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Pro Recco

Italian water polo club

Pro Recco
Summary

Italian water polo club

FieldValue
teamPro Recco
logoPro Recco logo.png
pixels220px
founded
leagueSerie A1
arenaPiscina Comunale, Sori
cityRecco, Italy
colors
ownerBehring family and Hammarskjold family
Gabriele Volpi (former)
presidentMaurizio Felugo
coachSandro Sukno
championships11 LEN Champions League
9 LEN Super Cup
1 European Aquatics Euro Cup
1 Adriatic League
37 Italian Leagues
18 Italian Cups
websiteprorecco.com

Gabriele Volpi (former) | 9 LEN Super Cup 1 European Aquatics Euro Cup 1 Adriatic League 37 Italian Leagues 18 Italian Cups

A.S.D. Pro Recco (Official name: Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Pro Recco) is an Italian professional water polo club from Recco, in Liguria. It currently plays in Serie A1.

Pro Recco is the most successful club in men's water polo. In men's domestic water polo, the club has won a record 55 trophies: a record 37 Serie A1 titles, a record 18 Coppa Italia. In men's LEN European competitions, Pro Recco have won a record 20 trophies: a record 11 LEN Champions League titles, a record 9 LEN Super Cups. The club has also won 1 Adriatic League title.

In women's water polo, the women's team won 1 women's Serie A1 titles, 1 LEN Euro League Women title, 1 Women's LEN Super Cup, making Pro Recco the first sports club in history to have been crowned European Champions with both its men's and women's teams.

History

Pro Recco was founded in 1913 as Rari Nantes Enotria. It has played in the A1 league, the Italian top division, since 1935.

The club is owned by Behring and Hammarskjold families.

It has won a total of 37 national titles. This one of the most in Italy. The first in 1959 and the latest in 2025; and the Coppa Italia in 1974, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025. They have won the LEN Champions League in 1964, 1983, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2021, 2022 and 2023; the LEN Super Cup in 2004, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2021, 2022, 2023; The European Aquatics Euro Cup, the new format or name of the LEN Euro Cup, in 2025.

Pro Recco has had a women's team since the 2011–12 season.

Honours

The team of Pro Recco in 1957: [[Eraldo Pizzo]], Repetto, Zanone, Andreani, Guidotti, Cevasco, Maraschi, Piero Pizzo, Giorgio Odaglia

Domestic competitions

  • [[File:Scudetto.svg|16px]] Serie A1 :[[File:Gold medal blank.svg|15px]] Champions (37): 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1983, 1984, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
  • [[File:Coccarda Coppa Italia.svg|16px]] Coppa Italia :[[File:Gold medal with cup.svg|15px]] Winners (18): 1974, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025

European competitions

LEN competitions

  • [[File:Coppa dei campioni pallanuoto.svg|16px]] LEN Champions League :Winners (11): 1965, 1984, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2021, 2022, 2023

  • [[File:Supercoppa europea pallanuoto.svg|11px]] LEN Super Cup :Winners (9): 2003, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2021, 2022, 2023

  • [[File:Coppa LEN.svg|16px]] European Aquatics Euro Cup :Winners (1): 2025

Other competitions

  • Adriatic League :Winners (1): 2012

Current team

First team

2024–2025 season

Head coach: CRO Sandro Sukno

Players:

  • ITA Marco Del Lungo (GK)
  • ITA Tommaso Negri (GK)
  • MNE Petar Vujosevic
  • ITA Stefano Scarmi
  • ITA Nicholas Presciutti
  • ITA Matteo Iocchi Gratta
  • ITA Francesco Condemi
  • ITA Andrea Fondelli
  • ITA Francesco Di Fulvio
  • ITA Giacomo Cannella
  • ITA Gonzalo Echenique
  • AUS Aaron Younger
  • HUN Bence Haverkampf
  • USA Ben Hallock
  • ITA Lorenzo Demarchi
  • SVK Lukas Durik
  • USA Jack Larsen

