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Full time4 October 2014
South Africa
27–25
New Zealand
Ellis Park, Johannesburg, South Africa · The Rugby Championship 2014Head-to-head

South Africa won by 2 points.

Scoring

  1. 10’PNew Zealand penalty · Beauden Barrett0–3
  2. 13’TSouth Africa try · Francois Hougaard5–3
  3. 14’CSouth Africa conversion · Handre Pollard7–3
  4. 25’PNew Zealand penalty · Beauden Barrett7–6
  5. 28’TSouth Africa try · Handre Pollard12–6
  6. 29’CSouth Africa conversion · Handre Pollard14–6
  7. 34’TNew Zealand try · Malakai Fekitoa14–11
  8. 35’CNew Zealand conversion · Beauden Barrett14–13
  9. 41’CSouth Africa conversion · Handre Pollard16–13
  10. 41’TSouth Africa try · Handre Pollard21–13
  11. 48’PSouth Africa penalty · Handre Pollard24–13
  12. 67’TNew Zealand try · Ben Smith24–18
  13. 68’CNew Zealand conversion · Beauden Barrett24–20
  14. 72’TNew Zealand try · Dane Coles24–25
  15. 80’PSouth Africa penalty · Pat Lambie27–25

Line-ups

South Africa

  1. 1Tendai MtawariraProp
  2. 2Bismarck Du PlessisHooker
  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. 16Adriaan StraussBench
  17. 17Trevor NyakaneBench
  18. 18Marcel Van Der MerweBench
  19. 19Bakkies BothaBench
  20. 20Schalk BurgerBench
  21. 21Cobus ReinachBench
  22. 22Pat LambieBench
  23. 23JP PietersenBench

New Zealand

  1. 1Joe MoodyProp
  2. 2Keven MealamuHooker
  3. 3Owen FranksProp
  4. 4Jeremy ThrushSecond row
  5. 5Samuel WhitelockSecond row
  6. 6Jerome KainoFlanker
  7. 7Richie McCawFlanker
  8. 8Kieran ReadNumber 8
  9. 9Aaron SmithScrum-half
  10. 10Beauden BarrettFly-half
  11. 11Julian SaveaWing
  12. 12Malakai FekitoaCentre
  13. 13Conrad SmithCentre
  14. 14Ben SmithWing
  15. 15Israel DaggFull-back
  16. 16Dane ColesBench
  17. 17Ben FranksBench
  18. 18Charlie FaumuinaBench
  19. 19Steven LuatuaBench
  20. 20Liam MessamBench
  21. 21Tawera Kerr-BarlowBench
  22. 22Colin SladeBench
  23. 23Ryan CrottyBench

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Context

All-time, South Africa 46–64 New Zealand, 4 drawn in 114 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

South Africa going in
New Zealand 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.