{"id":267730,"date":"2026-02-04T20:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T20:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/267730\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T20:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T20:01:09","slug":"state-of-origin-game-ii-to-be-played-at-eden-park-in-2027-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/267730\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Origin Game II to be played at Eden Park in 2027 &#8211; reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4K5LMYR_20250618110740211045_original_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Hamiso\u00a0Tabuai-Fidow of the Maroons celebrates after scoring a try during the State of Origin game two match between the Queensland Maroons and the NSW Blues at Optus Stadium in Perth, Wednesday, June 18, 2025. (AAP Image\/Dan Himbrechts\/Photosport)\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nHamiso\u00a0Tabuai-Fidow of the Maroons celebrates after scoring a try during the State of Origin game two match between the Queensland Maroons and the NSW Blues.<br \/>\nPhoto: AAP \/ Photosport\n<\/p>\n<p>A State of Origin game will be played at Eden Park next year, according to reports in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian and Code Sports report that a deal, worth about $5 million, has been finalised, with game two of rugby league&#8217;s State of Origin series between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/in-depth\/566358\/origin-story-how-did-an-australian-state-rugby-league-competition-come-to-have-such-a-grip-on-new-zealand\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Queensland and NSW<\/a> to be held in Auckland in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The game will reportedly kick off at 9.30pm NZT to suit Australian viewers in Queensland and NSW.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4K6OJ8X_20250528160760792088_original_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"666\" alt=\"Max King of the Blues.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nMax King of the Blues.<br \/>\nPhoto: Dave Hunt\/ Photosport\n<\/p>\n<p>Last October it was reported that the New Zealand Government was in talks with the Australian Rugby League Commission (ARLC) to bring a game to Aotearoa.<\/p>\n<p>The deal is reportedly part of the $70m Events Attraction Package.<\/p>\n<p>ARLC boss Peter V&#8217;landys last year said New Zealand was a possible future venue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Next year we&#8217;re going to the MCG and then 2027 is available, so Origin in New Zealand is on our hit list,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4K6OHXD_20250528117019875610_original_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"726\" alt=\"Brian To'o of the Blues celebrates scoring a try during the State of Origin game one, Brisbane, 2025.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nBrian To&#8217;o of the Blues celebrates scoring a try during the State of Origin game one, Brisbane, 2025.<br \/>\nPhoto: DARREN ENGLAND \/ PHOTOSPORT\n<\/p>\n<p>State of Origin is an annual three match series between Queensland and New South Wales.<\/p>\n<p>It has been held at neutral venues in recent years with Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne all hosting games.<\/p>\n<p>The last time an Origin match was played outside of Australia was in 1987 when an exhibition game was played in Los Angeles, California.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hamiso\u00a0Tabuai-Fidow of the Maroons celebrates after scoring a try during the State of Origin game two match between&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-267730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}