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Full time25 October 1981
USSR
12–12
Italy
Nauka, Moscow, Russian Federation · Federation Internationale de Rugby Amateur Championship 1981Head-to-head

A draw.

Scoring

  1. 9’PUSSR penalty · Vladimir Bobrov3–0
  2. 33’PItaly penalty · Stefano Bettarello3–3
  3. 37’PUSSR penalty · Vladimir Bobrov6–3
  4. 40’PItaly penalty · Stefano Bettarello6–6
  5. 50’PItaly penalty · Stefano Bettarello6–9
  6. 71’CUSSR conversion · Vladimir Bobrov8–9
  7. 71’TUSSR try · Vladimir Bobrov12–9
  8. 75’PItaly penalty · Stefano Bettarello12–12

Line-ups

USSR

  1. 1Alexander EpifanovProp
  2. 2Rauf 'Roman' MalikovHooker
  3. 3Visarion 'Besso' LiluashviliProp
  4. 4Nikolay PlotnikovSecond row
  5. 5Alexander TikhonovSecond row
  6. 6Sergey ZhuravlevFlanker
  7. 7Alexander FedorovFlanker
  8. 8Vladimir PozdniakovNumber 8
  9. 9Valery KlyuchnikovScrum-half
  10. 10Oleg SljussarFly-half
  11. 11Igor MironovWing
  12. 12Yuri VasilievCentre
  13. 13Yuri KarpukhinCentre
  14. 14Alexander BerzinWing
  15. 15Vladimir BobrovFull-back
  16. Anatoly SheverevBench
  17. Valery ProshinBench
  18. Anatoly GonyaniBench
  19. Sergey OshitkovBench

Italy

  1. 1Renato De BernardoProp
  2. 2Claudio RobazzaHooker
  3. 3Giancarlo PivettaProp
  4. 4Mauro GardinSecond row
  5. 5Guido RossiSecond row
  6. 6Claudio JannoneFlanker
  7. 7Gianni ZanonFlanker
  8. 8Claudio TinariNumber 8
  9. 9Fulvio LorigiolaScrum-half
  10. 10Stefano BettarelloFly-half
  11. 11Manrico MarchettoWing
  12. 12Fabrizio GaetanielloCentre
  13. 13Gianluca LimoneCentre
  14. 14Alberto OstiWing
  15. 15Claudio TorresanFull-back
  16. Alessandro GhiniBench

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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

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.