TheBreakdown
Full time28 June 2008
Tonga
15–20
Samoa
Teufaiva Stadium, Nuku'alofa, Tonga · World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup 2008Head-to-head

Samoa won by 5 points.

Scoring

  1. 4’PTonga penalty · Pierre Hola3–0
  2. 10’PTonga penalty · Pierre Hola6–0
  3. 28’PTonga penalty · Pierre Hola9–0
  4. 35’TSamoa try · Uale Mai9–5
  5. 36’CSamoa conversion · Gavin Williams9–7
  6. 51’PTonga penalty · Vungakoto Lilo12–7
  7. 64’TSamoa try · David Lemi12–12
  8. 65’CSamoa conversion · Gavin Williams12–14
  9. 68’PTonga penalty · Vungakoto Lilo15–14
  10. 75’PSamoa penalty · Gavin Williams15–17
  11. 76’PSamoa penalty · Gavin Williams15–20

Line-ups

Tonga

  1. 1Semisi TelefoniProp
  2. 2Viliami Ma'asiHooker
  3. 3Tonga Lea'aetoaProp
  4. 4Joshua AfuSecond row
  5. 5Milton NgauamoSecond row
  6. 6Hale T PoleFlanker
  7. 7Nili LatuFlanker
  8. 8Samiu VahafolauNumber 8
  9. 9Soane HaveaScrum-half
  10. 10Pierre HolaFly-half
  11. 11Vungakoto LiloWing
  12. 12Epeli TaioneCentre
  13. 13Suka HufangaCentre
  14. 14Samisoni PoneWing
  15. 15Sione TuipulotuFull-back
  16. 16Ephraim TaukafaBench
  17. 17Sateki Mata'uBench
  18. 18Paino HeheaBench
  19. 19Enele TaufaBench
  20. 20Fangatapu ApikotoaBench
  21. 21Hudson Tonga'uihaBench
  22. 22Kaiongo TupouBench

Samoa

  1. 1Simon LemaluProp
  2. 2Loleni TafunaiHooker
  3. 3James JohnstonProp
  4. 4Daniel LeoSecond row
  5. 5Kane ThompsonSecond row
  6. 6Semo SititiFlanker
  7. 7Alafoti FaosilivaFlanker
  8. 8George StowersNumber 8
  9. 9Uale MaiScrum-half
  10. 10Eliota Fuimaono SapoluFly-half
  11. 11David LemiWing
  12. 12Anitele'a TuilagiCentre
  13. 13Henry Fa'afiliCentre
  14. 14Esera LauinaWing
  15. 15Gavin WilliamsFull-back
  16. 16Heroshi TeaBench
  17. 17Egelagi FaleBench
  18. 18Chad SladeBench
  19. 19Ati OliveBench
  20. 20Notise TauafaoBench
  21. 21Roger WarrenBench
  22. 22Gasolo SalimaBench

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Context

All-time, Tonga 27–40 Samoa, 4 drawn in 71 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Tonga going in
Samoa 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.