June 1996: fourth edition of the International Beach Rugby Tournament in Lignano, under the patronage of Lignano Sabbiadoro’s Municipality and in partnership with Radio Fantasy.

Red Panthers Treviso wins the first evere female tournament, while Rovigo is male‘s champion.

In 1995 Lignano‘s beach rugby become an invitational tournament, and for the first time is played on two days: 16 teams from Italy, Slovenia and Ireland are divided into 4 pools, with qualifying matches on saturday and knockout stages on sunday.

San Donà, Belluno, Rovigo and Ljubljana win their pools: the first two are able to reach the final, and San Donà – featuring Italy’s international Andrea “Ciro” Sgorlon – wins the tournament for the first time.