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The 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia is an international rugby union tour scheduled to take place in Australia between June and August 2025. The British & Irish Lions, a team selected from players eligible to represent England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, are scheduled to play a three-match test series against the Australia national team, as well as matches against Australia's ...
The 2025 mid-year rugby union internationals (also known as the summer internationals in the Northern Hemisphere, and winter internationals in the Southern Hemisphere) are international rugby union matches that will be mostly played in the Southern Hemisphere during the July international window. 2025 will see the British & Irish Lions touring Australia.
Australia (the Wallabies) first played against the British & Irish Lions in 1899, winning 13–3 at the Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney.There have been 23 Test matches between the two teams, with the Wallabies winning 6 of them and the British & Irish Lions 17.
The Australia men's national rugby union team, nicknamed the Wallabies, is the representative men's national team in the sport of rugby union for the nation of Australia. The team first played at Sydney in 1899, winning their first test match against the touring British Isles team.
On 4 October 1989, a Lions team played a match at the Parc des Princes against France. The Lions were made up mostly of players form the recently completed tour to Australia. The match formed part of the bicentennial celebrations of the French Revolution. France lost the match 29–27. [11] see: 1989 (vs France)
The team was intended to combine many Wallabies and All Blacks, but most New Zealand players dropped out of the squad before the match. [ 4 ] There will be a game between the British & Irish Lions and an ANZAC XV during the Lions' 2025 tour of Australia .
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The 2025 England Lions and Lionesses tour of Australia was originally scheduled be a joint tour of Australia by the England men's and England women's national rugby league teams. [1] In October 2024, talks began regarding moving the tour to England, thus making the Australia men's and Australia women's national teams the tourists.