S.S. Lazio Rugby 1927

S.S. Lazio Rugby 1927
Full name	Polisportiva S.S. Lazio Rugby 1927
Union	Italian Rugby Federation
Founded	1927; 97 years ago
Location	Rome, Italy
Ground(s)	Giulio Onesti Olimpic Preparation Center (Capacity: 1,300)
President	Alfredo Biagini
Coach(es)	Daniele Montella
Captain(s)	Carlo Filippucci
League(s)	Top12
2017–18	9th
1st kit	2nd kit
Official website
	www.laziorugby.it

Polisportiva S.S. Lazio Rugby 1927, based in Rome, is an Italian rugby union team. They currently play in Top12 after gaining promotion from winning Serie A in the 2009–10 season.

It is the rugby union branch of the multisport club SS Lazio, probably the biggest European multisport organization, which operates also the famous association football team with the same name.

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 squad
Props 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 Felipe Juan Bruno Schmidt* Gabriele Cicchinelli Imanol Urraza* Matteo Tommasini	Back 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 Cozzi	Centres 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 Antony Virzy Citara* 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.^[1]