Petrarca Rugby

Template:Short description Template:Short descriptionTemplate:Template other 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 2024-2025 squad
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Selected former players

Italian players

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

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

Overseas players

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

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