still to be confirmed.

It was also announced that New Zealand's Black Ferns will host a four-nation women's tournament in June, four months before the country hosts the World Cup.

The Pacific Four tournament will feature round-robin matches between New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the United States.

All Blacks 2022 home Tests:

July 2 v Ireland, Auckland

July 9 v Ireland, Dunedin

July 16 v Ireland, Wellington

New Zealand Rugby Squad confirm for Ireland Series 2022

Ian Foster has included six uncapped players in his 36-man squad for New Zealand’s three-Test series against Ireland in July.

Prop Aidan Ross, back-rower Pita Gus Sowakula, scrum-half Folau Fakatava, fly-half Stephen Perofeta, centre Roger Tuivasa-Sheck and wing Leicester Fainga’anuku are the half-dozen new faces included in the squad. NZ v Irish Rugby

Sam Cane has been named All Blacks captain for the series, which features Tests in Auckland, Dunedin and Wellington. However, there is no room for experienced half-backs TJ Perenara and Brad Weber or Crusaders wing George Bridge.

Joe Moody, Anton Lienert-Brown and Ethan Blackadder have also been ruled out by injury while Damian McKenzie and Patrick Tuipulotu are currently considered ineligible for selection after stints in Japan.

New Zealand Rugby [NZR] has confirmed this year’s home test schedule for the All Blacks and the Black Ferns.

The All Blacks will kick their 2022 test campaign off with a three-test series against Ireland in July, and NZR announced on Tuesday that the tour will begin at Eden Park in Auckland on July 2.

The two sides will then do battle at Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin on July 9, before rounding out the series at Sky Stadium in Wellington on July 16.

All Blacks coach Ian Foster is relishing the three-test Steinlager series against Ireland and the two Rugby Championship Tests in South Africa to start their 2022 campaign.

Foster said on the All Blacks Podcast powered by SAP that he’s looking forward to the Ireland series because the All Blacks were still hurting from their last two Tests in 2021.

"The Irish series is going to be vital. We're still hurting from the last two (Tests) last year," he said.

"Those last two hurt, and so we've got to take those lessons. We can go straight into it.

"We know we've got an Irish team that is largely based around Leinster. They've got a lot of cohesion in that team, and they'll be coming really prepared.

All Blacks confirm 2022 home test schedule against Ireland, Wallabies and Los Pumas

New Zealand Rugby [NZR] has confirmed this year’s home test schedule for the All Blacks and the Black Ferns.

The All Blacks will kick their 2022 test campaign off with a three-test series against Ireland in July, and NZR announced on Tuesday that the tour will begin at Eden Park in Auckland on July 2. All Blacks v Ireland rugby 2022

The two sides will then do battle at Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin on July 9, before rounding out the series at Sky Stadium in Wellington on July 16.

The following month, the All Blacks will return to New Zealand after having travelled to South Africa to play two Rugby Championship tests against the Springboks to host Los Pumas across  exams in Hamilton and Christchurch.

The first of those checks may be held at Orangetheory Stadium on August 27, and can be accompanied through a 2nd successive clash at FMG Stadium Waikato on September 3.

Both fits will act as Rugby Championship fixtures, with the check at Orangetheory Stadium the first the All Blacks could have played in Christchurch since their forty one-13 win over the Springboks in 2016.

The 6th and very last New Zealand-primarily based check the All Blacks are scheduled to play this year is in opposition to the Wallabies at Eden Park on September 24 in a healthy that doubles as a Rugby Championship and Bledisloe Cup clash.

Confirmation of those six suits way more than half the exams the All Blacks are set to play this 12 months had been cemented.

Other All Blacks fits which have been formally showed for this year consists of the 2 assessments against the Springboks, if you want to be performed at Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit on August 6 and at Ellis Park in Johannesburg on August thirteen.

An stop-of-yr check towards England at Twickenham in London on November 19 has also been locked in via the Rugby Football Union.

No confirmation has yet been made of in which in Australia the first of the two Bledisloe Cup suits towards the Wallabies might be held, nor has there been an reliable declaration regarding the the rest of New Zealand’s give up-of-12 months assessments.

However, NZR leader executive Mark Robinson found out in advance this yr that two of those November tests will come against Wales and Scotland, at the same time as affirmation of some other test – probably to be towards Japan – is also expected at a later date.

“The All Blacks have a huge season ahead with the Steinlager Series in opposition to Ireland and a difficult Rugby Championship agenda,” Robinson stated in a declaration on Tuesday.

“I understand Foz [All Blacks head coach Ian Foster] and the group can’t look ahead to the season to kick off and I’m certain fans experience the identical way.

“We have not hosted Ireland given that 2012 and Argentina have not played right here seeing that 2018, so we can't wait to welcome  brilliant rugby competitors and their fans to our u . S ..”

