# British & Irish Lions Men's Tour to New Zealand 2029

> No ticket ballot or sale date has been confirmed for British & Irish Lions Men's Tour to New Zealand 2029 as of 31 Aug 2026; what is known so far is below.

- Canonical: https://theticketlottery.com/ballots/british-and-irish-lions-mens-tour-to-new-zealand
- Sport: Rugby
- Status on 2026-09-08: Unconfirmed
- Public ballot: unconfirmed
- Access: draw
- Ballot type: none
- Event dates: Mid-2029, expected roughly late June to early August 2029 (2025 tour: Dublin opener 2025-06-20, Australia leg 2025-06-28 to 2025-08-02); three Tests v All Blacks plus tour matches; full schedule expected to be confirmed around late 2027 (timing per media reports, not yet officially dated)
- Location: New Zealand (venues TBC); media reports suggest possible pre-tour fixtures (home opener and USA), not officially confirmed
- Organizer: British & Irish Lions and New Zealand Rugby (expected ticketing via NZR/allblacks.com and its agents, as Rugby Australia ran 2025 ticketing via Ticketmaster; official ticket-inclusive travel packages via Lions Rugby Travel at lionstour.com and All Blacks Travel & Hospitality)
- Entry cost: Nothing to enter yet; creating a Lions account / registering for updates on lionsrugby.com is free; the official travel programme's 2027 & 2029 sign-up on lionstour.com is also free
- Eligibility: Not announced; 2025 precedent: general sales open worldwide first-come-first-served, priority presales for host-union members (Wallabies First) and Super Rugby club members, plus a free public ballot (worldwide, free Lions registration) for the pre-tour 1888 Cup fixture in Dublin
- Ticket prices if you win: Not announced (third-party 2029 price guides such as lionsseries2025.rugby are unofficial estimates, not real prices)
- Official site: https://www.lionsrugby.com/en
- Last verified: 2026-08-31 (confidence: medium)

## Where it stands

As of 2026-07-07: no 2029 ticketing, registration or ballot announced on lionsrugby.com or on NZ Rugby's allblacks.com tickets page (both checked directly); the official Lions site promotes the 2027 Women's Series and an Ultimate Tour prize draw for New Zealand 2027; the official travel programme lionstour.com already offers a free 2027 & 2029 sign-up for package news

## How to enter

Nothing on sale as of 2026-07-07. Only official actions now: create a free Lions account on lionsrugby.com and sign up free on the official travel programme lionstour.com (2027 & 2029 sign-up) for ticket-inclusive package news. Expected pattern from the verified official 2025 timeline: host-union presales first (Wallabies First and Super Rugby club member presales, early March 2024), first FCFS general sale about 15 months out (2024-03-17), a free public Lions ballot for the pre-tour home fixture about 14 months out (1888 Cup Dublin ballot launched 2024-04-10, closed 2024-05-01), a members-only ballot for high-demand Test allocations 8-9 months out (Super Rugby member ballot applications 2024-10-21 to 2024-10-27, results 2024-11-01), and a further general release shortly after (2024-11-07). Mapped to 2029: register interest during 2027, first general sale around Q1-Q2 2028, member ballot plus final releases late 2028 to early 2029

## Your odds

In 2025, host-country (Australia) Test tickets had no public ballot: FCFS general sales (first release 2024-03-17 sold out within hours per Rugby Australia) plus a members-only ballot for Super Rugby club members (applications 2024-10-21 to 2024-10-27, results 2024-11-01). The Lions themselves did run a free public ballot for the pre-tour 1888 Cup fixture v Argentina in Dublin (closed 2024-05-01). New Zealand stadium capacities are smaller than Australia's (no 100k MCG equivalent), so 2029 Test demand pressure will be even higher

## Good to know

All 2029 timing is estimated from the verified 2025 tour pattern; nothing official for 2029 is dated yet. Correction: lionstour.com is NOT unofficial; it is Lions Rugby Travel, the Lions' official ticket-inclusive travel package programme (linked from lionsrugby.com as Tour with Us and listed by allblacks.com as an authorised travel partner), though it is not the match-ticket-only channel. lionsseries2025.rugby is now third-party content promoting 2029 tickets and priority access lists and is not official. Historically host-country Lions Tests used member presales plus FCFS rather than public ballots, but the Lions used a free public ballot for the 2025 Dublin opener, so a public ballot for any 2029 pre-tour fixture is plausible and NZR could choose a different mechanism for Tests. Media reports (unofficial) describe a possible home opener, a USA fixture, five Super Rugby franchises, Maori All Blacks and NZ Barbarians; re-check when the schedule is announced (expected late 2027)

## Sources

- https://www.lionsrugby.com/en
- https://www.allblacks.com/tickets
- https://www.lionstour.com/new-zealand-2029/
- https://www.rugby.com.au/news/british-irish-lions-tour-tickets-on-sale-to-the-public-today-2024317
- https://australia.rugby/news/british-irish-lions-ticket-allocation-exhausted-202442
- https://www.irishrugby.ie/2024/04/10/ticket-ballot-launched-for-lions-1888-cup-match-against-argentina-in-dublin/
- https://reds.rugby/news/sign-up-as-a-full-season-reds-member-for-the-british-irish-lions-ticket-ballot-20241018