TheBreakdown
Full time22 March 2003
Romania
23–12
Russia
Stadionul Steaua II, Bucharest, Romania · European Nations Cup Men's 2003Head-to-head

Romania won by 11 points.

Scoring

  1. –CRomania conversion · Ionut Tofan2–0
  2. –PRomania penalty · Ionut Tofan5–0
  3. –PRomania penalty · Ionut Tofan8–0
  4. –TRomania try13–0
  5. –TRomania try · Mihai Vioreanu18–0
  6. –TRomania try · Adrian -Alin Petrache23–0
  7. –PRussia penalty · Konstantin Rachkov23–3
  8. –PRussia penalty · Konstantin Rachkov23–6
  9. –PRussia penalty · Konstantin Rachkov23–9
  10. –PRussia penalty · Konstantin Rachkov23–12

Line-ups

Romania

  1. 1Marcel SocaciuProp
  2. 2Marius TincuHooker
  3. 3Petrisor ToderascProp
  4. 4Sorin SocolSecond row
  5. 5Cristian PetreSecond row
  6. 6Alexandru MantaFlanker
  7. 7Ovidiu TonitaFlanker
  8. 8Adrian -Alin PetracheNumber 8
  9. 9Cristian PodeaScrum-half
  10. 10Ionut TofanFly-half
  11. 11Ioan TeodorescuWing
  12. 12Mihai VioreanuCentre
  13. 13Gabriel BrezoianuCentre
  14. 14Cristian SauanWing
  15. 15Catalin Marius NicolaeFull-back
  16. 16Bogdan BalanBench
  17. 17Silviu FloreaBench
  18. 18Augustin PetricheiBench
  19. 19George ChiriacBench
  20. 20Razvan StancaBench
  21. 21Dumitru MarianBench
  22. 22Danut DumbravaBench

Russia

  1. 1Oleg ShukaylovProp
  2. 2Igor NikolaychukHooker
  3. 3Alexey TravkinProp
  4. 4Valery FedchenkoSecond row
  5. 5Sergey SergeevSecond row
  6. 6Alexey SarychevFlanker
  7. 7Vyacheslav ZykovFlanker
  8. 8Vyacheslav GrachevNumber 8
  9. 9Alexander IaniushkinScrum-half
  10. 10Konstantin RachkovFly-half
  11. 11Vitaly IlarionovWing
  12. 12Alexey KorobeynikovCentre
  13. 13Vitaly ZeerCentre
  14. 14Andrey KuzinWing
  15. 15Igor DymchenkoFull-back
  16. 16Vladislav KorshunovBench
  17. 17Alexander KhrokinBench
  18. 18Denis AkulovBench
  19. 19Vakil ValeevBench
  20. 20Victor MotorinBench
  21. 21Roman ShelepkovBench
  22. 22Oleg ZhukovBench

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Context

All-time, Romania 17–8 Russia, 1 drawn in 26 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Romania going in
Russia 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.