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Full time17 May 1997
Croatia
43–24
Latvia
Venue not recorded · Men's Rugby World Cup Qualifying 1999Head-to-head

Croatia won by 19 points.

Scoring

  1. –CCroatia conversion · Frano Botica2–0
  2. –CCroatia conversion · Frano Botica4–0
  3. –CCroatia conversion · Frano Botica6–0
  4. –CCroatia conversion · Frano Botica8–0
  5. –PCroatia penalty · Frano Botica11–0
  6. –PCroatia penalty · Frano Botica14–0
  7. –PCroatia penalty · Frano Botica17–0
  8. –PCroatia penalty · Frano Botica20–0
  9. –PCroatia penalty · Frano Botica23–0
  10. –TCroatia try · Brendon Winslow28–0
  11. –TCroatia try · Anthony Zivkovich33–0
  12. –TCroatia try · Denis Puljiz38–0
  13. –TCroatia try · Denis Puljiz43–0
  14. –PLatvia penalty · Nikolai Jakovlevs43–3
  15. –PLatvia penalty · Nikolai Jakovlevs43–6
  16. –PLatvia penalty · Nikolai Jakovlevs43–9
  17. –TLatvia try · Guntars Skukauskas43–14
  18. –TLatvia try · Kristap Andersons43–19
  19. –TLatvia try · Roland Abele43–24

Line-ups

Croatia

  1. 1Zoran PecnjakProp
  2. 2Jure PenovicHooker
  3. 3Slobodan BursacProp
  4. 4Tomo AnticicSecond row
  5. 5Mario FiamengoSecond row
  6. 6Mike NolaFlanker
  7. 7Dalibor StarcevicFlanker
  8. 8Dragor LulicNumber 8
  9. 9Denis PuljizScrum-half
  10. 10Anthony PosaFly-half
  11. 11Marinko Klaric-KukuzWing
  12. 12Frano BoticaCentre
  13. 13Pero PrebegCentre
  14. 14Anthony ZivkovichWing
  15. 15Brendon WinslowFull-back
  16. D VelickovicBench
  17. Jaksa LovretaBench
  18. Davoc UrgocBench

Latvia

  1. 1Juri SilovsProp
  2. 2Jurijs RizakovsHooker
  3. 3Voldemar BataragsProp
  4. 4KaraviosSecond row
  5. 5Vilmars SokolovsSecond row
  6. 6Nikolai JakovlevsFlanker
  7. 7Roland AbeleFlanker
  8. 8Nikolai PetjuninsNumber 8
  9. 9Kristap AndersonsScrum-half
  10. 10Vladimir NikonovsFly-half
  11. 11Guntars SkukauskasWing
  12. 12Demjan ZavadskisCentre
  13. 13Vjaceslav SnetkovsCentre
  14. 14Chen ValdavsWing
  15. 15Armands VishevskisFull-back

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Context

All-time, Croatia 6–2 Latvia in 8 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Croatia going in
Latvia 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.