TheBreakdown
Full time10 November 2001
France
20–10
South Africa
Stade de France, Saint-Denis, France · Tour 2001Head-to-head

France won by 10 points.

Scoring

  1. –PFrance penalty · Damien Traille3–0
  2. –PFrance penalty · Francois Gelez6–0
  3. –PFrance penalty · Francois Gelez9–0
  4. –PFrance penalty · Francois Gelez12–0
  5. –PFrance penalty · Francois Gelez15–0
  6. –TFrance try · Raphaël Ibanez20–0
  7. –CSouth Africa conversion · Braam van Straaten20–2
  8. –PSouth Africa penalty · Braam van Straaten20–5
  9. –TSouth Africa try · Pieter Rossouw20–10

Line-ups

France

  1. 1Jean-Jacques CrencaProp
  2. 2Raphaël IbanezHooker
  3. 3Pieter de VilliersProp
  4. 4David AuradouSecond row
  5. 5Thibault PrivatSecond row
  6. 6Patrick TabaccoFlanker
  7. 7Olivier MagneFlanker
  8. 8Francis NtamackNumber 8
  9. 9Fabien GalthiéScrum-half
  10. 10Francois GelezFly-half
  11. 11David BoryWing
  12. 12Damien TrailleCentre
  13. 13Tony MarshCentre
  14. 14Aurélien RougerieWing
  15. 15Clément PoitrenaudFull-back
  16. 16Yannick BruBench
  17. 17Jean-Baptiste PouxBench
  18. 18Lionel NalletBench
  19. 19Serge BetsenBench
  20. 20Frederic MichalakBench
  21. 21Nicolas JeanjeanBench
  22. 22Christophe DominiciBench

South Africa

  1. 1Ollie le RouxProp
  2. 2Lukas van BiljonHooker
  3. 3Cobus VisagieProp
  4. 4Victor MatfieldSecond row
  5. 5Mark AndrewsSecond row
  6. 6Andre VosFlanker
  7. 7AJ VenterFlanker
  8. 8Bobby SkinstadNumber 8
  9. 9Joost van der WesthuizenScrum-half
  10. 10Braam van StraatenFly-half
  11. 11Pieter RossouwWing
  12. 12Trevor HalsteadCentre
  13. 13Andre SnymanCentre
  14. 14Breyton PaulseWing
  15. 15Conrad JantjesFull-back
  16. 16John SmitBench
  17. 17Willie MeyerBench
  18. 18Toks van der LindeBench
  19. 19Andre VenterBench
  20. 20Joe Van NiekerkBench
  21. 21Deon de KockBench
  22. 22Percy MontgomeryBench

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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.