Petrarca Rugby is a rugby union club from Padua, Italy, currently competing in the top tier of the Italian rugby union, the Top10. 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 14 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 the last one in the 2017-18 season. Petrarca is the 3rd most successful side in the Italian championship behind Amatori Milano (18 titles) and Benetton Treviso (15). Honours Italian championship Champions (14): 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 Runners-up (3): 1997–98, 1998–99, 2020−21 Coppa Italia/Excellence Trophy Champions (3): 1981–82, 2000–01, 2021−22 Runners-up (4): 1980–81, 2007–08, 2009–10, 2015–16 Current squad The squad for the Top10 season is: 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 Oscar Collodo Manuel Dallan Renato de Bernardo Paul Derbyshire 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 Overseas players Former players who have played for Petrarca and have caps for their respective country: Mark Bartholomeusz David Campese David Knox Brendan Williams 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) European Shield Heineken Cup (1995–2014) References External links Italian rugby union teams Sport in Padua