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Full time1 October 2016
South Africa
18–10
Australia
Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria, South Africa · The Rugby Championship 2016Head-to-head

South Africa won by 8 points.

Scoring

  1. 6’DSouth Africa drop goal · Morne Steyn3–0
  2. 9’PAustralia penalty · Bernard Foley3–3
  3. 15’TAustralia try · Scott Sio3–8
  4. 16’CAustralia conversion · Bernard Foley3–10
  5. 27’PSouth Africa penalty · Morne Steyn6–10
  6. 36’PSouth Africa penalty · Morne Steyn9–10
  7. 42’PSouth Africa penalty · Morne Steyn12–10
  8. 77’PSouth Africa penalty · Morne Steyn15–10
  9. 81’DSouth Africa drop goal · Morne Steyn18–10

Line-ups

South Africa

  1. 1Tendai MtawariraProp
  2. 2Adriaan StraussHooker
  3. 3Vincent KochProp
  4. 4Eben EtzebethSecond row
  5. 5Pieter-Steph Du ToitSecond row
  6. 6Francois LouwFlanker
  7. 7Teboho MohojeFlanker
  8. 8Warren WhiteleyNumber 8
  9. 9Rudy PaigeScrum-half
  10. 10Morne SteynFly-half
  11. 11Francois HougaardWing
  12. 12Juan de JonghCentre
  13. 13Jesse KrielCentre
  14. 14Bryan HabanaWing
  15. 15Pat LambieFull-back
  16. 16Mbongeni MbonambiBench
  17. 17Steven KitshoffBench
  18. 18Julian RedelinghuysBench
  19. 19Lodewyk De JagerBench
  20. 20Willem AlbertsBench
  21. 21Jaco KrielBench
  22. 22Lionel MapoeBench
  23. 23Willie Le RouxBench

Australia

  1. 1Scott SioProp
  2. 2Stephen MooreHooker
  3. 3Sekope KepuProp
  4. 4Rob SimmonsSecond row
  5. 5Adam ColemanSecond row
  6. 6Dean MummFlanker
  7. 7Michael HooperFlanker
  8. 8Sean McMahonNumber 8
  9. 9Will GeniaScrum-half
  10. 10Quade CooperFly-half
  11. 11Reece HodgeWing
  12. 12Bernard FoleyCentre
  13. 13Samu KereviCentre
  14. 14Dane Haylett-PettyWing
  15. 15Israel FolauFull-back
  16. 16James HansonBench
  17. 17James SlipperBench
  18. 18Tom RobertsonBench
  19. 19Kane DouglasBench
  20. 20Scott FardyBench
  21. 21Nick PhippsBench
  22. 22Tevita KuridraniBench
  23. 23Sefa NaivaluBench

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Context

All-time, South Africa 55–41 Australia, 3 drawn in 99 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

South Africa 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.