TheBreakdown
Full time19 July 2008
Australia
16–9
South Africa
Subiaco Oval, Perth | Boorloo, Australia · Tri Nations 2008Head-to-head

Australia won by 7 points.

Scoring

  1. 8’PSouth Africa penalty · Frans Steyn0–3
  2. 36’TAustralia try · Lote Tuqiri5–3
  3. 46’TAustralia try · Stirling Mortlock10–3
  4. 52’PAustralia penalty · Matt Giteau13–3
  5. 54’PSouth Africa penalty · Butch James13–6
  6. 71’PSouth Africa penalty · Frans Steyn13–9
  7. 81’DAustralia drop goal · Berrick Barnes16–9

Line-ups

Australia

  1. 1Benn RobinsonProp
  2. 2Stephen MooreHooker
  3. 3Al BaxterProp
  4. 4James HorwillSecond row
  5. 5Nathan SharpeSecond row
  6. 6Rocky ElsomFlanker
  7. 7George SmithFlanker
  8. 8Wycliff PaluNumber 8
  9. 9Luke BurgessScrum-half
  10. 10Matt GiteauFly-half
  11. 11Lote TuqiriWing
  12. 12Berrick BarnesCentre
  13. 13Stirling MortlockCentre
  14. 14Peter HynesWing
  15. 15Adam Ashley-CooperFull-back
  16. 16Tatafu Polota-NauBench
  17. 17Matt DunningBench
  18. 18Hugh McMenimanBench
  19. 19Phil WaughBench
  20. 20Sam CordingleyBench
  21. 21Ryan CrossBench
  22. 22Drew MitchellBench

South Africa

  1. 1Gurthro SteenkampProp
  2. 2Schalk BritsHooker
  3. 3CJ Van Der LindeProp
  4. 4Bakkies BothaSecond row
  5. 5Victor MatfieldSecond row
  6. 6Schalk BurgerFlanker
  7. 7Juan SmithFlanker
  8. 8Pierre SpiesNumber 8
  9. 9Ricky JanuarieScrum-half
  10. 10Butch JamesFly-half
  11. 11Bryan HabanaWing
  12. 12Jean De VilliersCentre
  13. 13Frans SteynCentre
  14. 14JP PietersenWing
  15. 15Conrad JantjesFull-back
  16. 16Adriaan StraussBench
  17. 17Tendai MtawariraBench
  18. 18Brian MujatiBench
  19. 19Andries BekkerBench
  20. 20Ryan KankowskiBench
  21. 21Ruan PienaarBench
  22. 22Peter GrantBench

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Context

All-time, Australia 41–55 South Africa, 3 drawn in 99 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Australia 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.