US Sassuolo Calcio

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Sassuolo
Full nameUnione Sportiva Sassuolo
Calcio S.r.l.
Nickname(s)I Neroverdi (The Black and Greens)
The Watermelon Peel
Founded1920; 104 years ago (1920)
GroundMapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore
Capacity21,584[1]
OwnerMapei
ChairmanCarlo Rossi[2]
Head coachFabio Grosso
LeagueSerie B
2023–24Serie A, 19th of 20 (relegated)
WebsiteClub website
Current season

Unione Sportiva Sassuolo Calcio, commonly referred to as Sassuolo (Italian pronunciation: [sasˈswɔːlo]), is an Italian professional football club based in Sassuolo, Emilia-Romagna.[3] Their colours are black and green, hence the nickname Neroverdi (literally "black and greens", in Italian).

Sassuolo participated in Serie A from the 2013–14 season until their relegation in the 2023–24 season, joining a select group of teams to have played in Serie A without belonging to a provincial capital city, such as Savoia (Torre Annunziata), Empoli, Legnano, Pro Patria (Busto Arsizio), Carpi, and Casale.[4][5]

History

The club was founded in 1920[6] and played in the Emilian amateur divisions for most of its history until its first promotion to Serie D in 1968. In this era, the club merged with other local football teams to eventually form the current US Sassuolo Calcio in 1974. In 1984, the club gained promotion to Serie C2, the lowest level of professional football in Italy. However, they were relegated in 1990 and subsequently spent most of the 1990s in Serie D. In 1998, a second-place finish ensured promotion back to Serie C2.

Serie C1

Sassuolo reached

Piacenza, and former Serie A player Massimiliano Allegri
was chosen as new head coach.

Under Allegri, Sassuolo quickly revived their hopes to obtain promotion to Serie B; this ultimately materialized on 27 April 2008, when they won the Serie C1/A title, thus ensuring a historical promotion to Serie B, the first in the club's history.[7]

Serie B

Following Sassuolo's promotion to the Italian second tier, Allegri left Sassuolo to fill the head coaching position at Serie A team

Siena boss Andrea Mandorlini
for the 2008–09 season.

Supercoppa Lega Pro

Sassuolo had a surprisingly good start to the 2008–09 campaign and held a promotion playoff place for a very long time. They only won two points in their last five matches to eventually finish in seventh place. Despite a successful season, Mandorlini left Sassuolo by mutual consent in June 2009, whereupon the team then appointed former

Piacenza coach Stefano Pioli
on 11 June 2009.

Sassuolo successively qualified to the Serie B promotion playoffs in 2009–10 by placing fourth, and 2011–12 in third, being eliminated at the semi-finals in both seasons.

In the 2012–13 season, however, under the guidance of new head coach

Serie C2. The key role that was played in this achievement by 18-year-old academy product Domenico Berardi saw the player win the league's Player of the Year award
.

Serie A

During pre-season training in July 2013, Sassuolo won the

Milan 2–1, marking the first time a team other than Milan, Internazionale
or Juventus have won the Cup.

Eusebio Di Francesco, manager of the historic promotion to Serie A for the Neroverdi in 2013

On 25 August 2013, Sassuolo played their first-ever Serie A match, a 2–0 loss away at

Genoa
on 11 May, Sassuolo guaranteed its place in Serie A for the 2014–15 season. Berardi finished in equal 7th place in the Serie A top scorers list, with 16 goals for the season.

Domenico Berardi began his club career with Sassuolo in 2012, helping the team win the Serie B title and earn promotion to Serie A in his debut season. He is currently Sassuolo's all-time top scorer, with over 100 goals in all competitions.

The Neroverdi had a much better 2014–15 Serie A season, finishing comfortably beyond relegation in 12th place. Berardi was once more the club's top goalscorer with 15 league goals.

