Australia vs England: 2025 Ashes Scores and the Head-to-Head Record

Australia won the latest men’s rugby league meeting against England 30–8 at Headingley, Leeds, on 8 November 2025, completing a 3–0 Ashes series victory. That remains the latest meeting in the head-to-head archive as of 25 October 2026. The NRL match centre records the result; Rugby League Project’s fixture list supplies the wider record.

This page covers the men’s thirteen-a-side game: Australia’s Kangaroos against England, not rugby union. Women’s and wheelchair results belong to separate records.

Australia vs England: 2025 Ashes results

All scores below put Australia first, although England hosted each match.

Date	Venue	Australia–England	Half-time, Australia first
25 October 2025	Wembley Stadium, London	26–6	8–0
1 November 2025	Hill Dickinson Stadium, Liverpool	14–4	4–4
8 November 2025	Headingley, Leeds	30–8	12–8

Sources: NRL match centres for the first Test, second Test and third Test.

Australia secured the series in Liverpool by taking an unassailable 2–0 lead. England’s four points there came from two Harry Smith penalty goals; Cameron Munster and Hudson Young scored Australia’s tries after a level first half.

Across the three Tests, Australia scored 70 points to England’s 18, with an 11–2 advantage in tries, calculated from those match records. England’s only tries came through Daryl Clark at Wembley and George Williams at Headingley.

The final 22-point margin at Leeds was not the half-time picture: England trailed by only four. Harry Grant’s 61st-minute try and two later Reece Walsh tries pulled Australia clear. The NRL’s match report records both England’s second-half pressure and Australia’s decisive finish.

The head-to-head: define the count first

For England-labelled senior meetings from 1975 through the end of 2025, the record is:

• 20 matches
• 17 Australia wins
• 2 England wins
• 1 draw

That is an 85% Australian win rate, calculated as 17 wins divided by 20 matches. This count includes World Cup games, Four Nations games, the November 1975 challenge match and the three 2025 Ashes Tests. It excludes Great Britain fixtures and earlier England-labelled tour matches. The calculation comes from Rugby League Project’s dated results.

The same archive’s broader England-labelled list contains 28 matches: Australia won 19, England seven, with two draws. Its eight additional entries are tour fixtures played between 1909 and 1934. That broader archive tally should not be presented without qualification as the same thing as a modern Test record.

England’s last victory was 20–16 at Wembley on 7 October 1995, in the World Cup opener. Australia reversed the result in the final three weeks later, winning 16–8. The RFL’s rivalry history confirms the last England win, while the dated archive records both scores. Australia then won all 16 subsequent meetings through 2025.

Why Great Britain’s Ashes results are separate

The Ashes rivalry predates the modern England record. The RFL identifies 2025 as the first Ashes series contested by England rather than Great Britain; the previous series, in 2003, ended in a 3–0 Australian win over Great Britain. See the RFL’s Ashes guide.

Those earlier Great Britain results belong in the history of the Ashes, but not silently inside an England-only head-to-head. For the longer series record, use our Ashes Test results, 1908–2025.

The same distinction matters at the World Cup. Australia’s 6–0 win over England in the 2017 final was an England result, whereas earlier Great Britain campaigns belong to Great Britain’s record. Our World Cup winners history follows that broader tournament story without treating the two team names as interchangeable.