1976 Five Nations Championship

1976 Five Nations Championship
Date	10 January 1976 - 20 March 1976
Countries	England  Ireland  France  Scotland  Wales
Tournament statistics
Champions	Wales (19th title)
Grand Slam	Wales (7th title)
Triple Crown	Wales (13th title)
Calcutta Cup	Scotland
Matches played	10
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The 1976 Five Nations Championship was the forty-seventh series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the eighty-second series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between 10 January and 20 March.

Table

Position	Nation	Games				Points			Table points
		Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Difference
1	Wales	4	4	0	0	102	37	+65	8
2	France	4	3	0	1	82	37	+45	6
3	Scotland	4	2	0	2	49	59	−10	4
4	Ireland	4	1	0	3	31	87	−56	2
5	England	4	0	0	4	42	86	−44	0

Results

1976-01-10

Scotland	6–13	France

Murrayfield, Edinburgh

1976-01-17

England	9–21	Wales

Twickenham, London

1976-02-07

France	26–3	Ireland

Parc des Princes, Paris

1976-02-07

Wales	28–6	Scotland

National Stadium, Cardiff

1976-02-21

Ireland	9–34	Wales

Lansdowne Road, Dublin

1976-02-21

Scotland	22–12	England

Murrayfield, Edinburgh

1976-03-06

Wales	19–13	France

National Stadium, Cardiff

1976-03-06

England	12–13	Ireland

Twickenham, London

1976-03-20

France	30–9	England

Parc des Princes, Paris

1976-03-20

Ireland	6–15	Scotland

Lansdowne Road, Dublin

Note: The Scotland v France game was played one week earlier than the England V Wales game, to allow the BBC to cover both the latter game, and the Ireland v Australia game in Dublin on the same day. Bill Mclaren thus, unusually, commentated on the opening two games of a 5 nations tournament for the first time since the two games per weekend format was introduced in 1974.

External links

• The official RBS Six Nations Site