2024 Six Nations Championship

The 2024 Six Nations Championship (known as the Guinness Six Nations for sponsorship reasons) is a rugby union competition scheduled to take place in February and March 2024, featuring the men's national teams of England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. It is the 130th season of the competition (including its incarnations as the Home Nations Championship and the Five Nations Championship), but the 25th since it expanded to become the Six Nations Championship in 2000. It will start on 2 February 2024 with a Friday night match between France and Ireland, and end with France against England on 16 March.[1] France will play all three of their home fixtures away from their normal venue, the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, as the stadium is scheduled to be being prepared for use in the 2024 Summer Olympics later in the year.[2] The venues for France's three home games were announced in May 2023.[3]

2024 Six Nations Championship
Date2 February – 16 March 2024
Countries
Tournament statistics
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Ireland enter the competition as reigning champions, having won the Grand Slam in 2023.

Participants
Nation Stadium Notes
Home stadium Capacity Location
 England Twickenham Stadium 82,000 London
 France Stade Vélodrome 67,394 Marseille France vs Ireland
Parc Olympique Lyonnais 59,186 Décines-Charpieu (Lyon) France vs England
Stade Pierre-Mauroy 50,186 Villeneuve-d'Ascq (Lille) France vs Italy
 Ireland Aviva Stadium 51,700 Dublin
 Italy Stadio Olimpico 73,261 Rome
 Scotland Murrayfield Stadium 67,144 Edinburgh
 Wales Millennium Stadium 73,931 Cardiff

Fixtures

Round 1
2 February 2024
21:00 CET (UTC+0)
France v Ireland
Stade Vélodrome, Marseille
3 February 2024
15:15 CET (UTC+1)
Italy v England
Stadio Olimpico, Rome
3 February 2024
16:45 GMT (UTC+0)
Wales v Scotland
Millennium Stadium, Cardiff

Round 2
10 February 2024
14:15 GMT
Scotland v France
Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh
10 February 2024
16:45 GMT
England v Wales
Twickenham Stadium, London
11 February 2024
15:00 GMT
Ireland v Italy
Aviva Stadium, Dublin

Round 3
24 February 2024
14:15 GMT
Ireland v Wales
Aviva Stadium, Dublin
24 February 2024
16:45 GMT
Scotland v England
Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh
25 February 2024
16:00 CET
France v Italy
Stade Pierre-Mauroy, Lille

Round 4
9 March 2024
15:15 CET
Italy v Scotland
Stadio Olimpico, Rome
9 March 2024
16:45 GMT
England v Ireland
Twickenham Stadium, London
10 March 2024
15:00 GMT
Wales v France
Millennium Stadium, Cardiff

Round 5
16 March 2024
14:15 GMT
Wales v Italy
Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
16 March 2024
16:45 GMT
Ireland v Scotland
Aviva Stadium, Dublin
16 March 2024
21:00 CET
France v England
Parc Olympique Lyonnais, Décines-Charpieu

References
  1. "Six Nations 2024 fixtures and dates: France will host Ireland in tournament opener". BBC Sport. 28 February 2023. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  2. Burke, Patrick (14 February 2023). "Olympic preparations set to make Stade de France unavailable from start of 2024". insidethegames.biz. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  3. "France to play 2024 Guinness Six Nations matches away from Paris". sixnationsrugby.com. Six Nations Rugby. 29 May 2023. Retrieved 29 May 2023.
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