{"id":39981,"date":"2025-08-02T07:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T07:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/39981\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T07:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T07:42:08","slug":"british-and-irish-lions-when-and-where-is-the-next-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/39981\/","title":{"rendered":"British and Irish Lions: When and where is the next tour?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The French Rugby Federation says it has also held conversations with Lions officials about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c0r7g224yqyo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">warm-up matches before the 2027 and 2029 tours.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">France has been flagged as a future series option due to the strength of their national and club sides, the popularity of the sport among the French public, and the relative affordability for travelling Lions fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">FFR vice-president Abdelatif Benazzi said: &#8220;I think we can build something for the long term. We start with this, but I don&#8217;t want it to be just one shot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Lions have not played France since 1989 in a fixture arranged to celebrate 200 years since the French Revolution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When asked about the prospect, Calveley said: &#8220;You can certainly understand why people will get excited about that sort of concept [a series in France].<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What&#8217;s not to like about some of those wonderful clubs you could play against and some of those wonderful venues in the summer as well?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The French Rugby Federation says it has also held conversations with Lions officials about warm-up matches before the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-39981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}