Scotland 32–11 Japan, 12 October 2003

Men's Rugby World Cup 2003 · Dairy Farmers Stadium, Townsville | Gurambilbarra · 12 October 2003Head-to-head

Full-time report

SCOScotland32

JPNJapan11

Scotland won by 21 points.Half-time 15–6 · Tries 5–1

Pitch map

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SCO9617

JPN16033

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SCO2/21/10

JPN0/02/20

← Japan attack · Scotland attack →Hover a try for detail · dots = tackles made · dashed = penalty goal · orange = missed · squares = rucks · triangles = line breaks and defenders beaten · rings = turnovers · bars at the foot = zone counts · thin lines = kicks from hand = attacking entries and ball won per band

Territory is not in the feed for this match.
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Ruck, line break, turnover, lineout and kick-from-hand positions are not in the feed for this match.
Tries with a dashed ring have no recorded position, so they sit in the in-goal at the end that side attacked.

Tries and goal kicks as a table

Min	Team	What	Score
6′	Scotland	Try, Chris Paterson, converted	5–0
20′	Scotland	Try, Stuart Grimes	12–3
56′	Japan	Try, Hirotoki Onozawa	15–11
67′	Scotland	Try, Chris Paterson	20–11
76′	Scotland	Try, Simon Taylor	25–11
80′	Scotland	Try, Simon Danielli, converted	30–11

Sample dataTerritory shares are estimated, and tries without a recorded position are placed in the in-goal. Other positions are as logged by the match feed and approximate.

Score progression

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6′Chris Paterson20′Stuart Grimes56′Hirotoki Onozawa67′Chris Paterson76′Simon Taylor80′Simon Danielli

SCO

Team stats

JPN

83%Possession17%

135Carries102

463Metres gained305

12Clean breaks7

33Defenders beaten17

154Passes123

10Offloads7

96Tackles made160

17Tackles missed33

90/101Rucks won55/61

20/22Lineouts won16/21

15/15Scrums won6/7

9/9Mauls won7/7

11Turnovers won18

10Penalties conceded9

26Kicks from hand27

842Kick metres832

Goal kicking
SCO conversions 2/2, penalties 1/1 · JPN conversions 0/0, penalties 2/2. Pale segment = set piece lost.

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Line-ups

Scotland

1Tom SmithProp
2Robbie RussellHooker
3Bruce DouglasProp
4Scott MurraySecond row
5Stuart GrimesSecond row
6Jason WhiteFlanker
7Jon PetrieFlanker
8Simon TaylorNumber 8
9Bryan RedpathScrum-half
10Gordon RossFly-half
11Kenny LoganWing
12James McLarenCentre
13Andy CraigCentre
14Chris PatersonWing
15Ben HinshelwoodFull-back
16Gordon BullochBench
17Gavin KerrBench
18Ross BeattieBench
19Martin LeslieBench
20Mike BlairBench
21Gregor TownsendBench
22Simon DanielliBench

Japan

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Context

All-time, Scotland 11–2 Japan in 13 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Scotland going in

Japan going in

Previous meeting: 5 October 1991, Scotland 47–9 Japan
Next meeting on record: 13 November 2004

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.