1972–73 New Zealand rugby union tour of Britain, Ireland, France and North America

The 1972–73 New Zealand rugby union tour of the Britain, Ireland, France and North America was a collection of rugby union test match games undertaken by the All Blacks against England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and France. The tour also took in several matches against British, Irish, French and North American club, county and invitational teams. This was the seventh tour of the Northern Hemisphere. It was also the first time the All Blacks lost to the invitational Barbarians team.

In the club matches, the team only lost to Llanelli, North-Western Counties, Midland Counties (West), and the Barbarians, and drew with Munster. In the tests played the team won against Wales, Scotland and England, drew with Ireland and lost to France. This was their fifth "Grand Slam tour" after 1905–06 (lost to Wales), 1935–36 (lost to Wales and England), 1953–54 (lost to Wales), 1963–64 (Drew with Scotland). They had to wait until 1978 for a "Grand Slam".

Touring party

 * Manager: Ernie Todd
 * Assistant Manager: Bob Duff
 * Captain: Ian Kirkpatrick

Backs

 * Joe Karam (Wellington)
 * Trevor Morris (Nelson-Bays)
 * Bryan Williams (Auckland)
 * Grant Batty (Wellington)
 * Duncan Hales (Canterbury)
 * George Skudder (Waikato)
 * Bruce Robertson (Counties)
 * Ian Hurst (Canterbury)
 * Mike Parkinson (Poverty Bay)
 * Mark Sayers (Wellington)
 * Bob Burgess (Manawatu)
 * Ian Stevens (Wellington)
 * Sid Going (North Auckland)
 * Lin Colling (Otago)

Forwards

 * Alan Sutherland (Marlborough)
 * Alex Wyllie (Canterbury)
 * Bevan Holmes (North Auckland)
 * Ian Kirkpatrick (Poverty Bay)
 * Ken Stewart (Southland)
 * Alistair Scown (Taranaki)
 * Hamish Macdonald (Canterbury)
 * Ian Eliason (Taranaki)
 * Andy Haden (Auckland)
 * Peter Whiting (Auckland)
 * Keith Murdoch (Otago)
 * Jeff Matheson (Otago)
 * Kent Lambert (Manawatu)
 * Graham Whiting (King Country)
 * Ron Urlich (Auckland)
 * Tane Norton (Canterbury)
 * Lindsay Clark (Otago), replacement during tour
 * Sandy McNicol (Wanganui), replacement during tour

Non-international matches

 * Scores and results list New Zealand's points tally first.