The European rugby season is set to kick off. After much anticipation, the 2025 edition of the Guinness Men’s Six Nations 2025 It will once again offer thrilling challenges this year, and Macron will be there once more. The three national teams whose shirts feature the Macron the Hero – Italy, Wales and Scotland – They want to take centre stage at the most prestigious and longest-running rugby tournament, now in its 131st edition. In addition to the three national teams, a “fourth Macron team” will always be on the pitch, namely that of the Officials of Gara Emirates, in its capacity as technical partner to World Rugby, the international governing body for rugby.

The opening match of the 2025 edition – which, in its current six-team format, is being played for the 26th time – will take place at the Stade de France, which has once again become the home ground of the French national team following the break during the Olympic year. On 31 January at 8.15 pm, France will host the Wales, a fixture which, in last year’s edition – played on the opposite side of the pitch – saw the French emerge victorious by 45–24. On the pitch at Dublin’s Aviva Stadium on Saturday 1 February, the reigning champions of Ireland – who have won the trophy in the last two editions – will be seeking revenge for last year’s spectacular match against England, who managed to secure a 23–22 victory thanks to a drop goal by Marcus Smith as the clock ran out.

Also on Saturday 1 February, the thrilling Macron derby: Scotland v Italy. The match takes us back to the thrilling encounter at the Olimpico in March 2024, when the Azzurri beat Scotland 31–29 at the end of a hard-fought, nail-biting contest that Italy turned around in the closing stages. The 2025 Six Nations match will be played in Edinburgh at Murrayfield and promises to be just as thrilling and spectacular, with the Macron Hero taking centre stage on the chests of both national teams and on the referees’ shirts. The team that emerges victorious from this clash will claim the Cuttitta Cup, a trophy established in 2022 in memory of the former Italian prop Massimo Cuttitta, who was also Scotland’s forwards coach.

Alongside the senior national teams, the Under-20 sides will also be in action over the same weekend: Ireland v England at Virgin Media Park in Cork; Scotland v Italy at The Hive Stadium in Edinburgh; France v Wales at the Stade de la Rabine in Vannes.

Macron has a special relationship with rugby. The world’s leading rugby brand shares the core values of its philosophy with the sport – passion, commitment, sacrifice, team spirit and respect – the ingredients of a time-honoured recipe for a unique sporting spectacle. Macron wishes everyone taking part in the Guinness Men’s Six Nations an unforgettable season.