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Full time28 September 2002
Italy
25–17
Romania
Stadio XXV Aprile, Parma, Italy · Men's Rugby World Cup Qualifying 2003Head-to-head

Italy won by 8 points.

Scoring

  1. 4’PItaly penalty · Gert Peens3–0
  2. 10’PItaly penalty · Gert Peens6–0
  3. 22’TItaly try · Andrea Lo Cicero11–0
  4. 23’CItaly conversion · Gert Peens13–0
  5. 32’TRomania try · Florin Corodeanu13–5
  6. 33’CRomania conversion · Ionut Tofan13–7
  7. 35’PItaly penalty · Gert Peens16–7
  8. 39’TRomania try · Lucian Mihai Sirbu16–12
  9. 40’CRomania conversion · Ionut Tofan16–14
  10. 44’PRomania penalty · Ionut Tofan16–17
  11. 48’PItaly penalty · Gert Peens19–17
  12. 61’PItaly penalty · Gert Peens22–17
  13. 67’PItaly penalty · Gert Peens25–17

Line-ups

Italy

  1. 1Martin CastrogiovanniProp
  2. 2Andrea MorettiHooker
  3. 3Andrea Lo CiceroProp
  4. 4Enrico PavanelloSecond row
  5. 5Marco BortolamiSecond row
  6. 6Andrea de RossiFlanker
  7. 7Aaron PersicoFlanker
  8. 8Sergio ParisseNumber 8
  9. 9Alessandro TronconScrum-half
  10. 10Andrea ScanavaccaFly-half
  11. 11Denis DallanWing
  12. 12Christian ZanolettiCentre
  13. 13Cristian StoicaCentre
  14. 14Nicola MazzucatoWing
  15. 15Gert PeensFull-back
  16. Mauro BergamascoBench
  17. Mirco BergamascoBench
  18. Stefano SaviozziBench
  19. Francesco MazzariolBench
  20. Juan Manuel QueiroloBench
  21. Carlo ChecchinatoBench
  22. Ramiro Martinez-FrugoniBench

Romania

  1. 1Silviu FloreaProp
  2. 2Marius TincuHooker
  3. 3Petrisor ToderascProp
  4. 4Cristian PetreSecond row
  5. 5Ovidiu TonitaSecond row
  6. 6Florin CorodeanuFlanker
  7. 7Alexandru MantaFlanker
  8. 8Adrian -Alin PetracheNumber 8
  9. 9Lucian Mihai SirbuScrum-half
  10. 10Ionut TofanFly-half
  11. 11Cristian SauanWing
  12. 12Romeo Stefan GontineacCentre
  13. 13Valentin MafteiCentre
  14. 14Mihai VioreanuWing
  15. 15Gabriel BrezoianuFull-back
  16. Daniel TudosaBench
  17. Marcel SocaciuBench
  18. Sorin SocolBench
  19. Marius PicoiuBench
  20. Remus LunguBench
  21. Cristian PodeaBench
  22. Razvan MavrodinBench

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Context

All-time, Italy 25–16 Romania, 3 drawn in 44 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Italy going in
Romania 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.