Andrea Marcato

Andrea Marcato (born 17 April 1983) is an Italian rugby union coach and former international player. He won 16 caps for Italy and played in the 2008 and 2009 Six Nations Championships. After the end of his playing career, he began coaching as the head coach of Petrarca Rugby, a position held from 2017 to 2024; since then, Marcato has been assistant coach of the U-20 Italian national team.

Mainly a fly-half, Marcato also used to play fullback. encouraged by his father and his uncle who were former rugby union player themselves and coached the team; and prevented the squad from recording a Whitewash. Later in June in Córdoba, Argentina, he converted a late try that allowed Italy to get past the Pumas 13–12. He also took part in the 2009 Six Nations where he played his 16th and last International match, against France at the Stadio Flaminio in Rome.

Marcato went on playing club rugby for Benetton Treviso until 2010, then returned to Petrarca; in early 2011 he was loaned back to Benetton as replacement in Celtic League; at the end of the 2010–11 season he came back to the Italian championship and signed with Calvisano which had just been promoted to the Eccellenza (the first tier championship).

Marcato helped Calvisano to become the first Italian club to win the top tier a year after winning promotion from the second division (2012); having won previously 4 titles with Benetton Treviso, the latter was his 5th personal Scudetto.

In 2013, he returned to the club of his birthplace, Petrarca Padua, where he ended his career as a player in 2017.

Coaching In 2018, at the age of 34, he became Petrarca's youngest head coach since 1984, and in his first season as head coach led Petrarca to its 13th Italian title, the first for the club since 2011, and established himself as the youngest coach ever to win the Italian championship in the play-offs era (1987-88 onward) and the second youngest overall. In 2022 Marcato led the club to the Italian Cup and, later, its 14th Italian title.

On 3 June 2024, after leading Petrarca to a further scudetto, Marcato announced his depart from the club to assume the position of assistant coach of the U-20 national team and supervisor of the recruitment from the U-23 Academy of Benetton Treviso,

On 12 June 2025 he was named in the Benetton Rugby Coaching Staff of Calum MacRae as skills and transition Coach.

Honours Player Benetton Treviso 2005–06, 2006–07, 2008–09, 2009-10 Italian Premiership 2009-10 Italian Cup 2006, 2009 Italian Supercup Calvisano 2011-12 Italian Premiership 2001-12 Italian Cup

Coach Petrarca 2017-18, 2021–22, 2023-24 Italian Premiership 2021-22 Italian Cup