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Benetton Rugby

Full name	Benetton Rugby
Union	Federazione Italiana Rugby
Founded	1932; 86 years ago (1932)
Location	Treviso, Italy
Ground(s)	Stadio Comunale di Monigo (Capacity: 6,700)
President	Amerino Zatta
Director of Rugby	Marius Goosen
Coach(es)	Kieran Crowley
Captain(s)	Dean Budd
League(s)	Pro14
2017–18	5th(Conference B)
1st kit 2nd kit
Official website
www.benettonrugby.it

Benetton Rugby (Italian pronunciation: [ˌbenetˈton ˈrɛɡbi treˈviːzo] or Italian pronunciation: [ˌbenetˈton ˈraɡbi treˈviːzo]) are an Italian professional rugby union team based in Treviso, Veneto competing in the Pro14 and the European Rugby Champions Cup.

Treviso were founded in 1932 and have won 15 Italian national championships. The Treviso rugby team have been owned by the Benetton clothing company since 1979. Treviso have competed in the Pro14 (formerly known as the Pro12) since 2010, and have previously competed in the Italian domestic championship.

Treviso have supplied a large number of players to the Italian national team, such as Alessandro Zanni and Leonardo Ghiraldini. Several notable foreign players have played for Treviso, including Rugby World Cup winners Craig Green, John Kirwan and Michael Lynagh.

The President of Treviso Rugby is Amerino Zatta.

History

Amateur era: 1932–1995

Treviso rugby team was founded in 1932. The club won its first honour when it took the 1952 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 name of the team became "Benetton Rugby Treviso". Treviso won the domestic premiership in 1983, then again in 1989, and in the 1992 season.

Professional era: 1995–present

Rugby turned professional after 1995.
Benetton Treviso 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.^[1] They also won the Italian Cup in 1998.

Benetton Treviso has competed in the Heineken Cup 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 European Challenge Cup, 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 Newport Gwent Dragons in 2007). In the 2009–10 Heineken Cup opener, they defeated reigning French Top 14 champions Perpignan 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 Celtic League to play against clubs from Ireland, Wales and Scotland. 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.^[2]
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, Praetorians Roma, would join,^[3] 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.^[4] However, Pretorians Roma failed to satisfy financial criteria, and Treviso instead joined the Celtic League (renamed the Pro12).^[5]
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.

Ahead of the 2017/18 season, Benetton Rugby Treviso was renamed to Benetton Rugby.^{[citation needed]}

Honours

• 
  National Championship of Excellence:
  
  • Champions: 15 (1956, 1978, 1983, 1989, 1992, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010)


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  Coppa Italia:
  
  • Champions: 4 (1970, 1998, 2005, 2010)


• 
  Supercoppa d'Italia:
  
  • Champions: 2 (2006, 2009)


• 
  Italian Celtic League/Pro12/Pro14 derbies:
  
  • 
    Winners: 7 (2010−11, 2011−12, 2012−13, 2013−14, 2014−15, 2016−17, 2017−18)

Current standings

2018–19 Pro14 Table view · watch · edit · discuss
Conference A
	Team	P	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	TF	TA	TBP	LBP	PTS
1	Ospreys	2	2	0	0	63	27	+36	9	3	1	0	9
2	Glasgow Warriors	2	2	0	0	52	36	+16	7	3	1	0	9
3	Connacht	2	1	0	1	58	40	+18	7	5	1	1	6
4	Munster	2	1	0	1	48	25	+23	7	3	1	0	5
5	Zebre	2	1	0	1	45	48	−3	5	6	1	0	5
6	Cardiff Blues	2	0	0	2	57	60	−3	5	7	1	2	3
7	Cheetahs	2	0	0	2	14	84	−70	2	13	0	0	0
Conference B
	Team	P	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	TF	TA	TBP	LBP	PTS
1	Benetton	2	2	0	0	48	42	+6	6	3	0	0	8
2	Ulster	2	2	0	0	45	42	+3	3	3	0	0	8
3	Leinster	2	1	0	1	54	55	−1	7	6	1	1	6
4	Dragons	2	1	0	1	44	43	+1	5	7	0	1	5
5	Scarlets	2	1	0	1	36	36	+0	3	3	0	1	5
6	Edinburgh	2	0	0	2	42	47	−5	3	5	0	2	2
7	Southern Kings	2	0	0	2	38	59	−21	5	7	1	1	2
If teams are level at any stage, tiebreakers are applied in the following order -[6] number of matches won the difference between points for and points against the number of tries scored the most points scored the difference between tries for and tries against the fewest red cards received the fewest yellow cards received
Green background indicates teams that compete in the Pro14 play-offs, and also earn a place in the 2019–20 European Champions Cup (excluding South African teams who are ineligible) Blue background indicates teams outside the play-off places that earn a place in the 2019–20 European Champions Cup Yellow background indicates the fourth-ranked eligible teams in each conference that play-off against each other for the seventh place in the 2019–20 European Champions Cup Plain background indicates teams that earn a place in the 2019–20 European Rugby Challenge Cup. (CH) Champions. (RU) Runners-up. (SF) Losing semi-finalists. (QF) Losing quarter-finalists. (PO) Champions Cup play-off winners.

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 Treviso, 4 km northwest of the city centre. The stadium has a capacity of 6,700.

Staff and coaching team

• Sports Director – Antonio Pavanello
  


• Head Coach – Kieran Crowley
  


• Assistant Coach – Fabio Ongaro
  


• Assistant Coach – Ezio Galon
  


• Assistant Coach – Marco Bortolami
  


• Assistant Coach – Marius Goosen
  


• Team Manager – Enrico Ceccato
  


• Trainer – Pete Atkinson − Fabio Benvenuto – Giacomo Vigna – Giorgio Da Lozzo – Filippo Filippetto
  


• Team Manager – Nicola Gatto − Mattia Geromel

Current squad

The Benetton Rugby senior squad for 2018–19 is:^[7]

Permit player squad

Additional players selected from Top12^[9]

Note: Bold denotes players who are internationally capped.

Selected former players

Italian players

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

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 Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia.^[10] 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.^[11]

In the past I Dogi was a historical invinational team that included the best players of Triveneto, area of Italy in which this sport is very widespread. The team was founded on December 17, 1973 in Treviso, and played its last game on November 17, 1993. In twenty years played 22 games with teams of international level, collecting 15 victories. The selection shirt was red, with golden edges.

See also

• Pro14


• Heineken Cup


• European Challenge Cup


• Top12


• Coppa Italia

References

External links

• 
  Official website