Rugby Calvisano is an Italian
rugby union
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club currently competing in the
Top12
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. They are based in
Calvisano (
Province of Brescia
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), in
Lombardy
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. They were founded in 1970 by a group of players: Tonino Montanari, Gianluigi Vaccari and
Alfredo Gavazzi. In 1992 the club became “Rugby Calvisano S.r.l.”
History
Calvisano were founded in 1970 by a group of players, in 1992 the club became “Rugby Calvisano S.r.l.” Calvisano first qualified for European competition for the
1999–2000 season, where they competed in the
European Challenge Cup
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, playing six pool games, though they did not win any. They qualified for their first
Heineken Cup
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for the
2001–02 season, though it was season after where the club won a couple of their pool games, but they have yet to make the finals.
In the May FIR Federal Council meeting, Rugby Calvisano officially decided not to exercise its right to participate in the Italian Championship of Excellence Peroni TOP10 2023/2024.
Honours
*
Italian championship
** Champions (7): 2004–05, 2007–08, 2011–12, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2016–17, 2018−19
** ''Runners-up (7)'': 2000–01, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2005–06, 2015–16, 2017–18
*
Coppa Italia
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** Champions (1): 2003–04
** ''Runners-up (3)'': 1998–99, 2002–03, 2006–07
*
Excellence Trophy
** Champions (2): 2011–12, 2014–15
* Intercontinental Cup
** Champions (1): 2006
*
European Rugby Continental Shield
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** Champions (1): 2019
Current squad
The Calvisano squad for 2022–23 season:
Selected former players
Italian players
Former players who have played for Calvisano and have caps for Italy:
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Manfredi Albanese
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Caludio Appiani
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Sergio Appiani
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Valerio Bernabò
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Massimo Bonomi
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Paolo Buso
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Pablo Canavosio
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Tommaso Castello
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Lorenzo Cittadini
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Salvatore Costanzo
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Giambattista Croci
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Marcello Cuttitta
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Massimo Cuttitta
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David Dal Maso
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Tommaso D'Apice
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Giampiero De Carli
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Andrea De Rossi
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Jaco Erasmus
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Gabriel Filizzola
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Gonzalo García
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Leonardo Ghiraldini
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Renato Giammarioli
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Paul Griffen
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Kelly Haimona
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Giorgio Intoppa
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Benjamin de Jager
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Andrea Lovotti
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Roberto Mandelli
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Andrea Marcato
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Roland de Marigny
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Nicola Mazzucato
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Maxime Mbanda
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Luke McLean
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Matteo Minozzi
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Alex Moreno
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Andrea Moretti
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Ludovico Nitoglia
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Guglielmo Palazzani
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Sami Panico
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Gert Peens
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Aaron Persico
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Salvatore Perugini
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Simon Picone
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Marco Platania
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Andrea Pratichetti
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Matteo Pratichetti
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Giovanni Raineri
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Massimo Ravazzolo
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Marco Riccioni
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Lorenzo Romano
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Andrea Scanavacca
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Fabio Semenzato
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Antonio Spagnoli
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Warren Spragg
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Marko Stanojevic
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He last played on the wing for Italian Top12 club Rovigo.
Before his move to Italy, he had played four seasons with Bristol in England. ...
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Braam Steyn
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Paolo Vaccari
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Marcello Violi
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Michele Visentin
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Samuela Vunisa
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Maurizio Zaffiri
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Alessandro Zanni
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Cristiano Zanoletti
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Matteo Zanusso
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Giosuè Zilocchi
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Matthew Phillips - Scored a try against his Home Country of NZ in the 2003 Rugby World Cup.
Foreign players
Former players who have played for Calvisano and have caps for their respective country:
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Gabriel Bocca
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Franco Brarda
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Emiliano Mulieri
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Juan León Novillo
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Joaquín Paz
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Rod Moore
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Lorenzo Massari
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Sekonaia Kalou
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Shayne Philpott
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Johan Ackermann
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Ben Evans
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Tusi Pisi
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Florin Surugiu
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Florin Vlaicu
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Paino Hehea
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Milton Ngauamo
Statistics
European Challenge Cup
Heineken Cup
References
External links
Official website
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Rugby union teams in Italy
Rugby clubs established in 1970
Province of Brescia