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(Top) 1 Honours 2 Current squad 3 Selected former players 3.1 Italian players 3.2 Overseas players 4 Statistics 4.1 European Challenge Cup (1996–2014) 4.1.1 European Shield 4.2 Heineken Cup (1995–2014) 5 References 6 External links

Petrarca Rugby

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Petrarca Rugby

Full name

Petrarca Rugby S.r.l.

Union

Italian Rugby Federation

Founded

1947; 77 years ago

Location

Padua, Italy

Ground(s)

Stadio centro memo geremia (Capacity: 9,000)

President

Enrico Toffano

Coach(es)

Andrea Marcato

Captain(s)

andrea trotta

League(s)

Serie A Élite

1st kit

2nd kit

Official website

www.petrarcarugby.it

Petrarca Rugby is a professional rugby union club from Padua, Italy, currently competing in the top tier of the Italian rugby union, the Serie A Elite.

Founded in 1947, the team is the rugby union branch of the Unione Sportiva Petrarca, an omnisport club that includes also basketball, futsal, volleyball, fencing and football.

They have won 15 league titles, 11 of them between 1969–70 and 1986–87 seasons; their most recent successes in the Italian championship came 24 years after their latest feat, at the end of the 2010–11 season, and in recent years appearing in four straight finals 3 against rugby delta Rovigo (2020-21,2021-22,2022-23)and 1 against rugby viadana (2023-24) and winning two (2021-22 and 2023-24).

Petrarca is the tied 2nd most successful side in the Italian championship with Benetton rugby (15 time champions) and behind amatori rugby Milano (18 time champions)

Honours[edit]

Italian championship
- Champions (15): 1969–70, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1973–74, 1976–77, 1979–80, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87, 2010–11, 2017–18, 2021−22, 2023−24
- Runners-up (3): 1997–98, 1998–99,2020−21,2022-23
Coppa Italia/Excellence Trophy
- Champions (4): 1981–82, 2000–01, 2021−22, 2022−23
- Runners-up (4): 1980–81, 2007–08, 2009–10, 2015–16

Current squad[edit]

The squad for the Serie A Elite season is:

Petrarca Padova 2023-2024 squad
Props Valerio Bizzotto Damiano Borean Riccardo Brugnara Nicolò D'Amico Alessandro Fioriti Gonzalo Ezequiel Hughes Hookers Tommaso Cugini Luhandre Luus Thomas Montilla* Tommaso Scramoncin Locks Giacomo Bonfiglio Diego Sebastian Galetto* Filippo Marchetti Riccardo Michieletto Bernardo Quaranta* Maea Tema-Schmidt	Back row Jacopo Botturi Nardo Casolari Enrico Ghigo Davide Goldin Alex Minozzi* Luca Nostran Mariano Romanini* Andrea Trotta Samuela Vunisa Scrum-halves Lorenzo Citton Edoardo Navarra Matteo Panunzi Tito Tebaldi Fly-halves Joey Caputo* Samuele Destro Rodrigo Fernandez	Centres Marco Broggin Andrea De Masi Marcos De Sanctis Giovanni Scagnolari Wings Mattia Bellini Tommaso Coppo Angelo Esposito Pama Fou Fullbacks Marco Capraro Scott Lyle

(c) denotes the team captain, Bold denotes internationally capped players. ^* denotes players qualified to play for Italy on residency or dual nationality. Players and their allocated positions from the Petrarca website.^[1]

Selected former players[edit]

Italian players[edit]

Former players who have played for Petrarca and have caps for Italy:

Giuseppe Artuso

Overseas players[edit]

Former players who have played for Petrarca and have caps for their respective country:

Mark Bartholomeusz

Statistics[edit]

European Challenge Cup (1996–2014)[edit]

Season	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against
1996-97	5	1	0	4	118	148
1997-98	6	0	2	4	108	212
2001-02	6	2	0	4	114	223
2002-03	2	0	0	2	36	81
2003-04	2	0	0	2	32	75
2004-05	2	0	0	2	42	126
2006-07	6	0	0	6	47	298
2007-08	6	1	0	5	73	190
2008-09	6	3	0	3	112	206
2009-10	6	0	0	6	95	180
2010-11	4	1	0	3	68	135

European Shield[edit]

Season	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against
2002-03	6	3	1	2	140	118
2003-04	4	2	0	2	93	110
2004-05	4	2	0	2	93	110

Heineken Cup (1995–2014)[edit]

Season	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against
1998-99	6	1	0	5	79	169
1999-2000	6	0	0	6	76	282

References[edit]

^ "Rosa". Petrarca Rugby.

External links[edit]

Official website

v t e Serie A Elite
2023–24 Teams	Colorno Fiamme Oro Lyons Piacenza Mogliano Petrarca Rangers Vicenza Rovigo Delta Valorugby Emilia Viadana
Serie A (1929–1960)	1929 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60
Eccellenza (1960–1965)	1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65
Serie A (1965–1986)	1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86
Serie A1 (1986–2001)	1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01
Super 10 (2001–2010)	2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10
Eccellenza (2010–2018)	2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18
Top12 (2018–2020)	2018–19 2019–20
Top10 (2020–2023)	2020–21 2021–22 2022–23
Serie A Élite (2023–present)	2023–24

Rugby union in Italy

Federazione Italiana Rugby (FIR)

National teams

Women's

Italy
7's

Men's

League competitions

Women's

Men's

Cup competitions

Men's

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