2025 Six Nations Championship

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2025 Six Nations Championship
Date31 January – 15 March 2025
Countries
Tournament statistics
2024 (Previous)

The 2025 Six Nations Championship (known as the Guinness Men's Six Nations for sponsorship reasons and branded as M6N) 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.

Contents

Participants

Nation Stadium Coach Captain World Rugby Ranking
Home stadiumCapacityLocationStart [a] End [b]
Flag of England.svg  England Twickenham Stadium 82,000 London Flag of England.svg Steve Borthwick Maro Itoje [2] 7th
Flag of France.svg  France Stade de France 81,338 Saint-Denis Flag of France.svg Fabien Galthié Antoine Dupont [3] 4th
IRFU flag.svg  Ireland Aviva Stadium 51,700 Dublin IRFU flag.svg Simon Easterby Caelan Doris [4] 2nd
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Stadio Olimpico 73,261 Rome Flag of Argentina.svg Gonzalo Quesada 10th
Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland Murrayfield Stadium 67,144 Edinburgh Flag of Scotland.svg Gregor Townsend Sione Tuipulotu [5] 6th
Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg  Wales Millennium Stadium 73,931 Cardiff Flag of New Zealand.svg Warren Gatland Jac Morgan [6] 11th

Squads

Table

PosTeamPldWDLPFPAPDTFTAGSTBLBPtsFlag of England.svg  ENG Flag of France.svg  FRA IRFU flag.svg  IRE Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Flag of Scotland.svg  SCO Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg  WAL
1Flag of England.svg  England 0000000000000 8 Feb 9 Mar 22 Feb
2Flag of France.svg  France 0000000000000 15 Mar 31 Jan
3IRFU flag.svg  Ireland 0000000000000 1 Feb 8 Mar
4Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 0000000000000 23 Feb 15 Mar 8 Feb
5Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland 0000000000000 9 Feb 1 Feb 8 Mar
6Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg  Wales 0000000000000 15 Mar 22 Feb
First match(es) will be played: 31 January 2025. Source: Six Nations Rugby

Table ranking rules [7]

Fixtures

Round 1

31 January 2025
21:15 CET (UTC+1)
France  Flag of France.svgvFlag of Wales (1959-present).svg  Wales
Stade de France, Saint-Denis
Referee: Paul Williams (New Zealand) [8]

1 February 2025
14:15 GMT (UTC+0)
Scotland  Flag of Scotland.svgvFlag of Italy.svg  Italy
Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh
Referee: Karl Dickson (England) [8]

1 February 2025
16:45 GMT (UTC+0)
Ireland  IRFU flag.svgvFlag of England.svg  England
Aviva Stadium, Dublin
Referee: Ben O'Keeffe (New Zealand) [8]

Round 2

8 February 2025
15:15 CET (UTC+1)
Italy  Flag of Italy.svgvFlag of Wales (1959-present).svg  Wales
Stadio Olimpico, Rome
Referee: Matthew Carley (England) [8]

8 February 2025
16:45 GMT (UTC+0)
England  Flag of England.svgvFlag of France.svg  France
Twickenham Stadium, London
Referee: Nika Amashukeli (Georgia) [8]

Round 3

22 February 2025
14:15 GMT (UTC+0)
Wales  Flag of Wales (1959-present).svgvIRFU flag.svg  Ireland
Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
Referee: Christophe Ridley (England) [8]

22 February 2025
16:45 GMT (UTC+0)
England  Flag of England.svgvFlag of Scotland.svg  Scotland
Twickenham Stadium, London
Referee: Pierre Brousset (France) [8]

23 February 2025
16:00 CET (UTC+1)
Italy  Flag of Italy.svgvFlag of France.svg  France
Stadio Olimpico, Rome
Referee: Karl Dickson (England) [8]

Round 4

8 March 2025
14:15 GMT (UTC+0)
Ireland  IRFU flag.svgvFlag of France.svg  France
Aviva Stadium, Dublin
Referee: Angus Gardner (Australia) [8]

8 March 2025
16:45 GMT (UTC+0)
Scotland  Flag of Scotland.svgvFlag of Wales (1959-present).svg  Wales
Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh
Referee: Andrea Piardi (Italy) [8]

9 March 2025
15:00 GMT (UTC+0)
England  Flag of England.svgvFlag of Italy.svg  Italy
Twickenham Stadium, London
Referee: Andrew Brace (Ireland) [8]

Round 5

15 March 2025
15:15 CET (UTC+1)
Italy  Flag of Italy.svgvIRFU flag.svg  Ireland
Stadio Olimpico, Rome
Referee: Luke Pearce (England) [8]

15 March 2025
16:45 GMT (UTC+0)
Wales  Flag of Wales (1959-present).svgvFlag of England.svg  England
Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
Referee: Nic Berry (Australia) [8]

15 March 2025
21:00 CET (UTC+1)
France  Flag of France.svgvFlag of Scotland.svg  Scotland
Stade de France, Saint-Denis
Referee: Matthew Carley (England) [8]

Notes

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

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