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1995 Rugby World Cup statistics

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

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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

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

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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 Hastings^T4	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 Ellis^T6	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 Williams^T4	South Africa	Samoa	Quarter-final	42–14	Ellis Park, Johannesburg	10 June 1995
7	Jonah Lomu^T4	New Zealand	England	Semi-final	45–29	Newlands, Cape Town	18 June 1995

Key
^T4	Scored four tries
^T6	Scored six tries

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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

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^ "Stats Hub". World Rugby. Retrieved 9 October 2019.^{[permanent dead link]}

^ "Stats_Hub". World Rugby. Retrieved 9 October 2019.^{[permanent dead link]}

Stages

General

v t e 1995 Rugby World Cup finalists
Champions	South Africa
Runner-up	New Zealand
Third place	France
Fourth place	England
Quarter-finals	Western Samoa, Ireland, Australia, Scotland
Pool stage	Canada, Romania, Italy, Argentina, Wales, Japan, Tonga, Ivory Coast

v t e Rugby World Cup
Tournaments	Australia / New Zealand 1987 England / France / Ireland / Scotland / Wales 1991 South Africa 1995 Wales 1999 Australia 2003 France 2007 New Zealand 2011 England 2015 Japan 2019 France 2023 Australia 2027 United States 2031
Qualifying	1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023 2027 2031
Knockout stages	1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023 2027 2031
Finals	1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023 2027 2031
Squads	1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023 2027 2031
Statistics	1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023 2027 2031
Overview	History Hosts Qualification Theme song Trophy
Overall records	All-time table Hat-tricks Multiple winners Records and statistics Red cards Team appearances Try scorers
Notes: There was no qualification for the 1987 World Cup as places were given by invitation only.