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Full time15 June 2008
Romania
13–12
Russia
Stadionul National Arcul de Triumf, Bucharest, Romania · Nations Cup 2008Head-to-head

Romania won by 1 point.

Scoring

  1. 6’PRussia penalty · Alexander Ianiushkin0–3
  2. 10’PRomania penalty · Danut Dumbrava3–3
  3. 37’PRussia penalty · Alexander Ianiushkin3–6
  4. 41’PRomania penalty · Danut Dumbrava6–6
  5. 50’PRussia penalty · Alexander Ianiushkin6–9
  6. 58’PRussia penalty · Alexander Ianiushkin6–12
  7. 69’CRomania conversion · Danut Dumbrava8–12
  8. 69’TRomania try · Florin Tasca13–12

Line-ups

Romania

  1. 1Radu BasalauProp
  2. 2Florin TascaHooker
  3. 3Paulica IonProp
  4. 4Valentin UrsacheSecond row
  5. 5Valentin PoparlanSecond row
  6. 6Florin CorodeanuFlanker
  7. 7Mihai MacoveiFlanker
  8. 8Costica MersoiuNumber 8
  9. 9Florin SurugiuScrum-half
  10. 10Danut DumbravaFly-half
  11. 11Gheorghita BigiuWing
  12. 12Tiberius Ionut DimofteCentre
  13. 13Robert DascaluCentre
  14. 14Catalin FercuWing
  15. 15Adrian BarbuliceanuFull-back
  16. 16Bogdan ZebegaBench
  17. 17Mihaita LazarBench
  18. 18Daniel CarpoBench
  19. 19Stelian BurceaBench
  20. 20Ciprian CaplescuBench
  21. 21Csaba GalBench
  22. 22Florin VlaicuBench

Russia

  1. 1Alexander KhrokinProp
  2. 2Vladimir MarchenkoHooker
  3. 3Alexey TravkinProp
  4. 4Alexander VoytovSecond row
  5. 5Andrey LuginSecond row
  6. 6Kirill KushnarevFlanker
  7. 7Andrey SorokinFlanker
  8. 8Vladislav KorshunovNumber 8
  9. 9Alexander IaniushkinScrum-half
  10. 10Sergey KuzmenkoFly-half
  11. 11Mikhail BabaevWing
  12. 12Sergey TrishinCentre
  13. 13Sergey ShishkovCentre
  14. 14Dmitry ZubarevWing
  15. 15Oleg KobzevFull-back
  16. 16Alexey VolkovBench
  17. 17Vladimir BotvinnikovBench
  18. 18Alexey ChernyshevBench
  19. 19Victor KobzevBench
  20. 20Victor MotorinBench
  21. 21Rinat TimerbulatovBench
  22. 22Valery IgnatevBench

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Context

All-time, Romania 17–8 Russia, 1 drawn in 26 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Romania going in
Russia going in

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Results to 27 September 2026. Scoring and line-ups come from World Rugby match summaries where available; older Tests may have neither.