Leicester Tigers boss Richard Cockerill has spoken of his pride at having six players chosen for the British & Irish Lions summer tour.
The director of rugby said that having the joint-largest contingent of any club side was "a great day for Tigers".
The Tigers quintet of prop Dan Cole, hooker Tom Youngs, flanker Tom Croft, scrum-half Ben Youngs and centre Manu Tuilagi were widely-tipped to be in the squad for the Australia tour.
Geoff Parling has also made the set-up as one of five lock-forwards.
Cockerill said: "I am delighted for the players because it is a huge honour and the opportunity of a lifetime in anybody's rugby career.
"They have all earned the right to go on the tour and I am pleased for them because I know how hard they work.
"I am also delighted for the club too. A lot of people have put a lot of work into those guys and five of our six Lions have come through our Academy.
"It is a great day for the club."
Tigers have the joint-highest contingent in Warren Gatland's 37-man squad with Irish province Leinster.
Tigers players represent 16 per cent of the tour party which will face the Wallabies in a three-Test series, in June and July, and make-up 60 per cent of England's 10-man contingent.
Tigers' forwards only found out about their selection when they were briefly pulled out of a mauling practice session yesterday to be told by Cockerill.
The backs, meanwhile, had no idea they were in the squad until after training when they logged on to a computer inside Tigers' Oval Park training base.
Tom and Ben Youngs are the first brothers to tour together with the Lions since the Hastings (Gavin and Scott) and fellow Leicester duo the Underwoods (Tony and Rory) did it in 1993.
Along with the 10 English players in the set-up, there are 15 Welshmen, nine Irishmen and three Scots.
Big omissions were Jonny Wilkinson and Ireland hooker Rory Best, while the likes of Saracens props Mako Vunipola and Matt Stevens were surprise inclusions.
The Lions begin their tour on June 5 with a fixture against Perth-based Super 15 side, the Western Force.
That will be the first of a nine-game schedule, in Australia, which includes games against the Brumbies and the Queensland Reds and ends with a three-Test series against Robbie Deans' Wallabies side.
The Lions last toured Australia in 2001 when Graham Henry's side went down to a 2-1 defeat, despite winning the first Test.
