Full time25 March 1973
Estádio Universitário, Coimbra, PortugalHead-to-head
Portugal won by 3 points.
Scoring
- 26’PItaly penalty · Rocco Caligiuri3–0
- 36’PItaly penalty · Elio Lazzarini6–0
- 59’CPortugal conversion · Nuno Lynce de Faria6–2
- 59’TPortugal try · José Rafachinho6–6
- 66’PPortugal penalty · Nuno Lynce de Faria6–9
Line-ups
Italy
- 1Ettori AbbiatiProp
- 2Paolo PaolettiHooker
- 3Paolo FedrigoProp
- 4Mario PiovanSecond row
- 5Adriano FedrigoSecond row
- 6Umberto CossaraFlanker
- 7Loris SalsiFlanker
- 8Marco BollesanNumber 8
- 9Umberto ConfortoScrum-half
- 10Aldo CaluzziFly-half
- 11Edano CottafavaWing
- 12Agostino PuppoCentre
- 13Elio LazzariniCentre
- 14Manrico MarchettoWing
- 15Rocco CaligiuriFull-back
- Crescengio VitelliBench
Portugal
- 1António SilvestreProp
- 2António DuqueHooker
- 3Vitor PereiraProp
- 4Raul MartinsSecond row
- 5Manuel SantosSecond row
- 6Nuno Lynce de FariaFlanker
- 7Gonçalo ÁvilaFlanker
- 8José Gaspar RamosNumber 8
- 9Albertino MinhotoScrum-half
- 10Carlos Nobre FerreiraFly-half
- 11Antonio Cardoso PintoWing
- 12José Spínola BritoCentre
- 13José RafachinhoCentre
- 14Carlos Ramos PintoWing
- 15Pedro Lynce de FariaFull-back
- 16Pedro Serpa PimentelBench
- 17António TrindadeBench
Match officials
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Context
All-time, Italy 11–1 Portugal, 1 drawn in 13 scored Tests. Full head-to-head
Italy going in
Portugal going in
- Previous meeting: 2 April 1972, Italy 15–7 Portugal
- Next meeting on record: 10 February 1974
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.