Meanwhile, NZR also introduced four home furnishings for the Black Ferns within the lead-as much as their World Cup marketing campaign in New Zealand later this year.

The Black Ferns will play their first test on Kiwi shores on account that 2019 after they host Australia at a yet-to-be confirmed venue inside the opening suit of the Pacific Four Series on June 6.

That suit, the primary to be played via the Black Ferns below the steerage of recent director of rugby Wayne Smith and his assistants Whitney Hansen and Wesley Clarke, may be accompanied with the aid of a conflict in opposition to Canada at Trusts Arena in Auckland on June 12,

New Zealand’s 1/3 and very last test of the series could be in opposition to the US at Semenoff Stadium in Whangarei on June 18.

The Black Ferns may even host the primary of  Laurie O’Reilly Series exams in opposition to the Wallaroos at Orangetheory Stadium in Christchurch on August 20, with the second to be staged in Australia. new zealand v ireland rugby live

All of those furnishings precede a World Cup campaign that kicks-off for the Black Ferns against Australia at Eden Park in Auckland on October eight.

“It has been a long time since the Black Ferns performed a check in Aotearoa and the Pacific Four gives New Zealander’s the possibility to get excited about ladies’s rugby within the construct-up to the Rugby World Cup and to get at the back of their team in what's a huge yr for the women’s recreation,” Robinson said.

2022 All Blacks home assessments

July check collection

July 2: All Blacks vs Ireland, 7:05pm, Eden Park in Auckland

July 9: All Blacks vs Ireland, 7:05pm, Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin

July sixteen: All Blacks vs Ireland, 7:05pm, Sky Stadium in Wellington

Rugby Championship/Bledisloe Cup

August 27: All Blacks vs Argentina, 7:05pm, Orangetheory Stadium in Christchurch

September three: All Blacks vs Argentina, 7:05pm, FMG Stadium Waikato in Hamilton

September 24: All Blacks vs Australia, 7:05pm, Eden Park in Auckland

Ireland to Face All Blacks in Auckland, Dunedin and Wellington in July

New Zealand Rugby have showed the dates, venues and kick-off instances for Ireland’s three Tests in July.

Andy Farrell’s Ireland Squad will tour for the primary time for the reason that he formally took over the pinnacle coach role in December 2019.  The worldwide Covid Pandemic compelled the cancellation of a two Test excursion in Australia in 2020 and a three Test tour of Fiji in 2021. All Blacks vs Ireland

Ireland have not toured New Zealand seeing that 2012 after they played 3 Tests losing all three however led in the 2d Test at half-time before dropping out 22-19.    Following that excursion Ireland would lose to New Zealand just yet again in 2013 before finally claiming a first victory in 2016 at the twenty ninth attempt.   Since Soldier Field there was 4 meetings among the 2 facets with the honours even at two wins a chunk.

This coming July, Ireland will embark on what is probable their hardest ever Tour of the expert technology.  They will play New Zealand in three Tests and play two mid-week furniture which have not begun to be showed.

Cian Healy in motion at some stage in the 2012 excursion of New Zealand

On Saturday second July, the primary Test in opposition to New Zealand will take vicinity at Eden Park in Auckland.  Ireland have performed 3 Tests there, with the 2006 loss 27-17 the maximum competitive of the 3 furniture.

The 2nd Test takes vicinity on Saturday 9th July at the Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin.  The ‘Glasshouse’ replaced Carisbrook as the home of the Highlanders in 2012 and it hosted 4 games for the duration of Rugby World Cup 2011 which includes Ireland’s final pool game towards Italy.  Ireland remaining played New Zealand in Dunedin in 2002 with the home side winning 15-6.

Conor Murray on assault inside the very last Test of the 2012 excursion of New Zealand

The excursion concludes with the third and final Test in opposition to the All Blacks on Saturday sixteenth July on the SKY Stadium in Wellington.   The ‘Cake Tin’ is domestic to the Hurricanes SuperRugby franchise and Ireland performed a Test at this venue towards the All Blacks in 2006 losing 21-eleven.  It is likewise wherein Ireland misplaced a Rugby World Cup area-very last to Wales at the 2011 match.

The significance of touring for the countrywide squad can't be underestimated as they are seeking for concord on and off the field in guidance for Rugby World Cup 2023.  While quite a few gamers skilled complete stadia for the first time in their global careers earlier this season there are many in the cutting-edge Ireland squad who have not skilled traveling or playing inside the southern hemisphere.

Ireland Summer Tour Test Matches NZ v IRE Rugby live

New Zealand v IRELAND, Saturday 2 July, 8.05am, Eden Park, AUCKLAND

New Zealand v IRELAND, Saturday 9 July, 8.05am, Forsyth Barr Stadium, DUNEDIN

New Zealand v IRELAND, Saturday sixteen July, 8.05am, Sky Stadium, WELLINGTON