South Africa vs New Zealand, a fight with history

The All Blacks and Springboks have met 101 times in their history, 16 of them in the Rugby Championship. New Zealand, South Africa, Las Pumas and Australia in the tournamentJust Three times the South African team won Y They tied each other once. The two teams will face each other for the first time on August 6, the opening day of the tournament.

Since its first edition in 2012, the All Blacks have started with a very positive streak against the Springboks. The historic feud, which has already amassed 101 games in nearly 101 years, was relatively even until the last decade. In these last 10 years, the New Zealand national team He won twelve matches associated with the Rugby Championship.

For their part, the past world champions managed to register three wins in the Rugby Championship. The first match was in 2014. The Springboks won the match 27-25 in Johannesburg. The other two wins on New Zealand soil were by narrow margins. 36-34 going into the fourth in 2018, and another 31-29 in the last meeting between the two teams in 2021.

It’s worth highlighting the only tie in these 16 games, which is important South Africa’s only Rugby Championship title. In 2019, the last two world champions were tied 16-16 in the opening round of the World Cup, which the Springboks would win in Wellington.