1999 Five Nations Championship


The 1999 Five Nations Championship was the seventieth series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the hundred-and-fifth series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played over five weekends from 6 February to 11 April. The tournament was won by, who beat on points difference. Scotland scored sixteen tries in the tournament, to England's eight.
It was notable for the dramatic climax to the tournament, which was decided in the dying minutes of the final match. England were heavy favourites to beat Wales and claim both the tournament title and Grand Slam. With England leading the match by six points as the game entered injury time, Wales centre Scott Gibbs evaded a number of tackles to score a try from approximately 20 metres. Neil Jenkins successfully converted to claim victory for Wales by a single point and hand the Championship to Scotland in one of the most memorable matches in the tournament's history. Scotland had staged their own remarkable upset the previous day, scoring five first-half tries to beat France in Paris for only the second time in thirty years.
Scotland's Gregor Townsend became only the fifth player in history to score a try against each other country in the five nations tournament. He also became the second Scotsman to do so, following on from Johnnie Wallace in 1925. The other men to achieve the feat were Carston Catcheside, Patrick Estève and Phillipe Sella. After him, French Philippe Bernat-Salles scored a try in the 5 games of the new '6 Nations' in 2001.
This was the last Five Nations Championship; in 2000, joined the tournament, which became the Six Nations Championship. Indeed, Italy played all the Five Nations sides during the 1998/99 season, partly in preparation for joining the tournament the following year, albeit that the game against England was a World Cup qualifier. Italy lost all five of these games.
missed out on a twelfth Grand Slam after losing to at Wembley Stadium.

Participants

The teams involved were:
NationVenueCityHead coachCaptain
TwickenhamLondonClive WoodwardLawrence Dallaglio
Stade de FranceSaint-DenisJean-Claude SkrelaRaphaël Ibañez
Lansdowne RoadDublinWarren GatlandKeith Wood
MurrayfieldEdinburghJim TelferGary Armstrong
Wembley StadiumLondonGraham HenryRob Howley

Squads

Table

Results

Week 1

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Week 2

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Week 3

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Week 4

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Week 5

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