The Italy national rugby sevens team has occasionally competed in the

IRB Sevens World Series The World Rugby Men's Sevens Series is an annual series of international rugby sevens tournaments run by World Rugby featuring national sevens teams. Organised for the first time in the 1999–2000 season as the IRB World Sevens Series, the com ...

since the series' was introduced in 1999, although they do not participate in every leg. Their first (and currently only) ever points in the World Series came in 2003, when they scored four points in the Cardiff leg of the series. Italy also competes in the Rugby Europe Sevens Grand Prix Series each summer. Italy also plays qualifying matches for two quadrennial tournaments—the Rugby World Cup Sevens and the Summer Olympics. Italy has participated in the Sevens World Cup multiple times, but has not qualified for the Olympics.

Tournament history

Rugby World Cup Sevens

Sevens Grand Prix Series

World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series

Current squad

Squad to the 2023 World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series: *

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( Lazio) *Nicholas Bordin (Rugby Badia 1981) *Filippo Bozzoni ( Calvisano) * Lorenzo Maria Bruno ( Lyons Piacenza) * Massimo Cioffi ( Petrarca Padova) *

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( Lyons Piacenza) *

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( Mogliano) *Riccardo Ghelli ( Rovigo Delta) *

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( Benetton) *

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( Fiamme Oro) *

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( Benetton/ Mogliano) *

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( Benetton) *

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(Verona Rugby) *

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( Zebre Parma) *Flavio Pio Vaccari ( Calvisano)

References

External links

Federazione Italiana Rugby official site
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Italy national rugby sevens team sevens National rugby sevens teams