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San Salvador de Jujuy has secured the hosting rights to the first of three test matches between Argentina and Scotland in July 2022. Scotland will tour Argentina in a three match series following the completion of the 2021-2022 European club season.
The Estadio 23 de agosto in San Salvador de Jujuy will host Los Pumas vs Scotland on July 02. Confirmation was made from the Provincial Governor, Gerardo Morales. It follows confirmation that game two of the series will take place in Salta. As such Scotland’s first and second test matches of the tour will be in Northern Argentina. The venue for game three of the series has not yet been announced.
Salta and San Salvador de Jujuy are both new locations for Scotland. Prior tests in Argentina have seen Scotland playing in Buenos Aires, Rosario, Tucumán, Mar del Plata, Córdoba and Resistencia.
The Pumas vs Scotland series will be followed by the 2022 Rugby Championship. Argentina are to host Australia on August 06. That match will take place in the western Argentine city of San Juan.
Additional home matches will be on August 13 and September 14. The August 14 match will be the second 2022 Rugby Championship match between Argentina and Australia. Argentina’s final home match will be against South Africa. As such, Argentina will face the All Blacks twice in New Zealand and the Springboks once in South Africa.
There have been eight prior test matches between Los Pumas and Scotland in Argentina. The first two were in Buenos Aires in June 1994. Argentina won the two match series 2-0, doing so by winning the matches 16-15 and 19-17. Scotland’s next visit was in 2008. Argentina won 21-15 in Rosario while Scotland were 26-14 winners in Buenos Aires.
Scotland claimed history in 2010 by winning the two match series 2-0. Scotland won 24-16 in Tucumán and 13-9 in Mar del Plata. Scotland won again in June 2004, this time claiming a 21-19 victory in Córdoba. The most recent match saw Scotland hammering Argentina 44-15 in Resistencia.
Argentina’s most recent win over Scotland was in Wellington, New Zealand. The South Americans won 13-12 in a vital pool match at RWC 2011. Four years earlier the teams met in Paris, France. Argentina were 19-13 winners in a Rugby World Cup Quarter Final.
San Salvador de Jujuy most recently played host to Los Pumas in 2017. Argentina were 45-29 winners over Georgia on that occasion.
