1972 Five Nations Championship

The 1972 Five Nations Championship was the forty-third series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the seventy-eighth series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. The championship was not completed for the first time since World War II.

1972 Five Nations Championship
Date	15 January - 29 April 1972
Countries	England  Ireland  France  Scotland  Wales
Tournament statistics
Champions	Not completed
Calcutta Cup	Scotland
Matches played	8
Tries scored	28 (3.5 per match)
Top point scorer(s)	Barry John (32)
Top try scorer(s)	Bernard Duprat (4)
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Scotland and Wales did not travel to Dublin to play Ireland because of the escalating political situation. Although the remaining fixtures of the schedule were fulfilled, as both Ireland and Wales won all their matches, neither could claim the title. To fill the gap of the missing two fixtures, France played a friendly match in Dublin (in addition to the scheduled match in Paris).

In total nine matches were played between 15 January and 29 April. It was contested by England, France, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

This was the first Five Nations Championship where a try was worth four points.[1]

This tournament saw France play its last matches at its decades-long home ground of Colombes. The opening of the rebuilt Parc des Princes that June saw France move its Five Nations matches to that ground.