Sassuolo improved again in the

Mapei Stadium[17] and a 1–0 victory over Inter at the San Siro.[18]

On 21 May 2016, Sassuolo achieved their first ever

Milan as Milan would have gone to Europe instead if they had won the final.[19] On 25 August 2016, Sassuolo qualified for the Europa League group stage after beating Red Star Belgrade 4–1 on aggregate in the playoff round.[20]

Over the following three seasons, the Neroverdi returned to mid-table, ending the

Serie C2 in 2005, having led the Neroverdi through three promotions and also playing in European competition in that time.[citation needed] On 13 June 2018, Roberto De Zerbi was appointed as manager, after impressing with his possession-based tactics at relegated Benevento in the previous season.[21]

The

Empoli in the preceding off-season was particularly crucial to this, as the striker ended the campaign with 21 league goals, and wingers Jérémie Boga and Domenico Berardi also achieved double-figure goal tallies.[23]

The club continued its development as a top 10 team in Serie A in the following season, in which the record of 61 points in

Roma in 7th place, but narrowly missed out on European qualification on goal difference.[25] Berardi, in his eighth professional season with the club, enjoyed the best year of his career with 17 league goals and his double in a 3–1 against Fiorentina on 17 April 2021 meant that he had reached 100 goals in all competitions for the Neroverdi.[26] De Zerbi announced he would leave the club at the end of the season to take up the vacant head coach position at Shakhtar Donetsk.[27] On 11 July 2021, Sassuolo's Manuel Locatelli, Domenico Berardi and Giacomo Raspadori were part of the Italy national squad that defeated England in the UEFA Euro 2020 final.[28]
In the 2023–24 season, Sassuolo finished 19th on the table and were relegated to Serie B ending their 11-year stay in the top flight.[29]

Stadium and kit

Stadio Città del Tricolore

Sassuolo's home stadium is the Stadio Enzo Ricci in Sassuolo, still used by the club for training, but due to its tiny capacity (4,000) the club played Serie B seasons in Modena's Stadio Alberto Braglia.[30][31]

Starting from the 2013–14 season, the first Serie A campaign for the club, Sassuolo plays in

Reggiana.[32] The stadium was also bought by the parent company of Sassuolo, Mapei.[33]

Sassuolo's famous green kit originates from a donation from English side Lancaster Rovers FC. During a tour of Italy in 1921, the Rovers side were unable to fulfil a fixture with Sassuolo and as a way of apology, donated their green shirts for Sassuolo to keep.[34]

Players

Current squad

As of 18 January 2024[35]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
2 DF Italy ITA Filippo Missori
3 DF Norway NOR Marcus Pedersen (on loan from Feyenoord)
5 DF Croatia CRO Martin Erlić (4th captain)
6 MF Serbia SRB Uroš Račić
7 MF Brazil BRA Matheus Henrique
8 FW Italy ITA Samuele Mulattieri
9 FW Italy ITA Andrea Pinamonti
10 FW Italy ITA
vice-captain
)
11 MF Albania ALB Nedim Bajrami
13 DF Italy ITA Gian Marco Ferrari (captain)
14 MF Equatorial Guinea EQG Pedro Obiang
15 FW Norway NOR Emil Konradsen Ceide
19 DF Albania ALB Marash Kumbulla (on loan from Roma)
20 FW Spain ESP Samu Castillejo (on loan from Valencia)
No. Pos. Nation Player
21 DF Italy ITA Mattia Viti (on loan from Nice)
22 DF Germany GER Jeremy Toljan
23 FW Italy ITA Cristian Volpato
24 MF Italy ITA Daniel Boloca
25 GK Italy ITA Gianluca Pegolo
28 GK Italy ITA Alessio Cragno (on loan from Monza)
35 MF Italy ITA Luca Lipani
42 MF Norway NOR Kristian Thorstvedt
43 DF Scotland SCO Josh Doig
44 DF Brazil BRA Ruan Tressoldi
45 FW France FRA Armand Laurienté
47 GK Italy ITA Andrea Consigli (3rd captain)
92 FW France FRA Grégoire Defrel

Youth sector

Main article: US Sassuolo Calcio Youth Sector

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
29 DF Italy ITA Matteo Falasca
30 DF Netherlands NED Seb Loeffen
31 FW Italy ITA Flavio Russo
32 MF Italy ITA Kevin Leone
No. Pos. Nation Player
33 GK Italy ITA Daniel Theiner
34 GK Italy ITA Alessandro Scacchetti
36 MF Italy ITA Justin Kumi
40 MF Niger NIG Salim Abubakar

Out on loan

As of 18 January 2024.

