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Full time22 May 1983
Italy
12–10
USSR
Venue not recorded · Federation Internationale de Rugby Amateur Championship 1983Head-to-head

Italy won by 2 points.

Scoring

  1. 15’CItaly conversion · Stefano Bettarello2–0
  2. 15’TItaly try · Serafino Ghizzoni6–0
  3. 17’PUSSR penalty · Pavel Berzin6–3
  4. 20’PItaly penalty · Stefano Bettarello9–3
  5. 25’TUSSR try · Ramil 'Roman' Hairulin9–7
  6. 31’PUSSR penalty · Pavel Berzin9–10
  7. 76’DItaly drop goal · Stefano Bettarello12–10

Line-ups

Italy

  1. 1Renato De BernardoProp
  2. 2Claudio RobazzaHooker
  3. 3Guido RossiProp
  4. 4Stefano AnnibalSecond row
  5. 5Antonio ColellaSecond row
  6. 6Giuseppe ArtusoFlanker
  7. 7Gianni ZanonFlanker
  8. 8Claudio TinariNumber 8
  9. 9Fulvio LorigiolaScrum-half
  10. 10Stefano BettarelloFly-half
  11. 11Andrea AzzaliWing
  12. 12Rino FrancescatoCentre
  13. 13Massimo MasciolettiCentre
  14. 14Serafino GhizzoniWing
  15. 15Fabrizio GaetanielloFull-back
  16. Marzio InnocentiBench
  17. Giancarlo PivettaBench

USSR

  1. 1Alexander EpifanovProp
  2. 2Anatoly SheverevHooker
  3. 3Visarion 'Besso' LiluashviliProp
  4. 4Nikolay PlotnikovSecond row
  5. 5Alexander TikhonovSecond row
  6. 6Viktor KushnarevFlanker
  7. 7Ramil 'Roman' HairulinFlanker
  8. 8Alexander OvchinikovNumber 8
  9. 9Sergey IsakovScrum-half
  10. 10Oleg SljussarFly-half
  11. 11Alexander BerzinWing
  12. 12Igor OvchinikovCentre
  13. 13Igor ErmakovCentre
  14. 14Pavel BerzinWing
  15. 15Anatoly GonyaniFull-back
  16. Vladimir PozdniakovBench
  17. Mihail ArhipovBench

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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

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Results to 27 September 2026. Scoring and line-ups come from World Rugby match summaries where available; older Tests may have neither.