The 2016 Six Nations Championship, known as the 2016 RBS 6 Nations because of the tournament's sponsorship by The Royal Bank of Scotland, will be the 17th series of the Six Nations Championship, the annual northern hemisphere rugby union championship.

It will be contested by England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. Including the competition's previous incarnations as the Home Nations Championship and Five Nations Championship, it will be the 122nd edition of the tournament.^[1]

Participants

Nation	Stadium			Head coach	Captain
	Home stadium	Capacity	City
England	Twickenham Stadium	82,000	London	Stuart Lancaster	Chris Robshaw
France	Stade de France	81,338	Saint-Denis	Philippe Saint-André	Thierry Dusautoir
Ireland	Aviva Stadium	51,700	Dublin	Joe Schmidt	Paul O'Connell
Italy	Stadio Olimpico	73,261	Rome	Jacques Brunel	Sergio Parisse
Scotland	Murrayfield Stadium	67,144	Edinburgh	Vern Cotter	Greig Laidlaw
Wales	Millennium Stadium	74,500	Cardiff	Warren Gatland	Sam Warburton

Squads

Table

Position	Nation	Games				Points			Tries	Table points
		Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Difference
1	Ireland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	England	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Wales	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	France	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Italy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	Scotland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Source: RBS 6 Nations Table (accessed 21 March 2015)

Fixtures

Week 1

6 February 2016 15:25 CET (UTC+1)

France	v	Italy

Stade de France, Paris

6 February 2016 16:50 GMT (UTC+0)

Scotland	v	England

Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh

7 February 2016 15:25 GMT (UTC+0)

Ireland	v	Wales

Aviva Stadium, Dublin

Week 2

13 February 2016 15:25 CET (UTC+1)

France	v	Ireland

Stade de France, Paris

13 February 2016 16:50 GMT (UTC+0)

Wales	v	Scotland

Millennium Stadium, Cardiff

14 February 2016 15:00 CET (UTC+1)

Italy	v	England

Stadio Olimpico, Rome

Week 3

26 February 2016 20:05 GMT (UTC+0)

Wales	v	France

Millennium Stadium, Cardiff

27 February 2016 15:25 CET (UTC+1)

Italy	v	Scotland

Stadio Olimpico, Rome

27 February 2016 16:50 GMT (UTC+0)

England	v	Ireland

Twickenham Stadium, London

Week 4

12 March 2016 13:30 GMT (UTC+0)

Ireland	v	Italy

Aviva Stadium, Dublin

12 March 2016 16:00 GMT (UTC+0)

England	v	Wales

Twickenham Stadium, London

13 March 2016 15:00 GMT (UTC+0)

Scotland	v	France

Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh

Week 5

19 March 2016 14:30 GMT (UTC+0)

Wales	v	Italy

Millennium Stadium, Cardiff

19 March 2016 17:00 GMT (UTC+0)

Ireland	v	Scotland

Aviva Stadium, Dublin

19 March 2016 21:00 CET (UTC+1)

France	v	England

Stade de France, Paris