History of rugby union matches between England and New Zealand

The national rugby union teams of England and New Zealand have been playing each other in Test match rugby since 1905, and have contested a total of 38 Test matches since. The first meeting between the two nations was on 2 December 1905, when the All Blacks were in England as part of their European and North America tour. The All Blacks won 15–0 with their points coming from five tries, of which four were scored by winger Duncan McGregor.^[1] Their next meeting was on the All Blacks' Invincibles tour of 1924–25. The match was most notable for the sending off of All Black lock Cyril Brownlie, who became the first player to ever be sent off in a Test match.^[2] In 1936 England defeated the All Blacks for the first time when England winger Prince Alexander Obolensky scored two tries during a 13–0 victory at Twickenham Stadium. The All Blacks have never lost more than two consecutive matches to England, and have dominated the rivalry between the teams. Of the 40 matches between them, New Zealand have won 32 and England 7, whilst one match was drawn.

In 2008 the Hillary Shield was introduced as the trophy to be contested in matches between the two teams.

Summary

Overall

Details	Played	Won by  England	Won by  New Zealand	Drawn	England points	New Zealand points
In England	24	5	18	1	321	470
In New Zealand	15	2	13	0	210	354
Neutral venue	1	0	1	0	29	45
Overall	40	7	32	1	560	969

Records

Note: Date shown in brackets indicates when the record was or last set.

History

A century of New Zealand dominance has been punctuated by infrequent England victories. The 17 point margin in 2012 eclipsed the 13-0 win in 1936. Out of the blue England visited NZ in 1973 and won the test match 16-10, their first win in New Zealand. Ten years later they pulled off the first home win in 48 years by 15-9 and repeated the feat ten years later by the same score. They won back to back victories in 2002 and 2003.

One of the 1997 matches resulted in a 26 all draw.

The rest of the matches have been won by New Zealand. The highest margin was 42 points in 1998 in Dunedin when England sent a depleted touring side to New Zealand.

The teams have met three times in World Cups, with New Zealand winning all three matches.

Hillary Shield

Since 2008, the winner of New Zealand – England Test matches have been awarded the Hillary Shield. The shield is only contested in non-World Cup matches, and is named in honour of Sir Edmund Hillary — the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest. It was also conceived to recognise the links between New Zealand and England. When the shield was unveiled in 2008 by New Zealand's Prime Minister at the time, Helen Clark, and Hillary's widow, Lady June Hillary, Clark said of Hillary "He was part of a British expedition when he conquered Mt Everest shortly after the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II".^[3]

Results

No.	Date	Venue	Score	Winner	Competition
40	8 November 2014	Twickenham, London	21 – 24	New Zealand	2014 Autumn International
39	21 June 2014	Waikato Stadium, Hamilton	36 – 13	New Zealand	2014 England tour of New Zealand
38	14 June 2014	Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin	28 – 27	New Zealand
37	7 June 2014	Eden Park, Auckland	20 – 15	New Zealand
36	16 November 2013	Twickenham, London	22 – 30	New Zealand	2013 Autumn International
35	1 December 2012	Twickenham, London	38 – 21	England	2012 Autumn International
34	6 November 2010	Twickenham, London	16 – 26	New Zealand	2010 Autumn International
33	21 November 2009	Twickenham, London	6 – 19	New Zealand	2009 Autumn International
32	29 November 2008	Twickenham, London	6 – 32	New Zealand	2008 Autumn International
31	21 June 2008	AMI Stadium, Christchurch	44– 12	New Zealand	English tour of New Zealand
30	14 June 2008	Eden Park, Auckland	37– 20	New Zealand
29	5 November 2006	Twickenham, London	20 – 41	New Zealand	2005 Autumn International
28	19 November 2005	Twickenham, London	19 – 23	New Zealand	2005 New Zealand Grand Slam Tour
27	19 June 2004	Eden Park, Auckland	36 – 12	New Zealand	2004 English Tour of Australia
26	12 June 2004	Carisbrook, Dunedin	36 – 3	New Zealand
25	14 June 2003	Westpac Stadium, Wellington	13 – 15	England	2003 English Tour of Australia
24	9 November 2002	Twickenham, London	31 – 28	England	2002 Autumn International
23	9 October 1999	Twickenham, London	16 – 30	New Zealand	1999 Rugby World Cup Pool B
22	27 June 1998	Eden Park, Auckland	40 – 10	New Zealand	1998 English Summer Tour
21	20 June 1998	Carisbrook, Dunedin	64 – 22	New Zealand
20	6 December 1997	Twickenham, London	26 – 26	draw	1997 New Zealand Grand Slam Tour
19	22 November 1997	Old Trafford, Manchester	8 – 25	New Zealand
18	18 June 1995	Newlands, Cape Town	45 – 29	New Zealand	1995 Rugby World Cup Semi-final
17	27 November 1993	Twickenham, London	15 – 9	England	1993 New Zealand tour of Britain
16	3 October 1991	Twickenham, London	12 – 18	New Zealand	1991 Rugby World Cup Pool A
15	8 June 1985	Athletic Park, Wellington	42 – 15	New Zealand	1985 English tour of New Zealand
14	1 June 1985	Lancaster Park, Christchurch	18 – 13	New Zealand
13	19 November 1983	Twickenham, London	15 – 9	England	1983 New Zealand November Tour
12	24 November 1979	Twickenham, London	9 – 10	New Zealand	1979 New Zealand November Tour
11	25 November 1978	Twickenham, London	6 – 16	New Zealand	1978 New Zealand November Tour
10	15 September 1973	Eden Park, Auckland	10 – 16	England	1973 English Tour
9	6 January 1973	Twickenham, London	0 – 9	New Zealand	1972-73 All Blacks Tour
8	4 November 1967	Twickenham, London	11 – 23	New Zealand	1967 All Blacks Tour
7	4 January 1964	Twickenham, London	0 – 14	New Zealand	1963-64 All Blacks Tour
6	1 June 1963	Lancaster Park, Christchurch	9 – 6	New Zealand	1963 English tour of Australasia
5	25 May 1963	Eden Park, Auckland	21 – 11	New Zealand
4	30 January 1954	Twickenham, London	0 – 5	New Zealand	1953-54 All Blacks Tour
3	4 January 1936	Twickenham, London	13 – 0	England	1935-36 All Blacks Tour
2	3 January 1925	Twickenham, London	11 – 17	New Zealand	1924-25 All Blacks Tour
1	2 December 1905	Crystal Palace, London	0 – 15	New Zealand	The Original All Blacks tour

References

External links

• "New Zealand v England Head to Head". allblacks.com. Retrieved 2008-06-17. 
• "Pick and Go Test match results database". lassen.co.nz. Retrieved 2008-06-17.