Pick your Azzurri XV
Build and share your ultimate Italy (Azzurri) starting XV and full matchday 23 from the current squad. Tap a jersey, pick your player, and share the link with mates.
Build your Azzurri XV →Italy squad (33 players)
Loosehead Prop
- Danilo Fischetti · Northampton Saints(Italy's first-choice loosehead)
- Mirco Spagnolo · Benetton(100% loosehead per career stats)
Hooker
- Gianmarco Lucchesi · Toulon
- Tommaso Di Bartolomeo · Zebre Parma
- Pablo Dimcheff · Colomiers(Argentina-born, qualifies via grandparents)
Tighthead Prop
- Marco Riccioni · Saracens
- Muhamed Hasa · Zebre Parma(plays both sides (~54% tighthead); side uncertain)
- Ion Neculai · Zebre Parma(recalled for first time since 2022)
Lock
- Federico Ruzza · Benetton(most-capped forward in squad)
- Niccolo Cannone · Benetton(brother of Lorenzo)
- Andrea Zambonin · Exeter Chiefs(6ft 8in lock)
- Riccardo Favretto · Benetton
- Alessandro Ortombina · Zebre Parma(uncapped prospect)
Flanker
- Michele Lamaro · Benetton(captain)
- David Odiase · Zebre Parma
- Giulio Marini · Benetton(uncapped prospect)
Number 8
- Lorenzo Cannone · Benetton(brother of Niccolo)
- Ross Vintcent · Exeter Chiefs(South Africa-born; also covers flanker)
Scrum-half
- Stephen Varney · Exeter Chiefs
- Alessandro Fusco · Zebre Parma
- Alessandro Garbisi · Benetton(brother of Paolo)
Fly-half
- Tommaso Allan · Perpignan(most-capped player in squad)
- Paolo Garbisi · Toulon(first-choice fly-half)
Centre
- Juan Ignacio Brex · Toulon(Argentina-born outside centre)
- Leonardo Marin · Benetton(converted from fly-half)
- Malik Faissal · Zebre Parma(uncapped prospect)
Wing
- Monty Ioane · Lyon
- Tommaso Menoncello · Benetton(can also play centre)
- Louis Lynagh · Benetton(ex-England; son of Michael Lynagh)
- Paolo Odogwu · Benetton(ex-England)
- Giacomo Da Re · Zebre Parma(also covers fly-half/back three)
- Giulio Bertaccini · Zebre Parma
Fullback
- Lorenzo Pani · Zebre Parma
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