Serie A Elite (rugby union)

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Serie A Elite, formerly known as the Top10 or the Peroni Top10 for sponsorship reasons, is Italy's top level professional men's rugby union competition. The Serie A Elite is run by Federazione Italiana Rugby (FIR) and is contested by 10 teams as of the 2025–2026 season. The leading teams qualify to play against teams from the other leading rugby union nations in Europe in the European Challenge Cup. Aironi and Benetton Treviso began competing in the league now known as the United Rugby Championship in the 2010–11 season, and took both Italian places in the Heineken Cup. Owing to financial problems, the FIR revoked Aironi's professional licence after the 2011–12 season; that team was replaced in what was then known as Pro12 by the FIR-operated Zebre. From 2014 to 2015, one of the two Italian URC sides competed in the Heineken Cup's replacement, the European Rugby Champions Cup; the other played in the European Rugby Challenge Cup. Both URC teams are intended to concentrate the best domestic...

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