New Zealand Vs Australia: Scores, Next Match And Record Wins

Australia won the latest men’s NZ vs AUS rugby league Test 22–10 in Christchurch on 27 October 2024. Their next scheduled meeting is the 2026 Rugby League World Cup opener on Thursday 15 October at Allianz Stadium, Sydney, with a scheduled start of 8:05 pm Sydney local time, AEDT. The latest result is a completed Test; the October fixture is an upcoming match, not a score prediction.

The records below cover the senior men’s thirteen-a-side game: New Zealand’s Kiwis against Australia’s Kangaroos. They do not include the women’s Kiwi Ferns–Jillaroos rivalry. Scores in the comparison tool and results table put New Zealand first, even when Australia was the designated home team.

Choose a Test to compare the scores, winning margin and match context.

Next NZ Vs AUS Match Is The 2026 World Cup Opener

The next scheduled Kiwis–Kangaroos meeting is a Men’s Rugby League World Cup Pool A match on 15 October 2026. The NRL match centre confirms the date and Allianz Stadium venue. Ticketmaster’s event schedule lists an 8:05 pm local start, which remains subject to change.

Fixture Detail	Scheduled Information
Date	Thursday 15 October 2026
Competition	Men’s World Cup, Pool A
Venue	Allianz Stadium, Sydney
Start	8:05 pm Sydney time, AEDT

The time is specifically a Sydney local time. It should not be read as a New Zealand local start or a universal broadcast time. The cited schedule does not establish broadcast arrangements, ticket prices or a final match-day team list, so those details are not supplied here.

Australia and New Zealand share Pool A with Fiji and the Cook Islands. The top two teams in that pool qualify for the semi-finals, according to the NZRL tournament preview. Both the Kiwis and Kangaroos will still have two pool fixtures remaining after their opener.

That makes this a consequential pool-stage Test, but not an elimination match. A win would be a result within the qualification campaign rather than a World Cup title; a loss would not, by itself, mean immediate elimination. The final qualification outcome depends on the pool results that follow.

Pool A’s top-two route should not be applied to every team in the tournament. The other six teams use a different route, explained in how the 2026 World Cup pools decide the semi-finalists. For this particular fixture, the relevant distinction is straightforward: Australia and New Zealand are meeting in their pool opener, not in a semi-final or final.

Recent Results Give Australia Three Wins From Four

Australia won three of the four recent meetings listed below. New Zealand won the other, the 2023 Pacific Cup final, by the biggest margin in this sequence. These four matches describe the recent results supplied here; they are not an all-time head-to-head total.

All scores use NZ–AUS order. Dates are local to the venue, so the date attached to the Leeds semi-final is its local match date rather than a converted New Zealand date.

Date	Competition And Stage	NZ–AUS	Venue
27 October 2024	Pacific Cup, league stage	10–22	Christchurch
4 November 2023	Pacific Cup final	30–0	Hamilton
28 October 2023	Pacific Cup, league stage	18–36	Melbourne
11 November 2022	World Cup semi-final	14–16	Leeds

The dated sequence is recorded by Rugby League Project. The official records identify the 2024 venue as Apollo Projects Stadium, Christchurch, the 2023 final venue as FMG Stadium Waikato, Hamilton, and the 2022 semi-final venue as Elland Road, Leeds. Melbourne is the venue detail supplied for the October 2023 league-stage meeting.

Keeping the score order fixed prevents a common reading error. The latest result appears here as 10–22, meaning New Zealand scored 10 and Australia scored 22. Written winner-first, the same result is an Australian 22–10 victory. Likewise, 14–16 in the table is Australia’s two-point semi-final win, not a New Zealand victory.

The winning margins also show how different these meetings were. Australia’s victories were by 12 points in 2024, 18 points in the October 2023 match, and two points in the 2022 semi-final. New Zealand’s final victory was by 30 points. Those margins are calculated directly from the listed final scores.

The three-wins-to-one count therefore does not describe four similar games. It combines a narrow World Cup knockout result, two Australian league-stage wins and a decisive New Zealand trophy-winning performance. Competition stage matters when using the sequence to describe the rivalry: winning more of these Tests and winning the 2023 Pacific Cup are different achievements.

Australia Won The Latest Test 22–10 In Christchurch

The official 2024 match record gives Australia a 22–10 victory on 27 October 2024 at Apollo Projects Stadium. It was a Pacific Cup league-stage match, not the competition final.

