Australia will tour England this spring for the primary rugby league Ashes collection since 2003.
The Australian Rugby League Fee confirmed on Wednesday night that three Check matches between Australia and England could be held in London, Liverpool and Leeds throughout three Saturdays from October 25.
The tour will notably function the primary rugby league worldwide on the storied Wembley Stadium because the 2013 World Cup, in addition to a conflict on the new Everton Stadium that opened in Liverpool final month.
“We’re proud to revive one of many nice rugby league traditions,” mentioned ARLC chair Peter V’landys of the Ashes.
“The present era of Kangaroos gamers have by no means skilled the magic of a Kangaroos tour, and I’m delighted they may have an opportunity to cement their very own legacy alongside the greats of the previous.”
It means Australia is ready to overlook this 12 months’s yet-to-be-announced Pacific Championships, that are slated to run at an identical time.
The Kangaroos are probably to get replaced on the Pacific Championships program by Samoa after Jarome Luai’s facet missed final 12 months’s Check collection to embark on their very own England tour.
Australia had been resulting from journey to England for a long-awaited Ashes reboot in 2020 earlier than COVID-19 problems led the collection to be cancelled.
Valentine Holmes. (Picture by Dave Howarth – CameraSport by way of Getty Pictures)
The Kangaroos have gained the final 13 rugby league Ashes collection relationship again to 1970, with the collection beforehand contested by Nice Britain slightly than England.
The Kangaroos gained all three Check matches on the newest tour in 2003 with a squad captained by Brisbane famous person Darren Lockyer and together with present Cronulla coach Craig Fitzgibbon.
England vs Australia
First Check – Saturday 25 October, Wembley Stadium, London
Second Check – Saturday 1 November, Everton Stadium, Liverpool
Third Check – Saturday 8 November, Headingley Stadium, Leeds
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