1984 Five Nations Championship Explained

1984 Five Nations Championship
Date:21 January - 17 March 1984
Countries:



Count:12
Grand Slam: (2nd title)
Triple Crown: (9th title)
Matches:10
Tries:27
Top Point Scorer: Jean-Patrick Lescarboura (54 points)
Top Try Scorer: Philippe Sella (3 tries)
Previous Year:1983
Previous Tournament:1983 Five Nations Championship
Next Year:1985
Next Tournament:1985 Five Nations Championship

The 1984 Five Nations Championship was the fifty-fifth series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the ninetieth series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between 21 January and 17 March.

Scotland won the championship outright for the first time since 1938. It was their twelfth outright championship, excluding a further seven shared titles. Their four wins gave them the Grand Slam for the first time since 1925 and the second in all, and the Triple Crown for the ninth time and the first since 1938.

It was also the second occasion, after 1978, in which two teams each with three victories faced off against each other in the final round of matches, with both capable of completing a Grand Slam with a victory.

Participants

The teams involved were:

NationVenueCityHead coachCaptain
TwickenhamLondonDick GreenwoodPeter Wheeler
Parc des PrincesParisJacques FourouxJean-Pierre Rives
Lansdowne RoadDublinWillie John McBrideWillie Duggan/Ciaran Fitzgerald
MurrayfieldEdinburghJim TelferJim Aitken
National StadiumCardiffJohn BevanEddie Buttler/Mike Watkins

Results

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