TheBreakdown
Full time6 June 1998
Croatia
27–39
Italy
Venue not recorded · Men's Rugby World Cup Qualifying 1999Head-to-head

Italy won by 12 points.

Scoring

  1. –CCroatia conversion · Matthew Cooper2–0
  2. –PCroatia penalty · Matthew Cooper5–0
  3. –PCroatia penalty · Matthew Cooper8–0
  4. –PCroatia penalty · Matthew Cooper11–0
  5. –PCroatia penalty · Matthew Cooper14–0
  6. –PCroatia penalty · Frano Botica17–0
  7. –TCroatia try · Matthew Cooper22–0
  8. –TCroatia try · Matthew Cooper27–0
  9. –CItaly conversion · Andrea Scanavacca27–2
  10. –CItaly conversion · Andrea Scanavacca27–4
  11. –CItaly conversion · Andrea Scanavacca27–6
  12. –PItaly penalty · Andrea Scanavacca27–9
  13. –PItaly penalty · Andrea Scanavacca27–12
  14. –PItaly penalty · Andrea Scanavacca27–15
  15. –PItaly penalty · Andrea Scanavacca27–18
  16. –PItaly penalty · Andrea Scanavacca27–21
  17. –PItaly penalty · Andrea Scanavacca27–24
  18. –TItaly try · Paolo Vaccari27–29
  19. –TItaly try · Marcello Cuttitta27–34
  20. –TItaly try · Andrea Scanavacca27–39

Line-ups

Croatia

  1. 1Paul VegarProp
  2. 2Jure PenovicHooker
  3. 3Slobodan BursacProp
  4. 4Tomo AnticicSecond row
  5. 5Eldon MoorsSecond row
  6. 6Jaksa LovretaFlanker
  7. 7Paul VujcicFlanker
  8. 8Scott KeithNumber 8
  9. 9Denis PuljizScrum-half
  10. 10Frano BoticaFly-half
  11. 11Vlado UrsicWing
  12. 12Andrew MatijasevicCentre
  13. 13Matthew CooperCentre
  14. 14Anthony ZivkovichWing
  15. 15Anthony PosaFull-back
  16. Mike NolaBench
  17. Pero PrebegBench

Italy

  1. 1Massimo CuttittaProp
  2. 2Carlo OrlandiHooker
  3. 3Andrea CastellaniProp
  4. 4Giambatista CrociSecond row
  5. 5Mark GiacheriSecond row
  6. 6Filippo SonciniFlanker
  7. 7Massimo GiovanelliFlanker
  8. 8Carlo CaioneNumber 8
  9. 9Gianluca GuidiScrum-half
  10. 10Andrea ScanavaccaFly-half
  11. 11Marcello CuttittaWing
  12. 12Cristian StoicaCentre
  13. 13Giovanni RaineriCentre
  14. 14Fabio RoselliWing
  15. 15Paolo VaccariFull-back
  16. Domenico De LucaBench
  17. Javier PertileBench
  18. Giuseppe LanziBench

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Context

All-time, Croatia 0–2 Italy in 2 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Croatia going in
Italy 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.