The 2025–26 season was Benetton Treviso's fifth season in the United Rugby Championship, and their 94th season of competitive rugby. Along with competing in the URC and its Scottish–Italian Shield competition, the club also participated in the 2025–26 EPRC Challenge Cup.
Staff and coaching team
Transfers
The staff for the 2025–26 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.
United Rugby Championship
Matches
Standings
EPRC Challenge Cup
Pool 2 table
Pool matches
Knockout stage
Benetton qualified for a home tie in the round of 16 when they confirmed a top two finish in Pool 2 in Round 3.
Round of 16
Quarter-final
References