2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia

The 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia, also dubbed AU 2025,[1] 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 five Super Rugby franchises and one against an invitational side made up of players from Australia and New Zealand.[2]

2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia
Date28 June – 2 August

Stadia and location

Per convention,[3][4] the British & Irish Lions are to tour Australia in 2025, following from their tour of South Africa in 2021.

Sydney Melbourne
Sydney Football Stadium Stadium Australia Melbourne Cricket Ground Docklands Stadium
Capacity: 42,500[5] Capacity: 83,500[6] Capacity: 100,024[7] Capacity: 56,347[8]
Brisbane
Adelaide
Lang Park Adelaide Oval
Capacity: 52,500[9] Capacity: 53,500[10]
Perth Canberra
Perth Stadium Canberra Stadium
Capacity: 60,000[11] Capacity: 25,000[12]

Schedule

The fixtures for the tour were announced on 19 July 2023.[2][13] The tour will culminate with a three-match test series between the British & Irish Lions and the Australia national team, and will also feature matches against Australia's five Super Rugby franchises. The Lions will open the tour with matches against Western Force, Queensland Reds, New South Wales Waratahs and ACT Brumbies, and they will face Melbourne Rebels in the week between the first and second tests. The week before the first test, they will play a match in Adelaide against an invitational team made up of players from Australia and New Zealand.[2][14]

Date Home team Score Away team Venue
28 June Western Force v British & Irish Lions Perth Stadium, Perth, Western Australia
2 July Queensland Reds v British & Irish Lions Lang Park, Brisbane, Queensland
5 July New South Wales Waratahs v British & Irish Lions Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney, New South Wales
9 July ACT Brumbies v British & Irish Lions Canberra Stadium, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
12 July Invitational AU & NZ v British & Irish Lions Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, South Australia
19 July Australia v British & Irish Lions Lang Park, Brisbane, Queensland
22 July Melbourne Rebels v British & Irish Lions Docklands Stadium, Melbourne, Victoria
26 July Australia v British & Irish Lions Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Victoria
2 August Australia v British & Irish Lions Stadium Australia, Sydney, New South Wales

References
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  2. Jones, Chris (19 July 2023). "British and Irish Lions to play combined New Zealand-Australia XV on 2025 tour". BBC Sport. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  3. "Will the Lions tour Australia in 2025?". Rugby World. 8 August 2021. Archived from the original on 22 September 2021.
  4. Macpherson, Will (9 August 2021). "British and Irish Lions: 2025 Australia tour must be special amid threat to future after South Africa series". Evening Standard.
  5. "New $828m Sydney stadium to open with NRL, Wallabies and Matildas games". Guardian Australia. 9 June 2022. Archived from the original on 10 June 2022. The venue, which will be home to the Roosters, NSW Waratahs and Sydney FC, has a reduced capacity with all 42,500 seats under shelter as part of the rebuild.
  6. "About Accor Stadium". venuesnsw.com. Venues NSW. Originally built to host more than 110,000 spectators, a reconfiguration of the Stadium in 2003 reduced capacity to 83,500 but also gave the Stadium the ability to host five professional sporting codes – Rugby League, Rugby Union, Football, AFL and Cricket.
  7. Kowalski, Kuba (31 March 2023). "Australia: The country's largest stadium will get even bigger?". StadiumDB.com. Crucial to the stadium's shape today was a 1988 study that showed the terrible condition of the southern part of the Melbourne Cricket Ground. So, by 1992, a new semicircular stand, the largest of its kind, was built, named the "Great Southern Stand." It was to cost $100 million, but absorbed half as much funding. Thanks to further changes in the early 21st century, the magic capacity – 100,000 – was crossed. Will more renovations take place at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and when?
  8. "Marvel Stadium". austadiums.com.
  9. "Celebrating 20 Years of Suncorp Stadium". populous.com. Populous. 31 May 2023.
  10. "Adelaide Oval". afl.com.au. Australian Football League (AFL).
  11. "Seating Capacity". optusstadium.com.au. Optus Stadium.
  12. "About GIO Stadium Canberra". giostadiumcanberra.com.au. GIO Stadium.
  13. Meagher, Gerard (19 July 2023). "British & Irish Lions aim for records as 2025 Australia tour dates confirmed". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 19 July 2023. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  14. "Rugby Australia revives Anzac XV for 2025 British and Irish Lions tour". ABC News. 19 July 2023. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
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