Six Nations Women

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Poster

Established
1996 (29 years old)

First Recorded Event
2016-02-05

Current Season
2025

Sport
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Rugby

Location
Europe

Gender
Female

TV Rights
US - NBC Sports [2021]

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Upcoming

29 Mar	France Rugby	-	Scotland Rug	1:00pm
29 Mar	Wales Rugby	-	England Rugb	4:45pm
30 Mar	Italy Rugby	-	Ireland Rugb	2:00pm
12 Apr	France Rugby	-	Wales Rugby	11:45am
12 Apr	Ireland Rugb	-	England Rugb	3:45pm
13 Apr	Scotland Rug	-	Italy Rugby	2:00pm
19 Apr	Italy Rugby	-	France Rugby	12:00pm
19 Apr	England Rugb	-	Scotland Rug	3:45pm
20 Apr	Wales Rugby	-	Ireland Rugb	2:00pm
26 Apr	Scotland Rug	-	Ireland Rugb	1:30pm
Results
23 Mar	England Rugb	38 - 5	Italy Rugby
22 Mar	Ireland Rugb	15 - 27	France Rugby
22 Mar	Scotland Rug	24 - 21	Wales Rugby

Description

The Women's Six Nations Championship, known as the Guinness Women's Six Nations for sponsorship purposes, is an international rugby union competition contested between six European women's national teams. It started in the 1995–96 season as the Home Nations, with four teams: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

In the 1998–99 season it became the Five Nations, with France joining the original four. The following season, Spain replaced Ireland for two seasons.

In 2001–02 the women's Six Nations competition was born with England, France, Ireland, Scotland, Spain and Wales playing, after Ireland rejoined the competition. Spain, at that time, were higher ranked than Italy and therefore deserved their place in the competition on merit.

In 2006, a championship trophy was commissioned from silversmith Thomas Lyte, to be followed by a second trophy commissioned for the Under 20 Six Nations championship. Designed and created by Thomas Lyte, the trophies are made from sterling silver and feature engraving detail with the logos of the competing countries.

In 2007, the Six Nations committee formally adopted Italy as the sixth national team member in the championship, replacing Spain. This aligned the women's competition with the men's competition.

England have been the dominant team in the competition, winning 20 of 29 editions.

Seasons