# Women's Six Nations Championship

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.

## Results
### Overall

| | England | France | Ireland | Italy | Scotland | Spain | Wales |
| Tournaments | 29 | 26 | 27 | 18 | 29 | 7 | 29 |
| Outright Wins | 20 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Grand Slams | 18 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Triple Crowns | 24 | — | 2 | — | 1 | — | 1 |
| Wooden Spoons | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 8 |

### Home Nations (1996–1998)

| Year | Champions | Grand Slam | Triple Crown | Wooden Spoon |
| 1996 | England | England | England | Wales |
| 1997 | England | England | England | Ireland |
| 1998 | Scotland | Scotland | Scotland | Ireland |

### Five Nations (1999–2001)

| Year | Champions | Grand Slam | Triple Crown | Wooden Spoon |
| 1999 | England | England | England | Ireland |
| 2000 | England | England | England | Wales |
| 2001 | England | England | England | Wales |

### Six Nations (2002–present)

| Year | Champions | Grand Slam | Triple Crown | Wooden Spoon |
| 2002 | France | France | England | Ireland |
| 2003 | England | England | England | Spain |
| 2004 | France | France | England | Ireland |
| 2005 | France | France | England | Wales |
| 2006 | England | England | England | Spain |
| 2007 | England | England | England | Italy |
| 2008 | England | England | England | Scotland |
| 2009 | England | – | Wales | Italy |
| 2010 | England | England | England | Wales |
| 2011 | England | England | England | Scotland |
| 2012 | England | England | England | Scotland |
| 2013 | Ireland | Ireland | Ireland | Scotland |
| 2014 | France | France | England | Scotland |
| 2015 | Ireland | – | Ireland | Scotland |
| 2016 | France | – | England | Scotland |
| 2017 | England | England | England | Italy |
| 2018 | France | France | England | Wales |
| 2019 | England | England | England | Scotland |
| 2020 | England | England | England | Not completed |
| 2021 | England | Not contested | Not contested | Wales |
| 2022 | England | England | England | Scotland |
| 2023 | England | England | England | Ireland |
| 2024 | England | England | England | Wales |
| 2025 | TBC | TBC | TBC | TBC |

## Final positions
### Summary

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| | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| England | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 3rd | 2nd | 4th | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st |
| France | — | — | — | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 3rd | 1st | 1st | 3rd | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 3rd | 1st | 3rd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd |
| Ireland | 3rd | 4th | 4th | 5th | — | — | 6th | 5th | 5th | 5th | 5th | 4th | 4th | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | 1st | 3rd | 1st | 3rd | 2nd | 3rd | 5th | 3rd | 3rd | 4th | 6th | 3rd |
| Italy | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 6th | 5th | 6th | 5th | 5th | 5th | 5th | 4th | 3rd | 5th | 6th | 4th | 2nd | 4th | 4th | 5th | 5th | 5th |
| Scotland | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 3rd | 4th | 4th | 3rd | 2nd | 4th | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 5th | 4th | 6th | 6th | 6th | 6th | 6th | 6th | 4th | 5th | 6th | 5th | 5th | 6th | 4th | 4th |
| Spain | — | — | — | — | 3rd | 3rd | 4th | 6th | 3rd | 4th | 6th | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Wales | 4th | 3rd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 5th | 5th | 4th | 6th | 6th | 2nd | 3rd | 2nd | 2nd | 6th | 4th | 4th | 4th | 5th | 5th | 4th | 5th | 6th | 4th | 6th | 6th | 3rd | 3rd | 6th |

### Tables
#### Home Nations (1996–1998)

| Position | Nation | Tournaments | Matches | Matches | Matches | Matches | Points | Points | Points | Table points | Awards | Awards | Awards | Awards |
| Position | Nation | Tournaments | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | For | Against | Diff | Table points | TW | GS | TC | WS |
| 1 | England | 3 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 255 | 72 | +183 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2 | Scotland | 3 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 121 | 66 | +55 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | Wales | 3 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 125 | 184 | –59 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Ireland | 3 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 56 | 235 | –179 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |

#### Five Nations (1999–2001)

| Position | Nation | Tournaments | Matches | Matches | Matches | Matches | Points | Points | Points | Table points | Awards | Awards | Awards | Awards |
| Position | Nation | Tournaments | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | For | Against | Diff | Table points | TW | GS | TC | WS |
| 1 | England | 3 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 491 | 68 | +423 | 24 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2 | France | 3 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 240 | 141 | +99 | 16 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0 |
| 3 | Scotland | 3 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 172 | 246 | –74 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Spain | 2 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 74 | 135 | –61 | 8 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0 |
| 5 | Wales | 3 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 77 | 341 | –264 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | Ireland | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 128 | –123 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |

