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WOMEN’S SIX NATIONS WOMEN'S SIX NATIONS 2019 CHAMPIONSHIP REPORT INTRODUCTION We are very pleased to share with you the statistics guide for 2019 Women's Six Nations, the first such publication. This guide reviews the exciting Championship won by an exceptional England team and included some amazing performances that generated excitement for fans, broadcasters and sponsors and was complemented with new statistics such as dominant tackles, try origins and detailed analysis of a team’s type of play. AN EXCEPTIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP STATS, the world leader in sports content and analysis collected and delivered over 120,000 statistics across the 15 men's and women's matches that were played over the six weeks of the tournament schedule. Our permanent investment in new technologies (Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning) allows us to meet the challenges of tomorrow and support our customers by providing more context and relevance to sports data. STATS looks forward to expanding the scope and depth of the statistics and content provided to the 2020 Women's Women's Six Nations Championship and its partners. Roy Clements Director - STATS 2 AN EXCEPTIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP 2019 Women'S Six Nations | Introduction 3 WOMEN’S SIX NATIONS EDITORIAL REVOLUTIONISING THE RUGBY VIEWING EXPERIENCE New dynamic statistics that provide better insights were introduced during this year’s Women's Six Nations Championship. Try origins were introduced during the 2019 Championship, showing how and where each try in the game originated, as this statistic looks at the phase of play before a try is scored and provides an insight into how much a counter-attack attributed to the try, or whether it was from lineout, free kick, scrum, free kick, tap penalty, or turnover. This helps to unearth key turning points in each game and help viewers get a deeper understanding of each team’s attacking strategy. For example, 43 of the 114 tries scored during this year's Championship originated from lineouts, with 25 of those tries in the first three phases. Lineouts provided the highest number of tries for England (18), France (12), Ireland (5) and Wales (3) - as Italy scored most of their tries from counter attacks (5) and Scotland scored three of their seven tries from tap penalties. England's dominance in the 2019 Women's Six Nations wasn't just when they had the ball. England made more dominant tackles than any other nation (80), as England's Sarah Hunter made 17 dominant tackles - more than any other player. More data than ever before was available at the breakdown, allowing analysis on the 3,161 rucks during the 2019 Women's Six Nations. While Ireland both won the most (701) and lost the fewest (15) rucks, they were the third-quickest nation at the breakdown, as their average speed (3.15) ranked behind France (3.01) and England (3.07). A team's type of play was also analysed, providing an insight into how a team utilised their possession - breaking this down into certain areas of the pitch and game states. It provided numbers into what each side did with their possessions, such as Scotland kicking during play more than any other nation (5.9%), although England were the most aggressive when it came out of kicking out of their own 22 (17.5% compared to Scotland's 15.0%). 2019 Women'S Six Nations | Editorial 5 SUMMARY tarting with the Championship statistics ranking all six teams S before moving into individual performances and data on all teams, this Championship Report will look at every aspect of the 2019 Women's Six Nations - complete with insights. 01 2019 CHAMPIONSHIP STATISTICS Page 8 6 02 03 INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCES TEAM PERFORMANCES Page 46 Page 66 2019 Women'S Six Nations | Summary 7 01 2019 CHAMPIONSHIP STATISTICS RESULTS BY ROUND 10 2019 CHAMPIONSHIP TABLES 12 2019 CHAMPIONSHIP HIGHLIGHTS 16 POINTS ANALYSIS 18 SCORING BREAKDOWN 22 ATTACK 24 DEFENCE 26 BREAKDOWN 30 SET PIECE 32 KICKING 36 DISCIPLINE 38 MATCH RECORDS 42 POSITION PROFILES 44 8 2019 Women'S Six Nations | Championship Statistics 9 RESULTS BY ROUND ROUND 1 ROUND 2 England's 44-point winning margin Italy and Wales' 3-3 draw was the was their biggest over Ireland in lowest-scoring Women's Six Nations the Women's Six Nations since a match since Wales' 3-0 win over 79-0 victory in 2002. France in 2008. H GAME A H GAME A 7 Ireland - England 51 5 Scotland - Ireland 22 7 Scotland - Italy 28 3 Italy - Wales 3 52 France - Wales 3 41 England - France 26 