Sports · Wales–New ZealandWales beat All Blacks: 35–28 win ends 73-year waitWritten November 14, 2026 at 6:15 PM UTCWatchTranscript0:00Wales beat all blacks thirty-five twenty-eight win and seventy-three year weight.0:07Wales have beaten the All Blacks for the first time in seventy-three years.0:10Their thirty-five twenty-eight victory ends thirty, four consecutive defeats against0:14New Zealand.0:15Five Welsh tries built the lead, and three defensive stands over their own try-line0:19preserved it.0:20How did Wales withstand a comeback that had already wiped out one commanding lead?0:23Players and supporters were in tears at the final whistle in Cardiff.0:27Steve Tandy's team had won a nations championship match that generations of Welsh0:31internationals had finished on the losing side.0:33Wales scored five tries to New Zealand's four, their highest try total in this0:37rivalry.0:37Sam Costello converted all five.0:39Richie Moonga converted all four for New Zealand, leaving the teams separated by one0:44converted try.0:45Two conflicting score listings give thirty-five, twenty-one, and thirty, nine,0:49thirty-four.0:50Those discrepancies haven't been reconciled with the completed governing body match0:54record.0:54Wales nine try performance included two separate bursts of early scoring.0:58But New Zealand recovered to level the match at half time.1:01Then threatened another recovery after Wales rebuilt their advantage.1:04New Zealand arrived chasing a thirty-five straight victory over Wales.1:08The previous Welsh wins had come in one thousand nine hundred and five, one thousand1:12nine hundred thirty five and one thousand nine hundred fifty three point.1:15That run of thirty, four defeats spanned entire international careers.1:19Sir Gareth Edwards and Allenwyn Jones never beat New Zealand for Wales.1:23Neither did Shane Williams, JPR Williams, Barry John, or Phil Bennett.1:27Some bookmakers had offered twenty to one on a Welsh victory before kickoff.1:31A week earlier, Wales had beaten Japan twenty-eight twenty-one, with six-line out1:35throws going astray.1:37Wales changed four starters from that Japan match.1:39Tane Bosham replaced injured number eight Aaron Wainwright for his first Test start1:43in four years.1:44Gabriel Hamer Webb took Josh Adams' wing position, despite Adams scoring twice1:48against Japan.1:49Adam Beard replaced Ben Carter at lock, and James Botham came in for Alex Mann.1:54New Zealand made eight starting changes after beating Scotland forty three1:57twenty-one.1:58Biodin Barrett captained New Zealand in a test for the first time in his one hundred2:02and forty nine international.2:04Dave Rennie had identified Tomas Williams as a danger before kickoff.2:08The Welsh scrum half immediately showed why.2:10Subscribe to this channel as the nation's championship approaches its final weekend2:14of regular matches.2:15Wales scored twice inside six minutes.2:17Nikki Smith won possession, and Williams sent a long pass to Louis Reese, Zamet.2:22The wing chipped ahead, and Williams collected to score.2:25Williams then supplied the flat pass that sent Captain Dewey Lake over from a worked2:28forward move.2:29Wales led fourteen zero.2:31They'd never previously held a fourteen-point advantage over New Zealand.2:34Cortes Ratima answered from an attacking line out.2:37Jack Morgan then won a penalty by forcing New Zealand to surrender possession at the2:41tackle.2:42That gave Wales another opening.2:44New Zealand, born Welsh full, back Blair Murray released Rees, Zamet, but Barrett's2:49defense stopped him scoring.2:50New Zealand then chose a scrum after winning a penalty inside the Welsh22 metro2:55area.2:55They conceded a penalty themselves, handing Wales momentum.2:58The Welsh line out initially supplied the platform that had been missing against3:02Japan.3:02Max Llewellyn was stopped beneath the posts before prop Archie Griffin scored.3:07It was Griffin's second try in two weeks, and Wales led twenty-one seven.3:11Wallace Sididi scored after New Zealand chosen attacking line out.3:14He'd been player of the match in this fixture a year earlier.3:17Two Welsh overthrows and two New Zealand penalties at the tackle helped the visitors3:21sustain their recovery.3:22Fi Feinanganifo scored New Zealand's third try, and Moonga's conversion made it3:26twenty, one, twenty-one at halftime.3:29Wales' opening surge had earned them no advantage at the break.3:32Eddie James restored the lead from another long Williams pass.3:35Morgan won another turnover penalty.3:37Wales went after a try, and Williams released Reese Zamet for the fifth.3:40Both scores came inside eight minutes of the restart.3:43Costello converted both, taking Wales to thirty, five, twenty, one.3:47Peter Lacaye then burrowed over for New Zealand, cutting the margin to seven.3:51His next break almost created the try that could have brought the visitors' level3:54again.3:54Gareth Thomas held Sididi up over the line.3:57Bothham then did the same to Asifo Amwa.3:59Crossing the line alone doesn't score a try.4:01The attacker has to ground the ball, and Wales kept preventing that final touch.4:05Tane Plumtree won two important turnovers from the bench.4:08With sixteen minutes remaining, Tandy took off Williams and Costello.4:11Osprey's half backs Reuben Morgan.4:14Williams and Dan Edwards were entrusted with protecting the lead.4:17Morgan, Williams, and Jack Morgan combined for the third held-up intervention.4:21Both a Morgan and Lock Daffy Jenkins helped sustain the resistance through the final4:25quarter.4:25Wales protected the seven point margin all the way to the whistle.4:29The crowd was fifty, five, one hundred and fifty two, the lowest across fourteen4:33Wales New Zealand meetings at the Principality Stadium.4:36A comparatively small crowd for this fixture witnessed the victory that much larger4:40generations of crowds had waited for.4:42New Zealand still moved above South Africa to lead the championship's southern4:45section after France beat the Springboks on Friday night.4:48One weekend of regular matches remained, and the Cardiff defeat left New Zealand's4:52championship prospects alive.Read the articleStory timelineHeyDex
