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Full time5 June 2012
Samoa
20–18
Tonga
Nagoya Municipal Mizuho Park Rugby Ground, Nagoya, Japan · World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup 2012Head-to-head

Samoa won by 2 points.

Scoring

  1. 4’PSamoa penalty · Ki Anufe3–0
  2. 7’PTonga penalty · Kurt Morath3–3
  3. 21’PTonga penalty · Kurt Morath3–6
  4. 36’PTonga penalty · Kurt Morath3–9
  5. 41’PSamoa penalty · Ki Anufe6–9
  6. 43’TSamoa try · Nalu Tuigamala11–9
  7. 45’CSamoa conversion · Ki Anufe13–9
  8. 47’PTonga penalty · Kurt Morath13–12
  9. 50’TSamoa try · David Lemi18–12
  10. 52’CSamoa conversion · Ki Anufe20–12
  11. 55’PTonga penalty · Kurt Morath20–15
  12. 60’PTonga penalty · Kurt Morath20–18

Line-ups

Samoa

  1. 1Sakaria TaulafoProp
  2. 2Steve FualauHooker
  3. 3Logovii MulipolaProp
  4. 4Faatiga LemaluSecond row
  5. 5Maselino PaulinoSecond row
  6. 6Daniel CrichtonFlanker
  7. 7Afa AionoFlanker
  8. 8Ben MasoeNumber 8
  9. 9Nalu TuigamalaScrum-half
  10. 10Lolo LuiFly-half
  11. 11David LemiWing
  12. 12Ki AnufeCentre
  13. 13Alvin TavanaCentre
  14. 14Ken PisiWing
  15. 15Fa'atoina AutagavaiaFull-back
  16. 16Wayne Ole AveiBench
  17. 17Viliamu AfatiaBench
  18. 18Misioka TimoteoBench
  19. 19Alafoti FaosilivaBench
  20. 20Jeremy SuaBench
  21. 21Paul PerezBench
  22. 22Patrick FaapaleBench

Tonga

  1. 1Viliami PolaProp
  2. 2Ilaisia Ma'asiHooker
  3. 3Kisi PuluProp
  4. 4Joseph TuineauSecond row
  5. 5Joshua AfuSecond row
  6. 6Sitiveni MafiFlanker
  7. 7Sione VaiomoungaFlanker
  8. 8Paula KahoNumber 8
  9. 9Taniela MoaScrum-half
  10. 10Kurt MorathFly-half
  11. 11Alaska TaufaWing
  12. 12Alipate FatafehiCentre
  13. 13Mafileo KefuCentre
  14. 14Damien FakafanuaWing
  15. 15Viliame IongiFull-back
  16. 16Tevita MailauBench
  17. 17Sila PuafisiBench
  18. 18Pepa KoloamatangiBench
  19. 19Viliami Fainga'aBench
  20. 20Thomas PaluBench
  21. 21Siale PiutauBench
  22. 22Sefa VakaBench

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Context

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

Samoa going in
Tonga 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.