Bologna FC

Bologna FC
Basic data
Surname	Bologna Football Club 1909 SpA
Seat	Bologna , Italy
founding	October 3, 1909
Colours	Red Blue
president	Joey Saputo
Website	bolognafc.it
First soccer team
Head coach	Siniša Mihajlović
Venue	Stadio Renato Dall'Ara
Places	36,462
league	Series A
2019/20	12th place
home Away Alternatively

The FC Bologna (officially: Bologna Football Club 1909 SpA ) is an Italian football club founded in 1909 from the Emilian capital Bologna . Other names are I Rossoblu ("The Red-Blue") and I Veltri ("The Greyhounds").

In the period from 1925 to the beginning of the Second World War , FC Bologna was one of the most successful Italian and European football clubs with six championship titles and two wins in the Mitropa Cup . After the war, the club could no longer build on its successes; the seventh and final championship came in 1964.

history

On October 3, 1909, the Bologna Foot Ball Club was founded. At that time, the Italian champions were still determined in final rounds, which could be achieved by winning the group in regional leagues. From the early 1920s, Bologna established under coach Hermann Felsner- namely in the region of Emilia-Romagna , but could be at national level not ultimately prevail. From the 1923/24 season onwards, the game was becoming more and more orderly in Italy, the individual leagues comprised larger regions and in the 1st League North (Group B) a dominant team emerged with FC Bologna. The club achieved the club's greatest success in June 1924 when it reached the north final (the winner then played in the championship final against the winner from the south). Against the winners of the 1st League North (Group A), CFC Genoa , Bologna lost 1-0 in the first leg. In the second leg on their own place, no sporting result could be achieved because the game had to be abandoned in the 84th minute when the score was 1: 1 after riots and the future champions from Genoa was declared the 2-0 winner.

In the following season there was revenge between the two teams. Again in the 1st League North, FC Bologna prevailed in group B and CFC Genoa in group A. The confrontation began on May 24, 1925 and ended for Bologna with a 1: 2 home defeat, for which exactly one week later they returned the favor with a 2: 1 away win in Genoa. A playoff in Milan was supposed to determine a winner on June 7th, but ended in a draw after extra time (2: 2) as did the second playoff in Turin on July 5 (1: 1). On August 9, around ten weeks had passed since the first game, another playoff was scheduled in Milan, which kicked off in the early morning at 7:00 a.m. without spectators. In the end, Bologna prevailed 2-0 and won the first Italian championship in the same month with much less spectacular final games against Alba Roma (4-0 H, 2-0 A).

FC Bologna was finally a feared opponent and the home venue a fortress. After the championship, he won all of his eleven home games in the 1925/26 season (with 46: 4 goals) and reached the final in the north two points before FBC Turin (which in turn also won all eleven home games). After a 2: 2 at home and a 0: 0 away, Bologna had to go back to Milan almost exactly a year after the decisive victory against Genoa, where it was narrowly defeated by Juventus this time with 2: 1 .

In 1926 the club was renamed Associazione Giocare Calcio Bologna (AGC Bologna) .

In 1929, Bologna had just become Italian champions for the second time in the playoff match in Rome against FBC Turin, and the Serie A national football league was founded with 18 teams. This should put an end to the complicated mode of preliminary decisions at regional level and the dragging disputes in play-offs. The new game system proved its worth and AGC Bologna immediately established themselves in the front half of the table. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Bologna experienced the most successful period in its club history with four championship titles won (1936 to 1941).

The championship team of FC Bologna for the 1963/64 season.

The Second World War ended this era and FC Bologna, as the club called itself again after the end of the war, did not regain its old strength after the end of the war. Only at the beginning of the 1960s did the club manage to jump into the top third of the table for a few years. For the 1961/62 season, the club entered the championship for the first time under the name FC Bologna, which is still used today, previously the club had long been known under the name AGC Bologna. With the new name it was even possible to win the championship title again in 1964. After that, however, a gradual transition to mediocrity began again, although two further club successes were recorded in the Italian cup competition in 1970 and 1974. In the championship, on the other hand, chronic concerns about relegation followed from 1977, which culminated in 1982 with the first relegation to Serie B. It was only since 1996 that FC Bologna played continuously in Italy's top division and confirmed a position in midfield every year before relegating to Serie B in 2005. In the Serie B 2007/2008 season, being runner-up in the table again succeeded in being promoted to Serie A. Then Bologna managed to establish itself in the first division. This positive development then experienced a major setback in the 2013/14 season , when they were only penultimate in Serie A - only before AS Livorno  - and had to return to the second division after six years.

