Benetton Rugby, also known as Benetton Treviso ( or ), is an Italian professional

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team based in

Treviso Treviso ( , ; vec, Trevixo) is a city and ''comune'' in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Treviso and the municipality has 84,669 inhabitants (as of September 2017). Some 3,000 live within the Veneti ...

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competing in the

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, the

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and European Champions Cup. Treviso rugby team was founded in 1932 and has won 15 Italian national championships. The team has been owned by the Benetton clothing company since 1979. Treviso have competed in the United Rugby Championship (formerly the Pro14 and Pro12) since 2010, and have previously competed in the Italian domestic championship. Treviso have supplied many players to the

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, such as

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and Leonardo Ghiraldini. Conversely, several notable foreign internationals have played for Treviso, including Rugby World Cup winners Craig Green, John Kirwan and

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. The President of Treviso Rugby is Amerino Zatta. Since 1982 the club has also had a women's team, known as ''Red Panthers'', which has won 16

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History

Amateur era: 1932–1995

Treviso rugby team was founded in 1932. The club won its first honour when it took the 1956 Italian premiership. Benetton Treviso won its first Italian Cup in 1970 and in 1978 won the Italian premiership again. The year after Benetton became the main sponsor, the team's name became "Benetton Rugby Treviso". Treviso won the domestic premiership in 1983, then again in 1989 and in the 1992 season.

Professional era: 1995–present

Benetton Treviso Rugby turned professional after 1995. They dominated the Italian league from 1997 until 2010, winning the championship 10 times (1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2010) during those 14 seasons and twice finishing second. They also won the Italian Cup in 1998. Benetton Treviso has competed in the

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competition almost every year since the competition began in 1995 along with the professional era. Benetton Treviso competed in the inaugural 1995–96 Heineken Cup, winning one game and losing one. The following season they played four matches, winning one game. In the 1998–99 Heineken Cup, they won three games. Benetton Treviso spent the 2000–01 and 2002–03 seasons in the

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, but have appeared in the Heineken Cup in each season since then. They won half of their games during the 2004–05 Heineken Cup, but won only one match in the following four seasons (at

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in 2007). In the

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opener, they defeated reigning French

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champions

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9–8 in Treviso. Following the 2009–10 season, Treviso left the Italian domestic competition and in 2010–11 was one of two Italian teams to join the

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to play against clubs from Ireland, Wales and Scotland. The new league was to be known as the

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. Both Italian teams were guaranteed places annually into the Heineken Cup, which had previously been awarded to the two top teams in the domestic Italian National Championship of Excellence. An agreement had been reached in early March 2010 to allow two Italian teams a place in the Celtic League. In 2010, it was proposed that Aironi and a new team,

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, would join, but Treviso were nominated instead. Treviso and a combination of Duchi Nord-Ovest rugby clubs could not agree to form one regional representative club and lost out in the first round of bidding. However, Pretorians Roma failed to satisfy financial criteria, and Treviso instead joined the Pro12. Treviso finished their first two season in the Pro12 (2010–11 and 2011–12) in 10th place, while in the 2012–13 season they finished 7th with 50 points. In the next three seasons, Treviso performed poorly, ending 11th, 11th and 12th out of twelve teams. After that, a new head coach was engaged for the 2016/2017 season, the New Zealander

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. The former

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formed a new coaching team with two ex-Italian internationals,

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and

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. Treviso finished the season in 10th place. In 2017/2018, the championship was joined by two

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ns teams, becoming the

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, and was divided into two conferences. This season Treviso nearly reached the

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play-offs, ending 5th in the conference with 55 points. For first time since Treviso joined this league the club has been able to record more wins than losses (11 against 10). Ahead of the 2017/18 season, Benetton Rugby Treviso was renamed Benetton Rugby. From 2022/23 season, he instituted an Academy Under 23 and a territorial Academy Under 19.

Honours

* Italian Championship: ** Champions: 15 (1956, 1978, 1983, 1989, 1992, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007,

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) *

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: ** Champions: 4 (1970, 1998, 2005, 2010) * Supercoppa d'Italia: ** Champions: 2 (2006, 2009) *

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** Champions: (

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)

Current standings

Season records

Celtic League / Pro12

Pro14

European Rugby Challenge Cup

Heineken Cup / European Rugby Champions Cup

Stadium

The team play at the Stadio Comunale di Monigo in

, 4 km northwest of the city centre. The stadium has two covered stands and a capacity of 6,700.

