The team won 34 of their 35 tour matches.Ī representative New Zealand team first toured the British Isles in 1905. The Original All Blacks that toured the British Isles, France and the United States during 1905–06. Wales and Scotland were represented in the British team, but the players were drawn mainly from Northern England. The visitors only played provincial sides and no test matches were played. Ī privately organised British team, which later became the British & Irish Lions, toured New Zealand in 1888. Two years later, the first New Zealand team to travel overseas toured New South Wales, winning all eight of their games. The Australian team did not face a New Zealand national team but played seven provincial sides the tourists won four games and lost three. The first provincial union, the Canterbury Rugby Football Union, was formed in 1879, and New Zealand's first internationals were played in 1882 when the " Waratahs" from New South Wales toured the country. The first recorded game in New Zealand took place in May 1870 in the city of Nelson, between the Nelson rugby club and Nelson College. Rugby union, known almost universally in New Zealand as just "rugby", was introduced to the nation by Charles Monro in 1870 he had discovered the sport while completing his studies at Christ's College in Finchley, England.
The New Zealand team that toured New South Wales in 1884 History Introduction of rugby to New Zealand Traditionally the All Blacks use Te Rauparaha's haka Ka Mate, although players have also performed Kapa o Pango since 2005. The team perform a haka before every match this is a Māori challenge or posture dance. By the 1905 tour they were wearing all black, except for the silver fern, and the name "All Blacks" dates from this time. New Zealand's early uniforms consisted of a black jersey with a silver fern and white shorts. There followed a 34-game tour of Europe and North America in 1905 (which included five test matches), where New Zealand suffered only one defeat: their first test loss, against Wales. The following year New Zealand hosted their first home test, a match against a British Isles side in Wellington. The team's first match took place in 1884 in New South Wales and their first international test match in 1903 against Australia in Sydney. Fifteen former All Blacks have been inducted into the International Rugby Hall of Fame. World Rugby has named New Zealand the World Rugby Team of the Year ten times since the award was initiated in 2001, Īnd an All Black has won the World Rugby Player of the Year award ten times over the same period. The team has completed a Grand Slam tour against the four Home Nations four times (1978, 2005, 20). The All Blacks compete with Argentina, Australia and South Africa in the Rugby Championship, and have won the trophy nineteen times in the competition's 27-year history. They jointly hold the record for the most consecutive test match wins for a tier-one ranked nation, along with England. Since the introduction of the World Rugby Rankings in 2003, New Zealand has held the number-one ranking longer than all other teams combined. The team has also played against three multinational all-star teams, losing only eight of 45 matches. Since their international debut in 1903, New Zealand teams have played test matches against 19 nations, of which 12 have never won a game against the All Blacks. New Zealand has a 76 per-cent winning record in test-match rugby, and has secured more wins than losses against every test opponent. They were the first country to win the Rugby World Cup 3 times and the first country to retain the Rugby World Cup. The team won the Rugby World Cup in 1987, 20. Famed for their unmatched international success, the All Blacks have often been regarded as the most successful sports team in history. The New Zealand national rugby union team, commonly known as the All Blacks ( Māori: Ōpango), represents New Zealand in men's international rugby union, which is considered the country's national sport. ( Bloemfontein, South Africa 4 June 1995)
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