The 1981 Five Nations Championship was the fifty-second series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the eighty-seventh series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between 17 January and 21 March.

were the winners, winning the championship outright for the eighth time. They had also shared the title on four other occasions. In winning all their four matches they also 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 third time.

Table

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Position	Nation	Games				Points			Table points
		Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Difference
1		4	4	0	0	70	49
8
2		4	2	0	2	64	60
4
2		4	2	0	2	51	54	−3	|4
2		4	2	0	2	51	61	−10	4
5		4	0	0	4	36	48	−12	0

Results

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External links

• The official RBS Six Nations Site