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Full time1 November 2008
Netherlands
18–12
Croatia
Venue not recorded · Men's Rugby World Cup Qualifying 2011Head-to-head

Netherlands won by 6 points.

Scoring

  1. 4’CNetherlands conversion · Anton Werth2–0
  2. 4’TNetherlands try · Fedde Klumper7–0
  3. 10’PNetherlands penalty · Anton Werth10–0
  4. 14’PNetherlands penalty · Anton Werth13–0
  5. 21’TNetherlands try · N Janssen18–0
  6. 44’PCroatia penalty · Ivan Rešetar18–3
  7. 59’PCroatia penalty · Ivan Rešetar18–6
  8. 67’PCroatia penalty · Ivan Rešetar18–9
  9. 79’PCroatia penalty · Ivan Rešetar18–12

Line-ups

Netherlands

  1. 1Allard JonkersProp
  2. 2Miquel van der CruijsenHooker
  3. 3Rob RijnholtProp
  4. 4Maurice StahleckerSecond row
  5. 5Koenraad BusemanSecond row
  6. 6Bobby TeijsseFlanker
  7. 7Tjebbe JeheeFlanker
  8. 8Jason KnoxNumber 8
  9. 9Roger SchefferScrum-half
  10. 10Fedde LingsmaFly-half
  11. 11Jay Jay BoskeWing
  12. 12Anton WerthCentre
  13. 13Scott de GraffCentre
  14. 14Fedde KlumperWing
  15. 15Bart ViguursFull-back
  16. 16Bart-Jan AltingBench
  17. 17Walter RijnbbekBench
  18. 18Robert van TrigtBench
  19. 19Henry EikemansBench
  20. 20N JanssenBench
  21. 21Rik RooversBench
  22. 22Peter Te KulveBench

Croatia

  1. 1Tonci BuzovProp
  2. 2Goran ČulićHooker
  3. 3Ivan NolaProp
  4. 4Mike NolaSecond row
  5. 5Ivica SimicSecond row
  6. 6Vedran PomperFlanker
  7. 7Tomislav GomuzakFlanker
  8. 8Josip DedicNumber 8
  9. 9Jaksa LovretaScrum-half
  10. 10Dusan HakaraiaFly-half
  11. 11Sasha SekovanecWing
  12. 12Tomislav BurazinCentre
  13. 13Ante OlujicCentre
  14. 14Nik JurisicWing
  15. 15Ivan RešetarFull-back
  16. 16Mate BorozanBench
  17. 17Sasa Aleksandar SlijepčevićBench
  18. 18Ivica RubeljBench
  19. 19Ante Blazevic-BandovBench
  20. 20Vedran AntićBench
  21. 21Filip MijicBench
  22. 22Veceslav HocjevacBench

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Context

All-time, Netherlands 4–1 Croatia in 5 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Netherlands going in
Croatia 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.