The 1980 Five Nations Championship was the fifty-first series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship

Six Nations Championship

The Six Nations Championship is an annual international rugby union competition involving six European sides: England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales....

. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the eighty-sixth series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between 19 January and 15 March.

were the champions, winning the championship outright for the first time since 1963; they had also shared in the quintuple tie in 1973. It was England's eighteenth championship, excluding ten titles shared with other teams. In winning all four matches they won the Grand Slam

Grand Slam (Rugby Union)

In rugby union, a Grand Slam occurs when one team in the Six Nations Championship manages to beat all the others during one year's competition...

 for the eighth time, equalling the record held by Wales. It was England's first Grand Slam since 1957 and only their second since 1928. England's victories over Ireland, Wales and Scotland also gave them the Triple Crown

Triple Crown (Rugby Union)

In rugby union, the Triple Crown is an honour contested annually by the four national teams of the British Isles who compete within the larger Six Nations Championship: England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. If any one team manages to win all their games against the other three they win the...

 for the first time since 1960 and the fifteenth time overall.

Table

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Position	Nation	Games				Points			Table points
		Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Difference
1		4	4	0	0	80	48
8
2		4	2	0	2	70	65
4
2		4	2	0	2	50	45
|4
4		4	1	0	3	55	75	−20	2
4		4	1	0	3	61	83	−22	2

Results

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External links

• The official RBS Six Nations Site