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
— GK Italy ITA Alessandro Russo (on loan to Trento until 30 June 2024)
— GK Italy ITA Giacomo Satalino (on loan to Reggiana until 30 June 2024)
— GK Italy ITA Stefano Turati (on loan to Frosinone until 30 June 2024)
— GK Italy ITA
Giana Erminio
until 30 June 2024)
— DF Netherlands NED Ryan Flamingo (on loan to Utrecht until 30 June 2024)
— DF Greece GRE Giorgos Kyriakopoulos (on loan to Monza until 30 June 2024)
— DF Italy ITA
Catanzaro
until 30 June 2024)
— DF Italy ITA Stefano Piccinini (on loan to Pergolettese until 30 June 2024)
— DF Italy ITA Edoardo Pieragnolo (on loan to Reggiana until 30 June 2024)
— DF Italy ITA Filippo Romagna (on loan to Reggiana until 30 June 2024)
— MF Italy ITA Davide Frattesi (on loan to Inter until 30 June 2024)
— MF Italy ITA
Catanzaro
until 30 June 2024)
— MF France FRA Maxime Lopez (on loan to Fiorentina until 30 June 2024)
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF Romania ROU
Novara
until 30 June 2024)
— MF Italy ITA Alessandro Mercati (on loan to Gubbio until 30 June 2024)
— MF Colombia COL Yeferson Paz (at Perugia until 30 June 2024)
— MF Italy ITA Matteo Saccani (on loan to Turris until 30 June 2024)
— FW Uruguay URU
Sampdoria
until 30 June 2024)
— FW France FRA Janis Antiste (on loan to Reggiana until 30 June 2024)
— FW Italy ITA Riccardo Ciervo (on loan to Südtirol until 30 June 2024)
— FW Italy ITA
Catanzaro
until 30 June 2024)
— FW Italy ITA Giacomo Manzari (on loan to Feralpisalò until 30 June 2024)
— FW Italy ITA Luca Moro (on loan to Spezia until 30 June 2024)
— FW Italy ITA Jacopo Pellegrini (on loan to Vicenza until 30 June 2024)
— FW Italy ITA Luigi Samele (on loan to Alessandria until 30 June 2024)

Coaching staff

As of 1 July 2021
Position Staff
Head coach Italy Davide Ballardini
Assistant head coach Italy Carlo Regno
Goalkeeping coach Italy Paolo Orlandoni
Technical coach Italy Nicola Tarroni
Match analyst Italy Gianluca Maran
Athletic coach Italy Daniele Caleca
Italy Andrea Azzalin
Italy Nicola Riva
Chief analyst Italy Marco Riggio
Rehab coach Italy Andrea Rinaldi
Head of medical staff Italy Marco Bruzzone
Club doctor Italy Riccardo Saporiti
Nutritionist Italy Davide Tonelli
Physiotherapist Italy Leonardo Belotti
Italy Marco Bertuzzi
Italy Nicola Daprile
Italy Emanuele Randelli
Kit Manager Italy Roberto Baraldi
Italy Andrea Carra
Italy Matteo Caruso
Italy Alfonso De Santo

Managers

Recent seasons

Main article: List of US Sassuolo Calcio seasons
Results of league and cup competitions by season
Season Division Pld W D L GF GA Pts Pos Cup Supercoppa
Italiana 		Cup Result Player(s) Goals[36][37]
League UEFA – FIFA Top goalscorer(s)[38]
2023–24 Serie A (1) 38 7 9 22 43 75 30 19th R16 Andrea Pinamonti 12
2022–23 Serie A (1) 38 12 9 17 47 61 45 13th R64 Domenico Berardi 13
2021–22 Serie A (1) 38 13 11 14 64 66 50 11th QF Gianluca Scamacca 16
2020–21 Serie A (1) 38 17 11 10 64 56 62 8th R16 Domenico Berardi 17
2019–20 Serie A (1) 38 14 9 15 69 63 51 8th 4R Francesco Caputo 21
2018–19 Serie A (1) 38 9 16 13 53 60 43 11th R16 Domenico Berardi 10
2017–18 Serie A (1) 38 11 10 17 29 59 43 11th R16 Matteo Politano 11
2016–17 Serie A (1) 38 13 7 18 58 63 46 12th R16 Europa League Group stage Grégoire Defrel 16
2015–16 Serie A (1) 38 16 13 9 49 40 61 6th 4R Domenico Berardi
Grégoire Defrel
Nicola Sansone		 7
2014–15 Serie A (1) 38 12 13 13 49 57 49 12th R16 Domenico Berardi 15

Honours

In Europe

Season Competition Round Club Home Away
Agg.
 Ref.
2016–17
 		Europa League QR3 Switzerland Luzern 3–0 1–1 4–1 [39]
PO Serbia Red Star Belgrade 3–0 1–1 4–1
GS Spain Athletic Bilbao 3–0 2–3 4th out of 4
Belgium Genk 0–2 1–3
Austria Rapid Wien 2–2 1–1

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