The Coppa Italia (Italian Cup), from 2011 to 2018 Excellence Trophy, is a
rugby union
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...
competition in
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...
for domestic clubs. The competition is second to the
Top10, the Italian national championship. The competition has been contested annually since 1967, though it was not held from 1974 to 1980, and 1983 to 1994, and again in 1996, 1999 and 2002. The first club to win the competition was
CUS Roma.
From 2011 to 2020, it involves only teams from the
Top10 who don't participate to the
European Rugby Challenge Cup Qualifying Competition, now Continental Shield.
From 2023−2024 season, the competition was substituted with a ''development tournament'' named Serie A Elite Cup with emerging players under contract with
Serie A Elite teams.
The first edition was won by
Mogliano Rugby.
Past winners
Performance by club
:
Italian Super Cup
From 2006 to 2009 it was instituted an annual Super Cup contested between the
Italian Championship winner and Coppa Italia winner.
Performance by club
See also
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Rugby union in Italy
Rugby union in Italy is governed by the Italian Rugby Federation. Rugby was introduced into Italy in the early 1900s. It is also known as ''pallovale'' or ''palla ovale'' ("oval ball") within Italy. Two Italian professional teams (Treviso and ...
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Top12
The Top10, known as the Peroni Top10 for sponsorship reasons, and formerly Top 12, is Italy's top level professional men's rugby union competition. The Top 10 is run by Federazione Italiana Rugby (FIR) and is contested by 10 teams as of the 2 ...
References
External links
Official site FIR
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Rugby union competitions in Italy
1967 establishments in Italy