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Full time19 October 1980
France
23–3
Japan
Stadium, Toulouse, France · Tour 1980Head-to-head

France won by 20 points.

Scoring

  1. –CFrance conversion · Bernard Vivies2–0
  2. –CFrance conversion · Bernard Vivies4–0
  3. –PFrance penalty · Serge Gabernet7–0
  4. –TFrance try · M Billac11–0
  5. –TFrance try · C Martinez15–0
  6. –TFrance try · C Martinez19–0
  7. –TFrance try · Bourbon23–0
  8. –PJapan penalty · Nobufumi Tanaka23–3

Line-ups

France

  1. 1Pierre DospitalProp
  2. 2Philippe DintransHooker
  3. 3Robert PaparembordeProp
  4. 4Alain LorieuxSecond row
  5. 5Alain MaleigSecond row
  6. 6Jean-Pierre RivesFlanker
  7. 7Pierre LacansFlanker
  8. 8BourbonNumber 8
  9. 9Jerome GallionScrum-half
  10. 10Bernard ViviesFly-half
  11. 11C MartinezWing
  12. 12M BillacCentre
  13. 13Patrick MesnyCentre
  14. 14Daniel BustaffaWing
  15. 15Serge GabernetFull-back
  16. 16BentabouletBench
  17. 17LairleBench
  18. 18Rene TrailleBench
  19. 19Gerald MartinezBench
  20. 20MelosBench
  21. 21Christian DelageBench

Japan

  1. 1Jiro IshiyamaProp
  2. 2Tsuyoshi FujitaHooker
  3. 3Koji HoraguchiProp
  4. 4Toshiyuki HayashiSecond row
  5. 5Ryutaro FukurodateSecond row
  6. 6Takashi ItoFlanker
  7. 7Takeo IshizukaFlanker
  8. 8Kazuo SejimoNumber 8
  9. 9Yoshimitsu KonishiScrum-half
  10. 10Shigetaka MoriFly-half
  11. 11Hideo ToshimaWing
  12. 12Yoichiro MinamikawaCentre
  13. 13Fukumi KanayaCentre
  14. 14Masaru FujiwaraWing
  15. 15Nobufumi TanakaFull-back
  16. 16Takeshi NakayamaBench
  17. 17Toru WadaBench
  18. 18Michihito ChidaBench
  19. 19Mitsunobu SunamuraBench
  20. 20Junya MatsumotoBench

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Context

All-time, France 14–0 Japan, 1 drawn in 15 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

France 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.