The 2025–26 season is Zebre Parma's fifth season in the United Rugby Championship, and their 14th season of professional rugby. Along with competing in the URC and its Scottish-Italian Shield competition, the club will also participate in the 2025–26 EPCR Challenge Cup.
Senior Squad
Zebre Parma United Rugby Championship squadProps Paolo Buonfiglio Luca Franceschetto Muhamed Hasa Ion Neculai Matteo Nocera Juan Pitinari* Luca Rizzoli
Hookers Tommaso Di Bartolomeo Giovanni Quattrini Giampietro Ribaldi
Locks Matteo Canali Franco Carrera Leonard Krumov Alessandro Ortombina Francesco RuffoloBack row Iacopo Bianchi Giacomo Ferrari Giovanni Licata Samuele Locatelli David Odiase Davide Ruggeri Bautista Stavile* Guido Volpi*
Scrum-halves Thomas Dominguez* Alessandro Fusco Gonzalo García
Fly-halves Giacomo Da Re Giovanni Montemauri Martin Roger Farias*Centres Giulio Bertaccini Enrico Lucchin Damiano Mazza Luca Morisi Marco Zanon
Wings Albert Einstein Batista Simone Gesi Jacopo Trulla
Fullbacks Mirko Belloni Lorenzo Pani (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 Zebre Parma website.
Additional player squad
Zebre Parma Additional Players squad Props None currently named
Hookers None currently named
Locks Davide SalvanBack row Giacomo Milano
Scrum-halves Nicolò Casilio Migael Prinsloo
Fly-halves None currently namedCentres Daniele Coluzzi
Wings Alessandro Ciofani Marcello Cortellazzi Tommaso Roda
Fullbacks Aramis Corona Giovanni Degli Antoni Edoardo Vitale (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 Zebre Rugby and F.I.R. website.
Transfers
United Rugby Championship
Matches
Standings
EPRC Challenge Cup
Pool 1 table
Pool matches
Knockout stage
Zebre qualified for a home tie in the round of sixteen when they confirmed a top two finish in Pool 1 in Round 4 with a 28-14 victory over Black Lion Tbilisi of Georgia. Pau qualified to face them, having been redirected from the pool stages of the European Rugby Champions Cup.
A 31 – 15 victory earned Zebre a home quarter-final tie against Welsh regional side Dragons. It was the first ever win in European knockout rugby for the club.
Bracket
Round of 16
Quarter-final
References