2024 Six Nations Championship
Date2 February – 16 March 2024
Countries
Tournament statistics
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The 2024 Six Nations Championship (known as the Guinness Six Nations for sponsorship reasons) is a rugby union competition scheduled to take place in February and March 2024, featuring the men's national teams of England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. It is the 130th season of the competition (including its incarnations as the Home Nations Championship and the Five Nations Championship), but the 25th since it expanded to become the Six Nations Championship in 2000. It will start on 2 February 2024 with a Friday night match between France and Ireland, and end with France against England on 16 March.[1] France will play all three of their home fixtures away from their normal venue, the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, as the stadium is scheduled to be being prepared for use in the 2024 Summer Olympics later in the year.[2] The venues for France's three home games were announced in May 2023.[3]

Ireland enter the competition as reigning champions, having won the Grand Slam in 2023.

Participants

Nation Stadium Notes
Home stadium Capacity Location
 England Twickenham Stadium 82,000 London
 France Stade Vélodrome 67,394 Marseille France vs Ireland
Parc Olympique Lyonnais 59,186 Décines-Charpieu (Lyon) France vs England
Stade Pierre-Mauroy 50,186 Villeneuve-d'Ascq (Lille) France vs Italy
 Ireland Aviva Stadium 51,700 Dublin
 Italy Stadio Olimpico 73,261 Rome
 Scotland Murrayfield Stadium 67,144 Edinburgh
 Wales Millennium Stadium 73,931 Cardiff

Table

Pos Team Pld W D L PF PA PD TF TA GS TB LB Pts
1  England 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2  France 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3  Ireland 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4  Italy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5  Scotland 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6  Wales 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Source:

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Table ranking rules[5]

  • 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

Round 1

2 February 2024
21:00 CET (UTC+0)
France v Ireland
Stade Vélodrome, Marseille
Referee: Karl Dickson (England)
3 February 2024
15:15 CET (UTC+1)
Italy v England
Stadio Olimpico, Rome
Referee: Paul Williams (New Zealand)
3 February 2024
16:45 GMT (UTC+0)
Wales v Scotland
Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
Referee: Ben O'Keeffe (New Zealand)

Round 2

10 February 2024
14:15 GMT (UTC+0)
Scotland v France
Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh
Referee: Nic Berry (Australia)
10 February 2024
16:45 GMT (UTC+0)
England v Wales
Twickenham Stadium, London
Referee: James Doleman (New Zealand)
11 February 2024
15:00 WET (UTC+0)
Ireland v Italy
Aviva Stadium, Dublin
Referee: Pierre Brousset (France)

Round 3

24 February 2024
14:15 WET (UTC+0)
Ireland v Wales
Aviva Stadium, Dublin
Referee: Andrea Piardi (Italy)
24 February 2024
16:45 GMT (UTC+0)
Scotland v England
Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh
Referee: Andrew Brace (Ireland)
25 February 2024
16:00 CET (UTC+1)
France v Italy
Stade Pierre-Mauroy, Lille
Referee: Christophe Ridley (England)

Round 4

9 March 2024
15:15 CET (UTC+1)
Italy v Scotland
Stadio Olimpico, Rome
Referee: Jaco Peyper (South Africa)
9 March 2024
16:45 GMT (UTC+0)
England v Ireland
Twickenham Stadium, London
Referee: Nika Amashukeli (Georgia)
10 March 2024
15:00 GMT (UTC+0)
Wales v France
Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
Referee: Luke Pearce (England)

Round 5

16 March 2024
14:15 GMT (UTC+0)
Wales v Italy
Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
Referee: Mathieu Raynal (France)
16 March 2024
16:45 WET (UTC+0)
Ireland v Scotland
Aviva Stadium, Dublin
Referee: Matthew Carley (England)

References

  1. ↑ "Six Nations 2024 fixtures and dates: France will host Ireland in tournament opener". BBC Sport. 28 February 2023. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  2. ↑ Burke, Patrick (14 February 2023). "Olympic preparations set to make Stade de France unavailable from start of 2024". insidethegames.biz. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  3. ↑ "France to play 2024 Guinness Six Nations matches away from Paris". sixnationsrugby.com. Six Nations Rugby. 29 May 2023. Retrieved 29 May 2023.
  4. ↑ https://www.sixnationsrugby.com/table/
  5. ↑ "Rules". sixnationsrugby.com. Six Nations Rugby. Retrieved 26 September 2022.
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