New Zealand National Rugby Team

The New Zealand men's national rugby union team is called the All Blacks. Rugby union is regarded as New Zealand's national sport.

They won the inaugural Rugby World Cup, are the leading points scorers of all time and the only international rugby team with a winning record against every test nation they have ever played. They have held the top ranking in the IRB World Rankings for longer than all other countries combined. In over 100 years, they have only been beaten in Test matches by seven international teams, out of the twenty they have played.
New Zealand competes annually with Australia and South Africa in the Tri Nations, and are currently champions for the tenth time in the tournament's 15-year history. They are the current holders of the Bledisloe Cup, competed for annually with Australia, the Freedom Cup, contested annually with South Africa, and have completed a Grand Slam four times (in 1978, 2005, 2008 and 2010), defeating all four Home Nations during one tour.
The All Blacks have won a record 75% of all rugby matches they have ever played since 1903 and they were named the International Rugby Board (IRB) Team of the Year in 2005, 2006, 2008 and a record fourth time in 2010.Their captain, Richie McCaw is the International Rugby Board Player of the Year for a record third time and fifteen former All Blacks have been inducted into the International Rugby Hall of Fame, one into the IRB Hall of Fame.
The team first competed in 1884 against Cumberland County, New South Wales, and played their first Test match in 1903, a victory against Australia. This was followed by a tour of the northern hemisphere in 1905.