Full time23 October 1988
Venue not recorded · Federation Internationale de Rugby Amateur Championship 1988Head-to-head
USSR won by 14 points.
Scoring
- 1’PRomania penalty · Alexandru Dumitru0–3
- 1’PRomania penalty · Alexandru Dumitru0–6
- 1’PRomania penalty · Alexandru Dumitru0–9
- 7’PUSSR penalty · Nugzar Dzagnidze3–9
- 19’PUSSR penalty · Nugzar Dzagnidze6–9
- 36’PUSSR penalty · Nugzar Dzagnidze9–9
- 56’TUSSR try · Alexander Tikhonov13–9
- 79’TUSSR try · Alexander Tikhonov17–9
- 83’CUSSR conversion · Nugzar Dzagnidze19–9
- 83’TUSSR try · Sergey Molchanov23–9
Line-ups
USSR
- 1Igor KhohlovProp
- 2Rauf 'Roman' MalikovHooker
- 3Sergey MolchanovProp
- 4Alexander StalmakhovichSecond row
- 5Sergey SergeevSecond row
- 6Andrey SokolovFlanker
- 7Ramil 'Roman' HairulinFlanker
- 8Alexander TikhonovNumber 8
- 9Sergey DemidovScrum-half
- 10Igor MironovFly-half
- 11Vladislav VorapaevWing
- 12Mihail ParshinCentre
- 13Igor NechaevCentre
- 14Igor KupermanWing
- 15Nugzar DzagnidzeFull-back
- Dimitry VinokhodovBench
Romania
- 1Gheorghe LeonteProp
- 2Gheorghe IonHooker
- 3Vasile ManProp
- 4Sandu CiorascuSecond row
- 5Nicolae VeresSecond row
- 6Alexandru RadulescuFlanker
- 7Hary DumitrasFlanker
- 8Florica MurariuNumber 8
- 9Daniel NeagaScrum-half
- 10Alexandru DumitruFly-half
- 11Daniel BoldorWing
- 12Adrian LunguCentre
- 13Nicolae RaceanCentre
- 14Gheorghe VarzaruWing
- 15Gelu IgnatFull-back
- Teodor ComanBench
Match officials
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Context
All-time, USSR 3–14 Romania in 17 scored Tests. Full head-to-head
USSR going in
Romania going in
- Previous meeting: 20 September 1988, USSR 18–28 Romania
- Next meeting on record: 22 October 1989
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.