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Full name | Calcio Foggia 1920 S.r.l. | |||
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Nickname(s) | Rossoneri (The Red and Blacks) Satanelli (The Little Satans) Dauni (The Daunians) | |||
Founded | 1920 | as US Foggia|||
Ground | Stadio Pino Zaccheria, Foggia, Italy | |||
Capacity | 25,085[citation needed] | |||
Owner | Corporate Investments Group S.r.l. (80%) Davide Pelusi (20%)[citation needed] | |||
Chairman | Nicola Canonico[citation needed] | |||
Manager | Tommaso Coletti | |||
League | Serie C Group C | |||
2022–23 | Serie C Group C, 4th of 20 | |||
Website | Club website | |||
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Calcio Foggia 1920, commonly referred to as Foggia, is an Italian football club based in Foggia, Apulia. It currently plays in Serie C, having last been in the top level Serie A in 1995.
It plays in Serie C, the third division of the Italian championship. The team experienced the best periods in its history[according to whom?] in the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century, in Serie A, and above all[tone][according to whom?] in the first half of the nineties, playing four seasons in the top flight, coming close to qualifying for the UEFA Cup and gaining media exposure in European level for expressing an unprecedented, fast and attacking football.[tone]
On 23 April 2017, the club regained promotion to Serie B after a 19-year absence, but folded again only two years later, to restart from Serie D in 2019 as Calcio Foggia.
History
Foggia Calcio & U.S. Foggia
Foundation and early years
The club was founded in 1920 as Foggia Calcio.[citation needed] The club spent its early history playing football in the lower leagues, winning a championship in the dilettanti in 1933.[citation needed]
In 1957–58, a merger took place between Foggia Calcio and Foggia Incedit, forming Unione Sportiva Foggia as the club is today.[citation needed] In 1961–62, the team was taken over by President Domenico Rosa Rosa, a wood industrialist, and coach Oronzo Pugliese, who quickly led them to promotion to Serie B.[citation needed]
Reaching Serie A
History was made in the 1963–64 season, when Rosa Rosa and Oronzo Pugliese's Foggia reached
Pugliese was replaced by Egizio Rubino, and Foggia, although with more difficulty compared to the previous season,[clarification needed] managed to survive the drop again.[citation needed] The following year, however, Foggia was relegated.[citation needed] It was a forgettable championship,[tone][according to whom?] after 10 matches Foggia had collected only three points and scored just 24 goals.[citation needed] Rubino was sacked and replaced by Bonazzini.[citation needed] The team improved under Bonazzini but failed to[tone] avoid relegation.[citation needed] At the end of the season, president Rosa Rosa also left the club, following their relegation.[citation needed]
Relegated at the end of the
Glory years and Zemanlandia
Following their relegation back to Serie B, Foggia were then dealt with a further blow[
In 1989, with the appointment of
After returning to
Zeman left to join Lazio at the end of that season, marking the end of Zemanlandia whilst the club was beset with financial problems. The Foggia glory days[tone] had come to an end.
Decline, Serie C and Zeman's return
Following the drop, Foggia spent two seasons in
Playing football in Italy's fourth tier was far less glamorous[
After the 2003–04 season, in which they finished mid-table but with good signs[clarification needed] for the following year, Foggia were hit with financial problems and lost the coach Marino and all the best players.
Second U.S. Foggia
The news sent the fans into despair[
After two more seasons finishing in mid-table, during which there were five coaching changes, Coccimiglio was criticised for not paying players' wages, a situation which created instability.[citation needed] After complex negotiations, the company passed into the hands of a team of local entrepreneurs led by Tullio Capobianco.
The club spent the following years mid-table in C1, narrowly losing a promotion playoff in
In June 2010, Pasquale Casillo, chairman and owner during the glory years[tone] of the 1990s, re-acquired the club, and reformed the old trio of Foggia heads by appointing back Zdeněk Zeman as manager and Giuseppe Pavone as director of football. However, despite impressive[tone][according to whom?] performances from several young and promising players who went on to play at the highest level like Lorenzo Insigne and Marco Sau, Foggia missed out on playoff qualification.
