New Zealand Warriors

New Zealand Warriors

Club information
Full name	New Zealand Warriors Rugby League Football Club[1]
Nickname(s)	The Warriors, The Wahs
Colours	Blue   Green   Red   White
Founded	1995 as Auckland Warriors
Website	warriors.kiwi
Current details
Ground(s)	Mount Smart Stadium, Auckland (25,000)
CEO	Cameron George
Chairman	Ken Reinsfield
Coach	Andrew Webster
Captain	Tohu Harris
Competition	NRL Men's Premiership
2024 season	14th (10th July 2024)
Home colours Away colours
Current season
Records
Premierships	0
Runners-up	2 (2002, 2011)
Minor premierships	1 (2002)
Wooden spoons	0
Most capped	301 – Simon Mannering
Highest try scorer	152 – Manu Vatuvei
Highest points scorer	1,131 – Shaun Johnson

The New Zealand Warriors are a professional rugby league football club based in Auckland, New Zealand that competes in the National Rugby League (NRL) premiership and is the League's only team from outside Australia. They were formed in 1995 as the Auckland Warriors, and are affectionally known as the Wahs. The Warriors are coached by Andrew Webster and captained by Tohu Harris. The Warriors are based at Mount Smart Stadium in the Auckland suburb of Penrose.

For the 1995 season the newly formed Auckland Warriors became the first club from outside Australia to be admitted to the Australian Rugby League's premiership when it expanded from 16 to 20 teams. As a result of the Super League war in the mid-1990s, Auckland left the ARL to compete in the Super League competition of 1997, before joining the re-unified NRL the following year. They re-branded themselves the New Zealand Warriors in 2001. The club has yet to win a premiership as of 2023. They have won one minor premiership (in 2002), and reached two grand finals (2002, 2011), reaching the finals eight times.