- 1982 Five Nations Championship
The 1982 Five Nations Championship was the fifty-third series of the rugby union
Five Nations Championship . Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the eighty-eighth series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played betweenJanuary 16 andMarch 20 . The winner of the championship was Ireland, with three wins and one defeat. It was the team's ninth title (excluding seven previous other titles which were shared). Ireland also won the Triple Crown, its fifth such honour, its first since 1949 and last one until 1985. The team's only defeat came on the final day of the competition, losing 22-9 to France in Paris, denying the Irish what would have been only their second ever Grand Slam.Wales's defeat by Scotland was their first loss at home in a Five Nations championship match since France won at Cardiff in March 1968.
Table
Results
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date =1982-01-16
home = ru-rt|SCO | score = 9–9
away = ru|ENG | homescore = | awayscore = | stadium = Murrayfield,Edinburgh
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date =1982-01-23
home = ru-rt|IRE | score = 20–12
away = ru|WAL | homescore = | awayscore = | stadium =Lansdowne Road ,Dublin
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date =1982-02-06
home = ru-rt|WAL | score = 22–12
away = ru|FRA | homescore = | awayscore = | stadium = National Stadium,Cardiff
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date =1982-02-06
home = ru-rt|ENG | score = 15–16
away = ru|IRE | homescore = | awayscore = | stadium = Twickenham,London
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date =1982-02-20
home = ru-rt|FRA | score = 15–27
away = ru|ENG | homescore = | awayscore = | stadium =Parc des Princes ,Paris
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date =1982-02-20
home = ru-rt|IRE | score = 21–12
away = ru|SCO | homescore = | awayscore = | stadium =Lansdowne Road ,Dublin
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date =1982-03-06
home = ru-rt|ENG | score = 17–7
away = ru|WAL | homescore = | awayscore = | stadium = Twickenham,London
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date =1982-03-06
home = ru-rt|SCO | score = 16–7
away = ru|FRA | homescore = | awayscore = | stadium = Murrayfield,Edinburgh
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date =1982-03-20
home = ru-rt|FRA | score = 22–9
away = ru|IRE | homescore = | awayscore = | stadium =Parc des Princes ,Paris
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date =1982-03-20
home = ru-rt|WAL | score = 18–34
away = ru|SCO | homescore = | awayscore = | stadium = National Stadium,Cardiff
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* [http://2rugby.com/ts/118/ 1982 Five Nations results]
External links
* [http://www.rbs6nations.com/index_6nations.htm The official RBS Six Nations Site]
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