In 2000, the then-Westpac Stadium hosted the
Edinburgh Military Tattoo. This was the first time the event was hosted outside Edinburgh, Scotland. They returned to Wellington to play at the stadium again in February 2016. In 2002, during an England versus Black Caps cricket match, director
Peter Jackson recorded 30,000 fans chanting in
Black Speech for the sound of 10,000 chanting
Uruk-hai during the
Battle of Helm's Deep in the film
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. On 4 March 2006,
WWE's first New Zealand show,
WWE SmackDown Road to WrestleMania 22 Tour, was held at the stadium. 23,875 people attended the televised event. There were nine matches, including a triple threat match between
Kurt Angle,
The Undertaker, and
Mark Henry for the
World Heavyweight Championship (WWE) Also in 2006, a concert was held by
the Rolling Stones, which ended the Australasian leg of its
A Bigger Bang World Tour, On 14 October 2007,
Australia defeated
New Zealand in the Centenary Test rugby league game. The 58–0 defeat set a new record for the largest loss by the New Zealand national rugby league team. On 1 December 2007, the stadium hosted an exhibition match between Wellington Phoenix FC and the
Los Angeles Galaxy. LA Galaxy won 4–1 in front of 31,853 spectators, the largest crowd for non-national
football (soccer) match in New Zealand history. On 17 January 2008, the stadium hosted the kickoff show of the Oceania leg of
the Police Reunion Tour and over Easter the inaugural two-day "
Rock2Wgtn" music festival, headlined by
Kiss and
Ozzy Osbourne. Attendance over the two days was around 50,000. New Zealand hosted the
2008 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. Six pool matches and two playoff matches were played at the then Westpac Stadium. Due to
FIFA rules disallowing host stadia to be named after non-FIFA sponsors, the stadium was officially known as "Wellington Stadium" during the event. The stadium hosted the national team's 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying match on 14 November 2009 against
Bahrain. New Zealand won the match 1–0, with a record crowd at the time of 35,194 for a football match in New Zealand. On 28 January 2010,
AC/DC kicked off the Australasian leg of its
Black Ice World Tour at the stadium. The concert quickly sold out so a second was scheduled for 30 January. The stadium was also a venue for
Bon Jovi's
The Circle Tour in 2010. The stadium hosted eight games during the
2011 Rugby World Cup including two quarter-final matches. On 25 April 2013, the stadium hosted the first AFL game outside of Australia for premiership points with St Kilda hosting with Sydney winning by 16 points in front of 22,546 spectators. On 11 May 2013, the stadium and Wellington hosted its first
National Rugby League fixture since 2004 with the
Auckland-based New Zealand Warriors hosting the
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs at the stadium for 'The Capital Clash'. The Warriors wore their 'Capital Clash' jerseys which incorporated the black and gold colours of Wellington and a design based on a strip worn by Wellington Rugby league teams in the 1970s. The Warriors lost the game late in the match in front of 28,096 fans. On 20 November 2013, the stadium hosted the second leg of the
World Cup qualification inter-confederation play-off against Mexico, which resulted in New Zealand failing to qualify for the
2014 FIFA World Cup. On 15 November 2014, the stadium hosted the
2014 Rugby League Four Nations Final. It was the first Four Nations Final held in New Zealand, though the
Mount Smart Stadium in Auckland hosted the inaugural final of the tournament, then known as the Tri-Nations, in
1999. The stadium was one of the venues for
2015 Cricket World Cup which was co-hosted by New Zealand and Australia. It hosted a total of four matches during the World Cup which included a
quarter-final clash between the hosts
New Zealand and
West Indies.
Guns N' Roses performed at the stadium during their
Not in This Lifetime... Tour on 2 February 2017. On 11 November 2017, the stadium hosted its third
World Cup qualification inter-confederation play-off with the New Zealand men's national football team drawing 0–0 against Peru in front of a new record crowd for a football match in New Zealand of 37,034 fans thanks to extra seating install in the stadium for the match. On 2 March 2019, the stadium drew its second largest crowd to date with an attendance of 46,474 for
Eminem's Rapture concert. On 5 February 2020,
Queen + Adam Lambert performed at the stadium during their
Rhapsody Tour. On 8 December 2022, Guns N' Roses performed at the stadium during their
2020 Tour. The
Foo Fighters were supposed to play a week later on 15 December, however it was cancelled after the death of Foo Fighters' drummer Taylor Hawkins. On 2 February 2023,
Ed Sheeran performed as part of his
+–=÷× Tour. The crowd of 47,000 was the largest ever attendance for an event at the stadium. Organisers said just over a third of the crowd (16,200) were from outside the Wellington region. On 27 January 2024 The Foo Fighters played for the first time in Wellington on their World Tour. The stadium hosted several matches for the
2023 FIFA Women's World Cup. The stadium hosted the semi-finals for
OFC qualification for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. ==Major tournaments==