Matches played 10 | Tries scored 34 (3.4 per match) | |
Date 18 January 1986 - 15 March 1986 | ||
The 1986 Five Nations Championship was the fifty-seventh series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the ninety-second series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played over five weekends between 18 January and 15 March. This championship marked an unprecedented turnaround in the fortunes of the Irish team who had, the previous year, won the competition, but now, for one of the only times in the history of the team, took home the wooden spoon.
France and Scotland shared the title. Phillipe Sella of France scored a try in every match, repeating the feat achieved three years earlier by fellow Frenchman Patrick Estève.
Participants
The teams involved were: