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Full time19 October 1997
Croatia
23–16
Russia
Venue not recorded · Men's Rugby World Cup Qualifying 1999Head-to-head

Croatia won by 7 points.

Scoring

  1. –CCroatia conversion · Marinko Klaric-Kukuz2–0
  2. –CCroatia conversion · Marinko Klaric-Kukuz4–0
  3. –PCroatia penalty · Marinko Klaric-Kukuz7–0
  4. –PCroatia penalty · Marinko Klaric-Kukuz10–0
  5. –PCroatia penalty · Marinko Klaric-Kukuz13–0
  6. –TCroatia try · Marinko Klaric-Kukuz18–0
  7. –TCroatia try · Paul Vujcic23–0
  8. –PRussia penalty · Igor Budnikov23–3
  9. –PRussia penalty · Igor Budnikov23–6
  10. –TRussia try · Alexander Zakarlyuk23–11
  11. –TRussia try · Vyacheslav Zykov23–16

Line-ups

Croatia

  1. 1Paul VegarProp
  2. 2Jure PenovicHooker
  3. 3Slobodan BursacProp
  4. 4Eldon MoorsSecond row
  5. 5Jason LillasSecond row
  6. 6Jaksa LovretaFlanker
  7. 7Paul VujcicFlanker
  8. 8Scott KeithNumber 8
  9. 9Denis PuljizScrum-half
  10. 10Anthony PosaFly-half
  11. 11Marinko Klaric-KukuzWing
  12. 12Andrew MatijasevicCentre
  13. 13Brendon WinslowCentre
  14. 14Vlado UrsicWing
  15. 15Michael LunjevicFull-back
  16. 16Mike NolaBench
  17. 17Luka BjelanovicBench
  18. 18Anthony SumicBench
  19. 19Dalibor StarcevicBench
  20. 20Ivo Drazen JosipovicBench
  21. 21Davor KovacevicBench

Russia

  1. 1Igor KhohlovProp
  2. 2Vladimir NegodinHooker
  3. 3Rashid BikbovProp
  4. 4Nikolay VasilievSecond row
  5. 5Roman ShelepkovSecond row
  6. 6Dmitri DyatlovFlanker
  7. 7Vyacheslav ZykovFlanker
  8. 8Vyacheslav GrachevNumber 8
  9. 9Stanislav KrechunScrum-half
  10. 10Igor BudnikovFly-half
  11. 11Sergey PatlasovWing
  12. 12Vitaly ZeerCentre
  13. 13Vladimir BalashovCentre
  14. 14Andrey KuzinWing
  15. 15Alexander ZakarlyukFull-back
  16. 16Sergey KashcheevBench
  17. 17Vasily SmirnovBench
  18. 19Konstantin RachkovBench
  19. 20Vladimir ChernykhBench
  20. 21Pavel BaranovskyBench

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Context

All-time, Croatia 1–0 Russia, 1 drawn in 2 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Croatia going in
Russia 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.