The 1986 Australia rugby union tour of New Zealand was a series of matches played by
Australia national rugby union team
The Australia national rugby union team, nicknamed the Wallabies, is the representative national team in the sport of rugby union for the nation of Australia. The team first played at Sydney in 1899, winning their first test match against the ...
in New Zealand between July and September 1986. Australia won the series against New Zealand with two victories in three matches. The final game at
Eden Park
Eden Park is New Zealand's largest sports stadium, with a capacity of 50,000. Located in central Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, it is three kilometres southwest of the CBD, on the boundary between the suburbs of Mount Eden and King ...
marked the last time the
Wallabies
A wallaby () is a small or middle-sized macropod native to Australia and New Guinea, with introduced populations in New Zealand, Hawaii, the United Kingdom and other countries. They belong to the same taxonomic family as kangaroos and so ...
beat the
All Blacks
The New Zealand national rugby union team, commonly known as the All Blacks ( mi, Ĺpango), represents New Zealand in men's international rugby union, which is considered the country's national sport. The team won the Rugby World Cup in 1987 ...
there.
Results
''Scores and results list Australia's points tally first.''
Sources
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Australia national rugby union team tours of New Zealand
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tour
Tour or Tours may refer to:
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* Tourism, travel for pleasure
* Tour of duty, a period of time spent in military service
* Campus tour, a journey through a college or university's campus
* Guided tour, a journey through a location, directed b ...