Few sporting calendars create as much Friday-night anticipation as a Six Nations opener, and the 2025 championship served one up immediately: France hosting Wales at the Stade de France on 31 January, kicking off at 20:15 GMT. The full fixture list is simpler than it looks — five rounds, three matches per weekend, and a Super Saturday finale that decides the title.

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2025 Six Nations start date: 31 January 2025 ·
2025 Six Nations end date: 15 March 2025 ·
Number of rounds: 5 ·
Defending champion: Ireland (2024) ·
Number of participating teams: 6

Quick snapshot

1Confirmed facts
2What’s unclear
3Timeline signal
4What’s next
  • Super Saturday on 15 March closes the championship: Italy vs Ireland, Wales vs England, France vs Scotland (BBC Sport (UK sports broadcaster)).
  • Results and updated standings follow each round on the official championship channels (sixnationsrugby.com).

Six numbers, one pattern: the entire 2025 tournament fits into a five-weekend window, bookended by a Friday opener and a Super Saturday finale.

Category Detail
Championship start date 31 January 2025
Championship end date 15 March 2025
Number of rounds 5
Defending champion Ireland
Most recent winner Ireland (2024)
Official fixture list sixnationsrugby.com

What is the full timetable for the Six Nations 2025 fixtures?

Fifteen matches, five weekends, one pattern: the 2025 Six Nations is a sprint with a triple-header in every round.

Round 1 fixtures (31 Jan – 1 Feb 2025)

  • The only Friday-night match of the opening round: France vs Wales at the Stade de France.

Round 1 also includes Scotland vs Italy and Ireland vs England on 1 February, with England’s opener away in Dublin (The Independent (UK news outlet)).

Date Fixture Kickoff & venue
31 Jan 2025 France vs Wales 20:15 GMT, Stade de France
1 Feb 2025 Scotland vs Italy 14:15 GMT, BT Murrayfield
1 Feb 2025 Ireland vs England 16:45 GMT, Aviva Stadium

Round 2 fixtures (8–9 Feb 2025)

  • England vs France is the round’s headline fixture.

Round 2 pairs Italy with Wales and England with France on 8 February, then Scotland with Ireland on the Sunday — the same structure Goal’s schedule page confirms (Goal (sports news site)).

Date Fixture Kickoff & venue
8 Feb 2025 Italy vs Wales —
8 Feb 2025 England vs France —
9 Feb 2025 Scotland vs Ireland —

Round 3 fixtures (22–23 Feb 2025)

  • Round 3 is the split round: two matches on Saturday, one on Sunday.

Wales host Ireland and England host Scotland on 22 February, with Italy hosting France on 23 February (Goal (sports news site)).

Date Fixture Kickoff & venue
22 Feb 2025 Wales vs Ireland —
22 Feb 2025 England vs Scotland —
23 Feb 2025 Italy vs France —

Round 4 fixtures (8–9 Mar 2025)

  • The penultimate round again splits across two days, with the Sunday fixture played in Italy.

Round 4 includes Ireland vs France and Scotland vs Wales on 8 March, then England vs Italy on 9 March (Goal (sports news site)).

Date Fixture Kickoff & venue
8 Mar 2025 Ireland vs France —
8 Mar 2025 Scotland vs Wales —
9 Mar 2025 England vs Italy —

Round 5 fixtures (15 Mar 2025)

  • Super Saturday stacks all three final-round matches into one day.

The final round closes with Italy vs Ireland, Wales vs England, and France vs Scotland on 15 March, with the last two kickoffs set for 16:45 GMT and 20:00 GMT (The Independent (UK news outlet)).

Date Fixture Kickoff & venue
15 Mar 2025 Italy vs Ireland —
15 Mar 2025 Wales vs England 16:45 GMT
15 Mar 2025 France vs Scotland 20:00 GMT
Bottom line: The 2025 Six Nations is a five-weekend sprint with a triple-header every round. For fans booking travel, Super Saturday on 15 March is the safest target; for anyone tracking Ireland’s title defense, the 1 February meeting with England at Aviva Stadium sets the tone.

