TheBreakdown
Full time25 October 2008
Malta
16–18
Croatia
Hibernians Ground, Paola, Malta · Men's Rugby World Cup Qualifying 2011Head-to-head

Croatia won by 2 points.

Scoring

  1. 14’CCroatia conversion · Veceslav Hocjevac0–2
  2. 14’TCroatia try · Jaksa Lovreta0–7
  3. 34’PMalta penalty · Jarrard Sammut3–7
  4. 37’CMalta conversion · Jarrard Sammut5–7
  5. 37’TMalta try · Lee Culnane10–7
  6. 44’PCroatia penalty · Veceslav Hocjevac10–10
  7. 54’TCroatia try · Mike Nola10–15
  8. 62’PMalta penalty · Jarrard Sammut13–15
  9. 79’PMalta penalty · Jarrard Sammut16–15
  10. 84’PCroatia penalty · Ivan Rešetar16–18

Line-ups

Malta

  1. 1Ian BordaProp
  2. 2Harry CollinsHooker
  3. 3Kyle MasonProp
  4. 4Chris DiamantinoSecond row
  5. 5Daryl PsailaSecond row
  6. 6Michael McArdleFlanker
  7. 7Paul CalgaroFlanker
  8. 8Guy KennedyNumber 8
  9. 9Matthew MirabelliScrum-half
  10. 10Matthew JarrettFly-half
  11. 11Oliver SaccoWing
  12. 12Dominic BusuttilCentre
  13. 13Donovan FeliceCentre
  14. 14Lee CulnaneWing
  15. 15Jarrard SammutFull-back
  16. 16Andrew GaleaBench
  17. 17Adrian BartoloBench
  18. 18Steve KempsterBench
  19. 19Clayton CassarBench
  20. 20Michael BonaviaBench
  21. 21James FinlasonBench
  22. 22Ashley SpencerBench

Croatia

  1. 1Tonci BuzovProp
  2. 2Goran ČulićHooker
  3. 3Ivan NolaProp
  4. 4Mike NolaSecond row
  5. 5Nenad MračevićSecond row
  6. 6Vedran PomperFlanker
  7. 7Tomislav GomuzakFlanker
  8. 8Jaksa LovretaNumber 8
  9. 9Josip DedicScrum-half
  10. 10Veceslav HocjevacFly-half
  11. 11Sasha SekovanecWing
  12. 12Tomislav BurazinCentre
  13. 13Ivan RešetarCentre
  14. 14Nik JurisicWing
  15. 15Dusan HauaraFull-back
  16. 16Alek OsmanovicBench
  17. 17Sasa Aleksandar SlijepčevićBench
  18. 18Turtko DumancicBench
  19. 19Ivica RubeljBench
  20. 20Ante Blazevic-BandovBench
  21. 21Vedran AntićBench
  22. 22Filip MijicBench

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Context

All-time, Malta 5–8 Croatia, 2 drawn in 15 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Malta going in
Croatia going in

Also on this day

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