TheBreakdown
Full time11 June 2016
South Africa
20–26
Ireland
Newlands Stadium, Cape Town, South Africa · Tour 2016Head-to-head

Ireland won by 6 points.

Scoring

  1. 12’TIreland try · Jared Payne0–5
  2. 13’CIreland conversion · Paddy Jackson0–7
  3. 16’PSouth Africa penalty · Pat Lambie3–7
  4. 20’PIreland penalty · Paddy Jackson3–10
  5. 27’PSouth Africa penalty · Elton Jantjies6–10
  6. 33’CSouth Africa conversion · Elton Jantjies8–10
  7. 33’TSouth Africa try · Lwazi Mvovo13–10
  8. 38’DIreland drop goal · Paddy Jackson13–13
  9. 44’CIreland conversion · Paddy Jackson13–15
  10. 44’TIreland try · Conor Murray13–20
  11. 69’PIreland penalty · Paddy Jackson13–23
  12. 70’CSouth Africa conversion · Elton Jantjies15–23
  13. 70’TSouth Africa try · Pieter-Steph Du Toit20–23
  14. 78’PIreland penalty · Paddy Jackson20–26

Line-ups

South Africa

  1. 1Tendai MtawariraProp
  2. 2Adriaan StraussHooker
  3. 3Frans MalherbeProp
  4. 4Eben EtzebethSecond row
  5. 5Lodewyk De JagerSecond row
  6. 6Francois LouwFlanker
  7. 7Siya KolisiFlanker
  8. 8Duane VermeulenNumber 8
  9. 9Faf de KlerkScrum-half
  10. 10Pat LambieFly-half
  11. 11Lwazi MvovoWing
  12. 12Damian de AllendeCentre
  13. 13Lionel MapoeCentre
  14. 14JP PietersenWing
  15. 15Willie Le RouxFull-back
  16. 16Mbongeni MbonambiBench
  17. 17Trevor NyakaneBench
  18. 18Julian RedelinghuysBench
  19. 19Pieter-Steph Du ToitBench
  20. 20Warren WhiteleyBench
  21. 21Rudy PaigeBench
  22. 22Elton JantjiesBench
  23. 23Jesse KrielBench

Ireland

  1. 1Jack McGrathProp
  2. 2Rory BestHooker
  3. 3Mike RossProp
  4. 4Iain HendersonSecond row
  5. 5Devin TonerSecond row
  6. 6CJ StanderFlanker
  7. 7Jordi MurphyFlanker
  8. 8Jamie HeaslipNumber 8
  9. 9Conor MurrayScrum-half
  10. 10Paddy JacksonFly-half
  11. 11Keith EarlsWing
  12. 12Luke MarshallCentre
  13. 13Robbie HenshawCentre
  14. 14Andrew TrimbleWing
  15. 15Jared PayneFull-back
  16. 16Sean CroninBench
  17. 17Finlay BealhamBench
  18. 18Tadhg FurlongBench
  19. 19Ultan DillaneBench
  20. 20Rhys RuddockBench
  21. 21Kieran MarmionBench
  22. 22Ian MadiganBench
  23. 23Craig GilroyBench

Match officials

Sample data
Referee
Sample Referee
Assistant referee
Sample Assistant 1
Assistant referee
Sample Assistant 2
TMO
Sample TMO

Sample data Match officials is placeholder content: TheBreakdown has no data source for it yet, so nothing here is real.

Context

All-time, South Africa 20–10 Ireland, 1 drawn in 31 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

South Africa going in
Ireland 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.