1975 Five Nations Championship

Date

18 January 1975 - 15 March 1975

Countries

England

Ireland

France

Scotland

Wales

Tournament statistics

Champions

Wales (18th title)

Calcutta Cup

England

Matches played

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The 1975 Five Nations Championship was the forty-sixth series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the eighty-first series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between 18 January and 15 March. It was contested by England, France, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. The championship was won by Wales, the team's eighteenth title (excluding another nine shared championships).^[1]

The game between Scotland and Wales at the Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh on 1 March attracted a World Record rugby attendance of 104,000 fans. This record would not be broken until a Bledisloe Cup game between Australia and New Zealand attracted 107,042 to the Sydney Olympic Stadium in 1999. The attendance at Murrayfield remains the Championship's record crowd, the record attendance in Europe and the third highest rugby attendance in history. With Scotland winning 12-10 it was the only loss for the Welsh during the 1975 Five Nations.

Participants

The teams involved were:

Nation	Venue	City	Head coach
England	Twickenham	London	John Burgess
France	Parc des Princes	Paris	Jean Desclaux
Ireland	Lansdowne Road	Dublin	Roly Meates
Scotland	Murrayfield	Edinburgh	Bill Dickinson
Wales	National Stadium	Cardiff	John Dawes

Table

Position	Nation	Games				Points			Table points
Position	Nation	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Difference	Table points
1	Wales	4	3	0	1	87	30	+57	6
2	Scotland	4	2	0	2	47	40	+7	4
2	Ireland	4	2	0	2	54	67	−13	4
2	France	4	2	0	2	53	79	−26	4
5	England	4	1	0	3	40	65	−25	2

Results

18 January 1975

France	10–25	Wales

Parc des Princes, Paris

18 January 1975

Ireland	12–9	England

Lansdowne Road, Dublin

1 February 1975

England	20–27	France

Twickenham, London

1 February 1975

Scotland	20–13	Ireland

Murrayfield, Edinburgh

15 February 1975

Wales	20–4	England

National Stadium, Cardiff

15 February 1975

France	10–9	Scotland

Parc des Princes, Paris

1 March 1975

Ireland	25–6	France

Lansdowne Road, Dublin

1 March 1975

Scotland	12–10	Wales

Murrayfield, Edinburgh

15 March 1975

Wales	32–4	Ireland

National Stadium, Cardiff

15 March 1975

England	7–6	Scotland

Twickenham, London

References

↑ "Wales 32 Ireland 4". Glasgow Herald (page 21). 17 March 1975. Retrieved 30 August 2013.

1975 Five Nations results

External links

The official RBS Six Nations Site

Preceded by 1974 Five Nations	Five Nations Championship 1975	Succeeded by 1976 Five Nations

Six Nations Championship

Teams

Stadiums

Tournaments

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Honours

Championship records • Hat-tricks • Under 20s Championship • Women's Championship

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