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Full time18 September 1979
Italy
16–9
Spain
Venue not recorded · Mediterranean Games 1979Head-to-head

Italy won by 7 points.

Scoring

  1. –CItaly conversion · Stefano Bettarello2–0
  2. –PItaly penalty · Stefano Bettarello5–0
  3. –TItaly try9–0
  4. –TItaly try · Massimo Mascioletti13–0
  5. –DItaly drop goal · Stefano Bettarello16–0
  6. –PSpain penalty · Jose Francisco Lorenzo Berberana16–3
  7. –PSpain penalty · Jose Francisco Lorenzo Berberana16–6
  8. –PSpain penalty · Manuel Moriche Mostajo16–9

Line-ups

Italy

  1. 1Giancarlo CucchiellaProp
  2. 2Claudio RobazzaHooker
  3. 3Ambrogio BonaProp
  4. 4Jean Louis BaseiSecond row
  5. 5Donato DaldossSecond row
  6. 6Elio De AnnaFlanker
  7. 7Franco BargelliFlanker
  8. 8Paolo MarianiNumber 8
  9. 9Fulvio LorigiolaScrum-half
  10. 10Stefano BettarelloFly-half
  11. 11Massimo MasciolettiWing
  12. 12Nello FrancescatoCentre
  13. 13Rino FrancescatoCentre
  14. 14Serafino GhizzoniWing
  15. 15Fabrizio GaetanielloFull-back

Spain

  1. 1Maximo Romero GimenezProp
  2. 2Gabriel Zapiain BustoHooker
  3. 3Tomas Pardo VidalProp
  4. 4Alberto Errandonea UzurrunzagaSecond row
  5. 5Hilario Bonavida EstupinaSecond row
  6. 6Felipe Blanco PalmeroFlanker
  7. 7Jose Munguia OnraitaFlanker
  8. 8José Maria Epalza SolanoNumber 8
  9. 9Santiago Noriega BastosScrum-half
  10. 10Manuel Moriche MostajoFly-half
  11. 11Jose Luis Ruiz CristinWing
  12. 12Alfonso Feijoo GarciaCentre
  13. 13Fernando Garcia de la TorreCentre
  14. 14Jose Francisco Lorenzo BerberanaWing
  15. 15Rafael Canosa SevillanoFull-back
  16. Jose Ramon Apraiz FeliuBench
  17. Ramiro Moreno MartinezBench
  18. Miguel Angel Ribera VirtusBench

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Context

All-time, Italy 23–3 Spain, 1 drawn in 27 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Italy going in
Spain 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.