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Full time15 September 2012
New Zealand
21–11
South Africa
Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin, New Zealand · The Rugby Championship 2012Head-to-head

New Zealand won by 10 points.

Scoring

  1. 19’PSouth Africa penalty · Morne Steyn0–3
  2. 20’TNew Zealand try · Israel Dagg5–3
  3. 49’TSouth Africa try · Bryan Habana5–8
  4. 53’PNew Zealand penalty · Aaron Cruden8–8
  5. 61’TNew Zealand try · Aaron Smith13–8
  6. 62’CNew Zealand conversion · Aaron Cruden15–8
  7. 71’PSouth Africa penalty · Johan Goosen15–11
  8. 76’PNew Zealand penalty · Aaron Cruden18–11
  9. 83’PNew Zealand penalty · Aaron Cruden21–11

Line-ups

New Zealand

  1. 1Tony WoodcockProp
  2. 2Andrew HoreHooker
  3. 3Owen FranksProp
  4. 4Luke RomanoSecond row
  5. 5Samuel WhitelockSecond row
  6. 6Liam MessamFlanker
  7. 7Richie McCawFlanker
  8. 8Kieran ReadNumber 8
  9. 9Piri WeepuScrum-half
  10. 10Aaron CrudenFly-half
  11. 11Julian SaveaWing
  12. 12Ma'a NonuCentre
  13. 13Conrad SmithCentre
  14. 14Cory JaneWing
  15. 15Israel DaggFull-back
  16. 16Keven MealamuBench
  17. 17Charlie FaumuinaBench
  18. 18Brodie RetallickBench
  19. 19Victor VitoBench
  20. 20Aaron SmithBench
  21. 21Beauden BarrettBench
  22. 22Tamati EllisonBench

South Africa

  1. 1Tendai MtawariraProp
  2. 2Adriaan StraussHooker
  3. 3Jannie Du PlessisProp
  4. 4Flip Van Der MerweSecond row
  5. 5Juandre KrugerSecond row
  6. 6Francois LouwFlanker
  7. 7Willem AlbertsFlanker
  8. 8Duane VermeulenNumber 8
  9. 9Ruan PienaarScrum-half
  10. 10Morne SteynFly-half
  11. 11Francois HougaardWing
  12. 12Frans SteynCentre
  13. 13Jean De VilliersCentre
  14. 14Bryan HabanaWing
  15. 15Zane KirchnerFull-back
  16. 16Tiaan LiebenbergBench
  17. 17Dean GreylingBench
  18. 18Andries BekkerBench
  19. 19Marcell CoetzeeBench
  20. 20Johan GoosenBench
  21. 21Juan de JonghBench
  22. 22Pat LambieBench

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Context

All-time, New Zealand 64–46 South Africa, 4 drawn in 114 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

New Zealand 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.