TheBreakdown
Full time2 November 1980
Italy
3–4
USSR
Venue not recorded · Federation Internationale de Rugby Amateur Championship 1980Head-to-head

USSR won by 1 point.

Scoring

  1. 1’TUSSR try · Nikolay Plotnikov0–4
  2. 14’PItaly penalty · Stefano Bettarello3–4

Line-ups

Italy

  1. 1Renato De BernardoProp
  2. 2Paolo PavesiHooker
  3. 3Giancarlo PivettaProp
  4. 4Jean Louis BaseiSecond row
  5. 5Salvatore BonettiSecond row
  6. 6Mario PavinFlanker
  7. 7Marciso ZanellaFlanker
  8. 8Claudio TinariNumber 8
  9. 9Fulvio LorigiolaScrum-half
  10. 10Stefano BettarelloFly-half
  11. 11Serafino GhizzoniWing
  12. 12Nello FrancescatoCentre
  13. 13Rino FrancescatoCentre
  14. 14Nino RossiWing
  15. 15Claudio TorresanFull-back

USSR

  1. 1Anatoly SheverevProp
  2. 2Alexey BarbariushHooker
  3. 3Alexander EpifanovProp
  4. 4Sergey OshitkovSecond row
  5. 5Nikolay PlotnikovSecond row
  6. 6Sergey ZhuravlevFlanker
  7. 7Andrey BarinovFlanker
  8. 8Alexander TikhonovNumber 8
  9. 9Valery KlyuchnikovScrum-half
  10. 10Oleg SljussarFly-half
  11. 11Igor MironovWing
  12. 12Tahir SalavatovCentre
  13. 13Yuri KarpukhinCentre
  14. 14Alexander BerzinWing
  15. 15Anatoly GonyaniFull-back

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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

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.