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The British and Irish Lions have announced their schedule for 2017 tour to New Zealand. The Lions will play each of the five Super Rugby outfits, as well as a Provincial union team and the New Zealand Maori, before the three test series at the end of the tour.<\/p>\n
The first and third test will be in the same stadium, Auckland’s Eden Park, while the second test will take place in Wellington at the Westpac Stadium.<\/p>\n
The Lions have not beaten New Zealand for 44 years, and their last trip – in 2005 – ended in ignominy with a 3-0 whitewash. Their 2-1 win over Australia in 2013 was their first series victory for 16 years.<\/p>\n
2017 British and Irish Lions tour fixtures:<\/strong> The British and Irish Lions have announced their schedule for 2017 tour to New Zealand, where they will play 10 games including 3 tests<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":286,"featured_media":37321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,70,13,68],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therugbyblog.com\/json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therugbyblog.com\/json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therugbyblog.com\/json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therugbyblog.com\/json\/wp\/v2\/users\/286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therugbyblog.com\/json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.therugbyblog.com\/json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therugbyblog.com\/json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therugbyblog.com\/json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therugbyblog.com\/json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therugbyblog.com\/json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n3 June – Provincial union team (Toll Stadium, Whangarei)
\n7 June – Blues (Eden Park, Auckland)
\n10 June – Crusaders (AMI Stadium, Christchurch)
\n13 June – Highlanders (Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin)
\n17 June – Maori (International Stadium, Rotorua)
\n20 June – Chiefs (Waikato Stadium, Hamilton)
\n24 June – New Zealand (First Test, Eden Park, Auckland)
\n27 June – Hurricanes (Westpac Stadium, Wellington)
\n1 July – New Zealand (Second Test, Westpac Stadium, Wellington)
\n8 July – New Zealand (Third Test, Eden Park, Auckland).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"