Petrarca Rugby Explained

Teamname:	Petrarca Rugby
Location:	Padua, Italy
Countryflag:	ITA
Fullname:	Petrarca Rugby S.r.l.
Shortname:	Petrarca Rugby
Union:	Italian Rugby Federation
Ground:	Stadio centro memo geremia
Capacity:	9,000
President:	Enrico Toffano
Coach:	Andrea Marcato
Captain:	andrea trotta
Url:	https://www.petrarcarugby.it/
League:	Serie A Élite
Season:	2023–24
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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

• 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 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

Italian players

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

• Giuseppe Artuso
• Enrico Bacchin
• Mattia Bellini
• Alberto Benettin
• Mauro Bergamasco
• Mirco Bergamasco
• Lucio Boccaletto
• Marco Bortolami
• Alberto Chillon
• Dario Chistolini
• Oscar Collodo
• Manuel Dallan
• Renato de Bernardo
• Paul Derbyshire
• Angelo Esposito
• Piergianni Farina
• Roberto Favaro
• Antonio Galeazzo
• Mauro Gardin
• Guglielmo Geremia
• Leonardo Ghiraldini
• Marzio Innocenti
• Andrea Marcato
• Luca Martin
• Fulvio Lorigiola
• Luigi Luise
• Luciano Orquera
• Mario Piovan
• Pasquale Presutti
• Michele Rizzo
• Roberto Saetti
• Alberto Sgarbi
• Samuela Vunisa

Overseas players

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

• Mark Bartholomeusz
• David Campese
• David Knox
• Brendan Williams
• Rodrigo Fernández
• Sisa Koyamaibole
• Nicky Little
• Guy Pardiès
• Stuart Grimes
• Theuns Stofberg
• Rudolf Straeuli
• Cameron Oliver
• Kobus Wiese
• James Faiva
• Richie Collins

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Rosa . Petrarca Rugby .