1995 Rugby World Cup statistics

This article documents statistics from the 1995 Rugby World Cup, hosted in South Africa from 25 May to 24 June.

Team statistics

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The following table shows the team's results in major statistical categories.[1]

Team statistics
Team Played Won Drawn Lost Points
difference
Tries Conv­ersions Penalties Drop goals
  South Africa 6 6 0 0 77 13 8 18 3
  France 6 5 0 1 97 17 9 26 1
  New Zealand 6 5 0 1 208 41 34 14 4
  England 6 4 0 2 12 11 8 25 4
  Australia 4 2 0 2 43 12 11 9 0
  Ireland 4 2 0 2 −25 13 11 6 0
  Western Samoa 4 2 0 2 −20 14 8 8 0
  Scotland 4 2 0 2 104 20 14 17 0
  Canada 3 1 0 2 −5 4 2 6 1
  Italy 3 1 0 2 −25 7 5 7 1
  Tonga 3 1 0 2 −46 6 4 2 0
  Wales 3 1 0 2 21 9 7 8 2
  Argentina 3 0 0 3 −18 8 4 7 0
  Ivory Coast 3 0 0 3 −143 3 1 4 0
  Japan 3 0 0 3 −197 8 6 1 0
  Romania 3 0 0 3 −83 1 0 2 1

Source: ESPNscrum.com

Top point scorers

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Top 10 point scorers[2][3]
Player Team Position Played Tries Conv­ersions Penal­ties Drop goals Total points
Thierry Lacroix   France Fly-half 6 4 7 26 0 112
Gavin Hastings   Scotland Full-back 4 5 14 17 0 104
Andrew Mehrtens   New Zealand First five-eighth 5 1 14 14 3 84
Rob Andrew   England Fly-half 5 0 5 20 3 79
Joel Stransky   South Africa Fly-half 5 1 4 13 3 61
Michael Lynagh   Australia Fly-half 3 2 5 9 0 47
Simon Culhane   New Zealand First five-eighth 1 1 20 0 0 45
Neil Jenkins   Wales Fly-half 3 0 7 8 1 41
Diego Domínguez   Italy Fly-half 3 1 5 7 1 39
Marc Ellis   New Zealand Wing 5 7 0 0 0 35
Jonah Lomu   New Zealand Wing 5 7 0 0 0 35

Top try scorers

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Top 10 try scorers[4][5]
Player Team Position Played Tries Conv Penalties Drop goals Total points
Jonah Lomu   New Zealand Wing 5 7 0 0 0 35
Marc Ellis   New Zealand Wing 5 7 0 0 0 35
Gavin Hastings   Scotland Fullback 4 5 14 17 0 104
Rory Underwood   England Wing 6 5 0 0 0 25
Adriaan Richter   South Africa Number 8 3 4 0 0 0 20
Chester Williams   South Africa Wing 3 4 0 0 0 20
Thierry Lacroix   France Fly-half 6 4 7 26 0 112
Émile Ntamack   France Wing 5 3 0 0 0 15
Eric Rush   New Zealand Wing 2 3 0 0 0 15
Gareth Thomas   Wales Centre 3 3 0 0 0 15

Hat-tricks

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Unless otherwise noted, players in this list scored a hat-trick of tries.

No. Player For Against Stage Result Venue Date
1 Gavin HastingsT4   Scotland   Ivory Coast Pool 89–0 Olympia Park, Rustenburg 26 May 1995
2 Gareth Thomas   Wales   Japan Pool 57–10 Free State Stadium, Bloemfontein 27 May 1995
3 Marc EllisT6   New Zealand   Japan Pool 145–17 Free State Stadium, Bloemfontein 4 June 1995
4 Eric Rush   New Zealand   Japan Pool 145–17 Free State Stadium, Bloemfontein 4 June 1995
5 Jeff Wilson   New Zealand   Japan Pool 145–17 Free State Stadium, Bloemfontein 4 June 1995
6 Chester WilliamsT4   South Africa   Samoa Quarter-final 42–14 Ellis Park, Johannesburg 10 June 1995
7 Jonah LomuT4   New Zealand   England Semi-final 45–29 Newlands, Cape Town 18 June 1995
Key
T4 Scored four tries
T6 Scored six tries

Stadiums

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Stadium City Capacity Matches played Overall
attendance
Average
attendance
per match
Average
attendance
as % of capacity
Tries scored Avg. tries
scored / match
Overall
points scored
Avg. points
scored / match
Ellis Park Johannesburg 60,000 5 237,039 47,408 79.01% 24 4.80 235 47.00
Loftus Versfeld Pretoria 50,000 5 154,000 30,800 61.60% 22 4.40 241 48.20
Newlands Cape Town 50,000 4 168,640 42,160 84.32% 19 4.75 195 48.75
Kings Park Stadium Durban 50,000 5 184,866 36,973 73.95% 16 3.20 237 47.40
Free State Stadium Bloemfontein 40,000 3 55,000 18,333 45.83% 43 14.33 307 102.33
Boet Erasmus Stadium Port Elizabeth 38,950 3 55,000 18,333 47.07% 9 3.00 95 31.67
Olympia Park Rustenburg 30,000 3 45,000 15,000 50.00% 28 9.33 201 67.00
Basil Kenyon Stadium East London 22,000 3 23,399 7,800 35.45% 20 6.67 174 58.00
Danie Craven Stadium Stellenbosch 16,000 1 15,542 15,542 97.14% 6 6.00 45 45.00
Total 1,408,850 32 938,486 29,328 66.61% 187 5.84 1,730 54.06

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Team Records". ESPN. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
  2. ^ "Stats Hub". World Rugby. Retrieved 9 October 2019.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ "Most individual points". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
  4. ^ "Stats_Hub". World Rugby. Retrieved 9 October 2019.[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ "Most individual tries". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 9 October 2019.