New Zealand Rugby [NZR] has confirmed this year’s home test schedule for the All Blacks and the Black Ferns. NZ v IRE Rugby live
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 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. AB vs Irish Rugby live
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.
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. live stream AB v Irish Rugby
No confirmation has yet been made of where in Australia the first of the two Bledisloe Cup matches against the Wallabies will be held, nor has there been an official announcement regarding the remainder of New Zealand’s end-of-year tests.