1976 Five Nations Championship
| 1976 Five Nations Championship | |||
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| Date | 10 January 1976 - 20 March 1976 | ||
| Countries |  England Ireland France Scotland Wales |
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| Champions | Wales (19th title) |
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| Grand Slam | Wales (7th title) |
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| Triple Crown | Wales (13th title) |
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| Calcutta Cup | Scotland |
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| Matches played | 10 | ||
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The 1976 Five Nations Championship was the forty-seventh series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the eighty-second series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between 10 January and 20 March.
Table
| Position | Nation | Games | Points | Table points |
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| Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | For | Against | Difference | |||
| 1 | Wales |
4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 102 | 37 | +65 | 8 |
| 2 | France |
4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 82 | 37 | +45 | 6 |
| 3 | Scotland |
4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 49 | 59 | −10 | 4 |
| 4 | Ireland |
4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 31 | 87 | −56 | 2 |
| 5 | England |
4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 42 | 86 | −44 | 0 |
Results
Note: The Scotland v France game was played one week earlier than the England V Wales game, to allow the BBC to cover both the latter game, and the Ireland v Australia game in Dublin on the same day. Bill Mclaren thus, unusually, commentated on the opening two games of a 5 nations tournament for the first time since the two games per weekend format was introduced in 1974.
External links
| Preceded by | Five Nations Championship 1976 |
Succeeded by 1977 Five Nations |
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