TheBreakdown
Full time28 October 1979
USSR
9–0
Italy
Fili Stadium, Moscow, Russian Federation · Federation Internationale de Rugby Amateur Championship 1979Head-to-head

USSR won by 9 points.

Scoring

  1. 33’PUSSR penalty · Anatoly Gonyani3–0
  2. 43’CUSSR conversion · Anatoly Gonyani5–0
  3. 43’TUSSR try · Alexander Tikhonov9–0

Line-ups

USSR

  1. 1Anatoly SheverevProp
  2. 2Alexander FedorovHooker
  3. 3Alexander EpifanovProp
  4. 4Sergey ChevelevSecond row
  5. 5Varlam 'Nukri' TsereteliSecond row
  6. 6Sergey ZhuravlevFlanker
  7. 7Alexander TikhonovFlanker
  8. 8Vladimir PozdniakovNumber 8
  9. 9Valery KlyuchnikovScrum-half
  10. 10Valery ProshinFly-half
  11. 11Yuri KarpukhinWing
  12. 12Tahir SalavatovCentre
  13. 13Igor MironovCentre
  14. 14Mihail GrazhdanWing
  15. 15Anatoly GonyaniFull-back
  16. Oleg SljussarBench

Italy

  1. 1Giancarlo CucchiellaProp
  2. 2Claudio RobazzaHooker
  3. 3Ambrogio BonaProp
  4. 4Jean Louis BaseiSecond row
  5. 5Paolo MarianiSecond row
  6. 6Elio De AnnaFlanker
  7. 7Franco BargelliFlanker
  8. 8Andrea AngrisianiNumber 8
  9. 9Fulvio LorigiolaScrum-half
  10. 10Fabio TrentinFly-half
  11. 11Massimo MasciolettiWing
  12. 12Nello FrancescatoCentre
  13. 13Rino FrancescatoCentre
  14. 14Manrico MarchettoWing
  15. 15Fabrizio GaetanielloFull-back
  16. Gianluca LimoneBench

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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.