Staff and coaching team

The staff for the 2022–23 season is: * Sports Director –

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* Head Coach –

* Assistant Coach –

* Assistant Coach – Calum MacRae * Assistant Coach –

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* Assistant Coach –

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* Assistant Coach –

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* Team Manager – Enrico Ceccato * Trainer – Jim Molony − Alberto Botter – Mario Disetti – Giorgio Da Lozzo – Riccardo Ton –

- Alberto Antonelli * Video Analyst – Nicola Gatto − Mattia Geromel

Current squad

Additional player squad

Selected former players

Italian players

Former players who have played for Benetton and have caps for Italy *

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* Enrico Bacchin *

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Marco Barbini Marco Barbini (born 16 October 1990) is a retired Italian rugby union player. His usual position was in the back-row. From 2014 to 2021, Barbini played with Italian Pro14 team Benetton. From 2009 to 2012 Barbini was named in the Italy Under ...

* Alberto Benettin * Tommaso Benvenuti *

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* Stefano Bettarello *

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* Lucio Boccaletto * Tobias Botes * Giorgio Bronzini *

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* Lorenzo Cittadini *

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* Walter Cristofoletto * Mauro Dal Sie *

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* Santiago Dellapè * Benjamin de Jager * Andrea De Marchi * Paul Derbyshire * Alberto Di Bernardo * Raffaele Dolfato * Piermassimiliano Dotto *

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* Hame Faiva * Gianluca Faliva * Simone Favaro * Ignacio Fernandez Rouyet * Ivan Francescato * Marco Fuser *

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* Gonzalo Garcia * Julian Gardner * Ornel Gega * Leonardo Ghiraldini *

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* Giovanni Grespan *

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* David Odiete *

* Scott Palmer *

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Mario Pavin Mario Pavin (born Treviso, 18 July 1958) is a former Italian rugby union player and is currently a coach. He played as a flanker. Biography A flanker, Pavin spent his career in Benetton Treviso; called up in the Italy national team for the fir ...

* Massimiliano Perziano *

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* Giancarlo Pivetta *

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* Andrea Pratichetti * Franco Properzi *

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* Iliesa Ratuva Tavuyara *

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* Michele Rizzo * Guido Rossi * Leonardo Sarto * Stefano Saviozzi * Franco Sbaraglini * Diego Scaglia *

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* Alberto Sgarbi * Andrea Sgorlon *

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* Moreno Trevisiol *

* Giorgio Troncon * Corniel van Zyl * Tommaso Visentin * Manoa Vosawai *

Gianni Zanon Gianni Zanon (born 3 March 1960 in Treviso) is a former Italian rugby union player and a current coach. He played as a flanker. Zanon started his career at Tarvisium, where he played until 1979/80. He moved then to Benetton Treviso, where he ...

* Matteo Zanusso * Sergio Zorzi

Overseas players

Former players who have played for Benetton and have caps for their Representative Team

I Dogi

Treviso is an executive member of the historical territorial representative of I Dogi (the Doges) that have recovered in 2015 and represents several clubs in

and

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. Currently no provision is made for a selection Seniors who take the field with the shirt of ''The Doges'': to represent its brand and colors are at this stage the representative under-14, under-16 male and female under-18 male and female managed by Veneto Regional Committee. May occur during the right conditions, there is still the desire to be able to field, even if it is currently not a priority. In the past, Dogi was a historical invitational team that included the best players of

Triveneto The Triveneto (), or Tre Venezie () ( vec, Tre Venesie, german: Venetien), is a historical region of Italy. The area included what has become the three Italian regions of ''Venezia Euganea'', ''Venezia Giulia'' and ''Venezia Tridentina''. This ter ...

, area of

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in which this sport is very widespread. The team was founded on 17 December 1973 in

, and played its last game on 17 November 1993. In twenty years they played 22 games with teams of international level, collecting 15 victories. The selection shirt was red, with golden edges.

References

External links

* {{Benetton squad Rugby clubs established in 1932 Benetton Group United Rugby Championship teams

History

Amateur era: 1932–1995

Professional era: 1995–present

Honours

Current standings

Season records

Celtic League / Pro12

Pro14

European Rugby Challenge Cup

Heineken Cup / European Rugby Champions Cup

Stadium

Staff and coaching team

Current squad

Additional player squad

Selected former players

Italian players

Overseas players

I Dogi

See also

References

External links