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.
The Ireland vs All Blacks Rugby is back on July 02 after an eight-week hiatus, and the promotion returns with a bang, with a Rugby International game card headlined by an interim International Rugby championship between Ireland and NZ All Blacks .
Ireland will host autumn internationals against Japan, New Zealand and Argentina, the IRFU has announced.
New Zealand's national rugby team, the All Blacks have announced they are playing three Steinlager Series Tests against Ireland across the country this July, with both teams settling in and kicking off for crowds in Auckland, Dunedin and Wellington.
The All Blacks 2022 Steinlager Series begins on Saturday 2 July against Ireland at Auckland's Eden Park, with the second stop of the series in Dunedin on Saturday 9 July.
You can see the action up close and personal right here in Wellington with the All Blacks vs Ireland playing at Sky Stadium on Saturday 16 July, 7:05pm.
It has been 10 years since New Zealand has hosted the Ireland rugby team, so this will be an unmissable match for all rugby fans.
The game against the All Blacks will be the first of four meetings between the countries next season, with Ireland set for a three-Test tour of New Zealand next summer. https://www.irelandallblacksrugby.com/
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 two tests in Hamilton and Christchurch.
The first of those tests will be held at Orangetheory Stadium on August 27, and will be followed by a second successive clash at FMG Stadium Waikato on September 3.
Both matches will act as Rugby Championship fixtures, with the test at Orangetheory Stadium the first the All Blacks will have played in Christchurch since their 41-13 win over the Springboks in 2016.
The sixth and final New Zealand-based test the All Blacks are scheduled to play this year is against the Wallabies at Eden Park on September 24 in a match that doubles as a Rugby Championship and Bledisloe Cup clash. All Blacks vs Ireland Live Stream
Confirmation of those six matches means more than half the tests the All Blacks are set to play this year have been cemented.
Other All Blacks matches that have been officially confirmed for this year includes the two tests against the Springboks, which will be played at Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit on August 6 and at Ellis Park in Johannesburg on August 13.
An end-of-year test against England at Twickenham in London on November 19 has also been locked in by the Rugby Football Union.
The NZ Rugby online game against the All Blacks, the first of four meetings between the two sides across the 2022/23 season, will take place on Saturday, July 02.
Wrapping up the series are Mario Ledesma’s Argentina whose last trip to Dublin was also in 2018. The final game of the November internationals will take place on Sunday, November 21. Watch NZ Rugby vs Irish Game