Momentum growing for a female Lions tour

Royal London, corporate partners of the men’s tour to South Africa this summer, are backing the feasibility study having come on board as the first principal partner of the Women's Lion Programme with Ireland international Claire Molloy as one of its ambassadors. 

British & Irish Lions boss Ben Calveley believes a women’s side under the revered touring brand is only a matter of time as a feasibility study into its viability gets underway in the coming weeks.

Managing director Calveley was talking in Cape Town before the 2021 Lions headed home from their Test series defeat to the Springboks and said the historic touring rugby organisation wanted to join the growing bandwagon being generated behind the women’s game.