2025 Six Nations All you need to know

2025 Six Nations: All you need to know

The beginning of the latest Six Nations will be getting underway in just over a week, and here we take a look at all you need to know.

Aside from the World Cup, the Six Nations is the biggest tournament in all of international rugby for all of the nations taking part each year. With the start of this highly prestigious competition just over a week away, we are going to be taking a look at all you need to know about the upcoming international rugby extravaganza that is taking place from Friday 31st January to Saturday 15th March.

Its history stretches back to the year 1883 with it then being known as the ‘Home Nations’. From 1883 to 1909, only England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales took part, and it was England who were victorious on 5 occasions, which took place in 1883, 1884, jointly with Scotland in 1886 and 1890, and 1892.

Ireland had 4 (1894, 1896, 1899, and jointly with Wales in 1906), Wales had 7 (1893, 1900, 1902, 1905, jointly with Ireland in 1906, 1908, 1909), whilst it was Scotland who won the Home Nations the most times with 9 triumphs, which were done back in 1886 (jointly with England), 1887, 1890 (jointly with England), 1891, 1895, 1901, 1903, 1904, and 1907.

France joined, and from 1910 to 1931, it saw England, France, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales take part. The nation with the most wins in this period was England, their successes in this period came in 1910, 1912 (shared with Ireland), 1913, 1914, 1920 (shared with Scotland & Wales), 1921, 1923, 1924, 1928, and in 1930.

England, Ireland, and Wales were all victorious at least once from 1932 to 1939, and this remained the case after World War Two until 1999. France also won the tournament on a number of occasions in this period.

The tournament became known as it is today – the Six Nations – at the turn of the century back in 2000, and it was England who won that year. It also saw Italy take part in this Championship for the very first time. England have won the Six Nations a further six times since then so far, with their latest triumph in 2020 following successes back in 2001, 2003, 2011, 2016, and 2017.

Close behind are France, Ireland, and Wales, who all have six each. Starting with the reigning Champions Ireland, their latest victory in 2024 was their second in as many years after previously tasting glory back in 2023. Ireland also won in 2009, 2014, 2015, and 2018.

As for Wales, their plethora of triumphs have so far taken place back in 2005, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2019, and 2021. Meanwhile, France’s six triumphs took place in 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2010, and 2022, which was their most recent victory overall.

Now, let’s look at all you need to know ahead of the highly anticipated 2025 Guinness Six Nations getting underway in just over a week’s time on Friday 31st January.

Fixtures

Here, we will first take a look at the fixtures for all of the nations that are taking part, with games taking place from Friday 31st January to Saturday 15th March.

England:

Wales:

Scotland:

Ireland:

Italy:

France:

Six Nations Squads

All of the nations, from England to Wales, have all announced their squads to take part in the upcoming 2025 Guinness Six Nations, and they are as follows:

England:

Forwards – Fin Baxter, Ollie Chessum, Arthur Clarke, Luke Cowan-Dickie, Chandler Cunningham-South, Ben Curry, Tom Curry, Theo Dan, Ben Earl, Ellis Genge, Joe Heyes, Ted Hill, Maro Itoje, Curtis Langdon, George Martin, Asher Opoku-Fordjour, Henry Pollock, Bevan Rodd, Will Stuart & Tom Willis.

Backs – Oscar Beard, Elliot Daly, Fraser Dingwall, George Ford, Tommy Freeman, Ollie Lawrence, Cadan Murley, Raffi Quirke, Harry Randall, Tom Roebuck, Henry Slade, Ollie Sleightholme, Fin Smith, Marcus Smith, Ben Spencer & Freddie Steward.

Ireland:

Forwards – Ryan Baird, Finlay Bealham, Tadhg Beirne, Jack Boyle, Thomas Clarkson, Jack Conan, Caelan Doris, Tadhg Furlong, Cian Healy, Iain Henderson, Rob Herring, Cormac Izuchukwu, Rónan Kelleher, Gus McCarthy, Joe McCarthy, Peter O’Mahony, Andrew Porter, Cian Prendergast, James Ryan, Dan Sheehan & Josh van der Flier.

