World’s Oldest Rugby Championship Begins this Friday, Feb. 2, Live at 2:30 p.m. ET on Peacock with First of Three Round 1 Matches as Defending Champion Ireland Visits France; Scotland Visits Wales this Saturday at 11:45 a.m. ET Live on Peacock
All Six Nations Matches Stream Live on Peacock; Encore Coverage Presented Across CNBC and NBC
Studio Hosts: Dan Lyle, Alex Corbisiero
Rugby Offerings Available to U.S. Commercial Establishments through Peacock Sports Pass
STAMFORD, Conn. – Jan. 31, 2024 – NBC Sports presents coverage of the 2024 men’s Guinness Six Nations Rugby Championship, beginning Friday, Feb. 2, with opening round matches of one of the world’s oldest rugby championships.
All matches throughout the 2024 Six Nations Championship – which culminates with the final three Round 5 matches on Saturday, March 16 – will be presented live on Peacock. Television coverage throughout the tournament includes same- or next-day encores across NBC and CNBC.
Ireland won the 2023 Six Nations tournament and its 15th Six Nations outright championship last year, becoming the first country since Wales in 2019 to win the outright title, Grand Slam, and Triple Crown in one tournament. Runners-up and 2022 champions France, featuring two-time reigning Player of the Tournament Antoine Dupont, aim to win their second tournament in three years, while Wales looks to win its 29th overall title and move into a tie for first place with England for most championships in tournament history.
Five of the current top ten men’s teams in the World Rugby Rankings are participating in the 2024 Six Nations tournament: No. 2 Ireland, No. 4 France, No. 5 England, No. 6 Scotland, and No. 8 Wales, with Italy on the cusp at No. 11.
Rugby offerings are available to U.S. commercial establishments through Peacock Sports Pass. Peacock Sports Pass offers commercial establishments in the U.S. access to select events from Peacock’s exclusive live sports content library, including rugby, the Premier League, Big Ten football and basketball, and much more. To subscribe or to find out more information about Peacock Sports Pass, click here. Through the Six Nations Championship, all tournament matches will be available live, commercial-free and on-demand.
COMMENTATORS
- Studio Hosts – Dan Lyle, a former USA Rugby captain and Premiership Rugby player, and Alex Corbisiero, who played for England in the Six Nations Championship in 2011 and 2012 (England won the Six Nations title in 2011)
HOW TO WATCH – OPENING ROUND: FRIDAY, FEB. 2-SUNDAY, FEB. 4
| Date | Match | Time (ET) | Platform |
| Fri., Feb. 2 | France v. Ireland (LIVE) | 2:30 p.m. | Peacock |
| Sat., Feb. 3 | Italy v. England (LIVE) | 9:15 a.m. | Peacock |
| Wales v. Scotland (LIVE) | 11:45 a.m. | Peacock | |
| Sun., Feb. 4 | France v. Ireland* | 7 a.m. | CNBC |
| Italy v. England* | 9 a.m. | CNBC | |
| Wales v. Scotland* | 1 p.m. | CNBC | |
| *Encore presentation | |||
FINAL 2023 SIX NATIONS TABLE
| Pos. | Team | P | W | D | L | PD | Points |
| 1 | Ireland | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 79 | 27 |
| 2 | France | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 59 | 20 |
| 3 | Scotland | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 20 | 15 |
| 4 | England | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | -35 | 10 |
| 5 | Wales | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | -63 | 6 |
| 6 | Italy | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | -60 | 1 |
CHAMPIONSHIP FACTS
- Ireland, looking to defend their 2023 Six Nations championship, aims to secure their 16th outright title and sixth of the Six Nations era (beginning in 2000).
- Wales has 28 outright titles, the second-most all-time (England, 29).
- France finished second in last year’s tournament after winning the 2022 championship, its first title since 2010.
- Scotland, who finished in third place last year, is in search of its first title since 1999, when the tournament was still the Five Nations Championship. Since 2000, Scotland has not finished higher than third place.
- England finished in fourth place last year. England won the 2020 Six Nations championship – their 29th outright title, the most all-time.
- England’s 2020 title was their first Six Nations championship since 2017.
- Italy will make its 25th Six Nations tournament appearance and looks to make its first top-three finish in the standings, following its eighth consecutive sixth-place finish last year.
NBC Sports’ Six Nations coverage is part of an extensive collection of rugby programming across NBC Sports platforms which spans the calendar year, including the HSBC SVNS Series and the 2024 Paris Olympics rugby tournament.
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