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Full time24 May 1997
Switzerland
31–3
Austria
Venue not recorded · Men's Rugby World Cup Qualifying 1999Head-to-head

Switzerland won by 28 points.

Scoring

  1. –CSwitzerland conversion · Peter Jones
  2. –CSwitzerland conversion · Peter Jones
  3. –PSwitzerland penalty · Laurent Grand-Pierre
  4. –PSwitzerland penalty · Laurent Grand-Pierre
  5. –PSwitzerland penalty · Laurent Grand-Pierre
  6. –PSwitzerland penalty · Peter Jones
  7. –TSwitzerland try · Laurent Grand-Pierre
  8. –TSwitzerland try · Francois Joly
  9. –PAustria penalty · Peter Vanovertveld

The scoring record for this Test does not add up to the final score, so running scores are hidden.

Line-ups

Switzerland

  1. 1Stephen AlbertoniProp
  2. 2Kristof CsebitsHooker
  3. 3Gerhart BachmannProp
  4. 4Cedric BagnaudSecond row
  5. 5Soren Sharff-HansenSecond row
  6. 6David MossiereFlanker
  7. 7Sergio HöselFlanker
  8. 8Sebastien MacculiNumber 8
  9. 9Francois JolyScrum-half
  10. 10Peter JonesFly-half
  11. 11Marc BenallouaWing
  12. 12Christian MeyerCentre
  13. 13Eric MullerCentre
  14. 14Mark SmithWing
  15. 15Laurent Grand-PierreFull-back
  16. Daniel KaempfBench
  17. James WoodBench
  18. S JosefsenBench
  19. Allan CantBench
  20. O GougainBench
  21. J P TravasaBench

Austria

  1. 1Martin PuchingerProp
  2. 2Norbert JagenteufalHooker
  3. 3Andreas SchwabProp
  4. 4Alexander RoseneggerSecond row
  5. 5Philipp GrausamSecond row
  6. 6Andreas ZinschitzFlanker
  7. 7Thomas MessnerFlanker
  8. 8Christian SchwabNumber 8
  9. 9Takeru KitazawaScrum-half
  10. 10Peter VanovertveldFly-half
  11. 11Stefan ChristleyWing
  12. 12Stiig GabrielCentre
  13. 13Thomas BriningerCentre
  14. 14Clive WiesbauerWing
  15. 15Wolfgang RohrerFull-back

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Context

All-time, Switzerland 3–0 Austria in 3 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Switzerland going in
Austria 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.