1956 Five Nations Championship
The 1956 Five Nations Championship was the twenty-seventh series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the sixty-second series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between January 14 and April 14. It was contested by England, France, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Table
| Position | Nation | Games | Points | Table points | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | For | Against | Difference | |||
| 1 |  Wales
|
4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 20 | +5 | 6 |
| 2 |  England
|
4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 43 | 28 | +15 | 4 |
| 2 |  France
|
4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 31 | 34 | −3 | 4 |
| 2 |  Ireland
|
4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 33 | 47 | −14 | 4 |
| 5 |  Scotland
|
4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 31 | 34 | −3 | 2 |