Petrarca Rugby


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 and 1 against rugby viadana and winning two.
Petrarca is the tied 2nd most successful side in the Italian championship with Benetton rugby and behind amatori rugby Milano

Honours

  • Italian championship
  • * Champions : 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 : 1997–98, 1998–99,2020−21,2022-23
  • Coppa Italia/Excellence Trophy
  • * Champions : 1981–82, 2000–01, 2021−22, 2022−23
  • * Runners-up : 1980–81, 2007–08, 2009–10, 2015–16

    Current squad

The squad for the Serie A Elite season is:

Selected former players

Italian players

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

European Challenge Cup (1996–2014)

European Shield

Heineken Cup (1995–2014)