Nations Championship — Round 3

• Kick-off: Saturday 18 July 2026 at 8:40 pm NZST
• Venue: National Stadium, Tokyo, Japan

Japan

Sojiro Otsuka, Hayate Era, Keijiro Tamefusa, Harry Hockings, Warner Dearns, Esei Haangana, Ben Gunter, Jack Cornelsen, Naoto Saito, Ryunosuke Ito, Kippei Ishida, Samisoni Tua, Dylan Riley, Kazuma Ueda, Takuro Matsunaga
Reserves: Kenji Sato, Takato Okabe, Izi Sword, Michael Stolberg, Michael Leitch, Tiennan Costley, Taira Main, Shunsuke Uenobo

France

Jefferson Poirot, Maxime Lamothe, Regis Montagne, Florian Verhaeghe, Emmanuel Meafou, Lenni Nouchi, Marko Gazzotti, Alexandre Roumat, Maxime Lucu, Romain Ntamack, Aaron Grandidier-Nkanang, Yoram Moefana, Fabien Brau-Boirie, Theo Attissogbe, Matthieu Jalibert
Reserves: Peato Mauvaka, Reda Wardi, Sipili Falatea, Hugo Auradou, Tom Staniforth, Killian Tixeront, Paul Graou, Kalvin Gourgues

Updated team lists with jersey numbers, because apparently counting to 23 is now a specialist position.

Japan: 1 Otsuka, 2 Era, 3 Tamefusa, 4 Hockings, 5 Dearns, 6 Haangana, 7 Gunter, 8 Cornelsen, 9 Saito, 10 Ito, 11 Ishida, 12 Tua, 13 Riley, 14 Ueda, 15 Matsunaga. Reserves: 16 Sato, 17 Okabe, 18 Sword, 19 Stolberg, 20 Leitch, 21 Costley, 22 Main, 23 Uenobo.

France: 1 Poirot, 2 Lamothe, 3 Montagne, 4 Verhaeghe, 5 Meafou, 6 Nouchi, 7 Gazzotti, 8 Roumat, 9 Lucu, 10 Ntamack, 11 Grandidier-Nkanang, 12 Moefana, 13 Brau-Boirie, 14 Attissogbe, 15 Jalibert. Reserves: 16 Mauvaka, 17 Wardi, 18 Falatea, 19 Auradou, 20 Staniforth, 21 Tixeront, 22 Graou, 23 Gourgues.