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

Team statistics

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

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

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

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

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

External links

References

  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.
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