Rugby Rovigo Delta

Rugby Rovigo Delta
Full name	Rugby Rovigo Delta S.r.l.
Union	Italian Rugby Federation
Founded	1935
Location	Rovigo, Italy
Ground(s)	Stadio Mario Battaglini (Capacity: 5,500)
President	Francesco Zambelli
Coach(es)	Davide Giazzon
Captain(s)	Matteo Ferro
League(s)	Serie A Élite
1st kit	2nd kit
Official website
	www.rugbyrovigodelta.it

Rugby Rovigo Delta, formerly known until 2010 as Rugby Rovigo, is an Italian rugby union club currently competing in the Serie A Élite. They are based in Rovigo, in Veneto.

Overview

The club was founded in 1935 by medical student Dino Lanzoni, who discovered rugby at university.

They quickly became one of the strongest Italian sides and won 14 titles between 1951 and 2023. They have never been relegated from the top flight of Italian rugby union. They are the current Italian champion.

Current and former Rovigo players include Elio De Anna, Stefano Bettarello, Stefano Bordon, Alessandro Moscardi, Carlo Orlandi, Carlo Checchinato, Mirco Bergamasco, Manuel Contepomi, AJ Venter, Gert Smal, Viliami Ofahengaue and Naas Botha.

Honours

Italian championship
- Champions (15): 1950–51, 1951–52, 1952–53, 1953–54, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1975–76, 1978–79, 1987–88, 1989–90, 2015–16, 2020–21, 2022-23. 2024-25
- Runners-up (7): 1988–89, 1991–92, 2010–11, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2016–17, 2018–19, 2021−22
Coppa Italia/Excellence Trophy
- Champions (2): 2019-20, 2024-25
- Runners-up (3): 1997–98, 2005–06, 2013−14

Current squad

The Rovigo Delta senior squad for 2024–25 is:

Rovigo Delta squad
Props Nicola Bolognini Andrea Della Sala Emanuele Leccioli Stefano Lugato Nicola Pomaro Alessio Sanavia Entienne Swanepoel Antonio Tripodo Mitchell Walsh Hookers Filippo Cadorini Lapo Frangini Enrico Giulian Locks Eliseo Fourcade Samuele Ortis Paolo Steolo Alfonso Zottola*	Back row Carlos Berlese Lautaro Casado Sandri* Duccio Cosi Matteo Ferro(c) Edoardo Lubian Matteo Meggiato Riccardo Paganin Edoardo Rossoni Stefano Sironi Scrum-halves Jacopo Boscolo Alberto Chillon Andrea Visentin Fly-halves Francesco Krsul Sebastian Poet Nicolò Teneggi Brandon Thomson Juan Mostert	Centres Lorenzo Elettri Facundo Diederich Ferrario* Ethan Fisher Rafael Andrès Lertora Castro* Matteo Moscardi Paolo Uncini Wings Francesco Bini Paolo Pio Vaccari Tobias Williams Fullbacks Mirko Belloni Luca Sperandio

(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 Rovigo Delta website.^[1]^[2]

Selected former players

Italian players

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

Matías Agüero
Andrea Bacchetti
Mario Battaglini
Enzo Bellinazzo
Mirko Belloni
Arturo Bergamasco
Mirco Bergamasco
Ottorino Bettarello
Romano Bettarello
Stefano Bettarello
Flaviano Brizzante
Massimo Brunello
Stefano Bordon
Giancarlo Busson
Pablo Canavosio
Carlo Checchinato
David Dal Maso
Elio De Anna
Gianluca Faliva
Simone Favaro
– Julian Gardner
Massimo Giovanelli
Andrea Lo Cicero
Tito Lupini
Giancarlo Malosti
Matteo Mazzantini
Alessandro Moscardi
Giancarlo Navarrini
Giacomo Nicotera
Carlo Orlandi
Alberto Osti
Antonio Pavanello
Gert Peens
Isidoro Quaglio
Nicola Quaglio
Graziano Ravanelli
Pietro Reale
Leonardo Sarto
Andrea Scanavacca
Fabrizio Sintich
Pietro Stievano
Iliesa Ratuva Tavuyara
Edgardo Venturi
Angelo Visentin
Narciso Zanella

Overseas players

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

Peter FitzSimons
Viliami Ofahengaue
Alejandro Abadie
Lautaro Bazan Velez
Manuel Contepomi
Juan Cruz Legora
Leandro Lobrauco
Serafín Dengra
Juan Pablo Orlandi
– Christian Stewart
Akvsenti Giorgadze
Ilia Zedginidze
Gheorghe Gajion
Ron Cribb
Alexandru Penciu
Cristian Săuan
Nick Mallett
Stefan Basson
Schalk van der Merwe
Schalk Burger Sr.
Hendro Scholtz
Naas Botha
Gert Smal
AJ Venter
Silao Leaega
Elvis Seveali'i
Luke Gross
Bernard Thomas

References

^ "First XV". Rurby Rovigo Delta.
^ "DEFINITI I PERCORSI INDIVIDUALI DEGLI ATLETI DELL'ACCADEMIA DEL BENETTON RUGBY". Benetton Rugby (in Italian). 20 July 2023. Retrieved 20 July 2023.

External links

Official website

[Archivi_La_Squadra-1] "First XV". Rurby Rovigo Delta.

[Academy_loans-2] "DEFINITI I PERCORSI INDIVIDUALI DEGLI ATLETI DELL'ACCADEMIA DEL BENETTON RUGBY". Benetton Rugby (in Italian). 20 July 2023. Retrieved 20 July 2023.

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Serie A Elite
2023–24 Teams	Colorno Fiamme Oro Lazio Lyons Piacenza Mogliano Petrarca Rangers Vicenza 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