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Full time16 June 2012
South Africa
36–27
England
Coca-Cola Park, Johannesburg, South Africa · Tour 2012Head-to-head

South Africa won by 9 points.

Scoring

  1. 4’TSouth Africa try · Willem Alberts5–0
  2. 9’CSouth Africa conversion · Morne Steyn7–0
  3. 9’TSouth Africa try · Bismarck Du Plessis12–0
  4. 11’PEngland penalty · Toby Flood12–3
  5. 17’PSouth Africa penalty · Morne Steyn15–3
  6. 20’TSouth Africa try · Francois Hougaard20–3
  7. 21’CSouth Africa conversion · Morne Steyn22–3
  8. 25’CEngland conversion · Toby Flood22–5
  9. 25’TEngland try · Toby Flood22–10
  10. 28’DSouth Africa drop goal · Morne Steyn25–10
  11. 48’PSouth Africa penalty · Morne Steyn28–10
  12. 53’TEngland try · Ben Youngs28–15
  13. 54’CEngland conversion · Toby Flood28–17
  14. 60’PSouth Africa penalty · Morne Steyn31–17
  15. 63’CEngland conversion · Toby Flood31–19
  16. 63’TEngland try · Ben Youngs31–24
  17. 66’PEngland penalty · Toby Flood31–27
  18. 74’TSouth Africa try · JP Pietersen36–27

Line-ups

South Africa

  1. 1Tendai MtawariraProp
  2. 2Bismarck Du PlessisHooker
  3. 3Jannie Du PlessisProp
  4. 4Eben EtzebethSecond row
  5. 5Juandre KrugerSecond row
  6. 6Marcell CoetzeeFlanker
  7. 7Willem AlbertsFlanker
  8. 8Pierre SpiesNumber 8
  9. 9Francois HougaardScrum-half
  10. 10Morne SteynFly-half
  11. 11Bryan HabanaWing
  12. 12Frans SteynCentre
  13. 13Jean De VilliersCentre
  14. 14JP PietersenWing
  15. 15Pat LambieFull-back
  16. 16Adriaan StraussBench
  17. 17Werner KrugerBench
  18. 18Flip Van Der MerweBench
  19. 19Keegan DanielBench
  20. 20Ruan PienaarBench
  21. 21Bjorn BassonBench
  22. 22Wynand OlivierBench

England

  1. 1Joe MarlerProp
  2. 2Dylan HartleyHooker
  3. 3Dan ColeProp
  4. 4Mouritz BothaSecond row
  5. 5Geoff ParlingSecond row
  6. 6Tom JohnsonFlanker
  7. 7Chris RobshawFlanker
  8. 8Ben MorganNumber 8
  9. 9Ben YoungsScrum-half
  10. 10Toby FloodFly-half
  11. 11Dave StrettleWing
  12. 12Manu TuilagiCentre
  13. 13Jonathan JosephCentre
  14. 14Chris AshtonWing
  15. 15Ben FodenFull-back
  16. 16Lee MearsBench
  17. 17Alex CorbisieroBench
  18. 18Tom PalmerBench
  19. 19Thomas WaldromBench
  20. 20Lee DicksonBench
  21. 21Owen FarrellBench
  22. 22Alex GoodeBench

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Context

All-time, South Africa 30–16 England, 2 drawn in 48 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

South Africa going in
England going in

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