1988 Five Nations Championship
| 1988 Five Nations Championship | |||
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| Date | 16 January 1988 – 19 March 1988 | ||
| Countries |
 England Ireland France Scotland Wales
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| Champions |
France and Wales
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| Triple Crown |
Wales (17th title) |
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| Calcutta Cup |
England
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| Matches played | 10 | ||
| Tries scored | 31 (3.1 per match) | ||
| Top point scorer(s) |
Gavin Hastings (41 points) |
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| Top try scorer(s) |
Chris Oti (3 tries) |
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The 1988 Five Nations Championship was the fifty–ninth series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the ninety–fourth series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played over five weekends between 16 January and 19 March. It marked the final time the Championship was shared between two nations, with Wales and France being declared joint winners with 6 points each. In future tournaments, overall points difference would be used to separate teams with the same number of points so that the tournament would be more likely to have an outright winner.
The final match of the tournament, England's victory over Ireland, was notable for the crowd bursting into song with "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" as a response to the hat-trick of tries scored by England's Chris Oti (only the second black player, and the first for 80 years, to be capped by England). The song was subsequently to become the unofficial rugby anthem for England.
The teams involved were:
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