2006 Six Nations Championship

The 2006 RBS 6 Nations Championship was the seventh series of the rugby union Six Nations Championship to be held since the competition expanded in 2000 to include Italy. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the hundred-and-twelfth series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Before 1910 the competition was the Home Nations and was contested by England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The teams competing, along with their home venues, were:

*England: Twickenham, London
*France: Stade de France, Saint-Denis, Paris
*Ireland: Lansdowne Road, Dublin
**This was the last Six Nations to be held before the redevelopment of Lansdowne Road. Ireland played their 2007 Six Nations home fixtures at Croke Park, also in Dublin, and are set to do the same in 2008.
*Italy: Stadio Flaminio, Rome
*Scotland: Murrayfield, Edinburgh
*Wales: Millennium Stadium, Cardiff

Unlike most rugby union competitions, the Six Nations has not adopted a bonus point system. Match winners receive two points, with one for a draw and none for a loss. The first tiebreaker is point differential.

France won the competition on points difference over Ireland, who received the consolation of winning the Triple Crown by winning their matches against the other Home Nations: Wales, Scotland and England.

Final table

External links

* [http://www.rbs6nations.com/ The Official Six Nations Site]