The Guinness Six Nations Player of the Championship is one of rugby’s most prestigious individual accolades, and has been won by a host of the game’s greatest players.
Each year, a shortlist of players are chosen by an expert panel for the Guinness Player of the Championship award. This list then goes to a public vote, with the winning player announced in the week after Super Saturday.
Ireland have won the award most frequently, seven times in total, with the great Brian O’Driscoll (2006, 2007, 2009) claiming three. His former centre partner Gordon D’Arcy won the inaugural award in 2004.
France scrum-half Antoine Dupont (2020 and 2022) and Scotland full-back Stuart Hogg (2016 and 2017) are the only other players to have won it more than once.
2004: Gordon D’Arcy – Ireland
2005: Martyn Williams – Wales
2006: Brian O’Driscoll – Ireland
2007: Brian O’Driscoll – Ireland
2008: Shane Williams – Wales
2009: Brian O’Driscoll – Ireland
2010: Tommy Bowe – Ireland
2011: Andrea Masi – Italy
2012: Dan Lydiate – Wales
2013: Leigh Halfpenny – Wales
2014: Mike Brown – England
2015: Paul O’Connell – Ireland
2016: Stuart Hogg – Scotland
2017: Stuart Hogg – Scotland
2018: Jacob Stockdale – Ireland
2019: Alun Wyn Jones – Wales
2020: Antoine Dupont – France
2021: Hamish Watson – Scotland
2022: Antoine Dupont – France
