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Full time18 March 2006
Wales
16–21
France
Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, Wales · Six Nations 2006Head-to-head

France won by 5 points.

Scoring

  1. 6’PWales penalty · Stephen Jones3–0
  2. 13’PFrance penalty · Dimitri Yachvili3–3
  3. 28’PWales penalty · Stephen Jones6–3
  4. 35’TWales try · Hal Luscombe11–3
  5. 36’CWales conversion · Stephen Jones13–3
  6. 43’PFrance penalty · Dimitri Yachvili13–6
  7. 51’TFrance try · Dimitri Szarzewski13–11
  8. 61’PWales penalty · Gavin Henson16–11
  9. 81’TFrance try · Florian Fritz16–16
  10. 82’CFrance conversion · Jean-Baptiste Elissalde16–18
  11. 87’PFrance penalty · Jean-Baptiste Elissalde16–21

Line-ups

Wales

  1. 1Duncan JonesProp
  2. 2Thomas Rhys ThomasHooker
  3. 3Adam JonesProp
  4. 4Ian GoughSecond row
  5. 5Rob SidoliSecond row
  6. 6Michael OwenFlanker
  7. 7Martyn WilliamsFlanker
  8. 8Alix PophamNumber 8
  9. 9Mike PhillipsScrum-half
  10. 10Stephen JonesFly-half
  11. 11Shane WilliamsWing
  12. 12Matthew WatkinsCentre
  13. 13Hal LuscombeCentre
  14. 14Dafydd JamesWing
  15. 15Lee ByrneFull-back
  16. 16Mefin DaviesBench
  17. 17Gethin JenkinsBench
  18. 18Jonathan ThomasBench
  19. 19Dafydd JonesBench
  20. 20Andy WilliamsBench
  21. 21Nicky RobinsonBench
  22. 22Gavin HensonBench

France

  1. 1Sylvain MarconnetProp
  2. 2Raphaël IbanezHooker
  3. 3Pieter de VilliersProp
  4. 4Fabien PelousSecond row
  5. 5Jérôme ThionSecond row
  6. 6Yannick NyangaFlanker
  7. 7Julien BonnaireFlanker
  8. 8Thomas LievremontNumber 8
  9. 9Dimitri YachviliScrum-half
  10. 10Frederic MichalakFly-half
  11. 11Christophe DominiciWing
  12. 12Damien TrailleCentre
  13. 13Florian FritzCentre
  14. 14Aurélien RougerieWing
  15. 15Thomas CastaignedeFull-back
  16. 16Dimitri SzarzewskiBench
  17. 17Olivier MilloudBench
  18. 18Lionel NalletBench
  19. 19Olivier MagneBench
  20. 20Jean-Baptiste ElissaldeBench
  21. 21Ludovic ValbonBench
  22. 22Cédric HeymansBench

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Context

All-time, Wales 52–53 France, 3 drawn in 108 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Wales 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.