1972 Five Nations Championship

1972 Five Nations Championship
Date	15 January 1972 - 29 April 1972
Countries	England  Ireland  France  Scotland  Wales
Tournament statistics
Champions	Not completed
Matches played	8
← 1971 (Previous) (Next) 1973 →

The 1972 Five Nations Championship was the forty-third series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the seventy-eighth series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. The championship was not completed for the first time since World War II. Scotland and Wales did not want to travel to Dublin to play Ireland because of the escalating political situation. Although the remaining fixtures of the schedule were fulfilled, as both Ireland and Wales won all their matches, neither could claim the title. To fill the gap of the missing two fixtures, France played a friendly match in Dublin (in addition to the scheduled match in Paris). In total nine matches were played between 15 January and 29 April. It was contested by England, France, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

This tournament saw France play its last matches at its decades-long home ground of Colombes. The opening of the rebuilt Parc des Princes that June saw France move its Five Nations matches to that ground.

Table

Position	Nation	Games				Points			Table points
		Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Difference
1	Wales	3	3	0	0	67	21	+46	6
2	Ireland	2	2	0	0	30	21	+9	4
3	Scotland	3	2	0	1	55	53	+2	4
4	France	4	1	0	3	62	66	−4	2
5	England	4	0	0	4	36	88	−52	0

Results

1972-01-15	England	3–12	Wales	Twickenham, London

1972-01-15	Scotland	20–9	France	Murrayfield, Edinburgh

1972-01-29	France	9–14	Ireland	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Colombes

1972-02-05	Wales	35–12	Scotland	National Stadium, Cardiff

1972-02-12	England	12–16	Ireland	Twickenham, London

1972-02-26	France	37–12	England	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Colombes

1972-03-18	Scotland	23–9	England	Murrayfield, Edinburgh

1972-03-25	Wales	20–6	France	National Stadium, Cardiff

1972-04-29	Ireland	24–14 (Friendly)	France	Lansdowne Road, Dublin

External links

• The official RBS Six Nations Site

Preceded by 1971 Five Nations

Five Nations Championship 1972

Succeeded by 1973 Five Nations

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