Former All Blacks coach Ian Foster Photo: Photosport
Foster has been coaching in Japan at the Toyota Verblitz club after leaving the All Blacks following the 2023 World Cup.
His reign ended with the narrow one point loss to South Africa in the final.
At Verblitz he reunited with Sir Steve Hansen who was coach of the All Blacks from eight years from 2012-2019 with Foster his deputy.
Hansen headed to Japan in 2019.
The combined side is unlikely to include current frontline All Blacks as the match against the Lions coincides with France's three test tour of New Zealand.
A combined Anzac side last played in 1989.
The Lions nine-game tour will also include a match against a First Nations & Pasifika XV in Melbourne.
The Lions will play three tests against the Wallabies, the first being in Brisbane, the second in Melbourne and the third in Sydney.
The MCG will host the second Test, which could see the largest ever crowd for a Lions Test, with the capable of hosting more than 100,000 spectators, which would surpass the current Lions Test record attendance of 84,188 at Sydney's Accor Stadium in 2001.
The Lions will also play all four Australian Super Rugby Pacific sides on the tour with the first tour match against the Western Force in Perth on June 28.
The British and Irish Lions Tour of Australia
v Western Force June 28, Perth.
v Queensland Reds, July 2, Brisbane.
v New South Wales Waratahs July 5, Sydney.
v ACT Brumbies July 9, Canberra.
v AUNZ Invitational XV July 12, Adelaide.
v Wallabies, 1st Test, July 19, Brisbane.
v First Nations & Pasifika XV, July 22, Melbourne.
v Wallabies 2nd Test, Melbourne.
v Wallabies, 3rd Test, Sydney.
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