Springboks to host Ireland for two-Test series in July 2024
WE MEET AGAIN: It will be the Boks first game since head coach Jacques Nienaber stepped down following their final victory over New Zealand in Paris.
Ireland will be heading to Pretoria and Durban next July for a two-Test series against world champions South Africa, the SARU confirmed on Friday as it unveiled its slate of internationals for 2024.
Andy Farrell’s side, which beat the Springboks in October in a World Cup pool encounter at Stade de France, will provide the newly-minted back-to-back champions with their first opposition of next year at altitude on the High Veld at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday, July 6.
It will be the Boks first game since head coach Jacques Nienaber stepped down following their final victory over New Zealand in Paris.
Nienaber has since become senior coach at Leinster with SARU’s director of rugby Rassie Erasmus set to reprise his role as head coach, the position he held when he guided South Africa to the 2019 World Cup title in Japan.
The first Test with Ireland, currently ranked number two in the world, will be the Springbok’s first game since the 2023 final, representing a 252-day hiatus.
It is the opening match of a three-week run on home soil that will see Ireland meet them again for a second Test back at sea level in Durban, at Kings Park on July 13 before a first international against Portugal a week later.
The re-crowned world champions will use those July games to gear up for the 2024 Rugby Championship, of which the highlight will be a World Cup final rematch against Scott Robertson’s New Zealand, with two home Tests against the All Blacks, in Johannesburg and Cape Town on August 31 and September 7 respectively.
South Africa’s final home game of 2024 will also be a Rugby Championship fixture, against Argentina in Nelspruit on September 28.
South Africa v Ireland (Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria)
South Africa v Ireland (Hollywoodbets Kings Park, Durban)
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