The 2019 mid-year rugby union internationals (also known as the summer internationals in the
Northern Hemisphere
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) are international
rugby union
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matches that are mostly played in the
Southern Hemisphere during the June international window.
The matches are part of
World Rugby
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's global rugby calendar (2012–2019) that includes
test matches between touring
Northern Hemisphere
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nations and home Southern Hemisphere nations. In addition, the global calendar gives Tier 2 nations the opportunity to play Tier 1 nations outside the
November International Window, increasing competitiveness from the Tier 2 sides ahead of the
2019 Rugby World Cup
The 2019 Rugby World Cup () was the ninth edition of the Rugby World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's rugby union teams. It was hosted in Japan from 20 September to 2 November in 12 venues all across the country. The opening matc ...
in
Japan
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.
Fixtures
8 June
15 June
See also
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2019 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup
The 2019 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup was the 14th Pacific Nations Cup, an annual international rugby union competition contested by the men's national teams of the Tier 2 rugby nations located around the Pacific: Canada, Fiji, Japan, Samoa, To ...
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2019 Rugby World Cup warm-up matches In 2019, some rugby union national teams played matches in preparation for the 2019 Rugby World Cup. The matches saw New Zealand lose first place in the World Rugby Rankings, initially to Wales, and eventually to Ireland.
Fixtures 22 June
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References
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2019
This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year.
Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...
2018–19 in European rugby union
2019 in South American rugby union
June rugby union tests