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| Full name | Amatori Rugby Milano | ||
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| Union | FIR | ||
| Founded | 1927 | ||
| Disbanded | 2011 | ||
| Location | Milan, Italy | ||
| Ground(s) | Arena Civica (Capacity: 10,000) | ||
| Top scorer | Diego Domínguez (2,966) | ||
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Amatori Rugby Milano were an Italian rugby union team based in Milan founded in 1927 and disbanded in 2011.
Founded in 1927 as part of the football team Ambrosiana-Inter of Milan, the club won the first ever Italian championship in 1929 and ever since have won 18 domestic championships that made them Italy's most titled rugby union team. The club members named themselves Amatori Rugby Milano as soon as Ambrosiana-Inter dropped their rugby union branch in 1929.
Between 1993 and 1997 Amatori Milano was part of the A.C. Milan sport club under the ownership of Silvio Berlusconi and won 4 domestic championships. When Berlusconi dropped the sport club to keep the football team only Amatori folded and in 1998 the senior team and the sports title were sold to Calvisano. The club were revived in 2002 and coached by Marcello Cuttitta, a former Italian international rugby union player that played for Amatori in the 1990s, managing to reach the second tier of Italian rugby union championship before being disbanded in 2011.