2017 Six Nations Under 20s Championship

The 2017 Six Nations Under 20s Championship, was the 10th series of the Six Nations Under 20s Championship, the annual northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Wales were the defending champions. The competition was won by England, who completed a Grand Slam by winning all their five matches.

2017 Six Nations Under 20s Championship
Date	3 February – 17 March 2017
Countries	England  France  Ireland  Italy  Scotland  Wales
Tournament statistics
Champions	England (6th title)
Grand Slam	England (3rd)
Triple Crown	England
Matches played	15
Tries scored	99 (6.6 per match)
Top point scorer(s)	Ben Jones (75)
Top try scorer(s)	Keiran Williams (5)
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For the first time, the 2017 tournament used the bonus point system common to most other professional rugby union tournaments.^[1] As well as the standard four points for a win and two for a draw, a team scoring four tries in a match received an additional league table point, as did a team losing by seven or fewer points.^[1] Additionally, to ensure that a team winning all of its five matches (a Grand Slam) would also win the Championship, three bonus points were awarded for this achievement.^[1][2]

Participants

Nation	Stadium			Head coach	Captain
	Home stadium	Capacity	Location
England	Sandy Park Northern Echo Arena Franklin's Gardens	12,600 10,000 15,249	Exeter Darlington Northampton	Louis Deacon	Ben Earl
France	Stade des Alpes Stade Sapiac	20,068 12,600	Grenoble Montauban		Florian Verhaeghe
Ireland	Donnybrook Stadium	6,000	Dublin	Nigel Carolan	Jack Kelly
Italy	Stadio Giovanni Mari Stadio Enrico Chersoni Stadio Santa Rosa	5,000 2,500	Legnano Prato Capoterra
Scotland	Broadwood Stadium	8,086	Cumbernauld	Sean Lineen	Callum Hunter-Hill
Wales	Parc Eirias	6,080	Colwyn Bay	Jason Strange

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Table

Position	Nation	Games				Points			Tries		Bonus points		Total points
		Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Diff	For	Against	Tries	Loss
1	England	5	5	0	0	189	53	136	28	6	4	0	27*
2	France	5	3	0	2	133	127	6	17	16	2	1	15
3	Wales	5	3	0	2	174	143	31	20	20	2	0	14
4	Ireland	5	3	0	2	111	122	−11	12	13	0	1	13
5	Scotland	5	1	0	4	104	171	−67	14	23	2	1	7
6	Italy	5	0	0	5	61	156	−95	8	21	0	2	2
	Source: Under-20 Six Nations, 18 March 2017

* England were awarded an extra 3 table points for achieving the Grand Slam.

Fixtures

Round 1

3 February 2017 18:00 GMT (UTC+0)

Italy	5–27	Wales

Stadio Giovanni Mari, Legnano Attendance: 2,300 Referee: Sean Gallagher

FB 15 Massimo Cioffi RW 14 Andrea Bronzini OC 13 Ludovico Vaccari IC 12 Marco Zanon LW 11 Giovanni D'Onofrio FH 10 Antonio Rizzi SH 9 Charly Trussardi N8 8 Giovanni Licata (c) OF 7 Lorenzo Masselli BF 6 Jacopo Bianchi RL 5 Edoardo Iachizzi LL 4 Giordano Baldino TP 3 Marco Riccioni HK 2 Massimo Ceciliani LP 1 Daniele Rimpelli Replacements: HK 16 Alberto Rollero PR 17 Danilo Fischetti PR 18 Giosuè Zilocchi LK 19 Gabriele Venditti FL 20 Nardo Casolari SH 21 Emilio Fusco FH 22 Michelangelo Biondelli CE 23 Roberto Dal Zilio Coach: Alessandro Troncon

FB 15 Will Talbot-Davies RW 14 Jared Rosser OC 13 Ioan Nicholas IC 12 Kieran Williams LW 11 Ryan Conbeer FH 10 Ben Jones SH 9 Dane Blacker N8 8 Morgan Morris OF 7 Will Jones BF 6 Morgan Sieniawski RL 5 Max Williams LL 4 Alex Dombrandt TP 3 Kieron Assiratti HK 2 Ellis Shipp (c) LP 1 Rhys Carré Replacements: HK 16 Corrie Tarrant PR 17 Steffan Thomas PR 18 Christian Coleman LK 19 Jack Pope N8 20 Aled Ward SH 21 Declan Smith FH 22 Phil Jones CE 23 Cameron Lewis Coach: Byron Hayward

• Twenty Welsh players made their debuts.
• This was the 8th consecutive victory for Wales and their 13th win against Italy in 13 matches.^[7]

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3 February 2017 20:30 GMT (UTC+0)

(BP) Scotland	19–20	Ireland

Broadwood Stadium, Cumbernauld Attendance: 1,200 Referee: Christopher Ridley (England)

