{"id":344838,"date":"2026-03-13T21:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T21:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/344838\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T21:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T21:27:12","slug":"six-nations-2026-why-will-france-play-in-light-blue-v-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/344838\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations 2026: Why will France play in light blue v England?"},"content":{"rendered":"

France will wear a special edition pale blue shirt in Saturday’s Six Nations game in Paris to mark 120 years of rivalry against England.<\/p>\n

Given England play in white, the change has raised concerns over a possible kit clash.<\/p>\n

A bonus-point win against Steve Borthwick’s side will secure Les Bleus a record eighth Six Nations crown. <\/p>\n

“Drawing directly from the history of the rivalry, the design of the match jersey – and its replica version – references the original light blue jersey worn by the French team in 1906 for their first fixture against England,” said a French federation statement.<\/p>\n

“The 1927 FFR logo adorned on the collection denotes the year of the French team’s first victory against England, while the ‘Tricolore’ stripes are a nod to the French rugby kits of the late 80s and 90s, when adidas was the kit supplier of the federation.”<\/p>\n

Reports suggest, external<\/a> England, who are aware of the possible kit clash, will stick to wearing their traditional white shirt.<\/p>\n

France usually play in darker blue so wore their white away shirt in the 50-40 defeat in Edinburgh against Scotland last weekend.<\/p>\n

The Six Nations no longer allows red and green shirts in the Wales v Ireland fixture because of the difficulty spectators who are colour blind would have telling the teams apart.<\/p>\n

Wales wore a white shirt last weekend in Dublin, so that it looked light compared to the dark shirt of Ireland’s green.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France will wear a special edition pale blue shirt in Saturday’s Six Nations game in Paris to mark…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-344838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}