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Full time20 October 1985
Romania
16–12
USSR
Stadionul Parcul Copilului, Bucharest, Romania · Federation Internationale de Rugby Amateur Championship 1985Head-to-head

Romania won by 4 points.

Scoring

  1. –PRomania penalty · Virgil Nastase3–0
  2. –PRomania penalty · Virgil Nastase6–0
  3. –PRomania penalty · Virgil Nastase9–0
  4. –PRomania penalty · Virgil Nastase12–0
  5. –TRomania try · Mircea Paraschiv16–0
  6. –CUSSR conversion · Igor Mironov16–2
  7. –PUSSR penalty · Igor Mironov16–5
  8. –PUSSR penalty · Igor Mironov16–8
  9. –TUSSR try · Alexander Tikhonov16–12

Line-ups

Romania

  1. 1Ion BucanProp
  2. 2Valere TufaHooker
  3. 3Vasile PascuProp
  4. 4Laurentiu T ConstantinSecond row
  5. 5Laurentiu ConstantinSecond row
  6. 6Florica MurariuFlanker
  7. 7Marcel GiucalFlanker
  8. 8Tudor ConstantinNumber 8
  9. 9Mircea ParaschivScrum-half
  10. 10Virgil NastaseFly-half
  11. 11Marian AldeaWing
  12. 12Stefan TofanCentre
  13. 13Adrian LunguCentre
  14. 14Nicolae CopilWing
  15. 15Alexandru MarinFull-back
  16. Ovidiu TepuricaBench

USSR

  1. 1Alexander YusimProp
  2. 2Rauf 'Roman' MalikovHooker
  3. 3Andrey KirpaProp
  4. 4Evgeny IvanovSecond row
  5. 5Andrey SokolovSecond row
  6. 6Viktor KushnarevFlanker
  7. 7Ramil 'Roman' HairulinFlanker
  8. 8Alexander TikhonovNumber 8
  9. 9Sergey DemidovScrum-half
  10. 10Oleg SljussarFly-half
  11. 11Igor MironovWing
  12. 12Igor NechaevCentre
  13. 13Alexander FilimonovCentre
  14. 14Pavel BerzinWing
  15. 15Anatoly GonyaniFull-back

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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

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.