TheBreakdown
Full time25 June 2016
South Africa
19–13
Ireland
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, Port Elizabeth, South Africa · Tour 2016Head-to-head

South Africa won by 6 points.

Scoring

  1. 6’PSouth Africa penalty · Elton Jantjies3–0
  2. 16’TIreland try · Luke Marshall3–5
  3. 17’CIreland conversion · Paddy Jackson3–7
  4. 24’PIreland penalty · Paddy Jackson3–10
  5. 33’PSouth Africa penalty · Elton Jantjies6–10
  6. 41’TSouth Africa try · JP Pietersen11–10
  7. 42’CSouth Africa conversion · Elton Jantjies13–10
  8. 60’PSouth Africa penalty · Ruan Combrinck16–10
  9. 70’PSouth Africa penalty · Elton Jantjies19–10
  10. 71’PIreland penalty · Paddy Jackson19–13

Line-ups

South Africa

  1. 1Tendai MtawariraProp
  2. 2Adriaan StraussHooker
  3. 3Frans MalherbeProp
  4. 4Eben EtzebethSecond row
  5. 5Pieter-Steph Du ToitSecond row
  6. 6Francois LouwFlanker
  7. 7Siya KolisiFlanker
  8. 8Warren WhiteleyNumber 8
  9. 9Faf de KlerkScrum-half
  10. 10Elton JantjiesFly-half
  11. 11JP PietersenWing
  12. 12Damian de AllendeCentre
  13. 13Lionel MapoeCentre
  14. 14Ruan CombrinckWing
  15. 15Willie Le RouxFull-back
  16. 16Mbongeni MbonambiBench
  17. 17Steven KitshoffBench
  18. 18Julian RedelinghuysBench
  19. 19Franco MostertBench
  20. 20Jaco KrielBench
  21. 21Rudy PaigeBench
  22. 22Morne SteynBench
  23. 23Lwazi MvovoBench

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. 12Stuart OldingCentre
  13. 13Luke MarshallCentre
  14. 14Andrew TrimbleWing
  15. 15Tiernan O'HalloranFull-back
  16. 16Sean CroninBench
  17. 17Finlay BealhamBench
  18. 18Tadhg FurlongBench
  19. 19Ultan DillaneBench
  20. 20Rhys RuddockBench
  21. 21Eoin ReddanBench
  22. 22Ian MadiganBench
  23. 23Matthew HealyBench

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.