TheBreakdown
Full time11 October 2008
Finland
10–12
Greece
Venue not recorded · Men's Rugby World Cup Qualifying 2011Head-to-head

Greece won by 2 points.

Scoring

  1. 11’PFinland penalty · Thomas Finell3–0
  2. 40’TGreece try · Chris Fiotakis3–5
  3. 59’CFinland conversion · Thomas Finell5–5
  4. 59’TFinland try · Simpanen10–5
  5. 66’CGreece conversion · Michalis Loidzou10–7
  6. 66’TGreece try · Evangelos Nastas10–12

Line-ups

Finland

  1. 1Juha RainivoriProp
  2. 2Semu SalmivalliHooker
  3. 3Mikael HolmstromProp
  4. 4Stuart ReynishSecond row
  5. 5SimpanenSecond row
  6. 6Erik PekkolaFlanker
  7. 7Mauno KonttilaFlanker
  8. 8Andras DevenyiNumber 8
  9. 9Mikko JärviScrum-half
  10. 10Thomas FinellFly-half
  11. 11Lasse SariolaWing
  12. 12Jaakko VilenCentre
  13. 13Galen RangiawhaCentre
  14. 14Matthew JordanWing
  15. 15Larri YlönenFull-back
  16. 16Timothy SampsonBench
  17. 17Sami SarkkiBench
  18. 18Jani LehtinenBench
  19. 19Jussi LatvalaBench
  20. 20Stephen WhittakerBench
  21. 21Heikki KarimaaBench
  22. 22Avea AveaBench

Greece

  1. 1Konstantinos TsampaosProp
  2. 2Georgios GranalasHooker
  3. 3Evangelos NastasProp
  4. 4Nikos MavreasSecond row
  5. 5Kostos KarandreasSecond row
  6. 6Philippos SotiriadisFlanker
  7. 7Dimitris PapadatosFlanker
  8. 8Pantelis ArfarasNumber 8
  9. 9Vasilis KatsakosScrum-half
  10. 10Michalis LoidzouFly-half
  11. 11Alexandre GounarisWing
  12. 12George ChacharoneCentre
  13. 13Chris FiotakisCentre
  14. 14Epaminnontas SerafeimWing
  15. 15Alex MendorosFull-back
  16. 16Eden TipeneBench
  17. 17Giannis TsagrasBench
  18. 18Giorgos SunetosBench
  19. 19Andreas PerivolarisBench
  20. 20Georgios KouroumichakisBench

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Context

All-time, Finland 5–3 Greece in 8 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Finland going in
Greece 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.