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Full time25 August 2007
Scotland
3–27
South Africa
Murrayfield, Edinburgh, ScotlandHead-to-head

South Africa won by 24 points.

Scoring

  1. 11’PScotland penalty · Chris Paterson3–0
  2. 14’PSouth Africa penalty · Percy Montgomery3–3
  3. 23’TSouth Africa try · Bryan Habana3–8
  4. 24’CSouth Africa conversion · Percy Montgomery3–10
  5. 27’TSouth Africa try · Jaque Fourie3–15
  6. 28’CSouth Africa conversion · Percy Montgomery3–17
  7. 29’TSouth Africa try · Fourie Du Preez3–22
  8. 30’CSouth Africa conversion · Percy Montgomery3–24
  9. 53’PSouth Africa penalty · Percy Montgomery3–27

Line-ups

Scotland

  1. 1Gavin KerrProp
  2. 2Ross FordHooker
  3. 3Euan MurrayProp
  4. 4Nathan HinesSecond row
  5. 5Jim HamiltonSecond row
  6. 6Jason WhiteFlanker
  7. 7Kelly BrownFlanker
  8. 8David CallamNumber 8
  9. 9Mike BlairScrum-half
  10. 10Chris PatersonFly-half
  11. 11Simon WebsterWing
  12. 12Andrew HendersonCentre
  13. 13Rob DeweyCentre
  14. 14Nikki WalkerWing
  15. 15Rory LamontFull-back
  16. 16Fergus ThomsonBench
  17. 17Allan JacobsenBench
  18. 18Scott MurrayBench
  19. 19Allister HoggBench
  20. 20Rory LawsonBench
  21. 21Dan ParksBench
  22. 22Hugo SouthwellBench

South Africa

  1. 1Os du RandtProp
  2. 2Gary BothaHooker
  3. 3CJ Van Der LindeProp
  4. 4Bakkies BothaSecond row
  5. 5Victor MatfieldSecond row
  6. 6Schalk BurgerFlanker
  7. 7Juan SmithFlanker
  8. 8Danie RossouwNumber 8
  9. 9Fourie Du PreezScrum-half
  10. 10Butch JamesFly-half
  11. 11Bryan HabanaWing
  12. 12Frans SteynCentre
  13. 13Jaque FourieCentre
  14. 14JP PietersenWing
  15. 15Percy MontgomeryFull-back
  16. 16Bismarck Du PlessisBench
  17. 17BJ BothaBench
  18. 18Albert van den BergBench
  19. 19Wickus van HeerdenBench
  20. 20Ruan PienaarBench
  21. 21Andre PretoriusBench
  22. 22Ashwin WillemseBench

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Context

All-time, Scotland 5–26 South Africa in 31 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Scotland going in
South Africa going in

Also on this day

Results to 27 September 2026. Scoring and line-ups come from World Rugby match summaries where available; older Tests may have neither.