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Full time20 November 2021
Scotland
29–20
Japan
Murrayfield, Edinburgh, Scotland · Autumn Nations Series 2021Head-to-head

Scotland won by 9 points.

Scoring

  1. 6’TScotland try · Duhan van der Merwe5–0
  2. 11’PJapan penalty · Rikiya Matsuda5–3
  3. 26’PJapan penalty · Rikiya Matsuda5–6
  4. 28’TScotland try · Stuart Hogg10–6
  5. 29’CScotland conversion · Finn Russell12–6
  6. 40’TScotland try · Darcy Graham17–6
  7. 42’CScotland conversion · Finn Russell19–6
  8. 43’PJapan penalty · Rikiya Matsuda19–9
  9. 47’PJapan penalty · Rikiya Matsuda19–12
  10. 55’TScotland try · Stuart McInally24–12
  11. 56’CScotland conversion · Finn Russell26–12
  12. 65’TJapan try · Tevita Tatafu26–17
  13. 71’PJapan penalty · Rikiya Matsuda26–20
  14. 79’PScotland penalty · Finn Russell29–20

Line-ups

Scotland

  1. 1Jamie BhattiProp
  2. 2George TurnerHooker
  3. 3Zander FagersonProp
  4. 4Scott CummingsSecond row
  5. 5Grant GilchristSecond row
  6. 6Jamie RitchieFlanker
  7. 7Hamish WatsonFlanker
  8. 8Josh BaylissNumber 8
  9. 9Ali PriceScrum-half
  10. 10Finn RussellFly-half
  11. 11Duhan van der MerweWing
  12. 12Sam JohnsonCentre
  13. 13Chris HarrisCentre
  14. 14Darcy GrahamWing
  15. 15Stuart HoggFull-back
  16. 16Stuart McInallyBench
  17. 17Pierre SchoemanBench
  18. 18Javan SebastianBench
  19. 19Sam SkinnerBench
  20. 20Dylan RichardsonBench
  21. 21Matt FagersonBench
  22. 22George HorneBench
  23. 23Blair KinghornBench

Japan

  1. 1Craig MillarProp
  2. 2Atsushi SakateHooker
  3. 3Asaeli Ai ValuProp
  4. 4Jack CornelsenSecond row
  5. 5James MooreSecond row
  6. 6Michael LeitchFlanker
  7. 7Pieter LabuschagneFlanker
  8. 8Kazuki HimenoNumber 8
  9. 9Yutaka NagareScrum-half
  10. 10Rikiya MatsudaFly-half
  11. 11Siosaia FifitaWing
  12. 12Ryoto NakamuraCentre
  13. 13Shogo NakanoCentre
  14. 14Kotaro MatsushimaWing
  15. 15Ryohei YamanakaFull-back
  16. 16Kosuke HorikoshiBench
  17. 17Keita InagakiBench
  18. 18Shinnosuke KakinagaBench
  19. 19Ben GunterBench
  20. 20Tevita TatafuBench
  21. 21Naoto SaitoBench
  22. 22Yu TamuraBench
  23. 23Dylan RileyBench

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Context

All-time, Scotland 11–2 Japan in 13 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Scotland going in
Japan 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.