The pattern: the opening weekend and Super Saturday bookend the tournament, while the middle rounds quietly decide who still has a title to play for.

What time do the Six Nations 2025 matches start?

Kickoff times in the 2025 championship cluster into three familiar windows: a Friday-night opener, Saturday afternoon and early-evening slots, and a staggered Super Saturday.

Friday night kickoff times

  • France vs Wales, 31 January — 20:15 GMT (21:15 CET), Stade de France.

Friday is the championship’s signature primetime slot, and the 2025 edition used it for the opening match, which kicked off at 20:15 GMT.

The catch

20:15 GMT translates to 21:15 CET, which makes the Friday opener a late night for continental viewers — factor the finish time into travel plans.

Saturday afternoon and evening slots

  • Round 1 Saturday: Scotland vs Italy at 14:15 and Ireland vs England at 16:45.

Saturday rounds typically fill two afternoon slots before the evening game, and the 16:45 slot carried over to the final round for Wales vs England.

What this means: the 16:45 slot is the reliable anchor for planning — it appears in both the opening round and the final round.

Super Saturday schedule

  • 15 March: Italy vs Ireland, Wales vs England (16:45 GMT), France vs Scotland (20:00 GMT).

The final round staggers three matches through the day, with the title race often unresolved until the last whistle in Paris. The Independent’s schedule page lists the same final-day times (The Independent (UK news outlet)).

The implication: the 16:45 GMT slot is the most dependable anchor for fans, while the Friday and Super Saturday evening games are the ones to check twice before booking travel.

Where can I find the Six Nations 2025 fixture list?

Official Six Nations website

  • sixnationsrugby.com publishes the official fixture list and results.

The championship’s own site is the definitive source for schedule changes, though ticket and broadcast details live with each union.

Wikipedia page for 2025 Six Nations Championship

  • The English Wikipedia page tracks fixtures, results, and the final table with citations attached.

For a free, fast cross-check, the Wikipedia page for the 2025 Six Nations Championship compiles the same round structure (Wikipedia (community-edited reference)).

Printable PDF versions

  • No single official PDF bundles the full fixture list with results and kickoff times.

The practical workaround is to open the official schedule page in a mobile browser and save the round tables as screenshots — or print the page directly from sixnationsrugby.com.

The upshot

The official site is the authority for schedule changes, Wikipedia is the fastest free cross-check, and neither replaces a quick look at TV listings before each round.

The trade-off: the official site is the single source of truth, but it spreads ticket and broadcast details across each union’s own page — so budget time to check six sites, not one.

Six Nations 2025 tournament specs at a glance

Ten format details, one pattern: the Six Nations rewards attacking rugby but keeps every match alive to the final whistle with bonus points.

Spec Detail
Participating teams England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland, Wales
Total matches 15
Rounds 5
Points for a win 4
Points for a draw 2
Bonus point — tries 4 or more tries in a single match
Bonus point — margin Losing by 7 points or fewer
Opening fixture France vs Wales, 31 January 2025
Final fixture France vs Scotland, 15 March 2025
Kickoff times published in GMT and CET

The implication: with bonus points in play, every fixture carries two narratives — the result and the margin — which is why the final table often looks nothing like the round-by-round predictions.

Six Nations 2025 timeline

  • — Fixtures for the 2025 championship announced (Wikipedia (community-edited reference)).
  • — Opening match: France 43-0 Wales, Stade de France, 20:15 GMT (Radio Times (UK TV listings magazine)).
  • — Ireland vs England (Aviva Stadium) and Scotland vs Italy (BT Murrayfield) (The Independent (UK news outlet)).
  • — Round 2: Italy vs Wales, England vs France, Scotland vs Ireland (Goal (sports news site)).
  • — Round 3: Wales vs Ireland, England vs Scotland, Italy vs France (Goal (sports news site)).
  • — Round 4: Ireland vs France, Scotland vs Wales, England vs Italy (Goal (sports news site)).
  • — Super Saturday: Italy vs Ireland, Wales vs England, France vs Scotland (The Independent (UK news outlet)).
Why this matters

The 2025 championship squeezes 15 matches into five weekends, so a single broadcast change can move the kickoff you planned around — check the official channels before every round.

