2005 Samoa rugby union tour of Australia and New Zealand

2005 Samoa rugby union tour of Australia and New Zealand
Summary	P W D L
Total	4 1 0 3
Test match	1 0 0 1
Opponent	P W D L
Australia	1 0 0 1

The 2005 Samoa rugby union tour of Australia and New Zealand was a series of matches played in June 2005 in Australia and New Zealand by the Samoa national rugby union team. It was a very experimental team, with nine debuts in an international test.

Results

Week 1

The Samoans won their opening mid-week tour match against New South Wales Country before being thrashed by the Wallabies in Sydney.^[1][2]

8 June 2005

NSW Country	0–39	Samoa XV

Sydney

11 June 2005

Australia	74–7	Samoa
Try: Chisholm, Elsom Latham, Mortlock (2) Rathbone, Rogers Sailor (2), Sharpe(2), Con: Giteau (5), Mortlock (2)		Try: Fanolua Con: Talapusi

Stadium Australia, Sydney Referee: Lyndon Bray (New Zealand)

Week 2

Samoa completed their short tour of Australia with a 40–25 loss to the Northern Territory Mosquitoes in Darwin,^[3] before travelling home via New Zealand, where they were defeated by North Harbour.

18 June 2005

Northern Territory	40–25	Samoa XV

Darwin

22 June 2005

North Harbour	18–10	Samoa XV

North Harbour, Albany, NZ

References

Rugby union tours of Australia
British and Irish Lions	1888 (no test) 1899 1904 1908 (no test) 1930 1950 1959 1966 1971 (no test) 1989 2001 2013
New Zealand	1884 (no test) 1893 (no test) 1897 (no test) 1903 1905 1907 1910 1914 1920 1922 1924 1925 1926 1929 1932 1934 1938 1947 1951 1957 1960 1962 1968 1974 1979 1980 1984 1988 1991 1992
NZ Maori	1888-89 (no test) 1922 1923 1926-27 1936 1949
South Africa	1921 1937 1956 1965 1971 1993
Argentina	1983 1986 1995 2000
England	1963 1975 1988 1991 1997 1998 1999 2003 2004 2006 2010 2016
France	1961 1968 1972 1981 1986 1990 1997 2002 2005 2008
Ireland	1967 1979 1994 1999 2003 2006 2008 2010
Italy	1981 (no test) 1986 1994 2005
Scotland	1982 1992 1998 2004 2012
Wales	1969 1978 1991 1996 2003 2007 2012
Fiji	1952 1954 1961 1976 1984 1985 1989 no test
Samoa	1994 2005
Tonga	1973 1993
Pacific Islanders	2004
North American teams	1985 1990 1996 1999
Asian teams	1975 1987 (no test)

Rugby union tours of New Zealand
British and Irish Lions	1888 (no test) 1904 1908 1930 1950 1959 1966 1971 1977 1983 1993 2005 2017
Australia	1905 1913 1931 1936 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1962 1964 1972 1978 1982 1986 1990 1991
New South Wales	1894 1921 1923 1925 1928
South Africa	1921 1937 1956 1965 1965 1981 1994
Argentina	1979 1989 1997 2001 2004
England	1963 1973 1985 1998 2003 2004 2008 2010 2014
France	1961 1968 1979 1984 1986 1989 1994 1999 2001 2003 2007 2013
Ireland	1976 1992 1997 2002 2006 2008 2010 2012
Italy	1980 (no test) 2002 2003 (no test)
Scotland	1975 1981 1990 1996 2000 2004
Wales	1969 1988 2003 2016
Romania	1991 (no test)
Japan	1974
Fiji	1974 1980 1989 (no test) 1996 1997 2003
Samoa	1996 2005 (no test)
Pacific Islanders	2004
Canada	1995 2007