AC Bellinzona

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Bellinzona
AC Bellinzona logo
Full nameAssociazione Calcio Bellinzona
Nickname(s)Granata (Maroon)
Founded1904
GroundStadio Comunale Bellinzona, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Capacity5,000 (600 seated)
ChairmanPaolo Righetti
ManagerMario Rosas[1]
LeagueChallenge League
2022–239th of 10
WebsiteClub website
Current season

AC Bellinzona is a

1. Liga Promotion. They currently play in the Swiss Challenge League, the second tier
of Swiss football.

History

Chart of AC Bellinzona table positions in the Swiss football league system

Because Bellinzona is an

loaned
youth players to the club to get first team experience.

Bellinzona was promoted to the

1st qualifying round. Then they knocked-out Ukrainian FC Dnipro on away goal rule (2:3 in Dnipropetrovsk, and 2:1 home victory, 4:4 aggregate).[2] In third qualifying round they faced Galatasaray losing both games 3:4 at home ground and 1:2 in Istanbul.[3]

In 2013 before the 2013–14 season of

1. Liga Promotion the club was declared bankrupt.[4] After staying one season playing only at young divisions, the club went back to professional football, joining the 2014–15 2.Liga.[5]
After two years in
1. Liga Promotion
for the 2018–19 season.

In the 2021–22

FC Breitenrain to gain promotion to the Swiss Challenge League
. As Breitenrain withdrew their license request, Bellinzona would have been promoted even had they not won the season.

Their return to the

Stade Lausanne-Ouchy on the last matchday, which saw the team finish in ninth place (out of ten). Following a 3–2 victory against Wil on matchday 33, the team was secured from relegation. Another sign of the unsettled season was the number of changes in the coaching staff. David Sesa, who had joined in the pre-season, resigned after only two months at the helm.[6] Baldassare Raineri took over the team in September, before being terminated in the winter break[7] and his replacement Stefano Maccioppi[8] was terminated at the end of March 2023.[9]
Counting interim coach Fernando Cocimano, who took over coaching duties between Sesa and Raineri and again after Maccoppi until the end of the season, the team had four different coaches throughout the season.

Honours

Players

Main article: List of AC Bellinzona players

Current squad

Updated 14 February 2024.[10] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Switzerland SUI Alexander Muci
2 DF France FRA Hugo Lamy
3 DF Switzerland SUI Miguel Rodrigues (on loan from Yverdon)
4 DF Brazil BRA Lucas Peres
6 MF Italy ITA Tommaso Maressa (on loan from Juventus)
7 FW Honduras HON Jorge Benguché (on loan from Olimpia)
8 MF Switzerland SUI Tommaso Centinaro (on loan from Lugano)
10 MF Uruguay URU Thomás Chacón
11 MF Switzerland SUI Matteo Tosetti
12 DF Switzerland SUI Nando Zimmermann
17 DF Switzerland SUI Fabio Dixon
18 MF Mauritania MTN Abdallahi Mahmoud (on loan from Alavés)
19 FW Switzerland SUI Tresor Samba
20 MF Switzerland SUI Stephan Seiler
No. Pos. Nation Player
21 FW Switzerland SUI Ranjan Neelakandan
22 MF Switzerland SUI Valentino Pugliese
23 FW Switzerland SUI Yvan Alounga (on loan from Luzern)
25 FW Senegal SEN Matar Dieye
30 GK Switzerland SUI Elio Trochen
33 DF Turkey TUR Mehmet Manis
34 DF Switzerland SUI Ilan Sauter
37 DF Switzerland SUI Aris Sörensen
47 DF Switzerland SUI Santiago Miranda
71 MF Switzerland SUI Lirik Vishi
91 DF Switzerland SUI Dragan Mihajlović
98 GK Italy ITA Alessandro Iacobucci
99 FW Uruguay URU Rodrigo Pollero

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— FW Uruguay URU Matías Ocampo (at Liverpool until 30 June 2024)

Coaching staff

Position Name
Head coach[1] Spain Mario Rosas
Spain Manuel Benavente
Fitness coach Switzerland Diego Megias Navarro[1]
Goalkeeper coach Switzerland Pietro Scalesi
Physiotherapist Switzerland Luca Moretti
Doctor Switzerland Gianluca Baroni

References

  1. ^ a b c "Annuncio Ufficiale" [Official Announcement]. acbellinzona.ch (in Italian). AC Bellinzona. 3 October 2023. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
  2. ^ "Bellinzona-Dnipro 2009 History | UEFA Europa League". UEFA.
  3. ^ "Galatasaray-Bellinzona 2009 History | UEFA Europa League". UEFA.
  4. ^ "Konkurseröffnung über AC Bellinzona" (in German). 22 April 2013. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
  5. ^ "Federazione Ticinese di Calcio" (in Italian). Retrieved 3 August 2014.
  6. ^ "David Sesa ist nicht mehr Trainer der AC Bellinzona". sfl.ch (in German). Swiss Football League. 22 August 2022. Retrieved 22 August 2022.[permanent dead link]
  7. ^ "Comunicato ACB – 18.01.2023". acbellinzona.ch (in Italian). AC Bellinzona. 18 January 2023. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  8. ^ "Benvenuto Stefano!". acbellinzona.ch (in Italian). AC Bellinzona. 19 January 2023. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
  9. ^ "Stefano Maccoppi ist nicht mehr Trainer der AC Bellinzona". sfl.ch (in German). Swiss Football League. 31 March 2023. Retrieved 2 April 2023.
  10. ^ "SQUADRA" (in Italian). Retrieved 13 November 2020.

External links

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