S.S. Lazio Rugby 1927

S.S. Lazio Rugby 1927
Full name	Polisportiva S.S. Lazio Rugby 1927
Union	Italian Rugby Federation
Founded	1927; 97 years ago
Location	Rome, Italy
Ground(s)	Giulio Onesti Olimpic Preparation Center (Capacity: 1,300)
President	Alfredo Biagini
Coach(es)	Daniele Montella
Captain(s)	Carlo Filippucci
League(s)	Top12
2017–18	9th
1st kit	2nd kit
Official website
	www.laziorugby.it

Polisportiva S.S. Lazio Rugby 1927, based in Rome, is an Italian rugby union team. They currently play in Top12 after gaining promotion from winning Serie A in the 2009–10 season.

It is the rugby union branch of the multisport club S.S. Lazio, probably the biggest European multisport organization, which operates also the famous association football team with the same name.

They were the first XV in Italy established in Rome in 1927, as “S.S. Lazio Rugby”, the rugby section of Lazio Sports Association. The founders were the brothers Vinci: Eugenio (Vinci I), Paolo (Vinci II), Francesco (Vinci III) and Pietro (Vinci IV). The Oval eagles debuted on 13 May 1928 at Rome's National Stadium (demolished and rebuilt in the 1950s as Stadio Flaminio) in front of 20,000 spectators. S.S. Lazio Rugby defeated “XV Legione Leonessa d'Italia” by a score of 17-0.

They play their home games at the Giulio Onesti Olimpic Preparation Center of Acqua Acetosa, in the Parioli district.

Honours

Italian championship
- Runners-up (1): 1928–29
Excellence Trophy
- Runners-up (2): 2011–12, 2012–13

Current squad

The S.S. Lazio squad for 2021–22:

Lazio Top10 squad
Props Antonio Careri Davide Di Roberto Enzo Gentile Miguel Leiger* Juan Criach Montilla Antonio Paparone Hookers Paolo Gisonni Thomas Rosario* Locks Gianluca Broglia* Matteo Colangeli Marcos German De Lorenzi* Gianmarco Duca Daniel Ferreira Hugh Margin Ricardo Wagner	Back row Alessandro Asoli Kevin Cacciagrano James Donato* Luca Ercolani Giulio Marucchini Pablo Parlatore* Nicolò Pilati Ruben Riccioli(c) Daniele Ulisse Scrum-halves Nicolò Cristofaro Francisco Del Valle* Riccardo Loro Fly-halves Francesco Cozzi Giovanni Montemauri	Centres Gabriele Baffigi Nicolás Coronel* Tommaso Cruciani Daniel Donato* Wings Francesco Bonavolontà Paolo Di Gianmarco Federico Gianni Alessio Mattoccia Andrea Pancini Andrea Vella Fullbacks Leopoldo Herrera Gabriele Leveratto Vittorio Santarelli

(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 Lazio website.^[1]

Selected former players

Italian players

Former players who have played for S.S. Lazio and have caps for Italy:

Overseas players

Former players who have played for S.S. Lazio and have caps for their respective country:

References

^ "Rosa 2021/2022". Lazio Rugby.

External links

Official site

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