TheBreakdown
Full time29 May 2005
Romania
22–28
USA
Prince Chichibu Memorial Stadium, Tokyo, Japan · Superpowers Cup 2005Head-to-head

USA won by 6 points.

Scoring

  1. –PRomania penalty · Danut Dumbrava3–0
  2. –PRomania penalty · Danut Dumbrava6–0
  3. –PRomania penalty · Danut Dumbrava9–0
  4. –PRomania penalty · Danut Dumbrava12–0
  5. –TRomania try · Gheorge Oprisor17–0
  6. –TRomania try · Ioan Teodorescu22–0
  7. –CUSA conversion · Francois Viljoen22–2
  8. –CUSA conversion · Francois Viljoen22–4
  9. –PUSA penalty · Francois Viljoen22–7
  10. –PUSA penalty · Francois Viljoen22–10
  11. –PUSA penalty · Francois Viljoen22–13
  12. –TUSA try · Mike Hercus22–18
  13. –TUSA try · David Fee22–23
  14. –TUSA try · Mike Palefau22–28

Line-ups

Romania

  1. 1Petrisor ToderascProp
  2. 2Razvan MavrodinHooker
  3. 3Marcel SocaciuProp
  4. 4Gheorge OprisorSecond row
  5. 5Cristian PetreSecond row
  6. 6Florin CorodeanuFlanker
  7. 7Alexandru TudoriFlanker
  8. 8Cosmin RatiuNumber 8
  9. 9Lucian Mihai SirbuScrum-half
  10. 10Ionut TofanFly-half
  11. 11Ioan TeodorescuWing
  12. 12Darie CureaCentre
  13. 13Gabriel BrezoianuCentre
  14. 14Stefan DumitruWing
  15. 15Danut DumbravaFull-back
  16. 16Paulica IonBench
  17. 17Bogdan ZebegaBench
  18. 18Bogdan BalanBench
  19. 19Costica MersoiuBench
  20. 20Iulian AndreiBench
  21. 21Cristian SauanBench
  22. 22Dan VladBench

USA

  1. 1Mike MacDonaldProp
  2. 2Mark GriffinHooker
  3. 3Chris OsentowskiProp
  4. 4James LikSecond row
  5. 5Mike ManganSecond row
  6. 6Andy RylandFlanker
  7. 7Todd CleverFlanker
  8. 8Kort SchubertNumber 8
  9. 9Mose TimoteoScrum-half
  10. 10Mike HercusFly-half
  11. 11David FeeWing
  12. 12Albert TuipulotuCentre
  13. 13Paul EmerickCentre
  14. 14Mike PalefauWing
  15. 15Francois ViljoenFull-back
  16. 16Mike HobsonBench
  17. 17Mike FrenchBench
  18. 18Brian SchoenerBench
  19. 19Fifita MoungaBench
  20. 20Doug RoweBench
  21. 21Matt ShermanBench
  22. 22Scott JonesBench

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Context

All-time, Romania 3–8 USA in 11 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Romania going in
USA 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.