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Full time21 November 1998
France
21–32
Australia
Stade de France, Saint-Denis, France · Tour 1998Head-to-head

Australia won by 11 points.

Scoring

  1. –CFrance conversion · Christophe Lamaison2–0
  2. –PFrance penalty · Christophe Lamaison5–0
  3. –PFrance penalty · Christophe Lamaison8–0
  4. –PFrance penalty · Christophe Lamaison11–0
  5. –TFrance try · Thomas Lombard16–0
  6. –TFrance try · Philippe Carbonneau21–0
  7. –CAustralia conversion · John Eales21–2
  8. –PAustralia penalty · John Eales21–5
  9. –PAustralia penalty · John Eales21–8
  10. –PAustralia penalty · John Eales21–11
  11. –PAustralia penalty · John Eales21–14
  12. –PAustralia penalty · John Eales21–17
  13. –TAustralia try · Toutai Kefu21–22
  14. –TAustralia try · David Wilson21–27
  15. –TAustralia try · Tom Bowman21–32

Line-ups

France

  1. 1Sylvain MarconnetProp
  2. 2Raphaël IbanezHooker
  3. 3Franck TournaireProp
  4. 4Olivier BrouzetSecond row
  5. 5Fabien PelousSecond row
  6. 6Marc LievremontFlanker
  7. 7Olivier MagneFlanker
  8. 8Thomas LievremontNumber 8
  9. 9Philippe CarbonneauScrum-half
  10. 10David AucagneFly-half
  11. 11Thomas LombardWing
  12. 12Stephane GlasCentre
  13. 13Christophe LamaisonCentre
  14. 14Philippe Bernat-SallesWing
  15. 15Arthur GomesFull-back
  16. 16Fabien GalthiéBench
  17. 17Christophe DominiciBench
  18. 18Franck CombaBench
  19. 19Richard CastelBench
  20. 20Thierry CledaBench
  21. 21Patrice CollazoBench
  22. 22Marc Dal MasoBench

Australia

  1. 1Patricio NoriegaProp
  2. 2Phil KearnsHooker
  3. 3Andrew BladesProp
  4. 4Tom BowmanSecond row
  5. 5John EalesSecond row
  6. 6Matt CockbainFlanker
  7. 7David WilsonFlanker
  8. 8Toutai KefuNumber 8
  9. 9George GreganScrum-half
  10. 10Stephen LarkhamFly-half
  11. 11Joe RoffWing
  12. 12Nathan GreyCentre
  13. 13Daniel HerbertCentre
  14. 14Jason LittleWing
  15. 15Chris LathamFull-back
  16. 16Chris WhitakerBench
  17. 17Manny EdmondsBench
  18. 18Mitch HardyBench
  19. 19Willie OfahengaueBench
  20. 20Owen FineganBench
  21. 21Cam BladesBench
  22. 22Michael FoleyBench

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Context

All-time, France 23–29 Australia, 2 drawn in 54 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

France 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.