South Africa-Australia: schedule, formations and how to see the game for rugby Championship

For the first day of Rugby Championship 2025, South Africa Receive a Australiain it Ellis Park by Johannesburg. The best of rugby, in Disney+.

When do they play and how to see the duel between South Africa and Australia?

The encounter between them has already started and can be seen live in Disney+ and AM850 2.

How both selected at the party arrivedeither

How they arrive: More candidates than ever, the two -time champions of the world begin the defense of the last title of the Rugby Championship, achieved in 2024 against Australia. Last year the Springboks won five games and lost one, against the Pumas in Santiago del Estero.

In the July window they did not get out of the 40 points per game, they thrashed Italy (42-24 and 45-0) and surpassed Georgia (55-10).

Australia arrives at a time of renovation, after a pronounced fall that began with the elimination of France 2023 on the first wheel. In the past championship rugby they only beat the Pumas in La Plata. They come from receiving the British & Irish Lions, in a series in which they lost 2 to 1.

What are they looking for: South Africa is the current world champion and the best team in recent years. Innovative in recent times by the hand of a rassie erassmus that challenges the rules while surprising. The number of players available in all positions and that spirit of being is better and is played in this tournament, which will be the last one prior to the nations Cup. From there in more, probably, nothing will be as before.

The Wallabies want to leave behind the bad results that made them descend to the ninth place of the world ranking until very recently. It is that after the 2023 World Cup did not get off the seven losses per season. They travel to a hostile territory, where they do not win since 2011, when it was still played by Tri Nations (14-9 in Durban). In the last duels played on South African soil, the Wallabies lost seven games and tied one.

The background:

The history between the Springboks and the Wallabies has 95 games, with 52 victories for South Africa and 40 for Australia, in addition to three draws. For the Rugby Championship they faced on 21 occasions, where two draws were recorded, eleven victories for the world champions and eight for the Australians.

South Africa won in the last four duels with each other, while the Wallabies celebrated for the last time in 2021, on the return of the Springboks after the pandemic (in 2020 the tournament was three nations)

South Africa and Australia formations

South Africa: 1 Ox Nnche, 2 Malcolm Marx, 3 Wilco Louw, 4 Eben Etzebeth, 5 Lood de Jager, 6 Marco Van Staden, 7 Pieter-Steph du Toit, 8 Siya Kolisi (C), 9 Grant Williams, 10 Manie Libbok, 11 Kurt-Lee Arendse, 12 André Esterhuizen, 13 Jesse Kriel, 14 Edwill Van Van Van Der Merwe, 15 Aphelele Fassi

Substitutes: 16 Bongi Mbonambi, 17 Bon Vent, 18 Asenathi Ntlabakanye, 19 Franco Mostert, 20 Kwagga Smith, 21 Cobus Reyach, 22 Canan Moodie, 23 Damian Willemse

Australia: 1. James Slipper, 2. Billy Pollard, 3. Taniela Tupou, 4. Nick Frost, 5. Will Skelton, 6. Tom Hooper, 7. Fraser McReight, 8. Harry Wilson, 9. Nic White, 10. James O’Connor, 11. Dylan Pietsch, 12. Len Ikitau, 13. Suaalii, 14. Max Jorgensen, 15. Tom Wright

Substitutes: 16. Brandon Paanga-Pamosa, 17. Angus Bell, 18. Zane Nongoror, 19. Jeremy Williams, 20. Langi Gleeson, 21. Tane Edmed, 22. Tate McDermott, 23. Andrew Kellaway