{"id":184696,"date":"2025-10-02T09:26:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T09:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/184696\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T09:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T09:26:12","slug":"nrl-in-advanced-negotiations-for-shock-origin-venue-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/184696\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL in advanced negotiations for shock Origin venue – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

State of Origin<\/a> is heading to New Zealand<\/a> in 2027.<\/p>\n

It has long been rumoured that New Zealand<\/a> would place a bid for the Origin game that is played on neutral territory each year.<\/p>\n

So far, that has seen the game’s showpiece played in Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne, but, with the exception of an exhibition game decades ago, none outside of Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But with negotiations bubbling along in the background, News Corp are now reporting the 2027 version will be played in New Zealand<\/a> after another round of talks this week.<\/p>\n

Only a last-minute collapse of the deal will stop it from happening, with the report suggesting the New Zealand<\/a> government will spend $5 million to take Origin across the Tasman.<\/p>\n

It’s also believed Auckland’s Eden Park – which hosts New Zealand<\/a> rugby union and cricket matches – could be the venue where Origin will land.<\/p>\n

It’s understood an announcement to make it official is just weeks away, with the final details now being worked through, including kick-off time.<\/p>\n

The match start time has long been a thorn in the side of any game being played in New Zealand<\/a>, with the nation being two hours ahead of Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s understood Channel 9s standard 8pm kick-off will need to be broken from to allow the game to be played, but that all parties are working towards a 9:30pm local time kick-off – that’s 7:30pm back on the east coast of Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That would see the game run until around 11:30pm in Auckland, but it’s likely the only way all parties will be able to reach an agreement on an Origin match being played in Auckland.<\/p>\n

State of Origin<\/a> will be a talking point come the next TV rights deal which is already being negotiated, with the NRL<\/a> likely looking for more control over start times, and theories suggesting Origin could be taken to other overseas locations as the ARL attempt to continue their growth of the sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State of Origin is heading to New Zealand in 2027. It has long been rumoured that New Zealand…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-184696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}