TheBreakdown
Full time2 February 2002
France
33–12
Italy
Stade de France, Saint-Denis, France · Six Nations 2002Head-to-head

France won by 21 points.

Scoring

  1. 1’CFrance conversion · Gérald Merceron2–0
  2. 1’PFrance penalty · Gérald Merceron5–0
  3. 1’PFrance penalty · Gérald Merceron8–0
  4. 1’PFrance penalty · Gérald Merceron11–0
  5. 1’PFrance penalty · Gérald Merceron14–0
  6. 1’PFrance penalty · Gérald Merceron17–0
  7. 1’PFrance penalty · Gérald Merceron20–0
  8. 1’PFrance penalty · Gérald Merceron23–0
  9. 1’TFrance try · Serge Betsen28–0
  10. 1’TFrance try · Damien Traille33–0
  11. 4’PItaly penalty · Diego Dominguez33–3
  12. 11’PItaly penalty · Diego Dominguez33–6
  13. 22’PItaly penalty · Diego Dominguez33–9
  14. 27’PItaly penalty · Diego Dominguez33–12

Line-ups

France

  1. 1Jean-Jacques CrencaProp
  2. 2Yannick BruHooker
  3. 3Pieter de VilliersProp
  4. 4David AuradouSecond row
  5. 5Thibault PrivatSecond row
  6. 6Serge BetsenFlanker
  7. 7Olivier MagneFlanker
  8. 8Steven HallNumber 8
  9. 9Frederic MichalakScrum-half
  10. 10Gérald MerceronFly-half
  11. 11Aurélien RougerieWing
  12. 12Tony MarshCentre
  13. 13Damien TrailleCentre
  14. 14David BoryWing
  15. 15Nicolas JeanjeanFull-back
  16. 16Raphaël IbanezBench
  17. 17Jean-Baptiste PouxBench
  18. 18Fabien PelousBench
  19. 19Elvis VermeulenBench
  20. 20Alexandre AlbouyBench
  21. 21Francois GelezBench
  22. 22Xavier GarbajosaBench

Italy

  1. 1Andrea Lo CiceroProp
  2. 2Alessandro MoscardiHooker
  3. 3Andrea MuraroProp
  4. 4Carlo ChecchinatoSecond row
  5. 5Santiago DellapèSecond row
  6. 6Marco BortolamiFlanker
  7. 7Mauro BergamascoFlanker
  8. 8Matthew PhillipsNumber 8
  9. 9Alessandro TronconScrum-half
  10. 10Diego DominguezFly-half
  11. 11Denis DallanWing
  12. 12Cristian StoicaCentre
  13. 13Luca MartinCentre
  14. 14Roberto PedrazziWing
  15. 15Paolo VaccariFull-back
  16. 16Giampiero De CarliBench
  17. 17Alessandro MorenoBench
  18. 18Mark GiacheriBench
  19. 19Aaron PersicoBench
  20. 20Juan Manuel QueiroloBench
  21. 21Ramiro PezBench
  22. 22Mirco BergamascoBench

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Context

All-time, France 76–4 Italy, 2 drawn in 82 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

France going in
Italy 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.