TheBreakdown
Full time11 February 2017
Spain
16–6
Russia
Estadio Nacional Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain · Men's Rugby World Cup Qualifying 2016Head-to-head

Spain won by 10 points.

Scoring

  1. 6’PSpain penalty · Bradley Linklater3–0
  2. 8’TSpain try · Mathieu Belie8–0
  3. 9’CSpain conversion · Bradley Linklater10–0
  4. 12’PRussia penalty · Yury Kushnarev10–3
  5. 21’PSpain penalty · Bradley Linklater13–3
  6. 35’PRussia penalty · Yury Kushnarev13–6
  7. 81’PSpain penalty · Bradley Linklater16–6

Line-ups

Spain

  1. 1Fernando Martin LopezProp
  2. 2Benat AuzquiHooker
  3. 3Jesus Moreno RodriguezProp
  4. 4Ignacio VillanuevaSecond row
  5. 5David BarreraSecond row
  6. 6Pierre BarthereFlanker
  7. 7Gautier GibouinFlanker
  8. 8Jaime NavaNumber 8
  9. 9Guillaume RouetScrum-half
  10. 10Mathieu BelieFly-half
  11. 11Jordi JorbaWing
  12. 12Daniel SneeCentre
  13. 13Fabien PerrinCentre
  14. 14Sebastien AscaratWing
  15. 15Bradley LinklaterFull-back
  16. 16Francisco BlancoBench
  17. 17Unai LasaBench
  18. 18Jonathan GarciaBench
  19. 19Anibal BonanBench
  20. 20Victor SanchezBench
  21. 21Sebastien RouetBench
  22. 22Thibaut AlvarezBench
  23. 23Javier CarrionBench

Russia

  1. 1Andrei PolivalovProp
  2. 2Valery TsnobiladzeHooker
  3. 3Azamat BitievProp
  4. 4Andrey GarbuzovSecond row
  5. 5Evgeny ElginSecond row
  6. 6Viktor GresevFlanker
  7. 7Pavel ButenkoFlanker
  8. 8Anton RudoiNumber 8
  9. 9Alexey ShcherbanScrum-half
  10. 10Yury KushnarevFly-half
  11. 11Igor GalinovskiyWing
  12. 12Sergey TrishinCentre
  13. 13Dmitry GerasimovCentre
  14. 14Vasily ArtemyevWing
  15. 15Ramil GaisinFull-back
  16. 16Nazir GasanovBench
  17. 17Vladimir PodrezovBench
  18. 18Evgeny PronenkoBench
  19. 19Dmitry KrotovBench
  20. 20Tagir GadzhievBench
  21. 21Anton RyabovBench
  22. 22Sergey SugrobovBench
  23. 23Igor KurashovBench

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Context

All-time, Spain 9–16 Russia in 25 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Spain 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.