2019 Six Nations Under 20s Championship

The 2019 Six Nations Under 20s Championship was the 12th series of the Six Nations Under 20s Championship, the annual northern hemisphere rugby union championship. France were the defending champions. Ireland won the tournament and a Grand Slam, after winning all five of their matches.[1]

2019 Six Nations Under 20s Championship
Date	1 February – 15 March 2019
Countries	England  France  Ireland  Italy  Scotland  Wales
Tournament statistics
Champions	Ireland (3rd title)
Grand Slam	Ireland (2nd title)
Triple Crown	Ireland (3rd title)
Matches played	15
Tries scored	101 (6.73 per match)
Top point scorer(s)	Harry Byrne (36)
Top try scorer(s)	Dylan Tierney-Martin (4)
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Participants

Nation	Stadium			Head coach	Captain
	Home stadium	Capacity	Location
England[2]	Sandy Park Goldington Road Franklin's Gardens	12,800 6,000 15,250	Exeter Bedford Northampton	Steve Bates	Fraser Dingwall
France[3]	Stade de la Rabine Stade du Hameau	9,500 18,000	Vannes Pau	Sébastien Piqueronies	Arthur Vincent
Ireland[4]	Irish Independent Park	8,008	Cork	Noel McNamara	David Hawkshaw
Italy[5]	Stadio Danilo Martelli Stadio Centro d'Italia Stadio Pozzi La Marmora	17,844 10,163 5,000	Mantua Rieti Biella	Alessandro Troncon	Davide Ruggeri
Scotland[6]	Netherdale Meggetland	4,000 3,000	Galashiels Edinburgh	Carl Hogg	Connor Boyle
Wales[7]	Eirias Stadium	6,080	Colwyn Bay	Gareth Williams	Dewi Lake

Final table

Position	Nation	Games				Points			Tries		Bonus points		Total points
		Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Diff	For	Against	Tries	Loss
1	Ireland	5	5	0	0	150	92	58	18	12	3	0	26*
2	France	5	3	0	2	157	130	27	22	19	4	1	17
3	England	5	3	0	2	148	82	66	20	11	3	1	16
4	Wales	5	2	0	3	100	107	−7	12	15	1	1	10
5	Italy	5	1	0	4	99	168	−69	15	22	2	1	7
6	Scotland	5	1	0	4	88	163	−75	14	22	2	0	6
*Ireland were awarded 3 bonus points for winning the Grand Slam. Source:

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.

Fixtures

Week 1

1 February 2019 19:15

(1 BP)  Ireland	35–27	England
Try: Tierney-Martin (2) 30' c, 46' m Penny 38' c Foley 79' c Con: Byrne (3/4) 32', 39', 80' Pen: Byrne (3/4) 5', 35', 55'	Report[8]	Try: Murley 10' c T. Willis 14' c Hodge 33' c Con: Smith (3/3) 12', 16', 34' Pen: Smith (1/1) 40' Hardwick (1/1) 48'

Irish Independent Park, Cork Attendance: 5,764 Referee: Ludovic Cayre (France)

1 February 2019 19:30

Scotland	22–32	Italy (1 BP)
Try: Boyle 43' c Jupp 48' c McLean 71' m Con: Thompson (2/3) 44', 49' Pen: Thompson (1/1) 38'	Report[9]	Try: Nocera 23' m Taddia 58' c Mori 64' c Trulla 79' c Con: Garbisi (3/4) 59', 65', 80' Pen: Garbisi (2/2) 12', 26'

Netherdale, Galashiels Referee: Adam Jones (Wales)

3 February 2019 14:00

(1 BP)  France	32–10	Wales
Try: Zegueur 25' c Lebel 39' c Geraci 48' m Pinto 80' c Con: Carbonel (3/4) 26', 40', 80'+1 Pen: Carbonel (2/2) 10', 59'	Report[10]	Try: Roberts 20' c Con: Evans (1/1) 21' Pen: Evans (1/1) 31'

Stade de la Rabine, Vannes Attendance: 7,139 Referee: Ben Blain (Scotland)

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Week 2

8 February 2019 19:30

Scotland	5–24	Ireland
Try: Boyle 71' m	Report[11]	Try: Tierney-Martin 21' c Hodnett 60' c Wren 80' c Con: Byrne (3/3) 22', 61', 80'+1 Pen: Byrne (1/1) 6'

Netherdale, Galashiels Referee: Andrea Piardi (Italy)

9 February 2019 13:05

England	31–19	France
Try: Sleightholme 3' m Penalty try (2) 22', 54' Willis 32' m Adkins 39' c Con: Smith (1/3) 40'	Report[12]	Try: Joseph 26' m Delbouis 36' c Penalty try 74' Con: Carbonel (1/2) 37'

Sandy Park, Exeter Referee: Craig Evans (Wales)

10 February 2019 14:00

Italy	12–42	Wales (1 BP)
Try: Mba 60' m Trulla 78' c Con: Garbisi (1/2) 78'	Report[13]	Try: Basham (3) 14' c, 20' c, 44' c Scragg 38' c Buckland 74' c Davies 80' c Con: Evans (4/4) 14', 20', 38', 44' Costelow (2/2) 74', 80'

Stadio Danilo Martelli, Mantua Attendance: 4,700 Referee: Sam Grove-White (Scotland)

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Week 3

22 February 2019 19:00

Italy	14–34	Ireland (1 BP)
Try: Nocera 73' c Butturini 78' c Con: Garbisi (2/2) 74', 79'	Report[14]	Try: Casey (2) 10' c, 60' c Penny 38' c Hawkshaw 76' c Con: Byrne (3/3) 11', 39', 61' Healy (1/1) 77' Pen: Byrne (2/2) 22', 44'

