Full time5 November 1989
Fili Stadium, Moscow, Russian Federation · Federation Internationale de Rugby Amateur Championship 1989Head-to-head
USSR won by 3 points.
Scoring
- 5’CUSSR conversion · Nugzar Dzagnidze2–0
- 5’TUSSR try · Sergey Molchanov6–0
- 12’PUSSR penalty · Nugzar Dzagnidze9–0
- 22’PItaly penalty · Luigi Troiani9–3
- 24’PUSSR penalty · Nugzar Dzagnidze12–3
- 52’PUSSR penalty · Nugzar Dzagnidze15–3
- 54’CItaly conversion · Luigi Troiani15–5
- 54’TItaly try · Massimo Mascioletti15–9
- 64’PItaly penalty · Luigi Troiani15–12
Line-ups
USSR
- 1Igor KhohlovProp
- 2Rauf 'Roman' MalikovHooker
- 3Sergey MolchanovProp
- 4Sergey SergeevSecond row
- 5Nikolay PlotnikovSecond row
- 6Andrey SokolovFlanker
- 7Boris KorolevFlanker
- 8Alexander TikhonovNumber 8
- 9Igor FrantsuzovScrum-half
- 10Evgeny ZuevFly-half
- 11Igor MironovWing
- 12Mihail ParshinCentre
- 13Igor NechaevCentre
- 14Vladislav VorapaevWing
- 15Nugzar DzagnidzeFull-back
- Zaza BakuradzeBench
Italy
- 1Guido RossiProp
- 2Moreno TrevisiolHooker
- 3Giovanni GrespanProp
- 4Roberto FavaroSecond row
- 5Paolo PedroniSecond row
- 6Roberto SaettiFlanker
- 7Massimo GiovanelliFlanker
- 8Corrado CoviNumber 8
- 9Francesco PietroscantiScrum-half
- 10Luigi CapitaniFly-half
- 11Edgardo VenturiWing
- 12Rodolfo AmbrosioCentre
- 13Massimo MasciolettiCentre
- 14Marcello CuttittaWing
- 15Luigi TroianiFull-back
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Context
All-time, USSR 9–4 Italy, 1 drawn in 14 scored Tests. Full head-to-head
USSR going in
Italy going in
- Previous meeting: 5 November 1988, USSR 18–12 Italy
- Next meeting on record: 24 November 1990
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.