British and Irish Lions fixtures for tour of Australia

The British and Irish Lions will play three Tests during their tour of Australia this summer.

The Lions will play a warm-up match against Argentina in Dublin on 20 June before leaving for Australia.

Head coach Andy Farrell's side will then face five tour matches before the three-match Test series against the Wallabies begins in Brisbane on 19 July.

Friday, 20 June - Lions v Argentina, Dublin (Aviva Stadium)

Saturday, 28 June - Lions v Western Force, Perth (Optus Stadium)

Wednesday, 2 July - Lions v Queensland Reds, Brisbane (Suncorp Stadium)

Saturday, 5 July - Lions v NSW Waratahs, Sydney (Allianz Stadium)

Wednesday, 9 July - Lions v ACT Brumbies, Canberra (GIO Stadium)

Saturday, 12 July - Lions v Invitational AU & NZ, Adelaide (Adelaide Oval)

Saturday, 19 July - Lions v Australia, first Test, Brisbane (Suncorp Stadium)

Tuesday, 22 July - Lions v First Nations & Pasifika XV, Melbourne (Marvel Stadium)

Saturday, 26 July - Lions v Australia, second Test, Melbourne (Melbourne Cricket Ground/MCG)

Saturday, 2 August - Lions v Australia, third Test, Sydney (Accor Stadium)

All matches kick off at 11:00 BST apart from the game in Dublin which starts at 20:00 BST

As well as all the latest news and views, the BBC Sport website and app will bring you live text coverage, match reports and features from the tour.

Rugby union correspondent Chris Jones will lead the BBC team in Australia, providing news updates, interviews and analysis on BBC Radio 5 Live and the Rugby Union Weekly podcast.

There will also be further coverage from the teams in BBC Scotland, BBC Wales and BBC Northern Ireland.

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Northampton flanker Henry Pollock's meteoric rise this season earned him a place in the 38-man squad announced live at London's O2 in May.

Pollock, 20, only made his England debut in March, scoring two tries against Wales in Cardiff, and has continued to make his mark with a series of blockbusting displays.

England and Saracens captain Maro Itoje, a Test regular in the 2017 and 2021 series, will lead the squad for the first time.

Ireland are best represented with 15 players, England supply 13 and Scotland eight.

Scrum-half Tomos Williams and flanker Jac Morgan are the only two Wales players included.

Leinster have 12 players in the squad, the most of any club side.

Finn Russell, Fin Smith and Marcus Smith are the three fly-halves.

Scotland's Toulouse full-back Blair Kinghorn is the only player based in France to feature among the 38.

Farrell's coaching team draws most heavily on the Ireland set-up he has left on secondment to lead the Lions.

Simon Easterby, who served as Ireland's interim head coach for this year's Six Nations, is joined by attack specialist Andrew Goodman and scrum coach John Fogarty, while Lions great Johnny Sexton, who started all three Tests of the 2013 series win over Australia, is an assistant coach.

Scotland forwards coach John Dalziel and England senior coach Richard Wigglesworth are also included.

It is the first time since 2001, when New Zealander Graham Henry took a break from his job with Wales to lead the Lions in Australia, that there is no Welshman among the Lions coaches.

The Lions' first tour was to Australia in 1888 but the touring party pre-dated the Wallabies so they played club and regional sides.

They returned the following year before visiting again in 1904, 1908, 1930, 1950, 1959 and 1966, when they also toured New Zealand.

It was not until 1989 when they next travelled to only Australia, beating the Wallabies 2-1.

On their next tour in 2001, England speedster Jason Robinson scored a stunning early try in the third minute as the Lions won the first Test 29-13 at the Gabba.

They led at half-time in the second, only for Australia to recover and force a decider.

The hosts would claim a famous 29-23 win to take the series 2-1 and lift the Tom Richards Trophy in Sydney.

The Lions would avenge that defeat on their most recent visit, winning 2-1 in 2013.

Welshman George North scored one of the greatest tries in Lions history to hand the visitors a narrow 23-21 victory in the opening Test before Australia won by a point to level the series in the second.

North came to the fore again in the decider with an iconic hit on Israel Folau before lifting and carrying the Australia winger several metres back. The Lions cruised to a 41-16 win in Sydney and reclaimed the Tom Richards Trophy.