ROUND 3 ROUND 4 The 170 points scored in round In their 17-15 defeat against Wales, Scotland 3 were the most points scored scored three tries in a match for the first in a single round in Women's Six time since their last Women's Six Nations Nations history. clash against Wales (18-17 defeat in 2018). H GAME A H GAME A 29 Italy - Ireland 27 15 Scotland - Wales 17 41 France - Scotland 10 55 England - Italy 0 12 Wales - England 51 17 Ireland - France 47 ROUND 5 The three biggest victory margins in Women's Six Nations history belong to England, with their 80-0 win over Scotland in round five being the third-highest. H GAME A 31 Italy - France 12 24 Wales - Ireland 5 80 England - Scotland 0 10 England won their ninth grand slam in just 18 Women's Six Nations Championships. 2019 Women'S Six Nations | Championship Statistics 11 2019 CHAMPIONSHIP TABLES POS TEAM P W D L PF PA PTDIFF GS TB LB PTS 1 England 5 5 0 0 278 45 233 3 5 0 28 2 Italy 5 3 1 1 91 104 -13 0 3 0 17 3 France 5 3 0 2 178 102 76 0 4 0 16 4 Wales 5 2 1 2 59 126 -67 0 1 0 11 5 Ireland 5 1 0 4 78 156 -78 0 2 1 7 6 Scotland 5 0 0 5 37 188 -151 0 0 1 1 The 278 points scored by England was not just a record total for a team in the Women's Six Nations, but it eclipsed the total points scored by Italy (91), Wales (59), Ireland (78) and Scotland (37) combined. England conceded 45 points - the only side to have conceded fewer than 100 points in this year's Championship - and also netted five bonus points en route to the grand slam. They became the first team to ever reach the maximum number of points since the introduction of the bonus point system in 2017. 12 POINTS GALORE This is just the second time in Women's Six Nations history that every side conceded 45 points or more. Every side conceded at least 52 points in 2009, as only two nations (Scotland and Italy) conceded 100 points or more. Two teams scored more than 170 points for the first time in the Women's Six Nations era - combining for a total 456 points, which is the highest combined points total of two teams in Championship history. 2019 Women'S Six Nations | Championship Statistics 13 The 721 points scored in the 2019 Women's Six Nations was the highest-ever total for a collective Championship, eclipsing the 595 points scored in 2018. 14 2019 Women'S Six Nations | Championship Statistics 15 2019 CHAMPIONSHIP HIGHLIGHTS WHILE A RECORD NUMBER OF POINTS WERE SCORED IN THE 2019 WOMEN'S SIX NATIONS, THIS WAS HEAVILY RELIANT ON TRIES BEING SCORED. TEAMS COMBINED TO SCORE JUST 11 PENALTIES IN THIS YEAR'S CHAMPIONSHIP FROM 12 ATTEMPTED, WITH ITALY ATTEMPTING HALF OF THE PENALTY KICKS AT GOAL - SCORING FIVE TIMES. WALES WERE THE ONLY OTHER NATION TO SCORE MORE THAN ONE PENALTY (3) WHILE SCOTLAND DID NOT ATTEMPT A SINGLE PENALTY KICK AT GOAL. 16 BY THE NUMBERS POINTS SCORED TRIES SCORED PENALTIES SCORED 721 114 11 DOMINANT TACKLES CARRIES KICKS 318 3,961 360 TACKLES MADE TACKLE MADE % LINEBREAKS 5,866 89.6% 172 TOTAL RUCKS BREAKDOWN STEALS TOTAL MAULS 3,275 91 114 RUCK SPEED 0-3 SECS % RUCK SPEED 3-6 SECS % RUCK SPEED 6+ SECS % 52.0% 39.8% 8.2% ATT. BREAKDOWN ARRIVALS DEF. BREAKDOWN ARRIVALS PENALTIES CONCEDED 8,270 2,066 313 2019 Women'S Six Nations | Championship Statistics 17 POINTS ANALYSIS POINTS PER ROUND 160 170 148 151 152 80 100 0 Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 POINTS DIFFERENTIAL +223 -13 England's +233 point differential was the Italy became the first team to finish second biggest points difference since their +254 with a negative points differential in the point differential in 2003. Women's Six Nations since Wales did so in 2008 (-4). POINTS SCORED POINTS CONCEDED POS. NATION POINTS POS. NATION POINTS 1 England 278 1 England 45 2 France 178 2 France 102 3 Italy 91 3 Italy 104 4 Ireland 78 4 Wales 126 5 Wales 59 5 Ireland 156 6 Scotland 37 6 Scotland 188 18 England became the first team in Women's Six Nations history to score 40 points or more in each of their five games in the Championship. 2019 Women'S Six Nations | Championship Statistics 19 MOST POINTS SCORED IN A SINGLE CHAMPIONSHIP NATION YEAR POINTS England 2019 278 England 2003 264 England 2009 237 England 2002 224 England 2011 223 20 ENGLAND ARE THE ONLY TEAM WHO HAVE SCORED 200 OR MORE POINTS IN WOMEN'S SIX NATIONS HISTORY, HAVING DONE SO ON TEN SEPARATE OCCASIONS. 2019 Women'S Six Nations | Championship Statistics 21 SCORING BREAKDOWN This year's Women’s Six Nations not only saw records set for total points scored (721) but also for tries, as 114 were scored across the 15 games (7.6 tries per match) – 24 more tries than last year's Championship.