TheBreakdown
Full time29 October 2005
Belgium
26–20
Croatia
Venue not recorded · Men's Rugby World Cup Qualifying 2007Head-to-head

Belgium won by 6 points.

Scoring

  1. 7’PBelgium penalty · Alan Williams3–0
  2. 14’PBelgium penalty · Alan Williams6–0
  3. 24’TBelgium try · Aaron Demnati11–0
  4. 28’CCroatia conversion · Ivan Rešetar11–2
  5. 28’TCroatia try · Mario Rajčić11–7
  6. 39’CCroatia conversion · Ivan Rešetar11–9
  7. 39’TCroatia try · Ivan Rešetar11–14
  8. 43’PBelgium penalty · Alan Williams14–14
  9. 53’PCroatia penalty · Ivan Rešetar14–17
  10. 67’PBelgium penalty · Alan Williams17–17
  11. 73’PBelgium penalty · Alan Williams20–17
  12. 76’PCroatia penalty · Ivan Rešetar20–20
  13. 78’DBelgium drop goal · Alan Williams23–20
  14. 80’DBelgium drop goal · Alan Williams26–20

Line-ups

Belgium

  1. 1Christophe DebatyProp
  2. 2Norman WendeHooker
  3. 3Jérôme WeyProp
  4. 4Mathieu VerscheldenSecond row
  5. 5Damien GodefroidSecond row
  6. 6Denis EppeFlanker
  7. 7Pierre PlasmanFlanker
  8. 8Charlie FourneauNumber 8
  9. 9Sebastien GunsScrum-half
  10. 10Peter DuchauFly-half
  11. 11Dirk HaghedoorenWing
  12. 12Thibaut AndreCentre
  13. 13Jerome BizeCentre
  14. 14Aaron DemnatiWing
  15. 15Alan WilliamsFull-back
  16. 16Denis FranquinBench
  17. 17Cyrille NanaBench
  18. 18Stephan Happy WaieuBench
  19. 19Mika De MolderBench
  20. 20Olivier MahieuBench
  21. 21Simon MaroteBench
  22. 22Marin De GeetereBench

Croatia

  1. 1Goran ZilicProp
  2. 2Jure PenovicHooker
  3. 3Ivan NolaProp
  4. 4Luka MarinSecond row
  5. 5Scott KeithSecond row
  6. 6Vedran PomperFlanker
  7. 7Bosko SablićFlanker
  8. 8Jaksa LovretaNumber 8
  9. 9Josip DedicScrum-half
  10. 10Ivan RešetarFly-half
  11. 11Vedran AntićWing
  12. 12Vlado UrsicCentre
  13. 13Tomislav BurazinCentre
  14. 14Miroslav MandićWing
  15. 15Mario RajčićFull-back
  16. 16Zvonimir GrasićBench
  17. 17Ivo Drazen JosipovicBench
  18. 18Sasa Aleksandar SlijepčevićBench
  19. 19Ante BabićBench
  20. 20Krešo SlavičekBench
  21. 21Darko MuslimBench
  22. 22Veceslav HocjevacBench

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Context

All-time, Belgium 2–2 Croatia in 4 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Belgium going in
Croatia 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.