Second Foggia Calcio
After the end of the 2011–12 season, Foggia was declined to enter Lega Pro Prima Divisione[4] and was thus was excluded from professional football.[5]
In the summer 2012 a new company named A.C.D. Foggia Calcio
Over the next five seasons, the club would make the climb from Serie D (fifth level) to Serie B (second level); all this thanks to[tone] the coaches Pasquale Padalino, Roberto De Zerbi (who also won a Serie C Italian cup) and Giovanni Stroppa.
Third Foggia Calcio
After the end of the 2018–19 season, Foggia was declined to enter Serie C and was thus was excluded from professional football.
In the summer 2019 a new company named Calcio Foggia 1920 was founded to continue the football history of the city of Foggia. The club restarted from
Supporters
Football has always been a popular sport to follow in the city of Foggia,[according to whom?] especially since the Zeman years. I Satanelli can also count on support from across the Province of Foggia.[citation needed]
The only twinning Foggia fans have is with the supporters of Cagliari and more specifically with the Sconvolts 1987 ultras. However, each group has personal friendships, notable are those with Monza, Latina and Budapest Honvéd.
93 year-old Foggia fan Nonno Ciccio has been attending matches consistently since 1937, with the exception of wartime years. Nonno is now cited as the oldest ultra in Italy and, as of March 2016, still regularly attended Foggia matches, home and away.[9]
Current squad
- As of 1 February 2024[10]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Out on loan
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Club officials
Board of directors |
Current technical staff
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Managerial history
Foggia have had many managers and trainers throughout the history of a club, in some seasons more than one manager was in charge. Here is a chronological list of them from 1923 onwards.[11]
- Roberto Fini– 1923–28
- Severino Rosso– 1928–29
- Béla Károly– 1929–32
- Tony Cargnelli– 1932–33
- Engelbert König– 1933–34
- Silvio Stritzel– 1934–35
- Giovanni Batista Rebuffo– 1935
- Wilmos Wilhelm– 1935–36
- Béla Károly– 1936–37
- Angelo Benincasa– 1937–39
- István Fogl – 1939–40
- Ferenc Plemich– 1940
- István Fogl – 1940–41
- Ferenc Plemich– 1941
- Angelo Benincasa– 1941–46
- Piero Andreoli– 1946–47
- Lajos Politzer– 1947–48
- Angelo Benincasa– 1948–49
- András Kuttik– 1949
- Vincenzo Marsico– 1949–50
- András Kuttik– 1950
- Vincenzo Marsico– 1950–51
- Tony Cargnelli– 1951–52
- Cesare Migliorini – 1952
- Vincenzo Marsico– 1952–53
- Cesare Migliorini – 1953–54
- Lajos Kovács– 1954–55
- Leandro Remondini– 1955
- Vincenzo Marsico– 1955–59
- Leonardo Costagliola – 1959–60
- Paolo Tabanelli– 1960–61
- Leonardo Costagliola – 1961
- Oronzo Pugliese– 1961–65
- Egizio Rubino – 1965–66
- Luigi Bonizzoni– 1966–68
- Serafino Montanari – 1968
- Tommaso Maestrelli– 1968–71
- Ettore Puricelli– 1971–72
- Lauro Toneatto– 1972–74
- Cesare Maldini– 1974–76
- Roberto Balestri – 1976
- Ettore Puricelli– 1976–78
- Cinesinho– 1978–79
- Giorgio Sereni– 1979–80
- Ettore Puricelli– 1980–81
- Vasco Tagliavini– 1981–82
- Fernando Veneranda– 1982
- Lamberto Leonardi– 1982–83
- Lamberto Giorgis– 1983
- Romano Fogli – 1983–84
- Ettore Puricelli– 1984
- Lamberto Giorgis– 1984–85
- Graziano Landoni – 1985
- G.B. Fabbri– 1985
- Corrado Viciani – 1985–86
- G.B. Fabbri– 1986
- Zdeněk Zeman– 1986–87
- Roberto Balestri– 1987
- Pippo Marchioro– 1987–88
- Roberto Balestri– 1988
- Giuseppe Caramanno– 1988–89
- Zdeněk Zeman– 1989–94
- Enrico Catuzzi – 1994–95
