South Africa vs England

Date	Status	Team	Score	Team	Score	Venue
08/12/1906	Test	South Africa	3	England	3	Crystal Palace
04/01/1913	Test	South Africa	9	England	3	Twickenham
02/01/1932	Test	South Africa	7	England	0	Twickenham
05/01/1952	Test	South Africa	8	England	3	Twickenham
07/01/1961	Test	South Africa	5	England	0	Twickenham
20/12/1969	Test	South Africa	8	England	11	Twickenham
03/06/1972	Test	South Africa	9	England	18	Johannesburg
02/06/1984	Test	South Africa	33	England	15	Port Elizabeth
09/06/1984	Test	South Africa	35	England	9	Johannesburg
14/11/1992	Test	South Africa	16	England	33	Twickenham
04/06/1994	Test	South Africa	15	England	32	Pretoria
11/06/1994	Test	South Africa	27	England	9	Cape Town
18/11/1995	Test	South Africa	24	England	14	Twickenham
29/11/1997	Test	South Africa	29	England	11	Twickenham
04/07/1998	Test	South Africa	18	England	0	Cape Town
05/12/1998	Test	South Africa	7	England	13	Twickenham
24/10/1999	RWC	South Africa	44	England	21	Stade de France
17/06/2000	Test	South Africa	18	England	13	Pretoria
24/06/2000	Test	South Africa	22	England	27	Bloemfontein
02/12/2000	Test	South Africa	17	England	25	London
24/11/2001	Test	South Africa	9	England	29	London
23/11/2002	Test	South Africa	3	England	53	London
18/10/2003	RWC	South Africa	6	England	25	London
20/11/2004	Test	South Africa	16	England	32	London
18/11/2006	Test	South Africa	21	England	23	London
25/11/2006	Test	South Africa	25	England	14	London
26/05/2007	Test	South Africa	58	England	10	Bloemfontein
02/06/2007	Test	South Africa	55	England	22	Pretoria
14/09/2007	RWC	South Africa	36	England	0	Paris
20/10/2007	Test	South Africa	15	England	6	Paris
22/11/2008	Test	South Africa	42	England	6	London
27/11/2010	Test	South Africa	21	England	11	London
09/06/2012	Test	South Africa	22	England	17	Durban
16/06/2012	Test	South Africa	36	England	27	Johannesburg
23/06/2012	Test	South Africa	14	England	14	Port Elizabeth
24/11/2012	Test	South Africa	16	England	15	London
15/11/2014	Test	South Africa	31	England	28	London
12/11/2016	Test	South Africa	21	England	37	London
09/06/2018	Test	South Africa	42	England	39	Pretoria
16/06/2018	Test	South Africa	23	England	12	Bloemfontein
23/06/2018	Test	South Africa	10	England	25	Cape Town
03/11/2018	Test	South Africa	11	England	12	Twickenham
02/11/2019	RWC	South Africa	32	England	12	Twickenham
20/11/2021	Test	South Africa	26	England	27	Twickenham
26/11/2022	Test	South Africa	27	England	13	Twickenham
21/10/2023	RWC	South Africa	16	England	15	Paris










		Total Points	972		769

Overall Record

Overall Record	Matches Played	SA Won	England Won	Drawn
Overall Record	45	27	16	2
At SA Venues	16	11	4	1
At Away Venues	25	13	11	1
RWC	4	3	1	0

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Stats and facts:

Springbok record against England:
Played: 45; Won 27; Lost 16; Drawn 2; Points for 972; Points against 769; Tries scored: 88; Tries against: 58; Highest score: 58-10; Biggest win 48 points. Win percentage 60%.

Milestones:

It will be Eben Etzebeth’s 11^th Test match against England, joining Tendai Mtawarira, John Smit and Joost van der Westhuizen all in second place. Four other Springboks are on a record 12 career caps against England.
The loose trio of Siya Kolisi, Pieter-Steph du Toit and Duane Vermeulen will start as combination for the 15^th time, putting them alone in second place on the list behind Francois Louw, Willem Alberts and Vermeulen (17).
Eben Etzebeth and Franco Mostert will move into third place on the list of lock combinations with their 26th start as second row partners, behind Victor Matfield and Bakkies Botha (63), and Etzebeth and Lood de Jager (39).

Miscellaneous:

Handré Pollard has scored seven conversions (second place) in his six appearances against England but holds the record with 19 penalty goals.
Saturday’s semi-final is the sixth RWC clash between the Boks and England. South Africa won in the 1999 quarter-final (44-21) in Paris; the pool game (36-0) and final (15-6) in 2007, both in Paris; and the final (32-12) in Yokohama in 2019. England won the pool game in Perth in 2003 (25-6).
Kurt-Lee Arendse starts the match with a full-house of tries, with 13 five-pointers in in 13 Tests to date.
This will be the fourth time the Springboks and England clash in a Rugby World Cup match in Paris, after the playoff in 1999 and two encounters in 2007.
England have scored just one try across their five meetings with South Africa in the RWC – during their 25-6 pool win in 2003.
South Africa (8.0) and England (8.6) have conceded fewer penalties per game than any other sides to have reached the semi-finals of this year’s Rugby World Cup, with only France and Japan (7 each) averaging fewer overall.
The Springbok starting team on Saturday will be the most experienced ever selected for South Africa with a combined total of 895 Test caps – four more than the 891 against Samoa in Birmingham in 2015.
There are 264 caps in the backline, with 631 caps among the forwards. On the bench there are a further 367 caps.
The average caps per player in the backline is 37, the forwards 78, while the players on the bench average 45.