2012 Six Nations Championship

Participants

Nation	Home stadium	City	Head coach	Captain
	Twickenham Stadium	London	Stuart Lancaster	Chris Robshaw
	Stade de France	Saint-Denis, Paris	Philippe Saint-André	Thierry Dusautoir
	Aviva Stadium	Dublin	Declan Kidney	Rory Best/Paul O'Connell
	Stadio Olimpico	Rome	Jacques Brunel	Sergio Parisse
	Murrayfield Stadium	Edinburgh	Andy Robinson	Ross Ford
	Millennium Stadium	Cardiff	Warren Gatland	Sam Warburton

Squads

Table

Results

Round 1

• Nicolas Mas and Thierry Dusautoir earned their 50th caps.
• Wesley Fofana, Yoann Maestri, Tobias Botes and Giovanbattista Venditti made their international debuts in this match.
• Vincent Clerc's try was the 32nd of his international career, placing him joint second with his coach Philippe Saint-André on the French try scoring list.

• Brad Barritt, Lee Dickson, Phil Dowson, Owen Farrell, Ben Morgan, Geoff Parling, Jordan Turner-Hall and Lee Jones made their international debuts.
• Chris Robshaw of England captained his team earning only his second cap in this match.
• This match turned out to be Dan Parks's last appearance with the Scotland jersey as he announced his retirement from international rugby a few days after the game.

• Huw Bennett earned his 50th cap.
• Coming off the bench in the 76th minute to replace Jonathan Sexton, Ronan O'Gara became the most capped Irish player with 117 caps, jointly with Brian O'Driscoll. O'Gara also took sole possession of the all-time lead for appearances in the Championship, with 57. He had previously been level with his countryman Mike Gibson, who made 56 appearances in the Five Nations between 1964 and 1979.

  Round 2

• Luca Morisi and Rob Webber made their international debuts.
• The four-point margin in this match is the joint-closest Italy have ever come to beating England.

• Lou Reed, Aaron Shingler, Stuart Hogg and Ed Kalman made their international debuts.

  Round 3

• Peter O'Mahony made his international debut.
• Coming off the bench in the 69th minute to replace Gordon D'Arcy, Ronan O'Gara overtook Brian O'Driscoll as the most-capped Irish player with 118 caps.

• Wales won their 20th Triple Crown.

• Duncan Weir made his international debut.

  Rescheduled match

Round 4

• Rhys Webb and Fabio Staibano made their international debuts.

• Matt Scott made his international debut.

Round 5

• Scotland were whitewashed. This was the first time since 2007 that Italy avoided the wooden spoon.
• Italy's starting pack in this match was the most capped ever to play an international match.

• Matthew Rees earned his 50th cap.
• Jean-Marcellin Buttin made his international debut.
• William Servat and Julien Bonnaire played their final matches.
• Wales won the Grand Slam.

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