One week to go: Springboks v All Blacks is a rivalry for the ages – All the stats
In South Africa, where the All Blacks embark on their first full tour of the country in 30 years – in the four-Test Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry series – New Zealand have had the upper hand 28 times, lost to the Springboks 25 times, and had one draw.
South Africa and New Zealand’s rivalry is rugby’s oldest and most storied international fixture, dating back to South Africa’s first tour of New Zealand in 1921.
South Africa answered immediately, thrashing New Zealand 43-10 in Wellington a week later – the All Blacks’ heaviest defeat in their history, eclipsing the Springboks’ own previous record of 35-7 set at Twickenham in a 2023 World Cup warm-up.
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