2022 Six Nations Under 20s Championship
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Date4 February 2022 – 20 March 2022
| 2022 Six Nations Under 20s Championship | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | 4 February 2022 – 20 March 2022 | ||
| Countries | |||
| Tournament statistics | |||
| Champions |  Ireland | ||
| Grand Slam | Ireland | ||
| Triple Crown | Ireland | ||
| Matches played | 6 | ||
| Attendance | 29,915 (4,986 per match) | ||
| Tries scored | 33 (5.5 per match) | ||
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The 2022 Six Nations Under 20s Championship is the 15th Six Nations Under 20s Championship, the annual northern hemisphere rugby union championship contested by the under-20 national teams of England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. England were the defending champions, having completed a Grand Slam in the previous tournament.[1] Ireland won the tournament for the fourth time and due to winning all five of their matches, a third Grand Slam.[2]
| Nation | Stadium | Head coach | Captain | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home stadium | Capacity | Location | |||
 England |
Castle Park Barnet Copthall |
5,000 10,500 |
Doncaster London |
Alan Dickens[3] | Fin Baxter[4] |
 France |
Stade Guy Boniface Stade Aimé Giral |
16,800 14,593 |
Mont-de-Marsan Perpignan |
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| Ireland |
Musgrave Park | 8,008 | Cork | Richie Murphy | Reuben Crothers |
 Italy |
Stadio Comunale di Monigo | 5,000 | Treviso | Massimo Brunello | Giacomo Ferrari |
 Scotland |
Edinburgh Rugby Stadium | 7,800 | Edinburgh | Rhys Tait[4] | |
 Wales |
Eirias Stadium | 6,080 | Colwyn Bay | Byron Haywood[4] | |
Table
| Position | Nation | Games | Points | Tries | Bonus points |
Total points | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | For | Against | Diff | For | Against | Tries | Loss | GS | |||
| 1 | Ireland |
5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 210 | 65 | 145 | 29 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 27 |
| 2 | France |
5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 160 | 86 | 74 | 17 | 11 | 3 | 1 | - | 20 |
| 3 | England |
5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 133 | 112 | 21 | 19 | 13 | 3 | 2 | - | 13 |
| 4 | Italy |
5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 87 | 113 | −26 | 11 | 12 | 1 | 0 | - | 13 |
| 5 | Wales |
5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 80 | 183 | −103 | 11 | 25 | 1 | 1 | - | 6 |
| 6 | Scotland |
5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 72 | 183 | −111 | 9 | 26 | 1 | 0 | - | 1 |
| Source: Archived 2021-06-03 at the Wayback Machine Updated: 20 March 2022 | ||||||||||||||
Table ranking rules
- Four match points are awarded for a win.
- Two match points are awarded for a draw.
- A bonus match point is awarded to a team that scores four or more tries in a match or loses a match by seven points or fewer. If a team scores four tries in a match and loses by seven points or fewer, they are awarded both bonus points.
- Three bonus match points are awarded to a team that wins all five of their matches (known as a Grand Slam). This ensures that a Grand Slam winning team reaches a minimum of 23 points, and thus always ranks over a team who won four matches in which they also were awarded four try bonus points and were also awarded two bonus points (a try bonus and a losing bonus) in the match that they lost for a total of 22 points.
- Tie-breakers
- If two or more teams are tied on match points, the team with the better points difference (points scored less points conceded) is ranked higher.
- If the above tie-breaker fails to separate tied teams, the team that scored the higher number of total tries in their matches is ranked higher.
- If two or more teams remain tied for first place at the end of the championship after applying the above tiebreakers, the title is shared between them.
