Champions France (7th title) Calcutta Cup England | Grand Slam France (3rd title) Matches played 10 | |
Date 17 January 1981 - 21 March 1981 Countries England
Ireland
France
Scotland
Wales | ||
The 1981 Five Nations Championship was the fifty-second series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the eighty-seventh series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between 17 January and 21 March.
France were the winners, winning the championship outright for the eighth time. They had also shared the title on four other occasions. In winning all their four matches they also won the Grand Slam for the third time.
Participants
The teams involved were:
References
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