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Full time25 June 2005
South Africa
27–13
France
EPRFU Stadium, Port Elizabeth, South Africa · Tour 2005Head-to-head

South Africa won by 14 points.

Scoring

  1. 9’PSouth Africa penalty · Percy Montgomery3–0
  2. 12’TSouth Africa try · Bryan Habana8–0
  3. 13’CSouth Africa conversion · Percy Montgomery10–0
  4. 20’PFrance penalty · Dimitri Yachvili10–3
  5. 29’TSouth Africa try · Jean De Villiers15–3
  6. 30’CSouth Africa conversion · Percy Montgomery17–3
  7. 33’PFrance penalty · Frederic Michalak17–6
  8. 37’PSouth Africa penalty · Percy Montgomery20–6
  9. 51’TSouth Africa try · Bryan Habana25–6
  10. 52’CSouth Africa conversion · Percy Montgomery27–6
  11. 82’TFrance try · Frederic Michalak27–11
  12. 83’CFrance conversion · Frederic Michalak27–13

Line-ups

South Africa

  1. 1Lawrence SephakaProp
  2. 2John SmitHooker
  3. 3CJ Van Der LindeProp
  4. 4Albert van den BergSecond row
  5. 5Victor MatfieldSecond row
  6. 6Schalk BurgerFlanker
  7. 7Danie RossouwFlanker
  8. 8Jacques CronjeNumber 8
  9. 9Ricky JanuarieScrum-half
  10. 10Jaco van der WesthuyzenFly-half
  11. 11Bryan HabanaWing
  12. 12De Wet BarryCentre
  13. 13Marius JoubertCentre
  14. 14Jean De VilliersWing
  15. 15Percy MontgomeryFull-back
  16. 16Hanyani ShimangeBench
  17. 17Gurthro SteenkampBench
  18. 18Juan SmithBench
  19. 19Joe Van NiekerkBench
  20. 20Fourie Du PreezBench
  21. 21Jaque FourieBench
  22. 22Brent RussellBench

France

  1. 1Sylvain MarconnetProp
  2. 2William ServatHooker
  3. 3Pieter de VilliersProp
  4. 4Pascal PapeSecond row
  5. 5Thibault PrivatSecond row
  6. 6Yannick NyangaFlanker
  7. 7Rémy MartinFlanker
  8. 8Julien BonnaireNumber 8
  9. 9Dimitri YachviliScrum-half
  10. 10Frederic MichalakFly-half
  11. 11Cédric HeymansWing
  12. 12Damien TrailleCentre
  13. 13Yannick JauzionCentre
  14. 14Vincent ClercWing
  15. 15Nicolas BrusqueFull-back
  16. 16Sébastien BrunoBench
  17. 17Olivier MilloudBench
  18. 18Gregory LamboleyBench
  19. 19Olivier MagneBench
  20. 20Jean-Baptiste ElissaldeBench
  21. 21Benoit BabyBench
  22. 22Julien LaharragueBench

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Context

All-time, South Africa 29–12 France, 6 drawn in 47 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

South Africa going in
France 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.