Full time30 March 1985
Parc des Princes, Paris, France · Five Nations 1985Head-to-head
France won by 11 points.
Scoring
- –PFrance penalty · Jean-Patrick Lescarboura3–0
- –PFrance penalty · Jean-Patrick Lescarboura6–0
- –TFrance try · Patrick Esteve10–0
- –TFrance try · Jerome Gallion14–0
- –PWales penalty · Paul Thorburn14–3
Line-ups
France
- 1Pierre DospitalProp
- 2Philippe DintransHooker
- 3Jean-Pierre GaruetProp
- 4Jean-Charles OrsoSecond row
- 5Jean CondomSecond row
- 6Jacques GrattonFlanker
- 7Laurent RodriguezFlanker
- 8Jean-Luc JoinelNumber 8
- 9Jerome GallionScrum-half
- 10Jean-Patrick LescarbouraFly-half
- 11Patrick EsteveWing
- 12Didier CodorniouCentre
- 13Philippe SellaCentre
- 14Eric BonnevalWing
- 15Serge BlancoFull-back
- 16Christian RizonBench
- 17Pierre-Edouard DetrezBench
- 18Dominique ErbaniBench
- 19Pierre BerbizierBench
- 20Guy LaporteBench
- 21Laurent PardoBench
Wales
- 1Jeff WhitefootProp
- 2Billy JamesHooker
- 3Stuart EvansProp
- 4John PerkinsSecond row
- 5Bob NorsterSecond row
- 6Martyn MorrisFlanker
- 7David PickeringFlanker
- 8Dick MoriartyNumber 8
- 9Terry HolmesScrum-half
- 10Gareth DaviesFly-half
- 11Adrian HadleyWing
- 12Mark RingCentre
- 13Rob AckermanCentre
- 14Phil LewisWing
- 15Paul ThorburnFull-back
- 16Mark WyattBench
- 17Jonathan DaviesBench
- 18Dai BishopBench
- 19Ian StephensBench
- 20M RichardsBench
- 21Gareth RobertsBench
Match officials
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Context
All-time, France 53–52 Wales, 3 drawn in 108 scored Tests. Full head-to-head
France going in
Wales going in
- Previous meeting: 18 February 1984, France 21–16 Wales
- Next meeting on record: 1 March 1986
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.