Six Nations - Sports Tourist

The Six Nations is an international rugby union competition held annually between the teams of England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. The competition started out as the Home Nations Championship in 1883 before France were added in 1910 to become the Five Nations Championship, this was later increased further in 1999 with the addition of Italy. Each team plays the other teams once, with home advantage being alternated each year.

As well as the Championship trophy, a team can win the ‘Grand Slam’ if it wins all its matches or a Home Nations nation can win the ‘Triple Crown’ if it wins all three of their matches against the others. Other individual trophies awarded for matches between teams include:

Calcultta Cup (England and Scotland)
Millennium Trophy (England and Ireland)
Centenary Quaich (Ireland and Scotland)
Giuseppe Garibaldi Trophy (France and Italy)
Auld Alliance Trophy (France and Scotland)
Doddie Weir Cup (Wales and Scotland)
Cuttitta Cup (Scotland and Italy)

England and Wales have won the championship the most times with 39 titles but England have won the most outright titles with 29 (Wales 28). France have won 18 titles followed by Ireland with 15 and Scotland with 14, whilst Italy have never won the tournament.

2024 Six Nations

The 2024 Six Nations is set to take place between the 2nd February and 16th March 2024. Click below for further information on each of the matches (all times are GMT).