The Springboks retained their Rugby Championship title with a hard-fought 29-27 win over Argentina at the Allianz Stadium in Twickenham on Saturday, coming back from a 13-10 deficit at half-time to clinch a memorable win in London.
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The win sealed a second consecutive title, with New Zealand, who earlier in the day outplayed Australia in Perth, in second place.
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Both teams had 19 log points, but the Springboks had a +57 points’ difference, considerably better that the All Blacks’ +8.
Argentina held a three-point lead at half-time, but conceded 19 points without reply to lose their grip on the match.
Los Pumas did score two tries the final 10 minutes to cut the lead, but left it too late to stop the Springboks from claiming another famous win in front of more than 70 000 supporters at the home of England Rugby.
Team stats
A look at the final key team stats from the tournament makes for interesting reading.
The Springboks finished best of the four nations in terms of ‘tries scored’, ‘clean breaks’, ‘metres gained’, ‘offloads’ and ‘rucks won’.
By contrast, despite finishing second, the All Blacks struggled in several of the major performance categories.
Once the masters of the offload (anyone remember Sonny Bill Williams?), New Zealand were dead last in that category.
They also finished worst of all in the ‘clean breaks’, ‘carries’, and ‘metres gained’ categories.
Below, all the key stats from the 2025 Rugby Championship:
| SA | OZ | NZ | ARG | |
| Tries | 27 | 21 | 21 | 14 |
| Clean breaks | 48 | 38 | 25 | 31 |
| Carries | 684 | 741 | 646 | 716 |
| Metres gained | 2 787 | 2 577 | 1 900 | 2 453 |
| Defenders beaten | 160 | 140 | 161 | 155 |
| Tackles complete % | 80.3% | 86% | 85.3% | 86% |
| Lineouts won % | 83.3% | 82.9% | 85.1% | 85.5% |
| Offloads | 48 | 43 | 33 | 44 |
| Scrums won % | 89% | 100% | 94% | 87% |
| Rucks won % | 97% | 96% | 96% | 97% |
| Yellow cards | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
