TheBreakdown
Full time9 November 2002
France
30–10
South Africa
Stade Vélodrome, Marseille, France · Tour 2002Head-to-head

France won by 20 points.

Scoring

  1. 9’PFrance penalty · Francois Gelez3–0
  2. 18’PFrance penalty · Francois Gelez6–0
  3. 29’DFrance drop goal · Thomas Castaignede9–0
  4. 36’PFrance penalty · Francois Gelez12–0
  5. 37’PSouth Africa penalty · Andre Pretorius12–3
  6. 46’CFrance conversion · Francois Gelez14–3
  7. 46’TFrance try · Cédric Heymans19–3
  8. 51’PFrance penalty · Francois Gelez22–3
  9. 70’CSouth Africa conversion · Andre Pretorius22–5
  10. 70’TSouth Africa try · Joe Van Niekerk22–10
  11. 73’PFrance penalty · Francois Gelez25–10
  12. 78’TFrance try · Vincent Clerc30–10

Line-ups

France

  1. 1Jean-Jacques CrencaProp
  2. 2Raphaël IbanezHooker
  3. 3Pieter de VilliersProp
  4. 4Olivier BrouzetSecond row
  5. 5Fabien PelousSecond row
  6. 6Serge BetsenFlanker
  7. 7Olivier MagneFlanker
  8. 8Imanol HarinordoquyNumber 8
  9. 9Fabien GalthiéScrum-half
  10. 10Francois GelezFly-half
  11. 11Cédric HeymansWing
  12. 12Thomas CastaignedeCentre
  13. 13Damien TrailleCentre
  14. 14Vincent ClercWing
  15. 15Nicolas BrusqueFull-back
  16. 16Sylvain MarconnetBench
  17. 17Jean-Baptiste RueBench
  18. 18Thibault PrivatBench
  19. 19Sébastien ChabalBench
  20. 20Dimitri YachviliBench
  21. 21Gérald MerceronBench
  22. 22Xavier GarbajosaBench

South Africa

  1. 1Lawrence SephakaProp
  2. 2James DaltonHooker
  3. 3Willie MeyerProp
  4. 4Bakkies BothaSecond row
  5. 5Jannes LabuschagneSecond row
  6. 6Corne KrigeFlanker
  7. 7AJ VenterFlanker
  8. 8Joe Van NiekerkNumber 8
  9. 9Neil de KockScrum-half
  10. 10Andre PretoriusFly-half
  11. 11Brent RussellWing
  12. 12Adi JacobsCentre
  13. 13Jean De VilliersCentre
  14. 14Breyton PaulseWing
  15. 15Werner GreeffFull-back
  16. 16Lukas van BiljonBench
  17. 17Wessel RouxBench
  18. 18Marco WentzelBench
  19. 19Pedrie WannenburgBench
  20. 20Bolla ConradieBench
  21. 21Butch JamesBench
  22. 22Marius JoubertBench

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Context

All-time, France 12–29 South Africa, 6 drawn in 47 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

France going in
South Africa 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.