Polisportiva S.S. Lazio Rugby 1927, also called S.S. Lazio, is an Italian rugby union club based in Rome. The club is the rugby union branch of the multisport club SS Lazio, which most famous section is the association football team.
S.S. Lazio play in Serie A Elite and in the 2024-25 season represents Rome along with Fiamme Oro Rugby in the top tier of the Italian league system.
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 2024–25:
Lazio Top10 squadProps Valerio Cordì Damiano D'Aleo Lorenzo Gaddi Achraf Hliwa Leonel Moreno* Gabriele Moscioni Lorenzo Pesucci Fabio Massimo Ruffini
Hookers Niccolò Corvasce Paolo Gisonni Roman Pretz*
Locks Federico Ehgartner Gabriele Cicchinelli Felipe Juan Bruno Schmidt* Imanol Urraza* Matteo TommasiniBack row Lorenzo Cannata Matteo Morelli Nicolò Pilati Rodrigo Perez Boulan* Matteo Urbani Cesare Zucconi
Scrum-halves Manfredi Albanese Nicolò Cristofaro Emanuele Leo Homero Picone*
Fly-halves Felipe Barla* Matteo Bianco Francesco CozziCentres Gabriele Baffigi GMichele Bianco Tommaso Cruciani Federico Gianni William Shankland
Wings Francesco Bonavolontà Massimo Cioffi Leopoldo Herrera* Leonardo Sodo Vittorio Santarelli
Alessio Mattoccia Andrea Pancini Andrea Vella
Fullbacks Samuel Stelitano* Riccardo Giovannini (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.
Selected former players Italian players Former players who have played for S.S. Lazio and have caps for Italy:
Bruno Ancillotti Valerio Bernabò Stefano Barba Giuseppe Bigi Giulio Bisegni Pietro Ceccarelli Gerardo Cinti Guglielmo Colussi Oliviero Fabiani Tommaso Fattori Alessandro Fusco Andrea Lo Cicero Gilberto Luchini Ivo Mazzucchelli Ludovico Nitoglia Michele Sepe Franco Paganelli Sami Panico Carlo Pratichetti Giulio Rubini Francisco Rubio Giulio Toniolatti Eugenio Vinci (Vinci I) Francesco Vinci (Vinci III) Pietro Vinci (Vinci IV) Paolo Vinci (Vinci II)
Overseas players Former players who have played for S.S. Lazio and have caps for their respective country: Rodrigo Bruno John Cootes Gary Pearse Dick Greenwood Zinzan Brooke – Stephen Bachop Carl Manu Nick Civetta
References
External links Official site