Tahuna Park
Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
Tahuna Park, Dunedin, New Zealand — opened 1883, 1 rugby league games hosted, home of primarily an Agricultural & Pastoral (A&P) showgrounds site, also used for rugby union (hosting an All Blacks vs Australia Test in 1905); no rugby league club was ever a tenant — a single one-off representative fixture.
Sourcing caveat: Wikipedia's own venue article gives the attendance as 16,000 (elsewhere on the same page as "12,000 to 16,000"), against the 14,000 figure recorded by Rugby League Project and independently reconfirmed here directly, which also matches our directory exactly — the Wikipedia figure is noted as an unresolved variant rather than silently discarded. Capacity, floodlight status and playing surface were not found in any source.
Ground facts
| Opened | 1883 (Established on a 20-acre site; described by one source as Dunedin's first rugby union and rugby league Test venue. This date could not be independently corroborated by a second source.) |
| Home club | primarily an Agricultural & Pastoral (A&P) showgrounds site, also used for rugby union (hosting an All Blacks vs Australia Test in 1905); no rugby league club was ever a tenant — a single one-off representative fixture |
| Games hosted (rugby league, on record) | 1 |
| Top recorded crowd | 14,000 |
| Test matches hosted | 1 |
| First rugby league match | 9 August 1924 — New Zealand 18-31 Great Britain, Game 3 of the 1924 New Zealand vs Great Britain Test series (attendance 14,000, our recorded top and only crowd) — independently re-verified via a direct fetch of Rugby League Project's own venue results page |
| Years used | 1924 |
| Location | Dunedin, Otago |
Name history
- Tahuna Park — 1883–present, also styled "Tāhuna Park" in modern council usage
Rugby league history
New Zealand had already won the 1924 series against the touring Great Britain side heading into this third and final Test, which they lost 31-18, finishing the series 2-1. One source states the match was moved to Tahuna Park because Otago Rugby (Union) refused to allow it to be played at Carisbrook, and credits the large crowd here with helping prompt the formation of the Otago Rugby League — both details are single-sourced and could not be independently corroborated, so are noted here with that caveat rather than stated as settled fact.
Primarily a Dunedin agricultural and pastoral (A&P) showgrounds site; also hosted an All Blacks vs Australia rugby union Test in 1905.
Historic Test matches, Cup & Grand Finals hosted
- 9 August 1924 — New Zealand 18-31 Great Britain (14,000)
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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