Watch Six Nations 2025 to see some of the world’s best players in one of the biggest rugby tournaments in the world. Here, Rugby World brings you all the information on how to watch Six Nations live streams and TV broadcasts, wherever you are in the world.

– Six Nations 2025 Dates: January 31-March 15
– Six Nations FREE Streams: BBC, ITV, FranceTV, RTE
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The Six Nations, in which six northern hemisphere national sides all play each other once, runs over five weekends, kicking off on January 31 and culminating on 15 March 2025, when the champions will be crowned.

After two rounds of fixtures, Ireland top the table on 10 points, having got the better of England on the opening weekend and Scotland last time out. Fellow pre-tournament favourites France blasted Wales 43-0 on the opening night but then fell to a spirited England in a Six Nations Classic at Twickenham. Italy heaped more misery on the hapless Wales, who soon got rid of manager Warren Gatland, while Scotland are one of the other four teams sitting on one win so far. It’s still wide open as we head into the third round of games.

For a deep dive into the tournament and its history, check out our guide to the Six Nations 2025. And read on for all the details on how to watch Six Nations online, on TV, and from anywhere in the world.

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What Six Nations games are on TV this week?

After a weekend off, the Six Nations bursts back onto our screens this weekend, with three games from the third round of fixtures across Saturday February 22 and Sunday February 23.

Wales host Ireland in the early Saturday game, in what could be a painful clash between the tournament’s strugglers and leaders, before the Calcutta Cup clash between England and Scotland at Twickenham follows on a brilliant Saturday of action. You won’t want to get off your sofa all day. The weekend rounds out with Italy v France on Sunday afternoon.

There are viewing options around the world, with free coverage on TV and online in all six of the participating nations.

• How to watch Wales v Ireland | Saturday 2.15pm GMT  | BBC, Virgin Media, Peacock, Stan, FranceTV
• How to watch England v Scotland | Saturday 4.45pm GMT | ITV, RTÉ, Peacock, Stan, FranceTV
• How to watch Italy v France | Sunday 3pm GMT  | ITV, Virgin Media, TV8, FranceTV, Peacock, Stan

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Watch for FREE: Six Nations free live streams

In many parts of the world, you can watch the Six Nations free of charge – something of a rarity for sporting events of this magnitude in this day and age.

That’s because the Six Nations has been afforded protected status in the countries in which it’s played, meaning it’s shown free-to-air on public broadcasters. That is looking shaky in the future, especially in the UK where the Six Nations could disappear behind a paywall from 2026, but for the 2025 Six Nations there is still extensive free coverage available.

In the UK, the games are split between the BBC and ITV, which is also free-to-air. In Ireland, they’re split between RTÉ and Virgin Media. In France, all matches are on France Télévisions. In Italy, the five games involving Italy will be shown free on TV8.

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How to watch the Six Nations from anywhere

Away from home during the Six Nations? Don’t worry, you can still watch your usual stream from abroad, thanks to the wonders of a VPN.

A Virtual Private Network – to give it the full name – is a piece of software that can change your device’s IP address to make it appear to be in any country in the world. That means you can access your streaming services and watch the rugby like you would in your living room, even if you’re in another country.

It’s perfect for watching rugby on the move and it also comes with a host of internet security benefits too – that sounds like a winner to us.

Our colleagues at TechRadar are experts in this field, regularly testing hundreds of VPNs, and they rate NordVPN as the best VPN provider out there. Handily, it’s available at a huge discount just in time for the Six Nations.

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How to watch Six Nations 2025 in the UK

In the UK, the rights to broadcast the 2025 Six Nations are shared between the BBC and ITV, both being public broadcasters and free-to-air.

The split works like this; the BBC broadcasts all home matches for Scotland and Wales in the Six Nations, while ITV shows all home games for England, France, Ireland, and Italy. That means all games are covered, with five on the BBC, and 15 on ITV.

