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Full time11 May 1980
Romania
23–6
USSR
Stadionul Giulesti, Bucharest, Romania · Federation Internationale de Rugby Amateur Championship 1980Head-to-head

Romania won by 17 points.

Scoring

  1. –CRomania conversion · Ion Constantin2–0
  2. –CRomania conversion · Ion Constantin4–0
  3. –PRomania penalty · Ion Constantin7–0
  4. –TRomania try · Alexandru Radulescu11–0
  5. –TRomania try · Alexandru Radulescu15–0
  6. –TRomania try · Alexandru Radulescu19–0
  7. –TRomania try · Sorin Fuicu23–0
  8. –CUSSR conversion · Anatoly Gonyani23–2
  9. –TUSSR try · Igor Mironov23–6

Line-ups

Romania

  1. 1Cornel ScarlatProp
  2. 2Mircea OrtelecanHooker
  3. 3Ion BucanProp
  4. 4Ion PinteaSecond row
  5. 5Gheorghe DumitruSecond row
  6. 6Enciu StoicaFlanker
  7. 7Alexandru RadulescuFlanker
  8. 8Pompilie BorsNumber 8
  9. 9Vasile IonScrum-half
  10. 10Stelian PodarescuFly-half
  11. 11Sorin FuicuWing
  12. 12Adrian LunguCentre
  13. 13Ion ConstantinCentre
  14. 14Marian AldeaWing
  15. 15Teodorin TudoseFull-back
  16. Gheorge CorneliuBench

USSR

  1. 1Sergey OshitkovProp
  2. 2Anatoly SheverevHooker
  3. 3Viktor ShapovalovProp
  4. 4Sergey ChevelevSecond row
  5. 5Nikolay ToropovSecond row
  6. 6Sergey ZhuravlevFlanker
  7. 7Alexander TikhonovFlanker
  8. 8Andrey BarinovNumber 8
  9. 9Valery KlyuchnikovScrum-half
  10. 10Oleg SljussarFly-half
  11. 11Igor MironovWing
  12. 12Ivan MironovCentre
  13. 13Tahir SalavatovCentre
  14. 14Yuri KarpukhinWing
  15. 15Anatoly GonyaniFull-back
  16. Valery ProshinBench
  17. Yuri VasilievBench

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Context

All-time, Romania 14–3 USSR in 17 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Romania going in
USSR 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.