The 2024–25 season was Benetton Treviso's fourth season in the United Rugby Championship, and their 93rd season of competitive rugby. Along with competing in the URC and its Scottish-Italian Shield competition, the club also participated in the 2024-25 European Rugby Champions Cup.
The Italian side narrowly missed out on the URC play-offs after a final day defeat to Munster dropped them out of playoff contention to their final position of 10th in the standings. In the Scottish-Italian Shield, Benetton were runners-up to winners Glasgow Warriors. In Europe, Benetton successfully emerged from their pool in the 2024-25 European Rugby Champions Cup, but narrowly lost their Round of 16 knockout tie away to French side Castres, 39 - 37.
Benetton Rugby drew an average home attendance of 4,447 in the 2024-25 URC season.https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/2025/04/04/in-another-staggered-season-rugbys-urc-has-lurched-along-all-the-while-breaking-attendance-records/
Staff and coaching team The staff for the 2024–25 season is: Benetton Rugby management teamSports directorAntonio PavanelloHead coachMarco BortolamiAssistant coachesFabio OngaroCalum MacRaeAlessandro TronconDewald SenekalTeam managerEnrico CeccatoAssistant Team managerCorniel ElsTrainersJim MolonyAlberto BotterMario DisettiGiorgio Da LozzoRiccardo TonAlessandro ZanniAlberto AntonelliVideo analystsNicola GattoMattia Geromel
Senior squad
Benetton United Rugby Championship squadProps Simone Ferrari Thomas Gallo Ivan Nemer Tiziano Pasquali Mirco Spagnolo Nahuel Tetaz Chaparro Giosuè Zilocchi
Hookers Bautista Bernasconi Agustín Creevy Siua Maile Marco Manfredi
Locks Niccolò Cannone Edoardo Iachizzi Gideon Koegelenberg Federico Ruzza Scott Scrafton Eli SnymanBack row Lorenzo Cannone Toa Halafihi Riccardo Favretto Alessandro Izekor Michele Lamaro (cc) Sebastian Negri Manuel Zuliani
Scrum-halves Lautaro Bazán Nicolò Casilio Alessandro Garbisi Andy Uren
Fly-halves Tomás Albornoz Leonardo Marin Jacob UmagaCentres Ignacio Brex Malakai Fekitoa Tommaso Menoncello Marco Zanon
Wings Louis Lynagh Paolo Odogwu Ignacio Mendy Onisi Ratave
Fullbacks Matt Gallagher Rhyno Smith (cc) denotes the team co-captains, Bold denotes internationally capped players. * denotes players qualified to play for Italy on residency or dual nationality. L denotes a player on loan at the club. Players and their allocated positions from the Benetton Rugby website.
Additional player squad
Benetton Additional Players squad Props Destiny Aminu Enzo Avaca* Marcos Gallorini Riccardo Genovese
Hookers None currently named
Locks Jadin Kingi* Jaco Pretorius* Back row Simon Koroiyadi Giulio Marini Mattia Midena Antony Miranda Matteo Rubinato
Scrum-halves Lorenzo Casilio
Fly-halves Giuliano Avaca* Centres Filippo Drago Dewi Passarella Federico Zanandrea
Wings Jacques Cloete* Marco Scalabrin
Fullbacks None currently named (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 Benetton Rugby website and F.I.R. website.
Transfers
United Rugby Championship Overall standings
URC Italian Scottish Shield
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
Round 4
Round 5
Round 6
Round 7
Round 8
Round 9
Round 10
Round 11
Round 12
Round 13
Round 14
Round 15
Round 16
Round 17
Round 18
Benetton Rugby have been eliminated from the Championship.
European Champions Cup
Pool matches
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
Round 4
Knockout stages
Round of 16 Benetton Treviso ended the pool stages as eleventh seed. In the Round of 16, they drew Castres.
Benetton Treviso are eliminated from the competition.
Home attendance End of season. Domestic LeagueEuropean Rugby Champions CupTotalLeagueFixturesTotal AttendanceAverage AttendanceHighestLowestLeagueFixturesTotal AttendanceAverage AttendanceHighestLowestTotal AttendanceAverage attendance2024–25 United Rugby Championship940,0204,4475,0003,2432024–25 European Champions Cup29,4554,7274,8134,64249,4754,498
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