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2025 Six Nations Championship

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2025 Six Nations Championship
Date31 January – 15 March 2025
Countries
Tournament statistics
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The 2025 Six Nations Championship (known as the Guinness Men's Six Nations for sponsorship reasons) is a rugby union competition scheduled to take place between January and March 2025, featuring the men's national teams of England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. It is the 131st season of the competition (including its incarnations as the Home Nations Championship and the Five Nations Championship), but the 26th since it expanded to become the Six Nations Championship in 2000. It is scheduled to start on 31 January 2025 with a Friday night match between France and Wales, and to end with France against Scotland on 15 March.[1] Ireland will enter the tournament as two-time reigning champions. France will return to their normal venue, the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, after a year away while the stadium was being prepared for the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Participants

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Nation Stadium Coach Captain World Rugby Ranking
Home stadium Capacity Location Start[a] End[b]
 England Twickenham Stadium 82,000 London 7th
 France Stade de France 81,338 Paris 4th
 Ireland Aviva Stadium 51,700 Dublin 2nd
 Italy Stadio Olimpico 73,261 Rome 10th
 Scotland Murrayfield Stadium 67,144 Edinburgh 6th
 Wales Millennium Stadium 73,931 Cardiff 11th


Table

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Pos Team Pld W D L PF PA PD TF TA GS TB LB Pts  ENG  FRA  IRE  ITA  SCO  WAL
1  England 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 — 8 Feb 9 Mar 22 Feb
2  France 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 — 15 Mar 31 Jan
3  Ireland 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Feb 8 Mar —
4  Italy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 23 Feb 15 Mar — 8 Feb
5  Scotland 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 Feb 1 Feb — 8 Mar
6  Wales 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 Mar 22 Feb —
First match(es) will be played: 31 January 2025. Source: Six Nations Rugby

Table ranking rules[2]

  • Four points are awarded for a win.
  • Two points are awarded for a draw.
  • A bonus point is awarded to a team that scores four or more tries, or loses by seven points or fewer. If a team scores four or more tries, and loses by seven points or fewer, they are awarded both bonus points.
  • Three bonus points are awarded to a team that wins all five of their matches (a Grand Slam). This ensures that a Grand Slam winning team would top the table with at least 23 points, as there would otherwise be a scenario where a team could win all five matches with no bonus points for a total of 20 points and another team could win four matches with bonus points and lose their fifth match while claiming one or more bonus points giving a total of 21 or 22 points.
  • Tiebreakers
    • If two or more teams are tied on table points, the team with the better points difference (points scored less points conceded) is ranked higher.
    • If the above tiebreaker fails to separate tied teams, the team that scores the higher number of total tries (including penalty tries) in their matches is ranked higher.
    • If two or more teams remain tied after applying the above tiebreakers then those teams will be placed at equal rank; if the tournament has concluded and more than one team is placed first then the title will be shared between them.

Fixtures

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Round 1

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Round 2

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8 February 2025
15:15 CET (UTC+1)
Italy v Wales
Stadio Olimpico, Rome
Referee: Matthew Carley (England)[3]

Round 3

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23 February 2025
16:00 CET (UTC+1)
Italy v France
Stadio Olimpico, Rome
Referee: Karl Dickson (England)[3]

Round 4

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Round 5

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15 March 2025
15:15 CET (UTC+1)
Italy v Ireland
Stadio Olimpico, Rome
Referee: Luke Pearce (England)[3]

Notes

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  1. ^ As at 27 January
  2. ^ As at 17 March

References

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  1. ^ "Six Nations 2025 fixtures: France host Wales in opener & England travel to Dublin". BBC Sport. 9 March 2024. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
  2. ^ "Rules". Six Nations Rugby. Archived from the original on 3 February 2024. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "Match Officials Appointments | Guinness Men's Six Nations 2025". World Rugby. Retrieved 19 December 2024.
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