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Full time17 November 2001
France
14–13
Australia
Stade Vélodrome, Marseille, France · Tour 2001Head-to-head

France won by 1 point.

Scoring

  1. 3’PFrance penalty · Frederic Michalak3–0
  2. 6’PAustralia penalty · Matt Burke3–3
  3. 28’TFrance try · Tony Marsh8–3
  4. 37’PFrance penalty · Damien Traille11–3
  5. 42’PFrance penalty · Damien Traille14–3
  6. 53’PAustralia penalty · Matt Burke14–6
  7. 87’TAustralia try · Ben Tune14–11
  8. 88’CAustralia conversion · Elton Flatley14–13

Line-ups

France

  1. 1Jean-Jacques CrencaProp
  2. 2Raphaël IbanezHooker
  3. 3Pieter de VilliersProp
  4. 4David AuradouSecond row
  5. 5Thibault PrivatSecond row
  6. 6Serge BetsenFlanker
  7. 7Olivier MagneFlanker
  8. 8Patrick TabaccoNumber 8
  9. 9Fabien GalthiéScrum-half
  10. 10Frederic MichalakFly-half
  11. 11Aurélien RougerieWing
  12. 12Damien TrailleCentre
  13. 13Tony MarshCentre
  14. 14David BoryWing
  15. 15Clément PoitrenaudFull-back
  16. 16Yannick BruBench
  17. 17Jean-Baptiste PouxBench
  18. 18Lionel NalletBench
  19. 19Francis NtamackBench
  20. 20Francois GelezBench
  21. 21Nicolas JeanjeanBench
  22. 22Christophe DominiciBench

Australia

  1. 1Nick StilesProp
  2. 2Michael FoleyHooker
  3. 3Ben DarwinProp
  4. 4David GiffinSecond row
  5. 5Justin HarrisonSecond row
  6. 6Owen FineganFlanker
  7. 7Phil WaughFlanker
  8. 8Toutai KefuNumber 8
  9. 9George GreganScrum-half
  10. 10Stephen LarkhamFly-half
  11. 11Chris LathamWing
  12. 12Nathan GreyCentre
  13. 13Graeme BondCentre
  14. 14Joe RoffWing
  15. 15Matt BurkeFull-back
  16. 16Rod MooreBench
  17. 17Brendan CannonBench
  18. 18Matt CockbainBench
  19. 19George SmithBench
  20. 20Chris WhitakerBench
  21. 21Elton FlatleyBench
  22. 22Ben TuneBench

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Context

All-time, France 23–29 Australia, 2 drawn in 54 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

France 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.