Full time1 July 1989
Eden Park, Auckland, New Zealand · Tour 1989Head-to-head
New Zealand won by 14 points.
Scoring
- 4’PFrance penalty · Serge Blanco0–3
- 8’PNew Zealand penalty · Grant Fox3–3
- 14’PNew Zealand penalty · Grant Fox6–3
- 21’CNew Zealand conversion · Grant Fox8–3
- 21’TNew Zealand try · Alan Whetton12–3
- 23’TFrance try · Philippe Rouge-Thomas12–7
- 25’TNew Zealand try · Joe Stanley16–7
- 28’PFrance penalty · Serge Blanco16–10
- 34’PFrance penalty · Serge Blanco16–13
- 43’PFrance penalty · Serge Blanco16–16
- 45’PNew Zealand penalty · Grant Fox19–16
- 53’TFrance try · Marc Cecillon19–20
- 61’PNew Zealand penalty · Grant Fox22–20
- 64’CNew Zealand conversion · Grant Fox24–20
- 64’TNew Zealand try · Bruce Deans28–20
- 75’CNew Zealand conversion · Grant Fox30–20
- 75’TNew Zealand try · Sean Fitzpatrick34–20
Line-ups
New Zealand
- 1Steve McDowallProp
- 2Sean FitzpatrickHooker
- 3Richard LoeProp
- 4Murray PierceSecond row
- 5Gary WhettonSecond row
- 6Alan WhettonFlanker
- 7Michael JonesFlanker
- 8Wayne ShelfordNumber 8
- 9Bruce DeansScrum-half
- 10Grant FoxFly-half
- 11Terry WrightWing
- 12John SchusterCentre
- 13Joe StanleyCentre
- 14John KirwanWing
- 15John GallagherFull-back
- 16Bernie McCahillBench
- 17Frano BoticaBench
- 18Graeme BachopBench
- 19Zinzan BrookeBench
- 20Ron WilliamsBench
- 21Warren GatlandBench
France
- 1Pascal OndartsProp
- 2Dominique BouetHooker
- 3Jean-Pierre GaruetProp
- 4Thierry DevergieSecond row
- 5Jean CondomSecond row
- 6Alain CarminatiFlanker
- 7Marc CecillonFlanker
- 8Laurent RodriguezNumber 8
- 9Pierre BerbizierScrum-half
- 10Philippe Rouge-ThomasFly-half
- 11Patrice LagisquetWing
- 12Marc AndrieuCentre
- 13Philippe SellaCentre
- 14Philippe BerotWing
- 15Serge BlancoFull-back
- 16Marc PujolleBench
- 17Dominique ErbaniBench
- 18Olivier RoumatBench
- 19Henri SanzBench
- 20Franck MesnelBench
- 21Jean-Baptiste LafondBench
Match officials
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Context
All-time, New Zealand 53–15 France, 1 drawn in 69 scored Tests. Full head-to-head
New Zealand going in
France going in
- Previous meeting: 17 June 1989, New Zealand 25–17 France
- Next meeting on record: 3 November 1990
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.