1973 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France

The 1973 Kangaroo Tour was the thirteenth Kangaroo Tour, where the Australian national rugby league team travelled to Europe and played nineteen matches against British and French club and representative rugby league teams, in addition to three Test matches against Great Britain and two Tests against the French. It followed the tour of 1967-68 and the next was staged in 1978.

The team was captain-coached by Graeme Langlands making his third Kangaroo Tour. Managers of the team were Albert Bishop and Charlie Gibson with Alf Richards as the team trainer.

1973 NSWRFL Premiers Manly-Warringah provided a record 6 players to the Kangaroos, though one shock omission was tough tackling forward Terry Randall. Amazingly, the 1973 Brisbane premiers Fortitude Valley did not have any players selected.

The Ashes series against Great Britain saw an aggregate crowd of 36,567 attending the Test series

In the first rugby league international played at Wembley since 1963, the Lions shocked the then unbeaten Australian's 21-12 in front of just 9,874 fans. The match had been moved to Wembley from the Central Park ground in Wigan at the request of the Australian team management.

The second test at Headingley in Leeds saw the Australian's tie the series at one game all with a 14-6 win in front of the tours largest attendance of 16,674.

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