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1976 Five Nations Championship

Rugby union competition

Field	Value
name	1976 Five Nations Championship
date	10 January - 20 March 1976
countries

champions
count	19
grand slam	(7th title)
triple crown	(13th title)
matches	10
tries	30
top point scorer	WAL Phil Bennett (38)
top try scorer	WAL Gareth Edwards (3)
previous year	1975
previous tournament	1975 Five Nations Championship
next year	1977
next tournament	1977 Five Nations Championship

The 1976 Five Nations Championship was the 47th series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the 82nd series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between 10 January and 20 March 1976.

Wales won their 19th title, with a Grand Slam, and the Triple Crown. The victory consolidated Wales’s dominance during the 1970s, a decade in which they secured three Grand Slams and five championships.

The Scotland vs France match was played one week earlier than the England vs Wales fixture, allowing the BBC to cover both that game and the Ireland vs Australia test 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

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

Table

Squads

Results

J. P. R. Williams (2)

Fouroux Pécune Rives Romeu Romeu

Evans J. J. Williams

Davies (2) Edwards Martin

Leslie

Fenwick (2) Martin Gourdon

Fouroux Gourdon Paparemborde (2) Romeu

References

"Wales’ dominance in the 1970s". Welsh Rugby Union.

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