The British and Irish Lions will face Australia and New Zealand in 2025
On Wednesday, the two teams announced that the British and Irish national teams will play a group made up of players from Australia and New Zealand on their tour of Australia in 2025.
The match against Anzac, the abbreviation used until 1989 to define this mixed selection between Australia and New Zealand, is scheduled for 12 July 2025 in Adelaide. Three official test matches between the Lions and Australia will follow, in Brisbane (July 19), Melbourne (July 26) and Sydney (August 2).
In total, the Lions (players from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland) will play nine matches in Australia during this tour, the next in history, where they will also have to face the five Australian teams playing in Super Rugby. The last time the Anzac team played was in 1989 when they lost 19-15 to the Brisbane Lions, but it was mostly Australians. Only three All Blacks took part in the match, which was then scheduled between two Blacks tests.
In 2021, on their latest tour of South Africa, the Lions recorded two defeats in stadiums behind closed doors due to the pandemic.
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