TheBreakdown
Full time6 October 1979
Uruguay
48–0
Brazil
Stade Français, Santiago, Chile · South American Championship A 1979Head-to-head

Uruguay won by 48 points.

Scoring

  1. 8’PUruguay penalty · Jorge Zerbino3–0
  2. 12’PUruguay penalty · Jorge Zerbino6–0
  3. 38’CUruguay conversion · Jorge Zerbino8–0
  4. 38’TUruguay try · Jose Peirano12–0
  5. 53’CUruguay conversion · Jorge Zerbino14–0
  6. 53’TUruguay try · Eduardo Cerutti18–0
  7. 58’CUruguay conversion · Jose Peirano20–0
  8. 58’TUruguay try · Eduardo Cerutti24–0
  9. 63’CUruguay conversion · Jorge Zerbino26–0
  10. 63’TUruguay try · Ricardo Bonner30–0
  11. 69’CUruguay conversion · Jose Peirano32–0
  12. 69’TUruguay try · Carlos Vaccaro36–0
  13. 75’CUruguay conversion · Jorge Zerbino38–0
  14. 75’TUruguay try · Michael Smith42–0
  15. 78’CUruguay conversion · Jose Peirano44–0
  16. 78’TUruguay try · Carlos Vaccaro48–0

Line-ups

Uruguay

  1. 1Marcel PaullierProp
  2. 2Raul FajardoHooker
  3. 3John BirdProp
  4. 4Jose BarbeSecond row
  5. 5Rafael ZerbinoSecond row
  6. 6Jorge ZerbinoFlanker
  7. 7Alvaro MastroianiFlanker
  8. 8Andreas NicolichNumber 8
  9. 9Ricardo BonnerScrum-half
  10. 10Rafael UbillaFly-half
  11. 11Jose PeiranoWing
  12. 12Eduardo CeruttiCentre
  13. 13Michael SmithCentre
  14. 14Jose Luis NicolaWing
  15. 15Martin PatinoFull-back
  16. Carlos VaccaroBench

Brazil

  1. 1Waldo HoffmanProp
  2. 2Jose Tarcisio Ascencio Barreto ReisHooker
  3. 3Drausio Toldeo BarrosProp
  4. 4OswaldoSecond row
  5. 5Christian BesseSecond row
  6. 6Jean Marc Robert Nogueira Baptista EtlinFlanker
  7. 7BrulhartFlanker
  8. 8J SenfNumber 8
  9. 9A MoraesScrum-half
  10. 10Paul BishopFly-half
  11. 11Wagner Taffo ThomazinWing
  12. 12TurnbullCentre
  13. 13Pedro Luis de Sousa Miranda CardosoCentre
  14. 14JordyWing
  15. 15Stefan Jacques DavidFull-back
  16. 16PabloBench

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Context

All-time, Uruguay 27–2 Brazil in 29 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Uruguay going in
Brazil 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.