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Men's Internationals 2025 · Wembley Stadium, London · 1 November 2025Head-to-head
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South Africa won by 54 points.Half-time 26–0 · Tries 9–1 · JPN 2 yellow cards

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413183647525863677939%Own 2240%Own half56%Opp half76%Opp 22
← Japan attack · South Africa attack →Hover a try for detail · dots = tackles made · dashed = penalty goal · orange = missed · squares = rucks · triangles = line breaks and defenders beaten · rings = turnovers · bars at the foot = zone counts · thin lines = kicks from hand = attacking entries and ball won per band
Tries and goal kicks as a table
MinTeamWhatScore
4′South AfricaTry, Siya Kolisi, converted5–0
13′South AfricaTry, Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu, converted12–0
18′South AfricaTry, Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu, conversion missed19–0
36′South AfricaTry26–0
47′South AfricaTry, Wilco Louw, converted31–0
52′JapanTry, Yoshitaka Yazaki, converted33–5
58′South AfricaTry, Kurt-Lee Arendse, converted38–7
63′South AfricaTry, Andre Esterhuizen, converted45–7
67′South AfricaTry, Kurt-Lee Arendse, converted52–7
79′South AfricaTry, Jesse Kriel, converted59–7
Sample dataTerritory shares are estimated, and tries without a recorded position are placed in the in-goal. Other positions are as logged by the match feed and approximate.

Score progression

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018355370HT0′20′40′60′80′2 JPN cards
4′Siya Kolisi13′Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu18′Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu36′RSA47′Wilco Louw52′Yoshitaka Yazaki58′Kurt-Lee Arendse63′Andre Esterhuizen67′Kurt-Lee Arendse79′Jesse Kriel
RSA

Team stats

JPN
55%Possession45%
58%Territory42%
140Carries108
588Metres gained281
8Clean breaks3
33Defenders beaten15
139Passes143
12Offloads2
143Tackles made150
15Tackles missed33
88/91Rucks won87/94
18/20Lineouts won11/15
2/2Scrums won5/5
6/7Mauls won4/4
8Turnovers won6
11Penalties conceded14
36Kicks from hand30
926Kick metres910
Goal kicking
RSA conversions 7/8, penalties 0/0 · JPN conversions 1/1, penalties 0/0. Pale segment = set piece lost.

Match statistics and event positions come from World Rugby’s public match feed, which is unofficial and not licensed for reuse; TheBreakdown reduces them to the figures shown.

Line-ups

South Africa

  1. 1Ox NcheProp
  2. 2Malcolm MarxHooker
  3. 3Zach PorthenProp
  4. 4RG SnymanSecond row
  5. 5Lodewyk De JagerSecond row
  6. 6Siya KolisiFlanker
  7. 7Franco MostertFlanker
  8. 8Jasper WieseNumber 8
  9. 9Cobus ReinachScrum-half
  10. 10Sacha Feinberg-MngomezuluFly-half
  11. 11Kurt-Lee ArendseWing
  12. 12Damian de AllendeCentre
  13. 13Jesse KrielCentre
  14. 14Ethan HookerWing
  15. 15Cheslin KolbeFull-back
  16. 16Johan GrobbelaarBench
  17. 17Gerhard SteenekampBench
  18. 18Wilco LouwBench
  19. 19Ruan NortjeBench
  20. 20Andre EsterhuizenBench
  21. 21Kwagga SmithBench
  22. 22Grant WilliamsBench
  23. 23Manie LibbokBench

Japan

  1. 1Kenta KobayashiProp
  2. 2Kenji SatoHooker
  3. 3Shuhei TakeuchiProp
  4. 4Jack CornelsenSecond row
  5. 5Warner DearnsSecond row
  6. 6Ben GunterFlanker
  7. 7Kanji ShimokawaFlanker
  8. 8Michael LeitchNumber 8
  9. 9Shinobu FujiwaraScrum-half
  10. 10Seungsin LeeFly-half
  11. 11Tomoki OsadaWing
  12. 12Charlie LawrenceCentre
  13. 13Dylan RileyCentre
  14. 14Kippei IshidaWing
  15. 15Yoshitaka YazakiFull-back
  16. 16Shodai HiraoBench
  17. 17Ryosuke IwaiharaBench
  18. 18Keijiro TamefusaBench
  19. 19Tyler PaulBench
  20. 20Faulua MakisiBench
  21. 21Kenta FukudaBench
  22. 22Sam GreeneBench
  23. 23Tiennan CostleyBench

Match officials

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Context

All-time, South Africa 3–1 Japan in 4 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

South Africa 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.