- Delio Rossi– 1995–96
- Tarcisio Burgnich– 1996–97
- Domenico Caso– 1997
- Beniamino Cancian– 1997–98
- Domenico Caso– 1998
- Lorenzo Mancano– 1998–99
- Fabio Brini– 1999
- Piero Braglia– 1999–00
- Lorenzo Mancano– 2000
- Ignazio Arcoleo– 2000–01
- Bruno Pace– 2001–02
- Carlo Florimbi– 2002
- Pasquale Marino– 2002–04
- Giuseppe Giannini– 2004–05
- Massimo Morgia– 2005–06
- Giorgio Rumignani– 2006
- Silvano Fiorucci– 2006
- Stefano Cuoghi– 2006–07
- Fulvio D'Adderio– 2007
- Salvatore Campilongo– 2007–08
- Giuseppe Galderisi– 2008
- Raffaele Novelli– 2008–09
- Antonio Porta– 2009
- Guido Ugolotti– 2010
- Zdeněk Zeman– 2010–11
- Valter Bonacina– 2011
- Paolo Stringara– 2011–12
- Valter Bonacina– 2012
- Pasquale Padalino– 2012–13
- Roberto De Zerbi– 2014–16
- Giovanni Stroppa– 2016–18
- Gianluca Grassadonia– 2018
- Pasquale Padalino– 2018–19
- Gianluca Grassadonia– 2019
- Amantino Mancini– 2019
- Ninni Corda– 2019-2020
- Ezio Capuano– 2020
- Vincenzo Maiuri– 2020
- Marco Marchionni– 2020–2021
- Zdeněk Zeman– 2021–Present
Honours
League
- Serie B
- Winners: 1990–91[citation needed]
- Serie C
- Winners: 1932–33,[citation needed] 1959–60,[citation needed] 1961–62,[citation needed] 2016–17[citation needed]
- Serie C2
- Winners: 2002–2003[citation needed]
- Serie D
- Winners: 2019–2020[citation needed]
Cups
- Coppa Italia Serie C
- Winners: 2006–07,[citation needed] 2015–16[citation needed]
- Supercoppa di Serie C
- Winners: 2017[citation needed]
Divisional movements
Series | Years | Last | Promotions | Relegations |
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A | 11 | 1994–95 | - | 5 (1967, 1971, 1974, 1978, 1995) |
B | 25 | 2018–19 | 5 ( 1991 ) |
7 (1936, 1947, 1961, 1979, 1983, 1998, 2019✟) |
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41 +5 |
2021–22 | 7 (1933, 1946, 1960, 1962, 1980, 1989, 2017) 6 (2003 C2, 2014 C2) |
3 (1952, 1999 C1, 2012✟) |
82 out of 90 years of professional football in Italy since 1929 | ||||
D | 8 | 2019–20 | 2 (1958, 2013, 2020) | never |
References
- ^ Cent’anni di storia e gloria rossonera, calciofoggia1920.net
- ^ a b Benvenuti a Zemanlandia, il Foggia più bello di sempre, footballpills.com, 7 maggio 2016.
- ^ Carraro, Franco (30 June 2004). "C.U. N°199/A (2003–04)" (PDF). Presidente Federale (in Italian). FIGC. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
- ^ "Comunicato Ufficiale N°8/A (2012–13)" (PDF) (in Italian). FIGC. 19 July 2012. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
- ^ Giannini, Amleto (5 March 2017). "1000esima panchina amara per Zeman • Focus". FantaMaster News (in Italian). Retrieved 16 March 2019.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Foggia Calcio Mania". www.foggiacalciomania.com. Archived from the original on 14 May 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
- ^ "Pubblicati i gironi di Serie D: ammesse Spal, Foggia e Taranto e ripescato il Cynthia" (in Italian). FIGC. 9 August 2012. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
- ^ "Foggia Calcio Mania". foggiacalciomania.com. Archived from the original on 7 September 2013. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
- ^ "Meet 90-year-old Foggia fan, Nonno Ciccio, the oldest ultra in Italy". The Guardian. 10 March 2016. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
- ^ "Foggia squad". Soccerway. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
- ^ "Gli allenatori e i presidenti". USFoggia.it. 1 April 2007. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 15 September 2007.
External links
Media related to Foggia Calcio at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website (in Italian)