Giuseppe Garibaldi Trophy
The France–Italy Six Nations prize named for a hero of both countries.
The Giuseppe Garibaldi Trophy (Trofeo Garibaldi; Trophée Garibaldi) is a rugby union trophy awarded to the winner of the annual Six Nations Championship match between France and Italy. Designed by French former international and professional sculptor Jean-Pierre Rives, it was awarded for the first time on 3 February 2007 to France, as part of the celebrations of the bicentenary of Giuseppe Garibaldi's birth. As of 2026 the trophy has been contested twenty times, with France winning seventeen and Italy two.
Quick Facts
- Sport
- Rugby union
- Founded
- 2007
- Teams
- 2
- Country
- France; Italy
- Champion
- France
- Season
- 2026
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Background
Giuseppe Garibaldi was an Italian revolutionary born in 1807 in Nice, then part of the Kingdom of Sardinia and annexed to France in 1860; one of the fathers of unified Italy, he was also a general in the French Army during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. The idea of a trophy for the annual France–Italy game was first mooted in Nice by the international committee for the bicentennial of his birth, taken up by the Fédération Française de Rugby and the Federazione Italiana Rugby, and approved on 6 December 2006 by the International Rugby Board. The trophy was unveiled on 2 February 2007 at a ceremony at the French embassy in Rome, with former internationals Diego Dominguez for Italy and the Nice-born Jean-François Tordo for France as its godfathers.
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