Lawmakers say the 20-minute red card is designed to "punish the player and not the team", with sides able to replace a dismissed player after 20 minutes. The men's Six Nations sta

Six Nations kicks off on Friday 31 January with Wales taking on France in the opening match at the Stade de France in Paris. Find out all you need to know about this year's tournament here.

Always a highlight of the sporting calendar, this year’s Six Nations promises to be an absolute thriller. Ireland and France are vying for favouritism and deservedly so but both have their issues.

The Six Nations is to adopt the 20-minute red cards that were trialled during the autumn. For the first time in the Championship, players sent off for technical offences can be replaced by a team-mate after 20 minutes have elapsed in an initiative design to punish players and not teams.

The 2025 Six Nations is available to live stream for free on BBC iPlayer and ITVX.

In a bid to make the massively popular championships more accessible to supporters and spectators, Six Nations chiefs are taking on some of the novel features introduced in the Autumn series and also

Captains and head coaches from all Six Unions and Federations gathered in Rome, Italy, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Six Nations Championship.

Ireland interim coach Simon Easterby is ready to use his years of experience working with the side to take the country to a third successive Six Nations Championship success, and knows the team will need to improve to stay on top.

Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou have both been included in France's matchday squad to face Wales in the first game of the Six Nations tournament next week.

Should Van der Merwe prove his fitness and be available for selection for the opener with Italy, he will have an opportunity to become Scotland’s all-time record try scorer if he outscores current team-mate Darcy Graham. However, that is not the only Six Nations record that is currently in the South African-born wing’s sights.

Welsh legend Adam Jones gets his first taste of international coaching after being temporarily released by Harlequins.

Referees can still hand out a permanent red card for foul play that is deemed to be deliberate and dangerous, but for technical offences that are not deliberate or intentional the offending team can r