Six Nations Championship Six Nations Championship The Six Nations Championship (known as the Guinness Six Nations for sponsorship reasons) is an annual international rugby union competition between the teams of England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. The current champions are Ireland, having won the 2018 tournament. The Six Nations is the successor to the Home Nations Championship (1883–1909 and 1932–39), played between teams from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, which was the first international rugby union tournament. With the addition of France, this became the Five Nations Championship (1910–31 and 1947–99), which in turn became the Six Nations Championship with the addition
2017 Women's Six Nations Championship 2017 Women's Six Nations Championship The 2017 Women's Six Nations Championship, also known as the 2017 RBS Women's Six Nations due to the tournament's sponsorship by the Royal Bank of Scotland, is the 16th series of the Women's Six Nations Championship, an annual women's rugby union competition between six European rugby union national teams. Matches are being held in February and March 2017, on the same weekends as the men's tournament, if not always the same day. For the first time, the 2017 tournament is using the rugby union bonus points system common to most other professional rugby union tournaments.