All games will air on TV on both broadcasters’ terrestrial channels, and will also be available to watch online via their streaming services: BBC iPlayer and ITVX. You need to register on those streaming platforms but you don’t need to pay anything.

For more on UK coverage, check out our dedicated guide: Six Nations TV coverage: BBC & ITV

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How to watch Six Nations 2025 in Ireland

In Ireland, coverage is shared between RTÉ, Ireland’s main national broadcaster, and Virgin Media, which is also free-to-air. 

The exact division of the games has yet to be confirmed but fans can expect a similar split to 2024, when RTÉ had eight games and Virgin Media had seven games. 

The games will be shown on TV, on one of the main RTÉ channels or on Virgin Media, which is also available on Ireland’s terrestrial TV service, Saorview. Additionally, you can watch the games online on the RTÉ Player or Virgin Media Play.

• Read more: Six Nations fixtures

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Watch Six Nations: live stream from South Africa

We know plenty of fans in South Africa will be wanting to tune into the Six Nations, and they can do so through SuperSport.

SuperSport will be familiar to rugby fans in South Africa, with a host of other tournaments airing on the network. You can get SuperSport on your TV via DStv, or you can stream online.

There are various SuperSport packages available, so have a look at what works best for you.

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Watch the Six Nations: live stream from the USA

NBC is the rightsholder in the US for the 2025 Six Nations, with its streaming platform Peacock set to show all 15 games online.

A subscription to Peacock usually costs $7.99 per month, or $79.99 for a full year, but they currently have a big discount available, which drops the annual price to just $29.99. You get plenty of sport with that, including lots of Premier League soccer.

As it stands, only Italy vs Ireland on March 15 is set to go out on the NBC cable TV channel, but that could change. If you don’t have traditional cable, you can still get all the channels online, thanks to the new wave of ‘cord-cutting’ streaming services, such as SlingTV and Fubo.

• Get Peacock

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Watch Six Nations in Canada

Fans in Canada can watch the 2025 Six Nations on the streaming service DAZN. Subscriptions to DAZN have gone up in recent months and now stand at DAZN CA$34.99 per month or CA$249.99 for a year.

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Watch Six Nations from Australia

For fans in Australia, Stan Sport is the place to go. The streaming service has the rights to all 15 Six Nations 2025 matches. Prices start from $12 per month for the base Stan plan, but you’ll need the Sport add-on for $15 per month, so a total of $27 per month.

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Live stream the Six Nations from New Zealand

In New Zealand, Sky Sport NZ has the rights to the 2025 Six Nations. Online subscriptions start from $49.99 a month.

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Watch the Six Nations from France

All 15 matches from the 2025 Six Nations are available for free on France Télévisions, the main public broadcaster in France.

Selected games will air across France Télévisions’ terrestrial TV channels, while they’re all available to watch online on the FranceTV streaming platform.

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Watch the Six Nations from Italy

In Italy, the 2025 Six Nations games are split between Sky Sport and TV8.

Sky Sport is a paid-for service available on satellite television and its own streaming platform – all games are being shown online, and Italy’s on TV.

TV8 is a free-to-air channel that will show all of Italy’s games on TV and on its online platform for free.

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Watch the Six Nations from Asia

Premier Sports has the rights to the 2025 Six Nations on a pan-Asia basis and will show matches in 22 territories: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. One notable exception is Japan, where the action will be on Wowow.

• Premier Sports Asia subscriptions

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Six Nations 2025 TV schedule: Matches, Channels, Times

Saturday 22 February

• Wales v Ireland | 2.15pm GMT  | BBC, Virgin Media, Peacock, Stan, FranceTV
• England v Scotland | 4.45pm GMT | ITV, RTÉ, Peacock, Stan, FranceTV

Sunday 23 February

• Italy v France | 3pm GMT  | ITV, Virgin Media, TV8, FranceTV, Peacock, Stan

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