Stadio Centro d'Italia, Rieti Referee: Craig Evans (Wales)

22 February 2019 19:05

Wales	11–10	England (1 BP)
Try: Smith 80'+1 m Pen: Evans (2/2) 57', 63'	Report[15]	Try: Tuima 69' c Con: Hodge (1/1) 70' Pen: Wilkinson (1/2) 5'

Eirias Stadium, Colwyn Bay Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Sean Gallagher (Ireland)

22 February 2019 21:00

(1 BP)  France	42–27	Scotland (1 BP)
Try: Pinto 5' c Eglaine 13' c Favre 26' c Joseph (2) 53' c, 78' c Moefana 62' c Con: Smaili (6/6) 6', 14', 28', 54', 63', 79'	Report[16]	Try: Blain (2) 31' m, 49' m Thompson 33' m McCallum 39' c Fraser 66' m Con: Thompson (1/5) 40'

Stade du Hameau, Pau Referee: Christophe Ridley (England)

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Week 4

8 March 2019 19:15

Ireland	31–29	France (2 BP)
Try: Wycherley (2) 13' c, 59' c Reid 69' m Con: Healy (2/3) 14', 60' Pen: Healy (4/4) 4', 32', 46', 55'	Report[17]	Try: Gros 15' c Carbonel (2) 26' c, 64' m Viallard 79' c Con: Carbonel (3/4) 16', 27', 80' Pen: Carbonel (1/1) 52'

Irish Independent Park, Cork Attendance: 8,008 Referee: Craig Maxwell-Keys (England)

8 March 2019 19:30

(1 BP)  Scotland	27–20	Wales (1 BP)
Try: Boyle 6' m McCallum 15' c McMichael 38' c Blain 50' m Con: Thompson (2/4) 16', 39' Pen: Thompson (1/1) 48'	Report[18]	Try: Griffiths 76' c Costelow 80' c Con: Costelow (1/1) 77' Evans (1/1) 80'+1 Pen: Evans (2/2) 30', 35'

Meggetland, Edinburgh Attendance: 2,473 Referee: Joy Neville (Ireland)

8 March 2019 19:45

(1 BP)  England	35–10	Italy
Try: Seabrook 5' c Wilkinson 38' m Fox 49' c Sleightholme 57' c Con: Wilkinson (1/1) 6' Hodge (2/2) 50', 58' Pen: Hodge (2/2) 41', 51' Vunipola (1/1) 67'	Report[19]	Try: Mori 12' m Peruzzo 36' m

Goldington Road, Bedford Referee: Nikoloz Amashukeli (Georgia)

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Week 5

15 March 2019 18:00

(2 BP)  Italy	31–35	France (1 BP)
Try: Trulla 5' m Marinello (2) 55' m, 61' c Mba (2) 71' c, 80'+6 c Con: Garbisi (1/2) 62' da Re (2/3) 71', 80'+7	Report[20]	Try: Viallard 26' c Lemardelet 37' c Pinto 42' c Dumortier 44' c Moefana 69' c Con: Smaili (5/5) 27', 38', 43', 45', 70'

Stadio Pozzi La Marmora, Biella Referee: Ben Blain (Scotland)

15 March 2019 19:05

Wales	17–26	Ireland (1 BP)
Try: Owen 11' c Morgan 59' c Con: Evans (2/2) 12', 60' Pen: Evans (1/3) 30'	Report[21]	Try: Wren 39' c Tierney-Martin 47' c Reilly 72' m Clarkson 80' c Con: Healy (2/2) 40', 48' Flannery (1/2) 80'+1

Eirias Stadium, Colwyn Bay Referee: Christophe Ridley (England)

15 March 2019 19:45

(1 BP)  England	45–7	Scotland
Try: de Glanville 11' c Willis 40'+3 m Hinkley 56' c Redpath 65' c Petch 70' c Barbeary 76' m Reed 80' c Con: Vunipola (5/7) 12', 57', 66', 71', 80'+1	Report[22]	Try: Anderson 7' c Con: Thompson (1/1) 8'

Franklin's Gardens, Northampton Referee: Sean Gallagher (Ireland)

Player statistics

Top points scorers Pos Name Team Pts 1 Harry Byrne  Ireland 36 2 Louis Carbonel  France 33 3 Cai Evans  Wales 31 4 Ben Healy  Ireland 22 Mathieu Smaili  France 5 Paolo Garbisi  Italy 20 Dylan Tierney-Martin  Ireland

Top try scorers Pos Name Team Tries 1 Dylan Tierney-Martin  Ireland 4 2 Taine Basham  Wales 3 Jack Blain  Scotland Connor Boyle  Scotland Jordan Joseph  France Michael Mba  Italy Vincent Pinto  France Jacopo Trulla  Italy Tom Willis  England

See also

• 2019 Six Nations Championship
• 2019 Women's Six Nations Championship

References

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13. "Basham hat-trick inspires Wales win in Italy". Six Nations Rugby. 10 February 2019. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
14. "Casey's double sees off Italy to keep Ireland Under-20s on top". Six Nations Rugby. 22 February 2019. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
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18. "Boyle leads from the front as Scotland Under-20s secure morale-boosting win over Wales". Six Nations Rugby. 8 March 2019. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
19. "Wilkinson shines as England bounce back from Wales defeat in style". Six Nations Rugby. 8 March 2019. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
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External links

• Under-20 Six Nations