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Full time27 September 2014
South Africa
28–10
Australia
Newlands Stadium, Cape Town, South Africa · The Rugby Championship 2014Head-to-head

South Africa won by 18 points.

Scoring

  1. 14’TSouth Africa try · Marcell Coetzee5–0
  2. 26’PAustralia penalty · Bernard Foley5–3
  3. 27’TAustralia try · Adam Ashley-Cooper5–8
  4. 28’CAustralia conversion · Bernard Foley5–10
  5. 45’PSouth Africa penalty · Handre Pollard8–10
  6. 71’DSouth Africa drop goal · Pat Lambie11–10
  7. 73’TSouth Africa try · Jean De Villiers16–10
  8. 80’TSouth Africa try · Pat Lambie21–10
  9. 82’TSouth Africa try · Jean De Villiers26–10
  10. 83’CSouth Africa conversion · Pat Lambie28–10

Line-ups

South Africa

  1. 1Tendai MtawariraProp
  2. 2Adriaan StraussHooker
  3. 3Jannie Du PlessisProp
  4. 4Eben EtzebethSecond row
  5. 5Victor MatfieldSecond row
  6. 6Marcell CoetzeeFlanker
  7. 7Teboho MohojeFlanker
  8. 8Duane VermeulenNumber 8
  9. 9Francois HougaardScrum-half
  10. 10Handre PollardFly-half
  11. 11Bryan HabanaWing
  12. 12Jean De VilliersCentre
  13. 13Jan SerfonteinCentre
  14. 14Cornal HendricksWing
  15. 15Willie Le RouxFull-back
  16. 16Bismarck Du PlessisBench
  17. 17Trevor NyakaneBench
  18. 18Marcel Van Der MerweBench
  19. 19Bakkies BothaBench
  20. 20Schalk BurgerBench
  21. 21Cobus ReinachBench
  22. 22Pat LambieBench
  23. 23JP PietersenBench

Australia

  1. 1James SlipperProp
  2. 2Saia FaingaaHooker
  3. 3Sekope KepuProp
  4. 4Sam CarterSecond row
  5. 5Rob SimmonsSecond row
  6. 6Scott FardyFlanker
  7. 7Michael HooperFlanker
  8. 8Ben McCalmanNumber 8
  9. 9Nick PhippsScrum-half
  10. 10Bernard FoleyFly-half
  11. 11Joseph TomaneWing
  12. 12Matt ToomuaCentre
  13. 13Tevita KuridraniCentre
  14. 14Adam Ashley-CooperWing
  15. 15Israel FolauFull-back
  16. 16James HansonBench
  17. 17Benn RobinsonBench
  18. 18Ben AlexanderBench
  19. 19James HorwillBench
  20. 20Scott HigginbothamBench
  21. 21Nic WhiteBench
  22. 22Kurtley BealeBench
  23. 23Rob HorneBench

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Context

All-time, South Africa 55–41 Australia, 3 drawn in 99 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

South Africa going in
Australia 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.