Petrarca Rugby

Petrarca Rugby
Full name	Petrarca Rugby S.r.l.
Union	Italian Rugby Federation
Founded	1947;78 years ago
Location	Padua, Italy
Ground(s)	Stadio centro memo geremia (Capacity: 9,000)
President	Enrico Toffano
Coach(es)	Víctor Jiménez
Captain(s)	Andrea Trotta
League(s)	Serie A Élite
1st kit	2nd kit
Official website
	www.petrarcarugby.it

Last updated March 09, 2025

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.

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

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

The squad for the Serie A Elite season is:

Petrarca Padova 2024-2025 squad
Props Filippo Alongi Valerio Bizzotto Riccardo Brugnara Nicolò D'Amico Alessandro Fioriti Sergio Pelliccioli Hookers Tommaso Cugini Luhandre Luus Thomas Montilla* Tommaso Scramoncin Locks Abraham Elias* Diego Sebastian Galetto* Filippo Marchetti Riccardo Michieletto	Back row Jacopo Botturi Nardo Casolari Enrico Ghigo Davide Goldin Alex Minozzi* Luca Nostran Mariano Romanini* Andrea Trotta Scrum-halves Lorenzo Citton Mattia Jimenez Tito Tebaldi Fly-halves Andrea Benvenuti Samuele Destro Daniel Donato*	Centres Marco Broggin Andrea De Masi Marcos De Sanctis* Riccardo Filippi Giovanni Scagnolari Wings Mattia Bellini Tommaso Coppo Angelo Leaupepe Fullbacks Scott Lyle Matteo Minozzi

(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

Overseas players

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

Statistics

European Challenge Cup (1996–2014)

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

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)

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

References

↑ "Rosa". Petrarca Rugby.

External links

Official website

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v t e Serie A Elite
2023–24 Teams	Colorno Fiamme Oro Lazio 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