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Full time17 January 1981
France
16–9
Scotland
Parc des Princes, Paris, France · Five Nations 1981Head-to-head

France won by 7 points.

Scoring

  1. –CFrance conversion · Alain Caussade2–0
  2. –PFrance penalty · Serge Gabernet5–0
  3. –PFrance penalty · Bernard Vivies8–0
  4. –TFrance try · Serge Blanco12–0
  5. –TFrance try · Roland Bertranne16–0
  6. –CScotland conversion · Jim Renwick16–2
  7. –PScotland penalty · Andy Irvine16–5
  8. –TScotland try · John Rutherford16–9

Line-ups

France

  1. 1Pierre DospitalProp
  2. 2Philippe DintransHooker
  3. 3Robert PaparembordeProp
  4. 4Daniel RevallierSecond row
  5. 5Jean-Francois ImbernonSecond row
  6. 6Jean-Pierre RivesFlanker
  7. 7Jean-Luc JoinelFlanker
  8. 8Manuel CarpentierNumber 8
  9. 9Pierre BerbizierScrum-half
  10. 10Bernard ViviesFly-half
  11. 11Laurent PardoWing
  12. 12Didier CodorniouCentre
  13. 13Roland BertranneCentre
  14. 14Serge BlancoWing
  15. 15Serge GabernetFull-back
  16. 16Dominique SagarzazuBench
  17. 17Jean-Paul WolfBench
  18. 18Pierre LacansBench
  19. 19Jerome GallionBench
  20. 20Patrick MesnyBench
  21. 21Alain CaussadeBench

Scotland

  1. 1Jim AitkenProp
  2. 2Colin DeansHooker
  3. 3Norrie RowanProp
  4. 4Alan TomesSecond row
  5. 5David GraySecond row
  6. 6Jim CalderFlanker
  7. 7Gordon DicksonFlanker
  8. 8John BeattieNumber 8
  9. 9Roy LaidlawScrum-half
  10. 10John RutherfordFly-half
  11. 11Bruce HayWing
  12. 12Keith RobertsonCentre
  13. 13Jim RenwickCentre
  14. 14Steve MunroWing
  15. 15Andy IrvineFull-back
  16. 17Ken LawrieBench
  17. 18Bill CuthbertsonBench
  18. 19KDM WilsonBench
  19. 20Richard BreakeyBench
  20. 21Alan LawsonBench

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Context

All-time, France 61–41 Scotland, 4 drawn in 106 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

France going in
Scotland 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.