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Full time18 November 1978
Italy
9–11
USSR
Stadio Flaminio, Roma, Italy · Federation Internationale de Rugby Amateur Championship 1978Head-to-head

USSR won by 2 points.

Scoring

  1. 1’PUSSR penalty · Anatoly Gonyani0–3
  2. 1’TUSSR try · Alexander Berzin0–7
  3. 1’TUSSR try · Anatoly Sheverev0–11
  4. 93’CItaly conversion · Loredano Zuin2–11
  5. 93’TItaly try · Rocco Caligiuri6–11
  6. 96’PItaly penalty · Loredano Zuin9–11

Line-ups

Italy

  1. 1Anacleto AltigieriProp
  2. 2Paolo FerracinHooker
  3. 3Ambrogio BonaProp
  4. 4Fulivo Di CarloSecond row
  5. 5Claudio AppianiSecond row
  6. 6Paolo MarianiFlanker
  7. 7Arturo BergamascoFlanker
  8. 8Elio De AnnaNumber 8
  9. 9Gianni FranceschiniScrum-half
  10. 10Serafino GhizzoniFly-half
  11. 11Rino FrancescatoWing
  12. 12Nello FrancescatoCentre
  13. 13Massimo MasciolettiCentre
  14. 14Rocco CaligiuriWing
  15. 15Loredano ZuinFull-back
  16. Gianfranco BarbiniBench
  17. Manrico MarchettoBench

USSR

  1. 1Anatoly SheverevProp
  2. 2Alexander FedorovHooker
  3. 3Dmitry BabichenkoProp
  4. 4Sergey OshitkovSecond row
  5. 5Sergey ChevelevSecond row
  6. 6Sergey ZhuravlevFlanker
  7. 7Dmitry GarkushaFlanker
  8. 8Vladimir PozdniakovNumber 8
  9. 9Valery KlyuchnikovScrum-half
  10. 10Oleg SljussarFly-half
  11. 11Alexander BerzinWing
  12. 12Igor MironovCentre
  13. 13Valery ProshinCentre
  14. 14Mihail GrazhdanWing
  15. 15Anatoly GonyaniFull-back
  16. Alexander EpifanovBench
  17. David KilasoniaBench

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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.