Scotland v France Preview | Guinness Women’s Six Nations 2025

28 Mar 2025

Scotland Women’s travel to La Rochelle this weekend to face France at Stade Marcel-Deflandre in round two of the Guinness Women’s Six Nations. Here is everything you need to know ahead of the match on Saturday (29 March 2025, kick-off 1pm GMT, watch on BBC iPlayer).

What they said

Head Coach Bryan Easson said: “France are a good side, but I thought our performance against France last year was excellent. We’ve got to take confidence in that.

“We’ve got to take confidence from how tight the game was up until the last minute. We’ve got to take confidence from our performance against Wales as well and go in with belief.

“We’ve won 13 out of the past 17 games and that’s how we’ve got to look at it. We’ve got to look at you know every game as being a good opportunity.”

Teams (graphics)

Last meetings

2024: Scotland 5 – 15 France (Hive Stadium, Edinburgh)
2023: France 55 – 0 Scotland (Stade de la Rabine, Vannes)
2022: Scotland 8 – 28 France (Scotstoun Stadium, Glasgow)
2021: Scotland 13 – 13 France (Scotstoun Stadium, Glasgow)

Stats

  • Scotland have won five of their last eight Guinness Women’s Six Nations matches.
  • Scotland made 10 line breaks against Wales in Round 1, the most of any side last weekend; in fact, it was more than they made across their last four matches of the 2024 Guinness Women’s Six Nations (9).
  • Scotland winger Francesca McGhie made the most line breaks (4) and beat the most defenders (10) of any player across the opening round of this year’s Guinness Women’s Six Nations.
  • Should Molly Poolman and Becky Boyd make their debut, they will become either Scotland Women cap 243 or 244.

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