TheBreakdown
Full time24 November 2018
Wales
20–11
South Africa
Principality Stadium, Cardiff, Wales · Tour 2018Head-to-head

Wales won by 9 points.

Scoring

  1. 4’TWales try · Tomas Francis5–0
  2. 12’CWales conversion · Gareth Anscombe7–0
  3. 17’TWales try · Liam Williams12–0
  4. 18’CWales conversion · Gareth Anscombe14–0
  5. 21’PSouth Africa penalty · Handre Pollard14–3
  6. 57’TSouth Africa try · Jesse Kriel14–8
  7. 63’PSouth Africa penalty · Elton Jantjies14–11
  8. 70’PWales penalty · Dan Biggar17–11
  9. 73’PWales penalty · Dan Biggar20–11

Line-ups

Wales

  1. 1Nicky SmithProp
  2. 2Ken OwensHooker
  3. 3Tomas FrancisProp
  4. 4Adam BeardSecond row
  5. 5Alun Wyn JonesSecond row
  6. 6Ellis JenkinsFlanker
  7. 7Justin TipuricFlanker
  8. 8Ross MoriartyNumber 8
  9. 9Gareth DaviesScrum-half
  10. 10Gareth AnscombeFly-half
  11. 11Josh AdamsWing
  12. 12Hadleigh ParkesCentre
  13. 13Jonathan DaviesCentre
  14. 14George NorthWing
  15. 15Liam WilliamsFull-back
  16. 16Elliot DeeBench
  17. 17Rob EvansBench
  18. 18Dillon LewisBench
  19. 19Cory HillBench
  20. 20Aaron WainwrightBench
  21. 21Tomos WilliamsBench
  22. 22Dan BiggarBench
  23. 23Owen WatkinBench

South Africa

  1. 1Steven KitshoffProp
  2. 2Malcolm MarxHooker
  3. 3Frans MalherbeProp
  4. 4RG SnymanSecond row
  5. 5Franco MostertSecond row
  6. 6Siya KolisiFlanker
  7. 7Pieter-Steph Du ToitFlanker
  8. 8Duane VermeulenNumber 8
  9. 9Embrose PapierScrum-half
  10. 10Handre PollardFly-half
  11. 11Aphiwe DyantyiWing
  12. 12Damian de AllendeCentre
  13. 13Jesse KrielCentre
  14. 15Willie Le RouxFull-back
  15. 23Cheslin KolbeWing
  16. 16Mbongeni MbonambiBench
  17. 17Thomas Du ToitBench
  18. 18Vincent KochBench
  19. 19Eben EtzebethBench
  20. 20Francois LouwBench
  21. 21Ivan Van ZylBench
  22. 22Elton JantjiesBench
  23. 26Damian WillemseBench

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Context

All-time, Wales 7–37 South Africa, 1 drawn in 45 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Wales 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.