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1998 Five Nations Championship

Rugby competition

Field	Value
name	1998 Five Nations Championship
date	7 February – 5 April 1998
countries

champions
count	12
grand slam	(6th title)
triple crown	(21st title)
matches	10
tries	51
top point scorer	ENG Paul Grayson (66 points)
top try scorer	FRA Philippe Bernat-Salles (4 tries)
previous year	1997
previous tournament	1997 Five Nations Championship
next year	1999
next tournament	1999 Five Nations Championship

The 1998 Five Nations Championship was the 69th series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the hundred-and-fourth series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. In total, ten matches were played over five weekends from 7 February to 5 April. France won it with a Grand Slam. England had the consolation of winning the Triple Crown, the Calcutta Cup and the Millennium Trophy.

Participants

Venue	City	Head coach	Captain
Twickenham Stadium	London	Clive Woodward	Lawrence Dallaglio
Stade de France	Saint-Denis	Jean-Claude Skrela	Raphaël Ibañez
Lansdowne Road	Dublin	Brian Ashton (resigned) / Warren Gatland	Keith Wood
Murrayfield Stadium	Edinburgh	Jim Telfer	Gary Armstrong
Wembley Stadium	London	Kevin Bowring	Rob Howley

Squads

Standings

Results

Week 1

Dominici Sadourny

Shepherd (2)

Ireland head coach Brian Ashton resigned on 20 February. He was replaced by Warren Gatland on 24 February.

Week 2

Bracken Dallaglio Dawson Greenwood Healey Rees (2) Gibbs G. Thomas

Brouzet Califano Carbonneau Castaignède M. Lièvremont Lamaison (2) Lamaison

Week 3

Ibañez

A. Thomas (3) Townsend

Week 4

Ward N. Jenkins Morgan

Stanger Grayson Healey Penalty try

Week 5

Cockerill De Glanville Perry

Garbajosa (2) Glas T. Lièvremont Sadourny (2)

References

Wales home matches were played at Wembley Stadium due to the ongoing construction of the [[Millennium Stadium]]

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