Italian Rugby Federation

Italian Rugby Federation
Federazione Italiana Rugby
Sport	Rugby union
Founded	1928
World Rugby affiliation	1987
Rugby Europe affiliation	1934
President	Marzio Innocenti
Men's coach	Gonzalo Quesada
Women's coach	Giovanni Raineri
Website	federugby.it

The Italian Rugby Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Rugby) or FIR is the governing body for the sport of rugby union in Italy. The FIR has one seat on the 28-member World Rugby Council, the governing body of World Rugby. (All other members of the Six Nations have two seats on the Council.)

There are two fully professional Italian clubs that play in the United Rugby Championship, in the European Rugby Champions Cup and in the European Rugby Challenge Cup — Benetton and Zebre. There are twelve semi-professional Italian clubs that play in the Top12, four of which qualify to play in the European Rugby Challenge Cup Qualifying Competition to qualify to the European Rugby Challenge Cup.