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Growth comes at a cost: NZ Rugby reports $19.5m loss as they invest for the future

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Fri, 9 May 2025, 9:05am
New Zealand Rugby chief executive Mark Robinson speaking during a media conference announcing Scott Robertson as the next All Blacks coach. Photo / Mark Mitchell
New Zealand Rugby chief executive Mark Robinson speaking during a media conference announcing Scott Robertson as the next All Blacks coach. Photo / Mark Mitchell

Growth comes at a cost: NZ Rugby reports $19.5m loss as they invest for the future

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Fri, 9 May 2025, 9:05am

New Zealand Rugby has posted a $19.5 million loss for 2024. 

Since NZR brought US fund manager Silver Lake on as an equity partner in June 2022, the national body has posted total accumulated losses of around $76 million over three years. 

NZR is trumpeting record income of $285 million dollars against the loss. 

CEO Mark Robinson told Mike Hosking that much of the deficit is as a result of investment, and putting all those aside, the deficit is just under $6 million over the last four years.  

He says that they’re making choices to fund investment and growth for the future, and you can see some green shoots coming through. 

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