Women's Six Nations Championship
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| Women's Six Nations Championship | |
|---|---|
| Sport | Rugby union |
| Founded | 1996 |
| No. of teams | 1996-1998: 4 1999-2001: 5 2002-2008: 6 |
| Country(ies) |  England France Ireland Italy Scotland Spain Wales |
| Most recent champion(s) |
England |
The Women's Six Nations Championship is an international rugby union competition contested between six European women's national teams. The competition began as a "Home International Championship" for the four home nations in 1996.
In 1999 and 2000 France and Spain joined the competition to create a the Five Nations championship.
In 2007, the decision of the Six Nations committee to formally adopt the tournament saw Italy Women subsitituted for Spain Women and the title sponsorship of RBS included to produce a parallel tournament with the men's competitions for the first time in Women's Rugby history.
Contents |
[edit] Results
[edit] Champions
Home International Championship
- 1996 - England (triple crown & grand slam)
- 1997 - England (triple crown)
- 1998 - Scotland (triple crown & grand slam)
Five Nations
Six Nations
- 2002 - France (grand slam)
- 2003 - England (grand slam)
- 2004 - France (grand slam)
- 2005 - France (grand slam)
- 2006 - England (grand slam)
- 2007 - England (grand slam)
- 2008 - England (grand slam)
[edit] Final positions
|
Home Nations |
Five Nations | Six Nations | |||||||||||
| 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | |
| England | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st |
| France | - | - | - | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 3rd | 1st | 1st | 3rd | 2nd | 3rd |
| Ireland | 3rd | 4th | 4th | 5th | - | - | 6th | 5th | 5th | 5th | 5th | 4th | 4th |
| Italy | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6th | 5th |
| Scotland | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 3rd | 4th | 4th | 3rd | 2nd | 4th | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th |
| Spain | - | - | - | - | 3rd | 3rd | 4th | 6th | 3rd | 4th | 6th | - | - |
| Wales | 4th | 3rd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 5th | 5th | 4th | 6th | 6th | 2nd | 3rd | 2nd |
[edit] Matches won:
|
Home Nations |
Five Nations | Six Nations | |||||||||||||||
| 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | P | W | L | Percent | |
| England | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 56 | 52 | 4 | 92.9 |
| France | - | - | - | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 47 | 36 | 11 | 76.6 |
| Scotland | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 56 | 25 | 31 | 44.6 |
| Wales | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 56 | 18 | 38 | 32.1 |
| Spain | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | - | - | 33 | 10 | 23 | 30.3 | |
| Ireland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 48 | 9 | 39 | 18.8 |
| Italy | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 9 | 10.0 |
[edit] Highest team scores
| 86 | England v Spain (86-3) at Madrid 11/02/2006 [523] |
| 83 | England v Wales (83-11) at Swansea 10/04/1999 [239] |
| 81 | England v Wales (81-0) at Cardiff Arms Park 04/02/2005 [474]: |
| 79 | England v Ireland (79-0) at Worcester 17/02/2002 [346] |
| 76 | England v Spain (76-0) at Imber Court 12/03/2005 [483]: England v Italy (76-6) at Rome 09/02/2008 [657] |
| 71 | England v Spain (71-3) at Zaragoza 15/2/2004 [427] |
Other nations:
| 48 | France v Scotland (48-18) at Melun 9/4/1999 [238] |
| 22 | Ireland v Wales (22-6) at Dublin 3/3/1996 [128] |
| 31 | Italy v Scotland (31-10) at Mira 16/3/2008 [124] |
| 48 | Scotland v Spain (48-7) at Edinburgh 29/3/2004 [408] |
| 20 | Spain v Wales (20-0) at Madrid 2/3/2002 [348] |
| 44 | Wales v Spain (44-0) at Cardiff 15/2/2003 [395] |
[edit] See also
- Women's international rugby - includes all women's international match results
[edit] External links
- 2007 Championship from RBS6Nations.com
