Six Nations Women

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Poster

Established
1996 (29 years old)

First Recorded Event
2025-03-22

Current Season
2026

Sport
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Rugby

Location
Europe

Gender
Female

TV Rights
US - NBC Sports [2021]

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Results
27 Apr	Italy Rug	44 - 12	Wales Rug
26 Apr	Scotland	26 - 19	Ireland R
26 Apr	England R	43 - 42	France Ru
20 Apr	Wales Rug	14 - 40	Ireland R
19 Apr	Italy Rug	21 - 34	France Ru
19 Apr	England R	59 - 7	Scotland
13 Apr	Scotland	17 - 25	Italy Rug
12 Apr	France Ru	42 - 12	Wales Rug
12 Apr	Ireland R	5 - 49	England R
30 Mar	Italy Rug	12 - 54	Ireland R

Description

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.

Seasons