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Full time18 February 2017
Belgium
18–25
Russia
Stade du Heysel, Brussels, Belgium · Men's Rugby World Cup Qualifying 2016Head-to-head

Russia won by 7 points.

Scoring

  1. 3’TRussia try · Viktor Gresev0–5
  2. 4’CRussia conversion · Yury Kushnarev0–7
  3. 6’PBelgium penalty · Alan Williams3–7
  4. 10’TRussia try · Andrey Garbuzov3–12
  5. 37’TBelgium try · Ervin Muric8–12
  6. 46’TBelgium try · Thomas De Molder13–12
  7. 48’CBelgium conversion · Alan Williams15–12
  8. 56’PRussia penalty · Yury Kushnarev15–15
  9. 62’PBelgium penalty · Alan Williams18–15
  10. 68’PRussia penalty · Yury Kushnarev18–18
  11. 82’TRussia try · Dmitry Gerasimov18–23
  12. 82’CRussia conversion · Yury Kushnarev18–25

Line-ups

Belgium

  1. 1Martin BonnelProp
  2. 2Thomas DienstHooker
  3. 3Jean-Baptiste De ClercqProp
  4. 4Tuur MoelantsSecond row
  5. 5Thomas VervoortSecond row
  6. 6Gillian BenoyFlanker
  7. 7Baptiste LescarbouraFlanker
  8. 8Thomas De MolderNumber 8
  9. 9Tom CocquScrum-half
  10. 10Julien BergerFly-half
  11. 11Ervin MuricWing
  12. 12Nathan BontemsCentre
  13. 13Jens TorfsCentre
  14. 14Charles ReynaertWing
  15. 15Alan WilliamsFull-back
  16. 16Max DuboisBench
  17. 17Christophe DebatyBench
  18. 18Amin HamzaouiBench
  19. 19Paul-Edouard Van LaerBench
  20. 20Louis DebattyBench
  21. 21Kevin WilliamsBench
  22. 22Guillaume BrebantBench
  23. 23Sep De BackerBench

Russia

  1. 1Andrei PolivalovProp
  2. 2Valery TsnobiladzeHooker
  3. 3Evgeny PronenkoProp
  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 SugrobovCentre
  13. 13Dmitry GerasimovCentre
  14. 14Igor KurashovWing
  15. 15Ramil GaisinFull-back
  16. 16Nazir GasanovBench
  17. 17Vladimir PodrezovBench
  18. 18Azamat BitievBench
  19. 19Dmitry KrotovBench
  20. 20Bogdan FedotkoBench
  21. 21Anton RyabovBench
  22. 22Aleksei MikhaltsovBench
  23. 23Konstantin UzunovBench

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Context

All-time, Belgium 1–7 Russia in 8 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Belgium 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.