- Teams will join Six Nations sides in two pools from November
- Japan chosen with Rugby Championship teams unavailable
Japan and Fiji will join the Six Nations in an autumn tournament which has been hastily arranged to compensate for the European tour schedule being scratched.
The tournament, in which the teams will divided into two pools, will start on 14 November following the conclusion of this season’s delayed Six Nations. New Zealand, South Africa, Australia and Argentina are not available to play Tests, as they will be playing the delayed Rugby Championship in October.