2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia

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 five Super Rugby franchises and one against an invitational side made up of players from Australia and New Zealand. Ireland coach Andy Farrell was appointed as the Lions' head coach for the tour in January 2024.

Schedule
The fixtures for the tour were announced on 19 July 2023. 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 the Western Force, Queensland Reds, New South Wales Waratahs and ACT Brumbies, and they will face the 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. A warm-up match against Argentina, to be played at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin on 20 June 2025, was announced on 7 December 2023; it will be the Lions' first ever match in Ireland.

Squad
Ireland coach Andy Farrell was appointed as the Lions' head coach for the tour in January 2024. He takes over from Warren Gatland, who had led the team on the last three tours. Farrell was one of Gatland's assistant coaches on the 2013 and 2017 tours to Australia and New Zealand, respectively.