- 1980 Five Nations Championship
The 1980 Five Nations Championship was the fifty-first series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the eighty-sixth series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between
January 19 andMarch 15 .Nrut|England were the champions, winning the championship outright for the first time since 1963; they had also shared in the quintuple tie in 1972. It was England's eighteenth championship, excluding ten titles shared with other teams. In winning all four matches they won the Grand Slam for the eighth time, equalling the record held by Wales. It was England's first Grand Slam since 1957 and only their second since 1928. England's victories over Ireland, Wales and Scotland also gave them the Triple Crown for the first time since 1960 and the fifteenth time overall.
Table
Results
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date =1980-01-19
home = ru-rt|WAL | score = 18–9
away = ru|FRA | homescore = | awayscore = | stadium = National Stadium,Cardiff
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date =1980-01-19
home = ru-rt|ENG | score = 24–9
away = ru|IRE | homescore = | awayscore = | stadium = Twickenham,London
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date =1980-02-02
home = ru-rt|FRA | score = 13–17
away = ru|ENG | homescore = | awayscore = | stadium =Parc des Princes ,Paris
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date =1980-02-02
home = ru-rt|IRE | score = 22–15
away = ru|SCO | homescore = | awayscore = | stadium =Lansdowne Road ,Dublin
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date =1980-02-16
home = ru-rt|SCO | score = 22–14
away = ru|FRA | homescore = | awayscore = | stadium = Murrayfield,Edinburgh
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date =1980-02-16
home = ru-rt|ENG | score = 9–8
away = ru|WAL | homescore = | awayscore = | stadium = Twickenham,London
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date =1980-03-01
home = ru-rt|FRA | score = 19–18
away = ru|IRE | homescore = | awayscore = | stadium =Parc des Princes ,Paris
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date =1980-03-01
home = ru-rt|WAL | score = 17–6
away = ru|SCO | homescore = | awayscore = | stadium = National Stadium,Cardiff
attendance =----rugbybox
date =1980-03-15
home = ru-rt|IRE | score = 21–7
away = ru|WAL | homescore = | awayscore = | stadium =Lansdowne Road ,Dublin
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date =1980-03-15
home = ru-rt|SCO | score = 18–30
away = ru|ENG | homescore = | awayscore = | stadium = Murrayfield,Edinburgh
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External links
* [http://www.rbs6nations.com/index_6nations.htm The official RBS Six Nations Site]
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