1976 Five Nations Championship

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Template:Short description Template:Infobox Six Nations Championship 2 The 1976 Five Nations Championship was the 47th series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the 82nd series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between 10 January and 20 March.

Wales won their 19th title, with a Grand Slam, and the Triple Crown.

The Scotland vs France game was played one week earlier than the England vs 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 Five Nations Championship for the first time since the two games per weekend format was introduced in 1974.

Participants

Nation Venue City Head coach Captain
File:Flag of England.svg England Twickenham London Peter Colston Tony Neary
File:Flag of France.svg France Parc des Princes Paris Jean Desclaux Jacques Fouroux
File:IRFU flag.svg Ireland Lansdowne Road Dublin Roly Meates Mike Gibson
File:Flag of Scotland.svg Scotland Murrayfield Edinburgh Bill Dickinson Ian McLauchlan
File:Flag of Wales (1959–present).svg Wales National Stadium Cardiff John Dawes Mervyn Davies

Table

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Squads

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Results

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External links

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