Full time10 November 1985
Fili Stadium, Moscow, Russian Federation · Federation Internationale de Rugby Amateur Championship 1985Head-to-head
USSR won by 2 points.
Scoring
- 7’DItaly drop goal · Stefano Bettarello0–3
- 14’PItaly penalty · Stefano Bettarello0–6
- 37’PItaly penalty · Stefano Bettarello0–9
- 47’PUSSR penalty · Igor Mironov3–9
- 52’PUSSR penalty · Igor Mironov6–9
- 58’CUSSR conversion · Igor Mironov8–9
- 58’TUSSR try · Igor Mironov12–9
- 67’TItaly try · Serafino Ghizzoni12–13
- 79’DUSSR drop goal · Oleg Sljussar15–13
Line-ups
USSR
- 1Alexander YusimProp
- 2Rauf 'Roman' MalikovHooker
- 3Andrey KirpaProp
- 4Andrey SokolovSecond row
- 5Nikolay PlotnikovSecond row
- 6Viktor KushnarevFlanker
- 7Alexander ValyalchikovFlanker
- 8Ramil 'Roman' HairulinNumber 8
- 9Sergey DemidovScrum-half
- 10Oleg SljussarFly-half
- 11Igor MironovWing
- 12Igor NechaevCentre
- 13Oleg LipartelianiCentre
- 14Pavel BerzinWing
- 15Anatoly GonyaniFull-back
- Boris SamardinBench
Italy
- 1Giancarlo CucchiellaProp
- 2Giorgio MorelliHooker
- 3Guido RossiProp
- 4Mauro GardinSecond row
- 5Antonio ColellaSecond row
- 6Marzio InnocentiFlanker
- 7Gianni ZanonFlanker
- 8Giuseppe ArtusoNumber 8
- 9Alessandro GhiniScrum-half
- 10Stefano BettarelloFly-half
- 11Serafino GhizzoniWing
- 12Fabio GaetanielloCentre
- 13Rino FrancescatoCentre
- 14Massimo MasciolettiWing
- 15Claudio TorresanFull-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: 18 November 1984, USSR 12–13 Italy
- Next meeting on record: 16 November 1986
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.