Domain Cricket Ground
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Domain Cricket Ground, Auckland, New Zealand — opened 30 Jul 1910 — New Zealand 20-52 Northern Union (Great Britain), attendance 16,000, this site's own earliest recorded match, 18 rugby league games hosted, home of Not a single club's home ground — New Zealand's home Test venue and Auckland representative/provincial venue before Carlaw Park took over that role from 1921.
Ground facts
| Opened | 30 Jul 1910 — New Zealand 20-52 Northern Union (Great Britain), attendance 16,000, this site's own earliest recorded match (A direct WebFetch check of this site's own primary match-record source recovered the complete 18-match list, substantially correcting an initial research pass that reported being unable to confirm any New Zealand Test matches at this venue — in fact it hosted a large number of major New Zealand and Australia internationals.) |
| Home club | Not a single club's home ground — New Zealand's home Test venue and Auckland representative/provincial venue before Carlaw Park took over that role from 1921 |
| Games hosted (rugby league, on record) | 18 |
| Top recorded crowd | 34,000 |
| Test matches hosted | 3 |
| Years used | 1910–1933 |
| Location | Auckland, Auckland |
Name history
- Domain Cricket Ground — a cricket ground within the wider Auckland Domain park; no renaming found
Rugby league history
A major early New Zealand rugby league Test venue within Auckland Domain, hosting a dense run of Northern Union tour Tests and Australia internationals between 1910 and 1922, including consecutive big-crowd fixtures in Sep 1919 and Jul 1920. Carlaw Park took over as Auckland rugby league's primary home from 1921, after which Domain Cricket Ground's rugby league use tailed off, with a final recorded match in 1933 (South Auckland v West Coast).
Primarily and originally a cricket ground, still part of the Auckland Domain sports precinct today (the Cricket Ground Pavilion there is a Heritage New Zealand listed building).
Historic Test matches, Cup & Grand Finals hosted
- 31 Jul 1920 — New Zealand 7-31 Northern Union (Great Britain), attendance 34,000, this site's own recorded top crowd for the venue
- 6 Sep 1919 — New Zealand 23-34 Australia, attendance 24,300
- 20 Sep 1919 — Auckland Province 8-32 Australia, attendance 18,000
Pre-dates the site's structured match-by-match records for these competitions, so listed here as sourced facts rather than linked match pages.
Sources
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
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