Petrarca Rugby

Full name

Petrarca Rugby

Union

Federazione Italiana Rugby

Founded

1947

Location

Padua, Italy

Ground(s)

Stadio Plebiscito (Capacity: 9 000)

President

Enrico Toffano

Coach(es)

Pasquale Presutti

Captain(s)

Nicola Bezzati

League(s)

Campionato Nazionale Eccellenza (Italian premiership)

1st kit

2nd kit

Official website

www.petrarcarugby.it

Petrarca Rugby is a rugby union club from Padua, Italy, currently competing in the top tier of the Italian rugby union, the National Championship of Excellence.

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, though is the rugby that made Petrarca famous all across the country.

They have, in fact, won 12 league titles, 11 of them between 1969–70 and 1986-87 seasons; their most recent success in the Italian championship came 24 years after their latest feat, at the end of the 2010-11 season.

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

In 1982 they had their own stadium, Stadio Plebiscito, with full facilities built.

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national union as has been defined under WR eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-WR nationality.

Player	Position	Union
Agustin Costa Repetto (c)	Hooker	Argentina
Flavio Damiano	Hooker	Italy
Nicola Gatto	Hooker	Italy
Ornel Gega	Hooker	Italy
Miguel Alonso	Prop	Argentina
Chris Caporello	Prop	Italy
Luca D'Agostino	Prop	Italy
Alessandro Furia	Prop	Italy
Filippo Giuriatti	Prop	Italy
Piermaria Leso	Prop	Italy
Laert Naka	Prop	Italy
Phil Mathers	Lock	Australia
Michele Sutto	Lock	Italy
Enrico Targa	Lock	Italy
Matvydas Tveraga	Lock	Italy
Marco Barbini	Flanker	Italy
Nicola Bezzati	Flanker	Italy
Edoardo Ghiraldini	Flanker	Italy
Filippo Giusti	Flanker	Italy
Niccolo Luxardo	Flanker	Italy
Lance Persico	Flanker	Italy
Zane Ansell	Number 8	South Africa
Dion Kingi	Number 8	New Zealand
Scott Palmer	Number 8	Italy

Player	Position	Union
Alessandro Billot	Scrum-half	Italy
Alberto Chillon	Scrum-half	Italy
Pietro Travagli	Scrum-half	Italy
Tim Walsh	Fly-half	Australia
Roberto Bertetti	Centre	Italy
Alessandro Chillon	Centre	Italy
Francesco Favaro	Centre	Italy
Marco Neethling	Centre	Italy
Juan Pablo Sanchez	Centre	Argentina
Fabio Fagiotto	Wing	Italy
Lorenzo Innocenti	Wing	Italy
Alex Morsellino	Wing	Italy
Riccardo Russo	Wing	Italy
Warren Spragg	Wing	Italy
Steven Bortolussi	Fullback	Italy
Nicola Sintich	Fullback	Italy

Statistics

European Challenge Cup

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
(Shield) 2002-03	6	3	1	2	140	118
2002-03	2	0	0	2	36	81
(Shield) 2003-04	4	2	0	2	93	110
2003-04	2	0	0	2	32	75
(Shield) 2004-05	4	2	0	2	93	110
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

Heineken Cup

Season	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against
1998-99	6	1	0	5	79	169
1999-00	6	0	0	6	76	282

Notable former players

Honours

National Championship of Excellence:
- Champions: 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1980, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 2011.

External links

Official website

National Championship of Excellence

2014/15 Teams	L'Aquila Calvisano Cavalieri Prato Fiamme Oro Lazio Mogliano Petrarca Rovigo San Donà 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" (1960-65)	1960–61 • 1961–62 • 1962–63 • 1963–64 • 1964–65

"Serie A" (1965-86)	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 (1986–01)	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 (2001-10)	2001–02 • 2002–03 • 2003–04 • 2004–05 • 2005–06 • 2006–07 • 2007–08 • 2008–09 • 2009–10

Eccellenza (2010-…)	2010–11 • 2011–12 • 2012–13 • 2013–14 • 2014–15

Rugby union in Italy

Governing body

Federazione Italiana Rugby

National teams

Italy
A
7's
U-20
U-18
Schoolboys
Women's
Women's 7's

Competitions

International	World Cup Six Nations Rugby World Cup Sevens Sevens World Series Sevens Grand Prix Series

Professional Club	Pro12 European Rugby Champions Cup European Rugby Challenge Cup ERCC Qualifying Competition Excellence Coppa Italia Serie A Serie B Serie C

Defunct	Heineken Cup European Challenge Cup European Shield

Representative teams

Zebre
Dogi (disbanded)
Lupi (disbanded)