TheBreakdown
Full time21 September 2002
Russia
3–35
Ireland
Central Stadium, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation · Men's Rugby World Cup Qualifying 2003Head-to-head

Ireland won by 32 points.

Scoring

  1. 4’TIreland try · Girvan Dempsey0–5
  2. 25’PIreland penalty · Ronan O'Gara0–8
  3. 26’PIreland penalty · Ronan O'Gara0–11
  4. 30’TIreland try · Girvan Dempsey0–16
  5. 31’CIreland conversion · Ronan O'Gara0–18
  6. 54’CIreland conversion · Ronan O'Gara0–20
  7. 54’TIreland try · Keith Wood0–25
  8. 62’CIreland conversion · Ronan O'Gara0–27
  9. 62’TIreland try · Malcolm O'Kelly0–32
  10. 68’PIreland penalty · Ronan O'Gara0–35
  11. 78’PRussia penalty · Werner Pieterse3–35

Line-ups

Russia

  1. 1Oleg ShukaylovProp
  2. 2Roman RomakHooker
  3. 3Johan HendriksProp
  4. 4Valery FedchenkoSecond row
  5. 5Sergey SergeevSecond row
  6. 6Vyacheslav GrachevFlanker
  7. 7Renier 'Bloues' VolschenkFlanker
  8. 8Vyacheslav ZykovNumber 8
  9. 9Victor MotorinScrum-half
  10. 10Konstantin RachkovFly-half
  11. 11Alexey SergeevWing
  12. 12Alexey KorobeynikovCentre
  13. 13Igor DymchenkoCentre
  14. 14Andrey KuzinWing
  15. 15Alexander ZakarlyukFull-back
  16. 16Alexey TravkinBench
  17. 17Igor NikolaychukBench
  18. 18Murat UanbayevBench
  19. 19Igor BudnikovBench
  20. 20Werner PieterseBench
  21. 21Pavel NovikovBench
  22. 22Alexander KhrokinBench

Ireland

  1. 1Reggie CorriganProp
  2. 2Keith WoodHooker
  3. 3John HayesProp
  4. 4Gary LongwellSecond row
  5. 5Malcolm O'KellySecond row
  6. 6Simon EasterbyFlanker
  7. 7Keith GleesonFlanker
  8. 8Anthony FoleyNumber 8
  9. 9Peter StringerScrum-half
  10. 10Ronan O'GaraFly-half
  11. 11Denis HickieWing
  12. 12Kevin MaggsCentre
  13. 13Brian O'DriscollCentre
  14. 14John KellyWing
  15. 15Girvan DempseyFull-back
  16. 16Shane ByrneBench
  17. 17Paul WallaceBench
  18. 18Leo CullenBench
  19. 19Alan QuinlanBench
  20. 20Guy EasterbyBench
  21. 21David HumphreysBench
  22. 22Rob HendersonBench

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Context

All-time, Russia 0–3 Ireland in 3 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Russia going in
Ireland 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.