1997 Five Nations Championship
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The 1997 Five Nations Championship was the sixty-eighth series of the rugby union
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 Five Nations Championship
Six Nations Championship
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. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the hundred-and-third series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played over five weekends from 18 January to 15 March. France went to win with his first Grand Slam in ten years. It was the last time that France played at the Parc des Princes
Parc des Princes
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, in Paris
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. Since then, the French team as been playing in the Stade de France
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, also in Paris.

Participants

The teams involved were:
Nation Venue City Head coach
Twickenham
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Clive Woodward
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Parc des Princes
Parc des Princes
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Paris
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Jean-Claude Skrela
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Lansdowne Road
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Dublin Brian Ashton
Murrayfield
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Edinburgh
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Jim Telfer
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National Stadium
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Cardiff
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Kevin Bowring
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Squads

Table

Position Nation Games Points Table
points
Played Won Drawn Lost For Against Difference
1 4 4 0 0 129 77
52
8
2 4 3 0 1 141 55
86
6
3 4 1 0 3 94 106 −12 2
4 4 1 0 3 90 132 −42 2
5 4 1 0 3 57 141 −84 2

Week 1

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Week 2

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Week 3

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Week 4

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Week 5

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