Full time5 November 1988
Venue not recorded · Federation Internationale de Rugby Amateur Championship 1988Head-to-head
USSR won by 6 points.
Scoring
- 6’PItaly penalty · Stefano Bettarello3–0
- 11’PItaly penalty · Stefano Bettarello6–0
- 19’PUSSR penalty · Nugzar Dzagnidze6–3
- 49’CUSSR conversion · Nugzar Dzagnidze6–5
- 49’TUSSR try · Igor Mironov6–9
- 57’PUSSR penalty · Nugzar Dzagnidze6–12
- 68’DUSSR drop goal · Igor Mironov6–15
- 69’PItaly penalty · Stefano Bettarello9–15
- 72’DUSSR drop goal · Igor Mironov9–18
- 82’PItaly penalty · Stefano Bettarello12–18
Line-ups
Italy
- 1Guido RossiProp
- 2Moreno TrevisiolHooker
- 3Tito LupiniProp
- 4Roberto FavaroSecond row
- 5Antonio ColellaSecond row
- 6Raffaele DolfatoFlanker
- 7Pietro RealeFlanker
- 8Corrado CoviNumber 8
- 9Stefano BoccazziScrum-half
- 10Stefano BettarelloFly-half
- 11Luigi SalvatiWing
- 12Sergio ZorziCentre
- 13Stefano BarbaCentre
- 14Edgardo VenturiWing
- 15Luigi TroianiFull-back
- Alessandro GhiniBench
- Roberto SaettiBench
USSR
- 1Sergey MolchanovProp
- 2Rauf 'Roman' MalikovHooker
- 3Igor KhohlovProp
- 4Sergey SergeevSecond row
- 5Oleg SapegaSecond row
- 6Andrey SokolovFlanker
- 7Ramil 'Roman' HairulinFlanker
- 8Alexander TikhonovNumber 8
- 9Sergey DemidovScrum-half
- 10Igor NechaevFly-half
- 11Igor MironovWing
- 12Mihail ParshinCentre
- 13Dimitry VinokhodovCentre
- 14Vladislav VorapaevWing
- 15Nugzar DzagnidzeFull-back
Match officials
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Context
All-time, Italy 4–9 USSR, 1 drawn in 14 scored Tests. Full head-to-head
Italy going in
USSR going in
- Previous meeting: 7 November 1987, Italy 9–12 USSR
- Next meeting on record: 5 November 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.