TheBreakdown
Full time30 August 2003
France
17–16
England
Stade Vélodrome, Marseille, FranceHead-to-head

France won by 1 point.

Scoring

  1. 3’PFrance penalty · Frederic Michalak3–0
  2. 11’PEngland penalty · Paul Grayson3–3
  3. 19’CEngland conversion · Paul Grayson3–5
  4. 19’TEngland try · Mike Tindall3–10
  5. 36’DFrance drop goal · Frederic Michalak6–10
  6. 38’TFrance try · Nicolas Brusque11–10
  7. 41’PEngland penalty · Paul Grayson11–13
  8. 61’PEngland penalty · Paul Grayson11–16
  9. 65’PFrance penalty · Frederic Michalak14–16
  10. 82’PFrance penalty · Frederic Michalak17–16

Line-ups

France

  1. 1Jean-Jacques CrencaProp
  2. 2Yannick BruHooker
  3. 3Sylvain MarconnetProp
  4. 4Fabien PelousSecond row
  5. 5Jérôme ThionSecond row
  6. 6Serge BetsenFlanker
  7. 7Olivier MagneFlanker
  8. 8Imanol HarinordoquyNumber 8
  9. 9Fabien GalthiéScrum-half
  10. 10Frederic MichalakFly-half
  11. 11Christophe DominiciWing
  12. 12Damien TrailleCentre
  13. 13Yannick JauzionCentre
  14. 14Aurélien RougerieWing
  15. 15Nicolas BrusqueFull-back
  16. 16Raphaël IbanezBench
  17. 17Olivier MilloudBench
  18. 18David AuradouBench
  19. 19Sébastien ChabalBench
  20. 20Patrick TabaccoBench
  21. 21Xavier GarbajosaBench
  22. 22Brian LiebenbergBench

England

  1. 1Graham RowntreeProp
  2. 2Dorian WestHooker
  3. 3Julian WhiteProp
  4. 4Steve BorthwickSecond row
  5. 5Danny GrewcockSecond row
  6. 6Martin CorryFlanker
  7. 7Lewis MoodyFlanker
  8. 8Alex SandersonNumber 8
  9. 9Austin HealeyScrum-half
  10. 10Paul GraysonFly-half
  11. 11Ben CohenWing
  12. 12Mike TindallCentre
  13. 13Ollie SmithCentre
  14. 14Josh LewseyWing
  15. 15Iain BalshawFull-back
  16. 16Steve ThompsonBench
  17. 17Jason LeonardBench
  18. 18Simon ShawBench
  19. 19Andy HazellBench
  20. 20Andy GomarsallBench
  21. 21Dave WalderBench
  22. 22Jamie NoonBench

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Context

All-time, France 45–61 England, 7 drawn in 113 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

France going in
England 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.