- The New Zealand national rugby union team, known as the All Blacks, is the representative side of New Zealand in rugby union.
- Rugby union is regarded as the country's national sport.
- New Zealand have a winning record against every international rugby team, including the British and Irish Lions.
- New Zealand compete annually with Australia (the Wallabies) and South Africa (the Springboks) in the Tri-Nations Series, and have been Tri-Nations champions nine times in the tournament's 13-year history.
- New Zealand also holds the Bledisloe Cup, which they currently contest annually with Australia and which includes Tri-Nations games between the countries.
- They have three times completed a Grand Slam (in 1978, 2005 and in 2008) of the four Home Nations.
- New Zealand are the number one ranked team in the IRB World Rankings and were named the International Rugby Board (IRB) Team of the Year in 2005, 2006 and 2008.
- Fourteen former All Blacks have been inducted into the International Rugby Hall of Fame, one into the IRB Hall of Fame.
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