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Full time13 November 2009
France
20–13
South Africa
Stadium, Toulouse, France · Tour 2009Head-to-head

France won by 7 points.

Scoring

  1. 7’PFrance penalty · Julien Dupuy3–0
  2. 21’PSouth Africa penalty · Morne Steyn3–3
  3. 25’DSouth Africa drop goal · Morne Steyn3–6
  4. 29’TSouth Africa try · John Smit3–11
  5. 30’CSouth Africa conversion · Morne Steyn3–13
  6. 32’TFrance try · Vincent Clerc8–13
  7. 41’PFrance penalty · Julien Dupuy11–13
  8. 50’PFrance penalty · Julien Dupuy14–13
  9. 63’PFrance penalty · Julien Dupuy17–13
  10. 80’PFrance penalty · Morgan Parra20–13

Line-ups

France

  1. 1Fabien BarcellaProp
  2. 2William ServatHooker
  3. 3Nicolas MasProp
  4. 4Lionel NalletSecond row
  5. 5Romain Millo-ChluskiSecond row
  6. 6Thierry DusautoirFlanker
  7. 7Imanol HarinordoquyFlanker
  8. 8Louis PicamolesNumber 8
  9. 9Julien DupuyScrum-half
  10. 10Francois Trinh-DucFly-half
  11. 11Cédric HeymansWing
  12. 12Maxime MermozCentre
  13. 13Yann DavidCentre
  14. 14Vincent ClercWing
  15. 15Damien TrailleFull-back
  16. 16Dimitri SzarzewskiBench
  17. 17Sylvain MarconnetBench
  18. 18Sébastien ChabalBench
  19. 19Julien BonnaireBench
  20. 20Morgan ParraBench
  21. 21David MartyBench
  22. 22Maxime MedardBench

South Africa

  1. 1Tendai MtawariraProp
  2. 2Bismarck Du PlessisHooker
  3. 3John SmitProp
  4. 4Bakkies BothaSecond row
  5. 5Victor MatfieldSecond row
  6. 6Heinrich BrussowFlanker
  7. 7Schalk BurgerFlanker
  8. 8Ryan KankowskiNumber 8
  9. 9Fourie Du PreezScrum-half
  10. 10Morne SteynFly-half
  11. 11Bryan HabanaWing
  12. 12Adi JacobsCentre
  13. 13Jaque FourieCentre
  14. 14JP PietersenWing
  15. 15Zane KirchnerFull-back
  16. 16Adriaan StraussBench
  17. 17Wian du PreezBench
  18. 18CJ Van Der LindeBench
  19. 19Andries BekkerBench
  20. 20Danie RossouwBench
  21. 21Ruan PienaarBench
  22. 22Wynand OlivierBench

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Context

All-time, France 12–29 South Africa, 6 drawn in 47 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

France 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.