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Full time20 May 1979
USSR
15–9
Spain
Fili Stadium, Moscow, Russian Federation · Federation Internationale de Rugby Amateur Championship 1979Head-to-head

USSR won by 6 points.

Scoring

  1. –CUSSR conversion · Anatoly Gonyani2–0
  2. –CUSSR conversion · Anatoly Gonyani4–0
  3. –PUSSR penalty · Anatoly Gonyani7–0
  4. –TUSSR try · Alexander Epifanov11–0
  5. –TUSSR try · Alexander Aleshin15–0
  6. –PSpain penalty · Manuel Moriche Mostajo15–3
  7. –PSpain penalty · Manuel Moriche Mostajo15–6
  8. –PSpain penalty · Manuel Moriche Mostajo15–9

Line-ups

USSR

  1. 1Anatoly SheverevProp
  2. 2Alexander FedorovHooker
  3. 3Alexander EpifanovProp
  4. 4Nikolay ToropovSecond row
  5. 5Viktor ShapovalovSecond row
  6. 6Sergey OshitkovFlanker
  7. 7Vasily KorotaevFlanker
  8. 8Alexander AleshinNumber 8
  9. 9David KilasoniaScrum-half
  10. 10Valery ProshinFly-half
  11. 11Igor MironovWing
  12. 12Yuri VasilievCentre
  13. 13Tahir SalavatovCentre
  14. 14Oleg SljussarWing
  15. 15Anatoly GonyaniFull-back
  16. Valery KlyuchnikovBench
  17. Alexander TikhonovBench

Spain

  1. 1Maximo Romero GimenezProp
  2. 2Jose Miguel Galdos OronozHooker
  3. 3Jose Manuel Gonzalez LozanoProp
  4. 4Hilario Bonavida EstupinaSecond row
  5. 5Tomas Pardo VidalSecond row
  6. 6Juan Homs LeyesFlanker
  7. 7Felipe Blanco PalmeroFlanker
  8. 8José Maria Epalza SolanoNumber 8
  9. 9Miguel Angel Ribera VirtusScrum-half
  10. 10Manuel Moriche MostajoFly-half
  11. 12Fernando Garcia de la TorreCentre
  12. 13Salvador Torres OrtegaCentre
  13. 14Jose Luis Ruiz CristinWing
  14. 15Jose Ramon Apraiz FeliuFull-back
  15. Juan Francisco Neira VazquezBench
  16. Jaime Usabiaga ZarranzBench
  17. Francisco Javier Camiña MartinezBench
  18. Rafael Canosa SevillanoBench

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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.