TheBreakdown
Full time24 May 1981
Poland
3–7
USSR
Municipal Stadium, Olsztyn, Poland · Federation Internationale de Rugby Amateur Championship 1981Head-to-head

USSR won by 4 points.

Scoring

  1. 36’PUSSR penalty · Anatoly Gonyani
  2. 77’TUSSR try · Andrey Barinov

The scoring record for this Test does not add up to the final score, so running scores are hidden.

Line-ups

Poland

    USSR

    1. 1Anatoly SheverevProp
    2. 2Alexander FedorovHooker
    3. 3Alexander EpifanovProp
    4. 4Nikolay PlotnikovSecond row
    5. 5Sergey OshitkovSecond row
    6. 6Alexander TikhonovFlanker
    7. 7Andrey BarinovFlanker
    8. 8Vladimir PozdniakovNumber 8
    9. 9Valery KlyuchnikovScrum-half
    10. 10Oleg SljussarFly-half
    11. 11Igor MironovWing
    12. 12Tahir SalavatovCentre
    13. 13Yuri KarpukhinCentre
    14. 14Miheil KharshiladzeWing
    15. 15Anatoly GonyaniFull-back
    16. Vladimir BobrovBench

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    Context

    All-time, Poland 1–20 USSR in 21 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

    Poland going in
    USSR 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.