Ireland’s final Rugby World Cup warm-up game confirmed
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Road to World Cup.
Ireland’s final preparations for the 2027 Rugby World Cup have been confirmed, with Andy Farrell’s side set to face Australia in Canberra just under two weeks before the tournament begins.
Rugby Australia have confirmed that Ireland will take on the Wallabies at GIO Stadium on Saturday, September 18, 2027.
The Test will be Ireland’s final warm-up fixture before the World Cup gets underway in Australia on October 1, leaving Farrell’s side just 13 days between the Canberra clash and the start of the tournament.
There will also be some history attached to the occasion.
It will be the first Test played in Canberra for a decade and will take place 100 years after Ireland and Australia first met at Lansdowne Road in Dublin in 1927.
The fixture forms part of a packed pre-World Cup schedule for the Wallabies, who will also face New Zealand in the first-ever Anzac Day Bledisloe Cup Test in April before the return of the Rugby Championship.
Australia will face Argentina twice in July before further Tests against New Zealand and South Africa, with their final meeting against the Springboks set to be the 100th Test between the two nations.
Ireland have been drawn in Pool D for the 2027 Rugby World Cup alongside Scotland, Uruguay and Portugal. Farrell’s side will begin their campaign against Portugal in Melbourne on October 3 before facing Uruguay in Brisbane and Scotland in Sydney.
The 2027 Rugby World Cup final will take place at Accor Stadium in Sydney on November 13
