Scotland vs Italy, Six Nations 2025: Kick-off time, TV channel, live stream, team news, lineups, h2h, odds
Scotland vs Italy, Six Nations 2025: Kick-off time, TV channel, live stream, team news, lineups, h2h, odds
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Scotland begin their Six Nations campaign by hosting Italy in round one. The hosts’ hopes of winning a first title since the final Five Nations rugby campaign way back in 1999 have been rocked by the loss of star captain Sione Tuipulotu, who will miss the entire tournament with a pectoral muscle injury suffered in training.
![[Scotland captain Sione Tuipulotu]](https://static.standard.co.uk/2025/01/29/0/46/GettyImages-2186817042.jpg?trim=0,27,0,84&quality=75&auto=webp&width=960)
The fitness issues are really biting now for Scotland and are rather serving to dampen enthusiasm around what was expected to be a highly-competitive campaign from Gregor Townsend’s talented team. Hoping to exploit that injury misery this weekend is an Italy side who narrowly beat the Scots 31-29 last March to record their first home Six Nations win for six years.
![[Italy centres Juan Ignacio Brex and Tommaso Menoncello]](https://static.standard.co.uk/2025/01/29/0/17/GettyImages-2185624844.jpg?trim=0,0,186,0&quality=75&auto=webp&width=960)
The Azzurri made swift progress under head coach Gonzalo Quesada, denied a shock first victory in France by the width of a post before seeing off Wales in the wooden spoon decider in Cardiff, avoiding finishing bottom of the standings for the first time in nine years.
Although their results for the rest of the year were inconsistent, this Italy squad is packed full of talent and they will have their sights set on another attempted push up the table. Scotland vs Italy is set for a 2:15pm GMT kick-off on Saturday February 1, 2025. The match takes place at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh.
TV channel: The game is being shown live in the UK free-to-air on BBC One, with coverage beginning at 1:15pm GMT. Live stream: Free live coverage is also available online via the BBC Sport website and BBC iPlayer. There’s simply no sugarcoating it - Tuipulotu’s injury is an absolute disaster for Scotland and could genuinely be the difference between them producing a potential title push and merely just making up the numbers.