The pattern: fixture dates hold firm once announced, but kickoff times can still move with TV selection — plan around dates, verify times.

What’s confirmed and what’s still unclear

Confirmed facts

  • France 43-0 Wales (opener), England 26-25 France (Round 2), Scotland 35-29 Wales (Round 4), and France 42-0 Scotland (Super Saturday) are all confirmed results (Radio Times (UK TV listings magazine)).
  • The championship runs 31 January – 15 March 2025, with five rounds and three matches per round (Wikipedia (community-edited reference)).
  • Ireland enter as defending champions after winning the 2024 title (Wikipedia (community-edited reference)).

What’s unclear

  • Kickoff times for some Round 2–4 matches can still be adjusted for TV broadcast after the initial fixture release.
  • Ticket availability and pricing are managed separately by each of the six unions, with no central published list.
  • Final standings depend on bonus points and head-to-head records, which stay open until the last whistle of Super Saturday.
  • Any late scheduling changes appear on the championship’s own channels first.

The catch: the results log is already filling in — four of the 15 matches have confirmed scorelines in the sources above — but the title race stays open until the final whistle.

What the sources say

“Super Saturday’s final-round schedule has Wales hosting England at 16:45 GMT before France meet Scotland at 20:00 GMT.”

— The Independent (UK news outlet), 2025 Six Nations schedule

“The 2025 results log recorded a 43-0 win for France over Wales in the opening match and a 42-0 win over Scotland in the final round.”

— Radio Times (UK TV listings magazine), Six Nations 2025 fixtures

The takeaway: the sources agree on the skeleton — dates, venues, and the Super Saturday times — which leaves kickoff times and tickets as the only real uncertainties.

The takeaway for Six Nations 2025

The 2025 Six Nations rewarded fans who treated the fixture list as a living document rather than a PDF to file away. The opening weekend set the tone — Ireland hosting England in Dublin — and Super Saturday on 15 March closed the championship with three matches staggered across the day. For Irish rugby fans, the decision is clear: treat the Aviva Stadium opener and the Rome finale as the two must-watch windows of every future Six Nations, or spend the next championship rearranging plans around a broadcast reshuffle.

Additional sources

sixnationsrugby.com, the-independent.com, six-nations-guide.co.uk, florugby.com, rugbyworld.com, sixnationsrugby.com

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Frequently asked questions

What countries are in the Six Nations 2025?

England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland, and Wales. Each team plays five matches — one against each of the other five nations.

How many matches are played in the Six Nations 2025?

15 matches in total — five rounds, three matches per round.

Where is the Six Nations 2025 final held?

There is no single final venue. The championship closes with Super Saturday on 15 March 2025, when the last three matches are played at the hosts’ stadiums: Italy vs Ireland, Wales vs England, and France vs Scotland.

What is the scoring system in the Six Nations?

A win earns 4 points, a draw 2, and a loss 0. Bonus points are awarded for scoring four or more tries, or for losing by seven points or fewer. The team with the most points after five rounds wins the title.

When are the Six Nations 2025 fixtures released?

The 2025 fixtures were announced on 9 March 2024, roughly 10 months before the opening match on 31 January 2025.

Can I watch Six Nations 2025 matches live?

Yes. BBC Sport carried live coverage and match reports throughout the 2025 championship, and each match is broadcast in the participating countries. Check local listings for the broadcaster in your region.

What channel broadcasts the Six Nations 2025?

In the UK, BBC Sport covered the tournament across its TV and online platforms. Broadcast rights vary by country, so the official Six Nations site is the best place to confirm the channel for your region.