TheBreakdown
Full time17 June 2012
Samoa
27–26
Japan
Prince Chichibu Memorial Stadium, Tokyo, Japan · World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup 2012Head-to-head

Samoa won by 1 point.

Scoring

  1. 8’PJapan penalty · Ayumu Goromaru0–3
  2. 12’PJapan penalty · Ayumu Goromaru0–6
  3. 20’TJapan try · Hendrik Tui0–11
  4. 27’TJapan try · Takashi Kikutani0–16
  5. 32’CSamoa conversion · Ki Anufe2–16
  6. 32’TSamoa try · Kahn Fotuali'i7–16
  7. 39’TSamoa try · Faatiga Lemalu12–16
  8. 40’CSamoa conversion · Ki Anufe14–16
  9. 44’PSamoa penalty · Ki Anufe17–16
  10. 62’TSamoa try · Faatiga Lemalu22–16
  11. 63’CSamoa conversion · Lolo Lui24–16
  12. 66’PSamoa penalty · Ki Anufe27–16
  13. 69’TJapan try · Takashi Kikutani27–21
  14. 78’TJapan try · Toshiaki Hirose27–26

Line-ups

Samoa

  1. 1Sakaria TaulafoProp
  2. 2Ti'i PauloHooker
  3. 3Logovii MulipolaProp
  4. 4Faatiga LemaluSecond row
  5. 5Iosefa TekoriSecond row
  6. 6Alafoti FaosilivaFlanker
  7. 7Maurie FaasavaluFlanker
  8. 8Kane ThompsonNumber 8
  9. 9Kahn Fotuali'iScrum-half
  10. 10Ki AnufeFly-half
  11. 11David LemiWing
  12. 12Paul WilliamsCentre
  13. 13Lolo LuiCentre
  14. 14Paul PerezWing
  15. 15Fa'atoina AutagavaiaFull-back
  16. 16Wayne Ole AveiBench
  17. 17Census JohnstonBench
  18. 18Daniel CrichtonBench
  19. 19Ben MasoeBench
  20. 20Jeremy SuaBench
  21. 21Fautua OttoBench
  22. 22Ken PisiBench

Japan

  1. 1Yusuke NagaeProp
  2. 2Takeshi KizuHooker
  3. 3Kensuke HatakeyamaProp
  4. 4Shinya MakabeSecond row
  5. 5Hitoshi OnoSecond row
  6. 6Takashi KikutaniFlanker
  7. 7Yuta MochizukiFlanker
  8. 8Hendrik TuiNumber 8
  9. 9Atsushi HiwasaScrum-half
  10. 10Harumichi TatekawaFly-half
  11. 11Hirotoki OnozawaWing
  12. 12Ryan NicholasCentre
  13. 13Tomohiro SenbaCentre
  14. 14Toshiaki HiroseWing
  15. 15Ayumu GoromaruFull-back
  16. 16Ryuhei AritaBench
  17. 17Hiroshi YamashitaBench
  18. 18Shoji ItoBench
  19. 19Takamichi SasakiBench
  20. 20Jun FujiiBench
  21. 21Kosei OnoBench
  22. 22Yasunori NagatomoBench

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Context

All-time, Samoa 12–7 Japan in 19 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Samoa going in
Japan 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.