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2007 Rugby World Cup statistics

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This article documents statistics from the 2007 Rugby World Cup, held in France from 7 September to 20 October.

Team statistics

The following table shows the team's results in some categories. Two red cards were issued during the tournament.^[1]

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Points	Team	Matches	Tries	Con	Pen	Drop
327	New Zealand	5	48	36	5	0	2	0
278	South Africa	7	33	25	21	0	3	0
227	France	7	27	19	18	0	2	0
225	Australia	5	31	20	8	2	2	0
209	Argentina	7	23	14	18	4	3	0
168	Wales	4	23	16	7	0	0	0
140	England	7	12	7	17	5	1	0
134	Fiji	5	16	12	10	0	3	0
129	Scotland	5	15	15	8	0	1	0
89	Tonga	4	9	7	10	0	3	1
85	Italy	4	8	6	11	0	3	0
69	Samoa	4	5	4	12	0	1	0
64	Ireland	4	9	5	2	1	2	0
64	Japan	4	7	4	7	0	0	0
61	United States	4	7	4	6	0	4	0
51	Canada	4	6	3	5	0	1	0
50	Georgia	4	5	5	5	0	2	0
40	Romania	4	5	3	3	0	1	0
38	Portugal	4	4	3	3	1	1	0
30	Namibia	4	3	3	2	1	0	1

Source: RugbyWorldCup.com

Player records

Most points

Note: ranked according to points then number of appearances

More information Points, Name ...

Top 10 point scorers^[2]^[3]
Points	Name	Team	Pos	Apps	Tries	Con	Pen	Drop
105	Percy Montgomery	South Africa	FB	7	2	22	17	0
91	Felipe Contepomi	Argentina	CE	7	3	11	18	0
67	Jonny Wilkinson	England	FH	5	0	5	14	5
50	Nick Evans	New Zealand	FH/FB	4	2	20	0	0
47	Jean-Baptiste Élissalde	France	SH	7	1	12	6	0
46	Chris Paterson	Scotland	WG/FH	5	1	10	7	0
44	Pierre Hola	Tonga	FH	4	0	7	10	0
43	Lionel Beauxis	France	FH	6	1	7	8	0
42	Nicky Little	Fiji	FH	3	0	9	8	0
40	Dan Carter	New Zealand	FH	3	1	10	5	0
40	Matt Giteau	Australia	CE	4	3	8	3	0
40	Bryan Habana	South Africa	WG	7	8	0	0	0

Key: Pos = position; Apps = appearances; Con = conversions; Pen = penalties; Drop = drop goals

Source: RugbyWorldCup.com

Most tries

More information Rank, Name ...

Top 10 try scorers^[4]^[5]
Rank	Name	Team	Pos	Apps	Tries
1	Bryan Habana	South Africa	WG	7	8
2	Drew Mitchell	Australia	WG	5	7
3	Doug Howlett	New Zealand	WG	3	6
3	Shane Williams	Wales	WG	4	6
5	Joe Rokocoko	New Zealand	WG	3	5
	Vincent Clerc	France	WG	5	5
	Chris Latham	Australia	FB	5	5
8	Rory Lamont	Scotland	FB	4	4
	Sitiveni Sivivatu	New Zealand	WG	4	4
	Jaque Fourie	South Africa	CE	6	4
	Paul Sackey	England	WG	6	4
	JP Pietersen	South Africa	WG	7	4
	Juan Smith	South Africa	FL	7	4

Key: Pos = position; Apps = appearances

Discipline

Citing/bans

There was some controversy over post-match citings by IRB Citing Commissioners because of apparent inconsistencies between disciplinary sanctions.^[6]^[7]^[8]

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List of citings
Ban (weeks)	Player	Nation	Opponent	Offence
7	Otar Eloshvili	Georgia	France	spear tackle^[9]
5	Paul Emerick	United States	England	spear tackle^[10]
4	Juan Severino Somoza	Portugal	Scotland	head-butting^[11]
3	Brian Lima	Samoa	England	high tackle^[12]
2	Schalk Burger	South Africa	Samoa	dangerous play^[13]^[14]
2	Phil Vickery	England	United States	tripping^[15]
2	Mirco Bergamasco	Italy	Scotland	tripping^[16]
1	Hale T-Pole	Tonga	Samoa	striking^[17]
1	Jacques Nieuwenhuis	Namibia	France	high tackle^[18]
1	Alfie Vaeluaga	Samoa	South Africa	high tackle^[19]
1	Seremaia Bai	Fiji	South Africa	dangerous tackle^[20]
cleared	François Steyn	South Africa	Tonga	foul play^[21]
cleared	Sione Lauaki	New Zealand	Romania	dangerous tackle^[22]^[23]

Hat-tricks

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

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No.	Player	For	Against	Stage	Result	Venue	Date
1	Doug Howlett	New Zealand	Italy	Pool	76–14	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille	8 September 2007
2	Rocky Elsom	Australia	Japan	Pool	91–3	Stade de Gerland, Lyon	8 September 2007
3	Bryan Habana^T4	South Africa	Samoa	Pool	59–7	Parc des Princes, Paris	9 September 2007
4	Vincent Clerc	France	Namibia	Pool	87–10	Stadium Municipal, Toulouse	16 September 2007
5	Ally Hogg	Scotland	Romania	Pool	42–0	Murrayfield, Edinburgh	18 September 2007
6	Drew Mitchell	Australia	Fiji	Pool	55–12	Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier	23 September 2007
7	Joe Rokocoko	New Zealand	Romania	Pool	85–8	Stadium Municipal, Toulouse	29 September 2007
8	Juan Martín Hernández^D3	Argentina	Ireland	Pool	30–15	Parc des Princes, Paris	30 September 2007

More information Key, D3 ...

Key
^D3	Scored hat-trick of drop goals
^T4	Scored four tries

Stadiums

More information Stadium, City ...

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
Stade de France	Saint-Denis	80,000	7	551,736	78,819	98.52%	14	2.00	219	31.29
Millennium Stadium	Cardiff	74,500	4	222,936	55,734	74.81%	28	7.00	225	56.25
Murrayfield	Edinburgh	67,144	2	95,780	47,890	71.32%	12	6.00	82	41.00
Stade Vélodrome	Marseille	59,500	6	331,660	55,277	92.90%	44	7.33	348	58.00
Parc des Princes	Paris	47,870	5	228,544	45,709	95.49%	29	5.80	247	49.40
Stade Félix-Bollaert	Lens	41,400	3	109,373	36,458	88.06%	14	4.67	123	41.00
Stade de Gerland	Lyon	41,100	3	121,012	40,337	98.14%	34	11.33	251	83.67
Stade de la Beaujoire	Nantes	38,100	3	111,602	37,201	97.64%	22	7.33	197	65.67
Stadium de Toulouse	Toulouse	35,700	4	140,973	35,243	98.72%	38	9.50	280	70.00
Stade Geoffroy-Guichard	Saint-Étienne	35,650	3	102,987	34,329	96.29%	15	5.00	146	48.67
Stade Chaban-Delmas	Bordeaux	34,440	4	136,511	34,128	99.09%	20	5.00	140	35.00
Stade de la Mosson	Montpellier	33,900	4	110,109	27,527	81.20%	26	6.50	220	55.00
Total		2,473,548	48	2,263,223	47,150	91.50%	296	6.17	2,478	51.63

External links

Rugby World Cup 2007 Tournament statistics
Rugby World Cup Stats Archived 2019-11-13 at the Wayback Machine
Disciplinary Decisions

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