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Australia vs New Zealand in rugby league is a rivalry between the
Australian Kangaroos The Australian National Rugby League Team, the Kangaroos, have represented Australia in senior men's rugby league football competition since the establishment of the 'Northern Union game' in Australia in 1908. Administered by the Australian ...
and the
New Zealand Kiwis The New Zealand national rugby league team (Māori language, Māori: Tīma rīki motu Aotearoa) has represented New Zealand in rugby league since 1907. Administered by the New Zealand Rugby League, they are commonly known as the Kiwis, after the ...
in the sport of
rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ...
. The first match between the two sides was in 1908, with New Zealand running out 11–10 winners. In 2003 the
New Zealand Rugby League The New Zealand Rugby League (NZRL) is the governing body for the sport of rugby league football in New Zealand. SPARC, 2009: 13 The NZRL was founded on 25 April 1910 in preparation for a tour of Great Britain that same year.Coffey and Wood ''T ...
recorded the Kiwis' 100th international against Australia. However the
Australian Rugby League The Australian Rugby League Commission (ARL), formerly the Australian Rugby Football League known as the Australian Rugby League is an Australian rugby league football competition operator. It was founded in 1986 as the Australian Rugby Footbal ...
did not, as they exclude
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and
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Tests from their records.


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See also

* ANZAC Test *
List of New Zealand Kiwis matches Since the 1907–1908 New Zealand rugby tour of Australia and Great Britain, where the New Zealand side participated in the first ever rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rug ...
*
Australia–New Zealand sports rivalries Cricket, rugby union, rugby league & netball are the prominent sporting rivalries between Australia and New Zealand. In addition, respective national teams have competed in other sports such as indoor bowls, basketball, association football, fie ...
*
History of rugby union matches between Australia and New Zealand The first clash in Rugby Union between Australia and New Zealand took place in a test match on 15 August 1903 in Sydney, New South Wales. On that occasion, New Zealand won 22–3. Since 1931, the overall winner of the annual test matches (betwe ...
*
Australia–New Zealand soccer rivalry The Australia–New Zealand soccer rivalry is a Association football, soccer sports rivalry, rivalry between the Australian Australia national soccer team, men's and Australia women's national soccer team, women's vs. New Zealand New Zealand nat ...
* List of articles about Australia and New Zealand jointly


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