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Men's Rugby World Cup 2003 · Canberra Stadium, Canberra · 21 October 2003Head-to-head
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Italy won by 5 points.Half-time 9–6 · Tries 1–1 · ITA 1 yellow card · CAN 1 yellow card

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5768
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Tacklesmademissed
ITA8917
CAN6926
Kicks at goalconv.pensdrops
ITA1/14/40
CAN0/03/30
← Canada attack · Italy attack →Hover a try for detail · dots = tackles made · dashed = penalty goal · orange = missed · squares = rucks · triangles = line breaks and defenders beaten · rings = turnovers · bars at the foot = zone counts · thin lines = kicks from hand = attacking entries and ball won per band
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  • Ruck, line break, turnover, lineout and kick-from-hand positions are not in the feed for this match.
  • Tries with a dashed ring have no recorded position, so they sit in the in-goal at the end that side attacked.
Tries and goal kicks as a table
MinTeamWhatScore
57′ItalyTry, Sergio Parisse, converted17–9
68′CanadaTry, Quentin Fyffe19–14
Sample dataTerritory shares are estimated, and tries without a recorded position are placed in the in-goal. Other positions are as logged by the match feed and approximate.

Score progression

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05101520HT0′20′40′60′80′1 ITA card · 1 CAN card
57′Sergio Parisse68′Quentin Fyffe
ITA

Team stats

CAN
50%Possession50%
86Carries103
355Metres gained338
8Clean breaks8
26Defenders beaten17
105Passes142
12Offloads2
89Tackles made69
17Tackles missed26
52/57Rucks won78/81
15/18Lineouts won13/17
15/16Scrums won6/7
12/12Mauls won8/9
5Turnovers won5
16Penalties conceded11
25Kicks from hand25
746Kick metres750
Goal kicking
ITA conversions 1/1, penalties 4/4 · CAN conversions 0/0, penalties 3/3. Pale segment = set piece lost.

Match statistics and event positions come from World Rugby’s public match feed, which is unofficial and not licensed for reuse; TheBreakdown reduces them to the figures shown. This feed has team statistics but no positions for this match.

Line-ups

Italy

  1. 1Andrea Lo CiceroProp
  2. 2Fabio OngaroHooker
  3. 3Martin CastrogiovanniProp
  4. 4Santiago DellapèSecond row
  5. 5Marco BortolamiSecond row
  6. 6Andrea de RossiFlanker
  7. 7Aaron PersicoFlanker
  8. 8Sergio ParisseNumber 8
  9. 9Alessandro TronconScrum-half
  10. 10Rima WakaruaFly-half
  11. 11Denis DallanWing
  12. 12Manuel DallanCentre
  13. 13Cristian StoicaCentre
  14. 14Mirco BergamascoWing
  15. 15Gonzalo CanaleFull-back
  16. 16Carlo FestucciaBench
  17. 17Salvatore PeruginiBench
  18. 18Carlo ChecchinatoBench
  19. 19Scott PalmerBench
  20. 20Matteo MazzantiniBench
  21. 21Francesco MazzariolBench
  22. 22Andrea MasiBench

Canada

  1. 1Rod SnowProp
  2. 2Mark LawsonHooker
  3. 3Jon ThielProp
  4. 4Colin YukesSecond row
  5. 5Al CharronSecond row
  6. 6Jamie CudmoreFlanker
  7. 7Jim DouglasFlanker
  8. 8Ryan BanksNumber 8
  9. 9Morgan WilliamsScrum-half
  10. 10Jared BarkerFly-half
  11. 11Dave LougheedWing
  12. 12Marco di GirolamoCentre
  13. 13John CannonCentre
  14. 14Winston StanleyWing
  15. 15Quentin FyffeFull-back
  16. 16Aaron AbramsBench
  17. 17Kevin TkachukBench
  18. 18Jeff ReidBench
  19. 19Josh JacksonBench
  20. 20Sean FauthBench
  21. 21Bobby RossBench
  22. 22Matt KingBench

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Context

All-time, Italy 8–2 Canada in 10 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Italy going in
Canada 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.