Famous players

Italian players

  • ITA Simona Abbate
  • ITA Marco Del Lungo
  • ITA Matteo Aicardi
  • ITA Alberto Angelini
  • ITA Fabio Bencivenga
  • ITA Roberta Bianconi
  • FRA ITA Michaël Bodegas
  • ITA Gonzalo Echenique
  • ITA Maurizio Felugo
  • AUS ITA Pietro Figlioli
  • CRO ITA Deni Fiorentini
  • CRO ITA Goran Fiorentini
  • ITA Stefano Luongo
  • ITA Alessandro Calcaterra
  • ITA Luigi Castagnola
  • ITA Aleksandra Cotti
  • ITA Marco D'Altrui
  • ITA Arnaldo Deserti
  • ITA Luigi Di Costanzo
  • ITA Francesco Di Fulvio
  • ITA Massimiliano Ferretti
  • ITA Niccolò Figari
  • ITA Andrea Fondelli
  • ITA Teresa Frassinetti
  • ITA Alberto Ghibellini
  • ITA Massimo Giacoppo
  • ITA Elena Gigli
  • ITA Alex Giorgetti
  • ITA Niccolò Gitto
  • ITA Luca Giustolisi
  • ITA Luca Gualco
  • ITA Giancarlo Guerrini
  • ITA Franco Lavoratori
  • ITA Gianni Lonzi
  • ITA Mario Majoni
  • ITA Andrea Mangiante
  • ITA Federico Mistrangelo
  • ITA Giacomo Pastorino
  • ITA Eraldo Pizzo
  • CRO ITA Danijel Premuš
  • ITA Christian Presciutti
  • ITA Nicholas Presciutti
  • ITA Elisa Queirolo
  • ITA Paolo Ragosa
  • ITA Giulia Rambaldi
  • ITA Roldano Simeoni
  • ITA Leonardo Sottani
  • ITA Stefano Tempesti
  • ITA Alessandro Velotto
  • CRO ITA Goran Volarević

Foreign players

  • AUS Joe Kayes
  • AUS Aaron Younger
  • BRA ESP Felipe Perrone
  • CRO Marko Bijač
  • CRO Luka Lončar
  • CRO Damir Burić
  • CRO Andro Bušlje
  • CRO Nikša Dobud
  • CRO Maro Joković
  • CRO Tomislav Paškvalin
  • CRO Sandro Sukno
  • ESP Guillermo Molina
  • ESP Jesús Rollán
  • GEO Giorgi Mshvenieradze
  • GEO Revaz Chomakhidze
  • HUN Tibor Benedek
  • HUN György Horkai
  • HUN Gergő Zalánki
  • HUN Tamás Kásás
  • HUN Norbert Madaras
  • HUN Tamás Märcz
  • HUN István Szívós
  • HUN Márton Szívós
  • MNE Aleksandar Ivović
  • MNE Mlađan Janović
  • MNE Predrag Jokić
  • MNE Mirko Vičević
  • MNE Boris Zloković
  • SRB Filip Filipović
  • SRB Danilo Ikodinović
  • SRB Dušan Mandić
  • SRB Slobodan Nikić
  • SRB Duško Pijetlović
  • SRB Andrija Prlainović
  • SRB Nikola Rađen
  • SRB Dejan Savić
  • SRB Vanja Udovičić
  • SRB Vladimir Vujasinović
  • USA Ben Hallock

Famous coaches

  • CRO Ratko Rudić
  • ITA Giuseppe Porzio
  • SRB Igor Milanović

References

References

  1. "Behring Foundation". Behring Foundation.
  2. (21 November 2024). "Pallanuoto, Pro Recco: famiglia Hammarskjold diventa co-proprietaria del club". sport.sky.it.
  3. (25 May 2024). "Pro Recco alla Pogacar: 12-3 sul Savona e 36° scudetto". gazzetta.it.
  4. (21 November 2024). "Press release 21 November 2024". prorecco.it.
  5. (26 February 2023). "Coppa Italia, la Pro Recco non si stanca mai: decima di fila". gazzetta.it.
  6. (28 February 2023). "Pro Recco alla decima Coppa Italia consecutiva, la macchina perfetta". ilsecoloxix.it.
  7. "Prima Squadra". Pro Recco.
  8. (5 August 2020). "USA star will join European giant". Total Waterpolo.
  9. (6 August 2020). "12 USA Men's National Team Athletes Set To Compete Professionally In Europe". [[USA Water Polo]].
  10. (4 July 2018). "Intercontinental Transfer — Joseph Kayes Joins Pro Recco All The Way From Australia". Total Waterpolo.
  11. (6 May 2020). "Ratko Rudic: I finished my coaching career". Total Waterpolo.
  12. (6 May 2020). "Rudic saluta la Pro Recco 'Orgoglioso di chiudere qui la mia carriera'". Pro Recco.
  13. (8 June 2020). "Aaron Younger leaves European champion and joins Pro Recco". Total Waterpolo.
  14. (10 August 2020). "Younger, Power and Edwards sign to new European clubs". [[Water Polo Australia]].
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