As one tour ends, which players are in pole position for Lions 2029 spots?

THE 2025 British and Irish Lions tour is done and dusted, with Andy Farrell’s squad heading home from Australia as series winners.

- JOHN JONES

It wasn’t always easy, with only a last-gasp Hugo Keenan try in the second Test separating them from a series defeat in the end.

But Farrell’s men still managed to win all but one of their games Down Under, becoming the first triumphant touring side since 2013. However, while the action has only just come to an end, focus is already switching to the next tour in four years’ time.

The scheduled 2029 tour will see the Lions head back to New Zealand, where they tied the series with the All Blacks on their last visit in 2017.

Just days after the third and final Test of this year’s tour in Brisbane, there is already debate over who will be involved next time around.

Head coach Farrell has received backing to lead the squad again in 2029, but what about the players?

Many of this year’s tourists will be out of contention by the time the next tour comes around, while there is also likely to be some currently unknown talents who will put themselves in the mix over the next four years.

That said, we've had a go at predicting what the Lions team may look like come 2029, with Jac Morgan no longer the only Welsh player involved.

Of course, four years is a very long time in rugby, so this could well end up being completely wrong. Even so, let's take a look into the crystal ball.

BACK THREE

Blair Kinghorn, Immanuel Feyi-Waboso, Louis Rees-Zammit

Two past tourists and one debutant in this rapid back-three, with Kinghorn making it onto successive tours and Rees-Zammit making a return to a Lions squad eight years on from being a bolter for the 2021 tour of South Africa.

Scotland star Kinghorn is a class act who added dynamism to the Lions attack in Australia, proving a threat with his pace, aerial ability and impressive boot.