TheBreakdown
Full time21 September 1980
USSR
28–9
Poland
Lenin Komsomol Stadium, Zhytomyr, Ukraine · Socialisticheskaya Industriya 1980Head-to-head

USSR won by 19 points.

Scoring

  1. 9’TUSSR try · Igor Mironov
  2. 13’TUSSR try · Miheil Kharshiladze
  3. 19’TUSSR try · Miheil Kharshiladze
  4. 49’TUSSR try · Dmitry Garkusha
  5. 50’CUSSR conversion · Vladimir Bobrov
  6. 58’TUSSR try · Andrey Barinov
  7. 59’CUSSR conversion · Vladimir Bobrov
  8. 71’TUSSR try · Sergey Oshitkov

The scoring record for this Test does not add up to the final score, so running scores are hidden.

Line-ups

USSR

  1. 1Alexander EpifanovProp
  2. 2Alexander FedorovHooker
  3. 3Dmitry GarkushaProp
  4. 4Alexander AleshinSecond row
  5. 5Nikolay PlotnikovSecond row
  6. 6Sergey ZhuravlevFlanker
  7. 7Andrey BarinovFlanker
  8. 8Vladimir PozdniakovNumber 8
  9. 9Valery KlyuchnikovScrum-half
  10. 10Valery ProshinFly-half
  11. 11Igor MironovWing
  12. 12Yuri VasilievCentre
  13. 13Yuri KarpukhinCentre
  14. 14Miheil KharshiladzeWing
  15. 15Anatoly GonyaniFull-back
  16. Vladimir BobrovBench
  17. Oleg SljussarBench
  18. Sergey OshitkovBench
  19. Tahir SalavatovBench
  20. Alexander OvchinikovBench
  21. Valery TigievBench
  22. Vladislav TelpiakovBench

Poland

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    Context

    All-time, USSR 20–1 Poland in 21 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

    USSR going in
    Poland 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.