2024 Six Nations Championship
The 2024 Six Nations Championship (known as the Guinness Men's Six Nations for sponsorship reasons) was a rugby union competition that took place in February and March 2024, and featured the men's national teams of England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. It was the 130th season of the competition (including its incarnations as the Home Nations Championship and the Five Nations Championship), but the 25th since it expanded to become the Six Nations Championship in 2000. It started on 2 February 2024 with a Friday night match between France and Ireland, and concluded with France against England on 16 March. France played their home fixtures away from their normal venue, the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, as the stadium was being prepared for use in the 2024 Summer Olympics later in the year.
| 2024 Six Nations Championship | |||
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| Date | 2 February – 16 March 2024 | ||
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| Champions | Ireland (16th title) | ||
| Matches played | 15 | ||
| Attendance | 982,687 (65,512 per match) | ||
| Tries scored | 79 (5.27 per match) | ||
| Top point scorer(s) | Thomas Ramos (63) | ||
| Top try scorer(s) | Dan Sheehan Duhan van der Merwe (5) | ||
| Player of the tournament | Tommaso Menoncello | ||
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Ireland entered the competition as reigning champions, having won the Grand Slam for the fourth time in 2023. They retained the championship – the third time they had won back-to-back championships, having done so previously in 1949 and 2015 – but did not secure a second successive Grand Slam.