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Full time10 November 2012
Ireland
12–16
South Africa
Aviva Stadium, Dublin, Ireland · Tour 2012Head-to-head

South Africa won by 4 points.

Scoring

  1. 7’PIreland penalty · Johnny Sexton3–0
  2. 12’PIreland penalty · Johnny Sexton6–0
  3. 19’PSouth Africa penalty · Pat Lambie6–3
  4. 22’PIreland penalty · Johnny Sexton9–3
  5. 32’PIreland penalty · Johnny Sexton12–3
  6. 46’CSouth Africa conversion · Pat Lambie12–5
  7. 46’TSouth Africa try · Ruan Pienaar12–10
  8. 54’PSouth Africa penalty · Pat Lambie12–13
  9. 71’PSouth Africa penalty · Pat Lambie12–16

Line-ups

Ireland

  1. 1Cian HealyProp
  2. 2Richardt StraussHooker
  3. 3Mike RossProp
  4. 4Donnacha RyanSecond row
  5. 5Mike McCarthySecond row
  6. 6Peter O'MahonyFlanker
  7. 7Chris HenryFlanker
  8. 8Jamie HeaslipNumber 8
  9. 9Conor MurrayScrum-half
  10. 10Johnny SextonFly-half
  11. 11Andrew TrimbleWing
  12. 12Gordon D'ArcyCentre
  13. 13Keith EarlsCentre
  14. 14Tommy BoweWing
  15. 15Simon ZeboFull-back
  16. 16Sean CroninBench
  17. 17Dave KilcoyneBench
  18. 18Michael BentBench
  19. 19Donncha O'CallaghanBench
  20. 20Iain HendersonBench
  21. 21Eoin ReddanBench
  22. 22Ronan O'GaraBench
  23. 23Fergus McFaddenBench

South Africa

  1. 1CJ Van Der LindeProp
  2. 2Adriaan StraussHooker
  3. 3Jannie Du PlessisProp
  4. 4Eben EtzebethSecond row
  5. 5Juandre KrugerSecond row
  6. 6Francois LouwFlanker
  7. 7Willem AlbertsFlanker
  8. 8Duane VermeulenNumber 8
  9. 9Ruan PienaarScrum-half
  10. 10Pat LambieFly-half
  11. 11Francois HougaardWing
  12. 12Jean De VilliersCentre
  13. 13Jaco TauteCentre
  14. 14JP PietersenWing
  15. 15Zane KirchnerFull-back
  16. 16Schalk BritsBench
  17. 17Heinke van der MerweBench
  18. 18Patric CilliersBench
  19. 19Flip Van Der MerweBench
  20. 20Marcell CoetzeeBench
  21. 21Morne SteynBench
  22. 22Juan de JonghBench
  23. 23Lwazi MvovoBench

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Context

All-time, Ireland 10–20 South Africa, 1 drawn in 31 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Ireland 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.