TheBreakdown
Full time13 August 1977
New Zealand
10–9
British & Irish Lions
Eden Park, Auckland, New Zealand · Tour 1977Head-to-head

New Zealand won by 1 point.

Scoring

  1. –PNew Zealand penalty · Bevan Wilson3–0
  2. –PNew Zealand penalty · Bevan Wilson6–0
  3. –TNew Zealand try · Laurie Knight10–0
  4. –CBritish & Irish Lions conversion · Dougie Morgan10–2
  5. –PBritish & Irish Lions penalty · Dougie Morgan10–5
  6. –TBritish & Irish Lions try · Dougie Morgan10–9

Line-ups

New Zealand

  1. 1John McEldowneyProp
  2. 2Tane NortonHooker
  3. 3Kent LambertProp
  4. 4Andy HadenSecond row
  5. 5Frank OliverSecond row
  6. 6Ian KirkpatrickFlanker
  7. 7Graham MourieFlanker
  8. 8Laurie KnightNumber 8
  9. 9Lyn DavisScrum-half
  10. 10Doug BruceFly-half
  11. 11Brian FordWing
  12. 12Bill OsborneCentre
  13. 13Bruce RobertsonCentre
  14. 14Bryan WilliamsWing
  15. 15Bevan WilsonFull-back
  16. 16Duncan RobertsonBench
  17. 17Mark DonaldsonBench
  18. 18Mark TaylorBench
  19. 19Gary SeearBench
  20. 20Bill BushBench
  21. 21Peter SloaneBench

British & Irish Lions

  1. 1Fran CottonProp
  2. 2Peter WheelerHooker
  3. 3Graham PriceProp
  4. 4Bill BeaumontSecond row
  5. 5Gordon BrownSecond row
  6. 6Jeff SquireFlanker
  7. 7Tony NearyFlanker
  8. 8Willie DugganNumber 8
  9. 9Dougie MorganScrum-half
  10. 10Phil BennettFly-half
  11. 11Gareth EvansWing
  12. 12Ian McGeechanCentre
  13. 13Steve FenwickCentre
  14. 14Elgan ReesWing
  15. 15Andy IrvineFull-back
  16. 16Dai BurcherBench
  17. 17Alun LewisBench
  18. 19Phil OrrBench
  19. 20Bobby WindsorBench
  20. 21Trevor EvansBench

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Context

All-time, New Zealand 30–7 British & Irish Lions, 4 drawn in 41 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

New Zealand going in
British & Irish Lions going in

Also on this day

Results to 27 September 2026. Scoring and line-ups come from World Rugby match summaries where available; older Tests may have neither.