Wales has a rich hisotry of achievement at the highest level.
Wales have won the championship outright 28 times (counting the initial Home Nations championship, the Five Nations championship and the Six Nations championship together) and shared the title a further 11 times making it 38 achievements overall.
Wales have won the Championship outright in 1893, 1900, 1902, 1905, 1908, 1909, 1911, 1922, 1931, 1936, 1950, 1952, 1956, 1965, 1966, 1969, 1971, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1994, 2005, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2019 and 2021.
Shared Titles
The most recently shared Championship was in 1988 when Wales secured a Triple Crown before going into their final day encounter with France, which France won to put them level on points in the table.
The first shared title was with Ireland in 1906 with Wales’s other shared titles coming in 1910 (with England & Scotland), 1932 (with England & Ireland), 1939 (with England & Ireland), 1947 (with England), 1954 (with England & France), 1955 (with France), 1964 (with Scotland) and 1970 (with France). One other outcome of interest was in 1973, when the Five Nations each won two matches and the Championship ended in a five-way tie.
1906 – Shared with Ireland
1920 – Shared with England and Scotland
1932 – Shared with England and Ireland
1939 – Shared with England and Ireland
1947 – Shared with England
1954 – Shared with England and France
1955 – Shared with France
1964 – Shared with Scotland
1970 – Shared with France
1973 – Five Way Tie
1988 – Shared with France
The four tops
Willie Llewellyn set a tough challenge to his successors in the Welsh jersey when he marked his debut for Wales by scoring four tries against England at Swansea in 1899.
The Llwynypia wing set two records that day that have yet to be broken – four tries on debut and four tries in a match. Since then only eight other Welsh players have run in four tries in a match and equalled the record.
In November 2004 the record was equalled twice in the space of fifteen days at the Millennium Stadium, first Tom Shanklin scored four against Romania then two weeks later Colin Charvis became the first Welsh forward to score four tries in a match against Japan.
