The 1959 Five Nations Championship was the thirtieth series of the rugby union
Five Nations Championship
The Six Nations Championship (known as the Guinness Six Nations for sponsorship reasons) is an annual international men's rugby union competition between the teams of England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. The current champions ar ...
. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the sixty-fifth series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between 10 January and 18 April. It was contested by
England
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,
France
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,
Ireland
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,
Scotland
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and
Wales
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. France won the title outright for the first time, after two shared wins in 1954 and 1955.
Participants
The teams involved were:
Table
Results
External links
The official RBS Six Nations Site
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