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Full time24 June 2006
South Africa
26–36
France
Newlands Stadium, Cape Town, South Africa · Tour 2006Head-to-head

France won by 10 points.

Scoring

  1. 5’TFrance try · Cédric Heymans0–5
  2. 8’PSouth Africa penalty · Percy Montgomery3–5
  3. 13’PFrance penalty · Dimitri Yachvili3–8
  4. 19’DFrance drop goal · Florian Fritz3–11
  5. 22’PSouth Africa penalty · Percy Montgomery6–11
  6. 27’PSouth Africa penalty · Percy Montgomery9–11
  7. 29’PSouth Africa penalty · Percy Montgomery12–11
  8. 42’PSouth Africa penalty · Percy Montgomery15–11
  9. 48’PSouth Africa penalty · Percy Montgomery18–11
  10. 51’TSouth Africa try · Brent Russell23–11
  11. 54’CFrance conversion · Dimitri Yachvili23–13
  12. 54’TFrance try · Vincent Clerc23–18
  13. 59’CFrance conversion · Dimitri Yachvili23–20
  14. 59’TFrance try · Damien Traille23–25
  15. 65’DFrance drop goal · Damien Traille23–28
  16. 67’PSouth Africa penalty · Percy Montgomery26–28
  17. 74’TFrance try · Vincent Clerc26–33
  18. 81’PFrance penalty · Dimitri Yachvili26–36

Line-ups

South Africa

  1. 1Os du RandtProp
  2. 2John SmitHooker
  3. 3Eddie AndrewsProp
  4. 4Danie RossouwSecond row
  5. 5Victor MatfieldSecond row
  6. 6Joe Van NiekerkFlanker
  7. 7Juan SmithFlanker
  8. 8Pedrie WannenburgNumber 8
  9. 9Fourie Du PreezScrum-half
  10. 10Jaco van der WesthuyzenFly-half
  11. 11Bryan HabanaWing
  12. 12De Wet BarryCentre
  13. 13Wynand OlivierCentre
  14. 14Brent RussellWing
  15. 15Percy MontgomeryFull-back
  16. 16Gary BothaBench
  17. 17CJ Van Der LindeBench
  18. 18Albert van den BergBench
  19. 19Jacques CronjeBench
  20. 20Ricky JanuarieBench
  21. 21Wayne JuliesBench
  22. 22Gaffie du ToitBench

France

  1. 1Sylvain MarconnetProp
  2. 2Dimitri SzarzewskiHooker
  3. 3Pieter de VilliersProp
  4. 4Fabien PelousSecond row
  5. 5Jérôme ThionSecond row
  6. 6Serge BetsenFlanker
  7. 7Thierry DusautoirFlanker
  8. 8Imanol HarinordoquyNumber 8
  9. 9Dimitri YachviliScrum-half
  10. 10Damien TrailleFly-half
  11. 11Cédric HeymansWing
  12. 12Yannick JauzionCentre
  13. 13Florian FritzCentre
  14. 14Vincent ClercWing
  15. 15Julien LaharragueFull-back
  16. 16Raphaël IbanezBench
  17. 17Vincent DebatyBench
  18. 18Lionel NalletBench
  19. 19Julien BonnaireBench
  20. 20Rémy MartinBench
  21. 21Pierre MignoniBench
  22. 22Thomas CastaignedeBench

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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.