Australia led 12–6 at half-time and finished with four tries to New Zealand’s two. Zac Lomax scored twice for the Kangaroos, while Lindsay Collins and Mitchell Moses scored their other tries. Jamayne Isaako and Will Warbrick were the Kiwis’ try-scorers. The NRL match report identifies Moses’s late try as the score that put the result beyond reach.

The half-time and full-time scores show the lead increasing from six points to 12 points. Subtracting the interval totals from the final totals gives a 10–4 second-half scoring advantage to Australia. That calculation describes the points added after half-time; it does not supply a minute-by-minute scoring sequence.

The try count adds useful context to the final score. Australia crossed twice as often as New Zealand, and Lomax’s two tries accounted for half of Australia’s four. The supplied account names every try-scorer but does not give a complete breakdown of goal attempts or every scoring time, so the final total should not be expanded into an unsupported kicking summary.

This result also separates the latest Test from New Zealand’s better-known 30–0 win. The Hamilton final came in November 2023; the Christchurch match came later, in October 2024. The record defeat remains part of the rivalry’s history, but it is not the latest score.

New Zealand’s 30–0 Final Win Set A Defeat Record For Australia

New Zealand beat Australia 30–0 on 4 November 2023 in the inaugural Pacific Cup final at FMG Stadium Waikato, Hamilton. The NRL’s contemporary final report identifies the 30-point margin as Australia’s heaviest Test defeat.

That record surpassed Australia’s previous 24-point losses to New Zealand in 1952 and in the 2005 Tri-Nations final. The difference between the previous mark and the Hamilton margin was six points. The record claim concerns Australia’s losing margin in a Test; it should not be broadened into a claim about every rugby league competition or every national team’s largest defeat.

The zero is part of the result’s significance. New Zealand did not merely win by 30 while conceding points: Australia finished scoreless. That distinguishes the final from the other recent games in the table, in which both teams scored.

The turnaround was particularly sharp because Australia had beaten New Zealand 36–18 in Melbourne only seven days earlier, on 28 October. The two sides therefore split their 2023 meetings one win apiece, but the wins were not interchangeable. Australia’s came in the league stage; New Zealand’s decided the Pacific Cup trophy.

Read in fixed New Zealand-first order, those results changed from 18–36 to 30–0. The Kiwis went from an 18-point defeat to a 30-point victory. That is a 48-point swing in the score differential, calculated from the two results, not a 48-point winning margin in either individual match.

The sequence is a useful limit on predictions drawn from a single preceding Test. The Melbourne result did not repeat in Hamilton. Equally, Hamilton’s record margin did not repeat in the next listed meeting, which Australia won in Christchurch. Each score belongs to its own date, venue and competition stage.

The 2008 World Cup Final Was New Zealand’s Title-Winning Result

New Zealand’s landmark World Cup victory over Australia came on 22 November 2008, when the Kiwis won 34–20 at Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane, to claim their first men’s world title. NZRL’s history records that championship breakthrough.

The winning margin was 14 points, calculated from the final score. Unlike the 2023 Pacific Cup final, Australia scored in this match. Unlike the scheduled 2026 opener, the 2008 meeting was a World Cup final: its result settled the championship rather than contributing to pool qualification.

These are separate milestones. The 2008 result established New Zealand as men’s world champions for the first time. The 2023 result established a new record for Australia’s heaviest Test defeat. The larger margin belongs to Hamilton, while the World Cup title belongs to the Brisbane final.

The 2008 score is included in the comparison tool as a historical reference, not added to the four-match recent-results count. Mixing it into that count would change the sample being described. The recent sequence and the title-winning landmark answer different parts of the NZ vs AUS query.

Australia Won Their Most Recent World Cup Meeting By Two Points

Their most recent World Cup encounter was the 11 November 2022 semi-final at Elland Road, Leeds, which Australia won 16–14. The official semi-final match record confirms the result.

That was the closest of the four recent Tests listed here: the teams were separated by two points at full-time. It was also a knockout match. Australia’s victory secured progression from the semi-final, whereas the scheduled 2026 meeting takes place before either team has completed its pool programme.

The tournament naming can otherwise make the chronology confusing. This semi-final belonged to the postponed RLWC2021, which was played in 2022, as explained in the NRL’s World Cup history. The competition label and the actual match year are therefore different; the dated results table uses the year the game was played.

For a score lookup, keep the three main answers separate: Australia won the latest Test 22–10, New Zealand’s record-margin victory was 30–0 in the 2023 Pacific Cup final, and the next scheduled meeting is the 15 October 2026 World Cup pool opener in Sydney. None of those facts supplies a result for the upcoming fixture or an all-time win total.