# Pro Recco

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 53 trophies: a record 36 Serie A1 titles, a record 17 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 35 national titles. This one of the most in Italy. The first in 1959 and the latest in 2023; and the Coppa Italia in 1974, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023. 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.
Pro Recco has had a women's team since the 2011–12 season.

## Honours
### Domestic competitions

* Serie A1
    Champions (36): 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
* Coppa Italia
    Winners (18): 1974, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025

### European competitions
#### LEN competitions

* LEN Champions League
    Winners (11): 1965, 1984, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2021, 2022, 2023
* LEN Super Cup
    Winners (9): 2003, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2021, 2022, 2023

#### Other competitions

* Adriatic League
    Winners (1): 2012

## Current team
### 2024–2025 season

As of 1 November 2024
Head coach: Sandro Sukno
Players:
* Marco Del Lungo (GK)
* Tommaso Negri (GK)
* Petar Vujosevic
* Stefano Scarmi
* Nicholas Presciutti
* Matteo Iocchi Gratta
* Francesco Condemi
* Andrea Fondelli
* Francesco Di Fulvio
* Giacomo Cannella
* Gonzalo Echenique
* Aaron Younger
* Bence Haverkampf
* Ben Hallock
* Lorenzo Demarchi
* Lukas Durik
* Jack Larsen

## Famous players
### Italian players

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

### Foreign players

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

## Famous coaches

* Ratko Rudić
* Giuseppe Porzio
* Igor Milanović