1976 Five Nations Championship

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.

1976 Five Nations Championship
Date10 January - 20 March 1976
Countries England
 Ireland
 France
 Scotland
 Wales
Tournament statistics
Champions Wales (19th title)
Grand Slam Wales (7th title)
Triple Crown Wales (13th title)
Calcutta Cup Scotland
Matches played10
Tries scored30 (3 per match)
Top point scorer(s) Jean-Pierre Romeu (30)
Top try scorer(s) Gareth Edwards (3)
1975 (Previous) (Next) 1977

Wales won their 7th title, with a Grand Slam, and the Triple Crown.

The Scotland vs France game was played one week earlier than the England vs 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 Five Nations Championship for the first time since the two games per weekend format was introduced in 1974.

Participants

The teams involved were:

Nation Venue City Head coach Captain
 England Twickenham London Peter Colston Tony Neary
 France Parc des Princes Paris Jean Desclaux Jacques Fouroux
 Ireland Lansdowne Road Dublin Roly Meates Mike Gibson
 Scotland Murrayfield Edinburgh Bill Dickinson Ian McLauchlan
 Wales National Stadium Cardiff John Dawes Mervyn Davies

Table

Position Nation Games Points Table
points
Played Won Drawn Lost For Against Difference
1 Wales 440010237+658
2 France 43018237+456
3 Scotland 42024959104
4 Ireland 41033187562
5 England 40044286440

Squads

Results

1976-01-10
Scotland  613  France
Pen.: Renwick
Drops: Morgan
Tries: Dubertrand
Pen.: Romeu (3)
Murrayfield, Edinburgh
Attendance: 55,000
Referee: K. A. Pattinson (England)

1976-01-17
England  921  Wales
Pen.: Hignell (3) Tries: Edwards
J.P.R. Williams (2)
Con.: Fenwick (3)
Pen.: Martin
Twickenham, London
Referee: G. Domercq (France)

1976-02-07
France  263  Ireland
Tries: Cholley
Fouroux
Pecune
Rives
Con.: Bastiat
Romeu
Pen.: Bastiat
Romeu
Pen.: Robbie
Parc des Princes, Paris
Attendance: 42,585
Referee: A. Welsby (England)
1976-02-07
Wales  286  Scotland
Tries: Edwards
Evans
J.J. Williams
Con.: Bennett (2)
Pen.: Bennett (3)
Drops: Fenwick
Tries: Irvine
Con.: Morgan
National Stadium, Cardiff
Referee: A. Cuny (France)

1976-02-21
Ireland  934  Wales
Pen.: McGann (3) Tries: Bennett
Davies (2)
Edwards
Con.: Bennett (3)
Pen.: Bennett (3)
Martin
Lansdowne Road, Dublin
Referee: N. Sanson (Scotland)
1976-02-21
Scotland  2212  England
Tries: Lawson (2)
Leslie
Con.: Irvine (2)
Pen.: Irvine (2)
Tries: Maxwell
Con.: Old
Pen.: Old (2)
Murrayfield, Edinburgh
Attendance: 70,000
Referee: D. M. M. Lloyd (Wales)

1976-03-06
Wales  1913  France
Tries: J.J. Williams
Pen.: Bennett (2)
Fenwick (2)
Martin
Tries: Averous
Gourdon
Con.: Romeu
Pen.: Romeu
National Stadium, Cardiff
Attendance: 55,000
Referee: J. R. West (Ireland)
1976-03-06
England  1213  Ireland
Pen.: Old (4) Tries: Grace
Pen.: McGann (2)
Drops: McGann
Twickenham, London
Referee: Alan Hosie (Scotland)

1976-03-20
France  309  England
Tries: Bastiat
Fouroux
Gourdon
Paparemborde (2)
Romeu
Con.: Romeu (3)
Tries: Dixon
Con.: Butler
Pen.: Butler
Parc des Princes, Paris
Attendance: 43,611
Referee: K. H. Clark (Ireland)
1976-03-20
Ireland  615  Scotland
Pen.: McGann (2) Pen.: Irvine (4)
Drops: Wilson
Lansdowne Road, Dublin
Referee: M. S. Lewis (Wales)
Preceded by
1975 Five Nations
Five Nations Championship
1976
Succeeded by
1977 Five Nations


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