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Matches successful the projected caller contention would regenerate the regular internationals presently played successful July and November, specified arsenic England's 2-1 bid triumph successful Australia successful July 2022A caller biennial contention featuring each 10 teams from the Six Nations and Rugby Championship volition commencement successful 2026.
It volition beryllium played successful the existing July and November Test windows successful alternate years, extracurricular of British & Irish Lions tours and the World Cup.
Two much unions volition beryllium invited to join, with plans to present promotion and relegation from 2030 via a second-tier contention tally by World Rugby.
Organisers accidental the determination volition "drive maturation and semipermanent sustainability".
The tourney volition diagnostic England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France and Italy from the Six Nations and Rugby Championship teams South Africa, New Zealand, Australia and Argentina - collectively known arsenic Sanzaar.
Six Nations and Sanzaar organisers said successful a connection that determination would beryllium a "transparent enactment process" to take 2 much teams from the confederate hemisphere to guarantee determination are six from each.
Although nary format has been confirmed, reports suggest the bluish hemisphere Six Nations sides volition beryllium successful 1 group, with the confederate sides successful the other.
Teams from the northbound would question southbound for 3 tests successful July and past big 3 much games successful November. The Six Nations would stay successful its existent February-March presumption connected the calendar and the Rugby Championship volition inactive beryllium played successful August-September.
"The instauration of the caller contention has been a corporate process from the sport, including World Rugby, unions, cardinal leagues, competitions, and crucially, the International Rugby Players (IRP)," said the Six Nations and Sanzaar successful a associated statement.
"Establishing the 2 competitions volition pave the mode for promotion and relegation matches, contributing towards a invaluable pathway for teams, and volition enactment ambitions to prolong and turn the planetary game.
"The interaction this volition person connected the crippled volition beryllium to thrust its maturation and semipermanent sustainability.
"This runs alongside the enactment being done to adhd greater clarity and equilibrium to the nine and planetary calendar; a process Six Nations Rugby and Sanzaar stay committed to assistance deliver."
Rugby leaders met successful London this week, erstwhile it was announced that a determination would beryllium made connected the sport's aboriginal planetary calendar by the World Rugby Council successful October.
Representatives from World Rugby, the British and Irish Lions, the Six Nations, and the Rugby Championship, on with stakeholders from IRP, the unions and nonrecreational leagues each attended.
Th IRP tweeted its views connected the talks, saying: "Any planetary play indispensable person opportunities for emerging nations and indispensable enactment subordinate payment archetypal and foremost."
IRP has besides called connected World Rugby to standardise subordinate remainder periods and present a maximum lucifer quota for each players worldwide.
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