TheBreakdown
Full time10 May 1981
USSR
40–7
Spain
Spartak Stadium, Kiev, Ukraine · Federation Internationale de Rugby Amateur Championship 1981Head-to-head

USSR won by 33 points.

Scoring

  1. –CUSSR conversion · Andrey Barinov2–0
  2. –PUSSR penalty · Anatoly Gonyani5–0
  3. –PUSSR penalty · Anatoly Gonyani8–0
  4. –TUSSR try · Nikolay Plotnikov12–0
  5. –TUSSR try · Visarion 'Besso' Liluashvili16–0
  6. –TUSSR try · Andrey Barinov20–0
  7. –TUSSR try · Alexander Tikhonov24–0
  8. –TUSSR try · Alexander Berzin28–0
  9. –TUSSR try · Alexander Berzin32–0
  10. –TUSSR try · Anatoly Gonyani36–0
  11. –TUSSR try · Anatoly Gonyani40–0
  12. –PSpain penalty · Enrique Lobo Sanchez40–3
  13. –TSpain try · Jose Manuel Gonzalez Lozano40–7

Line-ups

USSR

  1. 1Anatoly SheverevProp
  2. 2Alexander FedorovHooker
  3. 3Alexander EpifanovProp
  4. 4Nikolay PlotnikovSecond row
  5. 5Visarion 'Besso' LiluashviliSecond row
  6. 6Sergey ZhuravlevFlanker
  7. 7Andrey BarinovFlanker
  8. 8Alexander TikhonovNumber 8
  9. 9Valery KlyuchnikovScrum-half
  10. 10Oleg SljussarFly-half
  11. 11Valery ProshinWing
  12. 12Ivan MironovCentre
  13. 13Yuri KarpukhinCentre
  14. 14Alexander BerzinWing
  15. 15Anatoly GonyaniFull-back
  16. Tahir SalavatovBench

Spain

  1. 1Antonio Machuca CharroProp
  2. 2Santiago Santos MunozHooker
  3. 3Francisco Javier Camiña MartinezProp
  4. 4Angel Luis Garcia GuerreroSecond row
  5. 5Carlos Rodriguez GarciaSecond row
  6. 6Felipe Blanco PalmeroFlanker
  7. 7Sergio Longhney CastellsFlanker
  8. 8Juan Francisco Neira VazquezNumber 8
  9. 9Enrique Lobo SanchezScrum-half
  10. 10Manuel Moriche MostajoFly-half
  11. 11Jose Manuel Gonzalez LozanoWing
  12. 12Fernando Garcia de la TorreCentre
  13. 13José Tormo LopezCentre
  14. 14Salvador Torres OrtegaWing
  15. 15Rafael Canosa SevillanoFull-back

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Context

All-time, USSR 7–0 Spain in 7 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

USSR 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.