#### Six Nations without bonus point scoring (2002–2016)

| Position | Nation | Tournaments | Matches | Matches | Matches | Matches | Points | Points | Points | Table points | Awards | Awards | Awards | Awards |
| Position | Nation | Tournaments | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | For | Against | Diff | Table points | TW | GS | TC | WS |
| 1 | England | 15 | 75 | 64 | 0 | 11 | 2810 | 335 | +2475 | 128 | 8 | 7 | 12 | 0 |
| 2 | France | 15 | 75 | 50 | 0 | 25 | 1726 | 701 | +1025 | 100 | 5 | 4 | N/A | 0 |
| 3 | Ireland | 15 | 75 | 35 | 0 | 40 | 1055 | 1097 | –42 | 70 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 4 | Wales | 15 | 75 | 30 | 1 | 44 | 861 | 1042 | –181 | 61 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Scotland | 15 | 75 | 15 | 1 | 59 | 597 | 2065 | –1468 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 6 | Italy | 10 | 50 | 14 | 1 | 35 | 579 | 1216 | –637 | 29 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 3 |
| 7 | Spain | 5 | 25 | 6 | 1 | 18 | 156 | 764 | –604 | 13 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 2 |

#### Six Nations with bonus point scoring (2017–)

| Position | Nation | Tournaments | Matches | Matches | Matches | Matches | Points | Points | Points | Tries | Tries | Bonus points | Bonus points | Bonus points | Table points | Awards | Awards | Awards | Awards |
| Position | Nation | Tournaments | P | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | TF | TA | T BP | L BP | GS BP | Table points | TW | GS | TC | WS |
| 1 | England | 8 | 33 | 32 | 0 | 1 | 1582 | 233 | +1349 | 252 | 33 | 28 | 1 | 15 | 168 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 0 |
| 2 | France | 8 | 32 | 24 | 1 | 7 | 1076 | 370 | +706 | 162 | 48 | 23 | 3 | 3 | 123 | 1 | 1 | N/A | 0 |
| 3 | Ireland | 8 | 32 | 14 | 0 | 18 | 486 | 788 | –302 | 74 | 121 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Italy | 8 | 32 | 10 | 1 | 21 | 498 | 941 | –443 | 56 | 127 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 49 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 1 |
| 5 | Wales | 8 | 32 | 9 | 1 | 22 | 408 | 993 | –585 | 59 | 154 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | Scotland | 8 | 31 | 6 | 1 | 24 | 373 | 999 | –626 | 53 | 157 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |

#### Total

| Pos | Nation | Tourn­aments | Matches | Matches | Matches | Matches | Points | Points | Points | Bonus points | Bonus points | Bonus points | Table points | Awards | Awards | Awards | Awards |
| Pos | Nation | Tourn­aments | P | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | T BP | L BP | GS BP | Table points | TW | GS | TC | WS |
| 1 | England | 29 | 124 | 111 | 0 | 13 | 4867 | 649 | +4218 | 23 | 1 | 12 | 312 | 20 | 18 | 24 | 0 |
| 2 | France | 26 | 114 | 77 | 1 | 36 | 2843 | 1145 | +1698 | 19 | 3 | 3 | 219 | 6 | 5 | N/A | 0 |
| 3 | Ireland | 27 | 115 | 50 | 0 | 65 | 1577 | 2055 | –478 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 139 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 4 | Wales | 29 | 123 | 40 | 2 | 81 | 1399 | 2512 | –1113 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 104 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| 5 | Scotland | 29 | 122 | 30 | 2 | 90 | 1179 | 3228 | –2049 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 78 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| 6 | Italy | 18 | 77 | 23 | 2 | 52 | 900 | 1995 | –1095 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 70 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 4 |
| 7 | Spain | 7 | 33 | 10 | 1 | 22 | 250 | 899 | -645 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 2 |

## Records
### Highest team scores

Wins by 80 points or more:
* England v Scotland (89–0) at Twickenham 8 March 2011 [523]
* England v Spain (86–3) at Madrid 11 February 2006 [523]
* England v Wales (83–11) at Swansea 10 April 1999 [239]
* England v Wales (81–0) at Cardiff Arms Park 4 February 2005 [476]
* England v Scotland (80–0) at Twickenham 16 March 2019 [1308]

## Awards
### Player of the Championship

The following table outlines the nominees and winners of the Women's Six Nations Player of the Championship Award, which was first presented at the 2020 tournament.
| Year | Team | Nominee | Winner |
| 2020 | N/A | N/A | Emily Scarratt |
| 2021 | England | Zoe Aldcroft | Poppy Cleall |
| 2021 | France | Caroline Boujard | Poppy Cleall |
| 2021 | England | Poppy Cleall | Poppy Cleall |
| 2022 | England | Sarah Bern | Laure Sansus |
| 2022 | France | Madoussou Fall | Laure Sansus |
| 2022 | England | Marlie Packer | Laure Sansus |
| 2022 | France | Laure Sansus | Laure Sansus |
| 2023 | England | Holly Aitchison | Gabrielle Vernier |
| 2023 | England | Marlie Packer (2) | Gabrielle Vernier |
| 2023 | Wales | Sisilia Tuipulotu | Gabrielle Vernier |
| 2023 | France | Gabrielle Vernier | Gabrielle Vernier |
| 2024 | Italy | Alyssa D'Incà [it] | Ellie Kildunne |
| 2024 | England | Ellie Kildunne | Ellie Kildunne |
| 2024 | France | Romane Ménager | Ellie Kildunne |
| 2024 | Ireland | Aoife Wafer | Ellie Kildunne |