Whatever success Les Bleus enjoy on the field at the the 2024 Guinness Six Nations, they are already guaranteed to lose out financially at this years tournament.

With Stade de France unavailable due to stadium preparations for the 2024 Olympic Games, France are having to play their tournament home games in Marseille, Lille and Lyon.

Hosting Ireland, Italy and England at these venues will result in a substantial loss of income.

Despite ticket demands massively exceeding availability the estimated financial losses are quite considerable.

400,000 ticket requests (for 175,000 tickets available) have been recorded by the the French Rugby Federation for the three home games but this still means the governing body will lose “beaucoup de Euros”.

Claude Hélias, the treasurer of the FFR, stated: “The fact that we cannot use the Stade de France will make us lose two million euros per game, or between five and six million over the entire competition. In the other stadiums, there are fewer tickets available, the price is lower and there are fewer hospitality boxes”.

Stadium Capacities;

Stade de France. 80,023

Orange Velodrome (Marseille). 67,847

Stade Pierre Mauroy (Lille). 50,096

OL Stadium (Lyon). 58,883