Petrarca_Rugby

Petrarca Rugby

Petrarca Rugby

Italian rugby union club, based in Padua

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.

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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 14 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 the last one in the 2021-22 season.

Petrarca is the 3rd most successful side in the Italian championship behind Amatori Milano (18 titles) and Benetton Treviso (15).

Honours

  • Italian championship
    • Champions (14): 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
    • Runners-up (3): 1997–98, 1998–99, 2020−21
  • 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

The squad for the Serie A Elite season is:

Petrarca Padova 2023-2024 squad

Props

Hookers

  • Italy Tommaso Cugini
  • Italy Luhandre Luus
  • Argentina Thomas Montilla*
  • Italy Tommaso Scramoncin

Locks

  • Italy Giacomo Bonfiglio
  • Argentina Diego Sebastian Galetto*
  • Italy Filippo Marchetti
  • Italy Riccardo Michieletto
  • Argentina Bernardo Quaranta*
  • Samoa Maea Tema-Schmidt

Back row

Scrum-halves

Fly-halves

Centres

  • Italy Marco Broggin
  • Italy Andrea De Masi
  • Argentina Marcos De Sanctis
  • Italy Giovanni Scagnolari

Wings

Fullbacks

  • Italy Marco Capraro
  • Scotland 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

    See also: Category:Petrarca Rugby players

    Italian players

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

    Overseas players

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

    Statistics

    European Challenge Cup (1996–2014)

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    European Shield

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    Heineken Cup (1995–2014)

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    References

    1. [1]
      "Rosa". Petrarca Rugby.
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