1977 Five Nations Championship

1977 Five Nations Championship
Date	15 January 1977 - 19 March 1977
Countries	England  Ireland  France  Scotland  Wales
Tournament statistics
Champions	France (6th title)
Grand Slam	France
Triple Crown	Wales
Matches played	10
← 1976 (Previous) (Next) 1978 →

The 1977 Five Nations Championship was the forty-eighth series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the eighty-third series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between 15 January and 19 March.

France won the championship for the sixth time outright. Including shared titles this was France's tenth championship overall. France won the Grand Slam for the second time and did so with the same fifteen players in all four matches and without conceding a try. No previous Grand Slam winners had achieved either of these feats. Wales won the Triple Crown for the second consecutive season and the fourteenth time overall, equalling England's record of Triple Crown wins.

Contents 1 Table 2 Results 3 References 4 External links

Table

Position	Nation	Games				Points			Table points
		Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Difference
1	France	4	4	0	0	58	21	+37	8
2	Wales	4	3	0	1	66	43	+23	6
3	England	4	2	0	2	42	24	+18	4
4	Scotland	4	1	0	3	39	85	−46	2
5	Ireland	4	0	0	4	33	65	−32	0

Results

1977-01-15	Wales	25–9	Ireland	National Stadium, Cardiff

1977-01-15	England	26–6	Scotland	Twickenham, London

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1977-02-05	France	16–9	Wales	Parc des Princes, Paris

1977-02-05	Ireland	0–4	England	Lansdowne Road, Dublin

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1977-02-19	England	3–4	France	Twickenham, London

1977-02-19	Scotland	21–18	Ireland	Murrayfield, Edinburgh

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1977-03-05	France	23–3	Scotland	Parc des Princes, Paris

1977-03-05	Wales	14–9	England	National Stadium, Cardiff

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1977-03-19	Ireland	6–15	France	Lansdowne Road, Dublin

1977-03-19	Scotland	9–18	Wales	Murrayfield, Edinburgh

References

• Jenkins, Vivian (1977). Rothmans Rugby Yearbook 1977-78. Macdonald and Jane's. pp. p57-68. ISBN 0-354-09020-8. 

External links

• The official RBS Six Nations Site

Preceded by 1976 Five Nations

Five Nations Championship 1977

Succeeded by 1978 Five Nations

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