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2025 Six Nations Championship
2025 Six Nations Championship
Date	31 January – 15 March 2025
Countries	England; France; Ireland; Italy; Scotland; Wales;
Tournament statistics
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The 2025 Six Nations Championship (known as the Guinness Men's Six Nations for sponsorship reasons and branded as M6N) is a rugby union competition scheduled to take place between January and March 2025, featuring the men's national teams of England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. It is the 131st season of the competition (including its incarnations as the Home Nations Championship and the Five Nations Championship), but the 26th since it expanded to become the Six Nations Championship in 2000. It is scheduled to start on 31 January 2025 with a Friday night match between France and Wales, and to end with France against Scotland on 15 March.^[1] Ireland will enter the tournament as two-time reigning champions. France will return to their normal venue, the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, after a year away while the stadium was being prepared for the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Participants

Nation	Stadium			Coach	Captain	World Rugby Ranking
Nation	Home stadium	Capacity	Location	Coach	Captain	Start^[a]	End^[b]
England	Twickenham Stadium	82,000	London	Steve Borthwick	Maro Itoje^[2]	7th
France	Stade de France	81,338	Saint-Denis	Fabien Galthié	Antoine Dupont^[3]	4th
Ireland	Aviva Stadium	51,700	Dublin	Simon Easterby	Caelan Doris^[4]	2nd
Italy	Stadio Olimpico	73,261	Rome	Gonzalo Quesada		10th
Scotland	Murrayfield Stadium	67,144	Edinburgh	Gregor Townsend	Sione Tuipulotu^[5]	6th
Wales	Millennium Stadium	73,931	Cardiff	Warren Gatland	Jac Morgan^[6]	11th

Squads

Table

Pos	Team	ENG	FRA	IRE	ITA	SCO	WAL
1	England	—	8 Feb		9 Mar	22 Feb
2	France		—			15 Mar	31 Jan
3	Ireland	1 Feb	8 Mar	—
4	Italy		23 Feb	15 Mar	—		8 Feb
5	Scotland			9 Feb	1 Feb	—	8 Mar
6	Wales	15 Mar		22 Feb			—

First match(es) will be played: 31 January 2025. Source: Six Nations Rugby

Table ranking rules^[7]

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.