Backs – Bundee Aki, Caolin Blade, Jack Crowley, Ciaran Frawley, Jamison Gibson-Park, Mack Hansen, Robbie Henshaw, Hugo Keenan, James Lowe, Conor Murray, Calvin Nash, Jimmy O’Brien, Jamie Osborne, Sam Prendergast & Garry Ringrose.

Scotland:

Forwards – Ewan Ashman, Josh Bayliss, Jamie Bhatti, Gregor Brown, Dave Cherry, Luke Crosbie, Rory Darge, Jack Dempsey, Matt Fagerson, Zander Fagerson, Grant Gilchrist, Jonny Gray, Patrick Harrison, Will Hurd, Jack Mann, D’Arcy Rae, Dylan Richardson, Jamie Ritchie, Pierre Schoeman, Rory Sutherland & Marshall Sykes.

Backs – Fergus Burke, Matt Currie, Jamie Dobie, Darcy Graham, George Horne, Rory Hutchinson, Huw Jones, Tom Jordan, Blair Kinghorn, Stafford McDowall, Finn Russell, Kyle Rowe, Duhan van der Merwe & Ben White.

Wales:

Forwards – Keiron Assiratti, James Botham, Elliot Dee, Taulupe Faletau, Dafydd Jenkins, WillGriff John, Evan Lloyd, Kemsley Mathias, Jac Morgan, Sam Parry, Tommy Reffell, Will Rowlands, Nicky Smith, Gareth Thomas, Freddie Thomas, Henry Thomas, Christ Tshinunza, Aaron Wainwright & Teddy Williams.

Backs – Josh Adams, Ellis Bevan, Dan Edwards, Josh Hathaway, Eddie James, Ellis Mee, Blair Murray, Joe Roberts, Tom Rogers, Ben Thomas, Nick Tompkins, Owen Watkin, Liam Williams, Rhodri Williams & Tomos Williams.

France:

Forwards – Esteban Abadie, Dorian Aldegheri, Grégory Alldritt, Uini Atonio, Hugo Auradou, Cyril Baille, Giorgi Beria, Paul Boudehent, Joshua Brennan, Georges-Henri Colombe, François Cros, Thibaud Flament, Marko Gazzotti, Jean-Baptiste Gros, Mickaël Guillard, Matthias Halagahu, Oscar Jégou Maxime Lamothe, Julien Marchand, Peato Mauvaka, Emmanuel Meafou, Dany Priso, Rabah Slimani & Romain Taofifénua.

Backs – Théo Attissogbé, Pierre-Louis Barassi, Leo Barré, Louis Bielle-Biarrey, Nicolas Depoortère, Gaël Dréan, Antoine Dupont, Antoine Frisch, Émilien Gailleton, Mattieu Jalibert, Nolann Le Garrec, Maxime Lucu, Yoram Moefana, Noah Nene, Romain Ntamack, Damian Penaud, Thomas Ramos & Gabin Villière.

Italy:

Forwards – Simone Ferrari, Riccardo Faveretto, Danilo Fischetti, Federico Ruzza, Marco Riccioni, Lorenzo Cannone, Luca Rizzoli, Alessandro Izekor, Giosue Zilocchi, Michele Lamaro, Gianmarco Lucchesi, Sebastian Negri, Gianmarco Nicotera, Ross Vintcent, Niccolo Cannone, Manuel Zuliani & Dino Lamb.

Backs – Alessandro Garbisi, Juan Ignacio Brex, Martin Page-Relo, Tommaso Menoncello, Stephen Varney, Ange Capuozzo, Tommaso Allen, Matt Gallagher, Paolo Garbisi, Simone Gesi, Leonardo Marin, Monty Ioane & Jacopo Trulla.

Ireland and France are both seen as leading contenders to win the Guinness Six Nations this year, but there is plenty of drama and enthralling action to come throughout the five rounds of the 2025 Championship, so it may be England’s time for glory, with Wales also hoping for a positive tournament, as will Italy.

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