FB 15 RW 14 OC 13 IC 12 LW 11 FH 10 SH 9 N8 8 OF 7 BF 6 RL 5 LL 4 TP 3 HK 2 (c) LP 1 Replacements: HK 16 PR 17 PR 18 LK 19 FL 20 SH 21 FH 22 WG 23 Coach: Eddie Jones

FB 15 RW 14 OC 13 IC 12 LW 11 FH 10 SH 9 N8 8 OF 7 BF 6 RL 5 LL 4 TP 3 HK 2 (c) LP 1 Replacements: HK 16 PR 17 PR 18 N8 19 N8 20 SH 21 FH 22 WG 23 Coach: Daniel Hourcade

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4 February 2017 12:00 GMT (UTC+0)

(BP)  England	59–17	France

Sandy Park, Exeter Attendance: 6,836 Referee: Dan Jones

FB 15 Tom Parton RW 14 Joe Cokanasiga OC 13 Max Wright IC 12 Will Butler LW 11 Sam Aspland-Robinson FH 10 Max Malins SH 9 Harry Randall N8 8 Ben Earl OF 7 Zach Mercer (c) BF 6 Ben Curry RL 5 Nick Isiekwe LL 4 Jack Nay TP 3 Joseph Morris HK 2 Joe Mullis LP 1 Ollie Dawe Replacements: HK 16 Jamie Blamire PR 17 Ciaran Knight PR 18 Jake Pope LK 19 Justin Clegg FL 20 Josh Bayliss SH 21 Alex Mitchell CE 22 Jacob Umaga WG 23 Gabriel Ibitoye Coach: Jon Callard

FB 15 Romain Buros RW 14 Geoffrey Cros OC 13 Nathan Decron IC 12 Théo Millet LW 11 William Iraguha FH 10 Thomas Darmon SH 9 Arthur Retière N8 8 Julien Ruaud OF 7 Alexandre Roumat (c) BF 6 Selevasio Tolofua RL 5 Mickaël Capelli LL 4 Florian Verhaege TP 3 Corentin Chabeaudie HK 2 Florian Dufour LP 1 Mathis Dumain Replacements: HK 16 Étienne Fourcade PR 17 Léo Aouf PR 18 Ugo Boniface FL 19 Kilian Bendjaballah N8 20 Baptiste Pesenti SH 21 Baptiste Couilloud FH 22 Anthony Fuertes CE 23 Théo Dachary Coach: Thomas Lièvremont

Round 2

10 February 2017 18:00 GMT (UTC+0)

(BP) Italy	26–27	Ireland

Stadio Enrico Chersoni, Prato Attendance: 3,500 Referee: Adam Jones

10 February 2017 19:15 GMT (UTC+0)

Wales	21–37	England (BP)

Eirias Stadium, Colwyn Bay Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Frank Murphy

10 February 2017 20:00 GMT (UTC+0)

(BP) France	36–8	Scotland

Stade des Alpes, Grenoble Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Sean Gallagher

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Round 3

24 February 2017 19:45 GMT (UTC+0)

(BP) England	46–0	Italy

Northern Echo Arena, Darlington Attendance: 6,319 Referee: Sam Gove-White

24 February 2017 20:00 GMT (UTC+0)

Ireland	27–22	France (BP)

Energia Park, Donnybrook, Dublin Attendance: 4,521[9] Referee: Tom Foley

24 February 2017 20:30 GMT (UTC+0)

(BP) Scotland	34–65	Wales (BP)

Broadwood Stadium, Cumbernauld Referee: Thomas Charabas

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Round 4

10 March 2017 14:00 GMT (UTC+0)

(BP) Italy	13–18	France

Stadio Santa Rosa, Cagliari Attendance: 1,200 Referee: Mikw Adamson

11 March 2017 18:15 GMT (UTC+0)

(BP) England	33–5	Scotland

Franklin's Gardens, Northampton Attendance: 6,442

11 March 2017 19:45 GMT (UTC+0)

(BP) Wales	41–27	Ireland

Eirias Stadium, Colwyn Bay Attendance: 2,700

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Round 5

17 March 2017 18:00 GMT (UTC+0)

(BP) Ireland	10–14	England

Energia Park, Donnybrook, Dublin Referee: Pierre Brousset

17 March 2017 20:00 GMT (UTC+0)

(BP) France	40–20	Wales

Stade Sapiac, Montauban Referee: Mike Adamson

17 March 2017 20:30 GMT (UTC+0)

(BP) Scotland	38–17	Italy

Broadwood Stadium, Cumbernauld Referee: Frank Murphy

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Broadcasting rights

Some of the matches are broadcast on television by France 4 and Sky Sports.

See also

• 2017 Six Nations Championship