Francesca Granzotto

About Francesca
DOB 22/03/2002
Born Conegliano, Italy
Height 5ft 4ins / 1.63m
Weight 9st 6lbs / 60kg

Position Wing
Total Appearances
Total Tries
Total Points
Previous Club Unione Rugby Capitolina
Honours Italy

Exeter Chiefs Women are due to welcome Italian winger Francesca Granzotto to Sandy Park after the Rugby World Cup.

⁠Granzotto, who also plays at full-back and scrum-half, made her debut for Italy against Canada in July 2022. She played in the delayed 2021 Rugby World Cup in the same year and has featured in three Women’s Six Nations and two WXV tournaments.

She first began playing rugby at primary school and liked the sport so much that she persuaded her father to take her to the rugby club in her hometown of Conegliano. She then moved to Villorba Rugby Club when she was 13 to play for a girls’ team.

As a student, Granzotto spent a year studying at Worthing College, playing for the college’s team and Hove RFC. She then moved to Rome for her university studies and has been playing for Unione Rugby Capitolina in Italy’s capital city while furthering her international career.

Granzotto said: “⁠I want an experience in the Premiership that will allow me to grow and improve both as a player and as a person, and I feel like Exeter is the right place to do so. I want to learn as much as I can from the coaches and my teammates and make the most of this opportunity.”

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