| Team: | Italy |
| Destination: | South Africa and Argentina |
| Yearstart: | 2008 |
| Matchplayed: | 2 |
| Matchwon: | 1 |
| Matchdraw: | 0 |
| Matchlost: | 1 |
| Testplayed: | 2 |
| Testwon: | 1 |
| Testdraw: | 0 |
| Testlost: | 1 |
| Played1: | 1 |
| Won1: | 0 |
| Draw1: | 0 |
| Lost1: | 1 |
| Played2: | 1 |
| Won2: | 1 |
| Draw2: | 0 |
| Lost2: | 0 |
See main article: 2008 mid-year rugby union tests. The 2008 Italy rugby union tour of South Africa and Argentina was a series of matches played in June 2008 in South Africa and Argentina by Italy national rugby union team.
The "Azzurri" lost heavily the first a match against "Springboks", and won afgainst the "Pumas”
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| Conrad Jantjes | FB | 15 | FB | ||||||
| Odwa Ndungane | W | 14 | W | Kaine Robertson | |||||
| Gcobani Bobo | C | 13 | C | ||||||
| Jean de Villiers | C | 12 | C | ||||||
| Bryan Habana | W | 11 | W | Matteo Pratichetti | |||||
| Frans Steyn | FH | 10 | FH | Luke McLean | |||||
| Ricky Januarie | SH | 9 | SH | ||||||
| Ryan Kankowski | N8 | 8 | N8 | Josh Sole | |||||
| Juan Smith | F | 7 | F | Robert Barbieri | |||||
| Luke Watson | F | 6 | F | Alessandro Zanni | |||||
| (capt.) Victor Matfield | L | 5 | L | ||||||
| Bakkies Botha | L | 4 | L | ||||||
| 76'-80' CJ van der Linde | P | 3 | P | Carlos Nieto | |||||
| Bismarck du Plessis | H | 2 | H | Leonardo Ghiraldini (capt.) | |||||
| Tendai Mtawarira | P | 1 | P | ||||||
| Replacements | |||||||||
| Schalk Brits | H | 16 | H | ||||||
| Brian Mujati | P | 17 | P | ||||||
| Andries Bekker | L | 18 | L | ||||||
| Joe van Niekerk | N8 | 19 | C | ||||||
| Schalk Burger | F | 20 | SH | ||||||
| Peter Grant | FB | 21 | C | ||||||
| Ruan Pienaar | SH | 22 | FB | ||||||
| Coaches | |||||||||
 Peter de Villiers | Nick Mallett |
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| Bernardo Stortoni | FB | 15 | FB | Andrea Marcato | |||||
| Lucas Borges | W | 14 | W | Kaine Robertson | |||||
| Marcelo Bosch | C | 13 | C | Mirco Bergamasco | |||||
| Miguel Avramovic | C | 12 | C | Gonzalo Garcia | |||||
| Horacio Agulla | W | 11 | W | Matteo Pratichetti | |||||
| Juan Martín Hernández | FH | 10 | FH | Luke McLean | |||||
| Nicolas Vergallo | SH | 9 | SH | ||||||
| Juan Manuel Leguizamón | N8 | 8 | N8 | Sergio Parisse (capt.) | |||||
| Álvaro Galindo | F | 7 | F | Mauro Bergamasco | |||||
| Martín Durand | F | 6 | F | ||||||
| Esteban Lozada | L | 5 | L | Carlo Del Fava | |||||
| Manuel Carizza | L | 4 | L | ||||||
| Juan Gomez | P | 3 | P | Carlos Nieto | |||||
| Alvaro Tejeda | H | 2 | H | ||||||
| P | 1 | P | |||||||
| Replacements | |||||||||
| Pablo Gambarini | 16 | H | |||||||
| Pedro Ledesma | P | 17 | P | ||||||
| James Stuart | L | 18 | L | ||||||
| Alejandro Campos | N8 | 19 | F | ||||||
| Alfredo Lalanne | 20 | SH | |||||||
| Federico Martín Aramburú | FH | 21 | Enrico Patrizio | ||||||
| Hernán Senillosa | 22 | Jaco Erasmus | |||||||
| Coaches | |||||||||
 Santiago Phelan | Nick Mallett |