TheBreakdown
Full time25 August 2012
Argentina
16–16
South Africa
Estadio Malvinas Argentinas, Mendoza, Argentina · The Rugby Championship 2012Head-to-head

A draw.

Scoring

  1. 13’PArgentina penalty · Martín Rodríguez3–0
  2. 18’TArgentina try · Santiago Fernandez8–0
  3. 19’CArgentina conversion · Martín Rodríguez10–0
  4. 34’PSouth Africa penalty · Morne Steyn10–3
  5. 37’PArgentina penalty · Martín Rodríguez13–3
  6. 50’PSouth Africa penalty · Morne Steyn13–6
  7. 53’PArgentina penalty · Martín Rodríguez16–6
  8. 55’PSouth Africa penalty · Morne Steyn16–9
  9. 66’TSouth Africa try · Frans Steyn16–14
  10. 67’CSouth Africa conversion · Morne Steyn16–16

Line-ups

Argentina

  1. 1Rodrigo RonceroProp
  2. 2Eusebio GuinazuHooker
  3. 3Juan FigalloProp
  4. 4Manuel CarizzaSecond row
  5. 5Patricio AlbaceteSecond row
  6. 6Julio Farias CabelloFlanker
  7. 7Alvaro GalindoFlanker
  8. 8Juan Martín Fernandez LobbeNumber 8
  9. 9Nicolás VergalloScrum-half
  10. 10Nicolas SanchezFly-half
  11. 11Horacio AgullaWing
  12. 12Santiago FernandezCentre
  13. 13Marcelo BoschCentre
  14. 14Gonzalo CamachoWing
  15. 15Martín RodríguezFull-back
  16. 16Bruno PostiglioniBench
  17. 17Marcos AyerzaBench
  18. 18Leonardo SenatoreBench
  19. 19Tomás LeonardiBench
  20. 20Martín LandajoBench
  21. 21Lucas Gonzalez AmorosinoBench
  22. 22Juan ImhoffBench

South Africa

  1. 1Tendai MtawariraProp
  2. 2Adriaan StraussHooker
  3. 3Jannie Du PlessisProp
  4. 4Eben EtzebethSecond row
  5. 5Andries BekkerSecond row
  6. 6Marcell CoetzeeFlanker
  7. 7Jacques PotgieterFlanker
  8. 8Willem AlbertsNumber 8
  9. 9Francois HougaardScrum-half
  10. 10Morne SteynFly-half
  11. 11Lwazi MvovoWing
  12. 12Frans SteynCentre
  13. 13Jean De VilliersCentre
  14. 14Bryan HabanaWing
  15. 15Zane KirchnerFull-back
  16. 16Tiaan LiebenbergBench
  17. 17Patric CilliersBench
  18. 18Flip Van Der MerweBench
  19. 19Keegan DanielBench
  20. 20Ruan PienaarBench
  21. 21Pat LambieBench
  22. 22JJ EngelbrechtBench

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Context

All-time, Argentina 4–36 South Africa, 1 drawn in 41 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Argentina 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.