TheBreakdown
Full time22 October 1997
France
39–3
Romania
Stade Antoine-Berguere, Lourdes, France · Latin Cup 1997Head-to-head

France won by 36 points.

Scoring

  1. –CFrance conversion · Christophe Lamaison2–0
  2. –CFrance conversion · Christophe Lamaison4–0
  3. –CFrance conversion · Christophe Lamaison6–0
  4. –CFrance conversion · Christophe Lamaison8–0
  5. –PFrance penalty · Christophe Lamaison11–0
  6. –PFrance penalty · Christophe Lamaison14–0
  7. –TFrance try19–0
  8. –TFrance try · Philippe Saint-Andre24–0
  9. –TFrance try · Franck Tournaire29–0
  10. –TFrance try · Olivier Merle34–0
  11. –TFrance try · Abdelatif Benazzi39–0
  12. –PRomania penalty · Ionut Tofan39–3

Line-ups

France

  1. 1Cedric SouletteProp
  2. 2Raphaël IbanezHooker
  3. 3Franck TournaireProp
  4. 4Olivier MerleSecond row
  5. 5Fabien PelousSecond row
  6. 6N BacqueFlanker
  7. 7Olivier MagneFlanker
  8. 8Philippe BenettonNumber 8
  9. 9Jerome CazalbouScrum-half
  10. 10Thierry LacroixFly-half
  11. 11Philippe Saint-AndreWing
  12. 12Stephane GlasCentre
  13. 13Christophe LamaisonCentre
  14. 14Pierre BondouyWing
  15. 15Jean-Luc SadournyFull-back
  16. Pierre MignoniBench
  17. Nicolas BrusqueBench
  18. David AucagneBench
  19. Christian CalifanoBench
  20. Abdelatif BenazziBench

Romania

  1. 1Niculae DragosProp
  2. 2Margarit RadoiHooker
  3. 3Gabriel VladProp
  4. 4Sandu CiorascuSecond row
  5. 5Tiberiu BrinzaSecond row
  6. 6Adrian GirbuFlanker
  7. 7Ovidiu SlusariucFlanker
  8. 8Catalin DraguceanuNumber 8
  9. 9Constantin DragneaScrum-half
  10. 10Ionut TofanFly-half
  11. 11Ionel RotaruWing
  12. 12Romeo Stefan GontineacCentre
  13. 13Gheorghe SolomieCentre
  14. 14Lucian ColceriuWing
  15. 15Valentin MafteiFull-back
  16. Vasile NedelcuBench
  17. Dorin TalabaBench
  18. Marius IacobBench
  19. Adrian SalageanuBench

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Context

All-time, France 43–8 Romania, 2 drawn in 53 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

France 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.