What channel is South Africa vs Scotland? Live stream, TV channel and kick-off details for World Cup opener

The Rugby World Cup is here and Scotland are set to start their campaign with the daunting task of taking on the Springboks, the competition's defending champions.

Gregor Townsend's side are in this tournament's 'group of death' along with three of the world's top five ranked side all in Pool B with Ireland, South Africa and Scotland all set to meet in the opening stages. With the odds stacked against Scotland to even progress out of the group, a tournament-opening win against Jacques Nienaber's side would electrify their campaign and give them some hope of upsetting the odds.

It wouldn't be Scotland at any major sporting event if they had to do it the easy way but this would be an almighty ask for the Scots to advance from their pool at the Rugby World Cup. Townsend's starting XV includes a fit-again Dracy Graham who passed a late test and prop Zander Fagerson is also back in the team after being suspended for the last two summer Tests following his red card in the victory at home to France five weeks ago.

Here's all you need to know for the match:

The match will take place on Sunday, September 10 at Stade Velodrome in Marseille. The game is due to kick off at 4.45pm.

The game will be shown on STV in Scotland and ITV in England. Coverage gets underway at 3:55pm.

Viewers will also be able to watch the game on ITV streaming service, ITVX.

You can keep up with all the action right here on dailyrecord.co.uk! We'll be running a live blog with all the pre-match build-up in France. After the game, we'll have all the reaction on the site too