Rizzo began his season in September at two senior-level competitions. He placed eleventh at the 2017 World Junior Championships in Taipei and thirtieth at the 2017 World Championships in Helsinki. Rizzo competed at JGP events in Germany and Spain, finishing twelfth and eighth, respectively. He reached the free skate at two ISU Championships – the 2016 Europeans in Bratislava, and the 2016 Junior Worlds in Debrecen, Hungary. He earned a bronze medal at the 2015 CS Denkova-Staviski Cup and finished fifth at the 2015 CS Warsaw Cup.
Rizzo continued on the JGP series, placing fifth at his assignments in Austria and Spain. Rizzo qualified for the free skate by placing 20th in the short program and finished 22nd overall. His final event of the season was the 2015 World Junior Championships, held in March 2015 in Tallinn, Estonia. In January 2015, he placed fourth in Austria at the 2015 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival. Competing on the senior level from November to December, he won silver at the Merano Cup, bronze at the Warsaw Cup – his ISU Challenger Series (CS) debut – gold at the Denkova-Staviski Cup, and silver at the Italian Championships. Rizzo placed fifteenth at his sole JGP assignment in Germany. He competed at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, but was eliminated after placing thirtieth in the short program. In January–February 2014, making his senior international debut, he finished ninth at the Bavarian Open and fifth at the Dragon Trophy before taking the silver medal at the Hellmut Seibt Memorial. Rizzo debuted on the ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) series in September 2013, placing eleventh at an event in Slovakia, and won the Italian national junior title in December. His junior international debut came in September 2012 at the Ice Star event in Belarus. He competed internationally on the novice level in the 2010–20–2012 seasons, winning silver at the Triglav Trophy in April 2012. His parents, Brunilde Bianchi and Valter Rizzo, and sister, Francesca Rizzo, all competed in ice dance. Matteo Rizzo was born on 5 September 1998 in Rome. He is also the 2018 World Junior bronze medalist, the 2017 JGP Italy champion, and the 2014 Italian junior national champion. Rizzo represented Italy at the 20 Winter Olympics. He has won several ISU Challenger Series medals, including gold at the 2017 CS Warsaw Cup and 2022 CS Budapest Trophy. He is a two-time European Championship medalist (silver in 2023, bronze in 2019), a three-time Grand Prix bronze medalist, the 2019 Winter Universiade champion, a two-time Italian national champion (20), and a seven-time silver national medalist (2015-2017, 2019-2022). Matteo Rizzo (born 5 September 1998) is an Italian figure skater.
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