The Six Nations Under 20s Championship is an international
rugby union
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...
tournament. It is the under-20s equivalent of the
Six Nations Championship
The Six Nations Championship (known as the Six Nations, branded as Guinness M6N) is an annual international rugby union competition by the teams of England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. It is the oldest sports tournament conte ...
. Originally the tournament was in an under-21 format but changed to under-20s in
2008
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England
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were the inaugural winners and they have gone on to be the tournament's most successful team, winning ten titles. Their last title came in 2021. The tournament is played annually during February and March on the same weekends as the senior men's Six Nations.
Winners
Statistics
References
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European youth sports competitions
Under-20 rugby union competitions
2008 establishments in Europe
Recurring sporting events established in 2008