The international successes of FC Bologna are manageable. After winning the national title in 1964, the club achieved the only participation to date in the European Cup of National Champions 1964/65 , from which they were unlucky. The Italians were able to compensate for a 0: 1 defeat at RSC Anderlecht with a 2: 1 in the second leg and also force a 0: 0 in the play-off. The drawing of lots, which was still common at the time, ended, to the annoyance of the Italians, with the Belgian team advancing. That bad luck was repeated two years later in the UEFA Cup , when the 1-0 home win against Leeds United by the English in the second leg was equalized, but the lot was again decided in favor of the opposition. In 1968, the Italians achieved their greatest international success when they reached the UEFA Cup semi-finals, in which they did not get more than 2-2 at home after a 3-2 defeat at Ferencváros Budapest , the biggest international success, which was when they reached the UEFA Cup again - The 1998/1999 semi-finals could be repeated after qualifying via the UI Cup.

Club colors and crests

Since it was founded in 1909, FC Bologna has been wearing the colors red and blue, plus white shorts and blue socks. Today's club coat of arms shows the acronym BFC and the year of foundation 1909 in the upper part, as well as the colors of the club and the Georgskreuz in the lower part.

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  1909 to 1926

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  1926 to 1946

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  1946 to 1993

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  1993 to 2018

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  since 2018

Club successes

Team captain Mirko Pavinato and club president Renato Dall'Ara with the Mitropa Cup 1961.

National	title	season
Italian championship	7th	1924/25 , 1928/29 , 1935/36 , 1936/37 , 1938/39 , 1940/41 , 1963/64
Italian Cup	2	1969/70 , 1973/74
International	title	season
Mitropacup	3	1932 , 1934 , 1961
UEFA Intertoto Cup	1	1998
English-Italian League Cup	1	1970

facts and figures

Professional team squad (2019/20)

No.	Nat.	Surname	Date of birth	In the team since	Contract until
goalkeeper
01		Angelo da Costa	11/12/1983	2015	2020
20th		Sebastian Breza	..1998	2020
28		Łukasz Skorupski	05/05/1991	2018	2023
97		Fallou Sarr	..1997	2019
Defender
03		Mattia Bani	12/10/1993	2019	2023
04th		Stefano Denswil	05/07/1993	2019	2022
14th		Takehiro Tomiyasu	05/11/1998	2019	2024
15th		Ibrahima Mbaye	11/19/1994	2015	2023
23		Danilo	05/10/1984	2019	2020
25th		Gabriele Corbo	January 11, 2000	2018
35		Mitchell Dijks	02/09/1993	2018	2023
midfield player
08th		Nicolás Domínguez	06/28/1998	2020
16		Andrea Poli	09/29/1989	2017	2021
18th		César Faletti	12/02/1992	2017	2021
21st		Roberto Soriano	02/08/1991	2019	2023
31		Blerim Džemaili	04/12/1986	2016	2020
32		Mattias Svanberg	01/05/1999	2018	2023
30th		Jerdy Schouten	01/12/1997	2019	2024
striker
07th		Riccardo Orsolini	01/24/1997	2019	2022
09		Federico Santander	06/04/1991	2018	2022
10		Nicola Sansone	09/10/1991	2019	2023
11		Ladislav Krejčí	07/05/1992	2016	2020
17th		Andreas Skov Olsen	12/29/1999	2019	2024
22nd		Mattia Destro	03/20/1991	2015	2020
24		Rodrigo Palacio	02/05/1982	2017	2020
99		Musa Barrow	11/14/1998	2020
As of January 31, 2020

Former players

•  Angelo Alessio
•  Know Andersson
•  Miguel Andreolo
•  Stephen Appiah
•  Klaus Bachlechner
•  Roberto Baggio
•  Mauro Bellugi
•  Amedeo Biavati
•  Massimo Bonini
•  Matteo Brighi
•  Giacomo Bulgarelli
•  Antonio Cabrini
•  Aldo Campatelli
•  Gino Cappello
•  Ciro Capuano
•  Carlo Ceresoli
•  Luciano Chiarugi
•  Franco Cresci
•  Julio Cruz
•  Hector Demarco
•  Aldo Donati
•  Enrico Fantini
•  Eugenio Fascetti
•  Giovanni Ferrari
•  Romano Fogli
•  Carlo Furlanis
•  Alessandro Gamberini
•  Felice Gasperi
•  Pietro Genovesi
•  Mario Gianni
•  Federico Giunti
•  Roberto Guana
•  Ivan Gregori
•  Aristide Guarneri
•  Helmut Haller
•  Klas Ingesson
•  Mark Iuliano
•  Francesco Janich
•  Antonio Juliano
•  Mohamed Kallon
•  Igor Kolyvanov
•  Salvatore Lanna
•  Nicola Legrottaglie
•  Tomas Locatelli
•  Luciano
•  Bruno Maini
•  Aldo Maldera
•  Marco De Marchi
•  Enzo Maresca
•  Humberto Maschio
•  Eraldo Monzeglio
•  Emiliano Moretti
•  Valentin Năstase
•  Paolo Negro
•  Carlo Nervo
•  Herbert Neumann
•  Harald Nielsen
•  Savio Nsereko
•  Davide Olivares
•  Luís Oliveira
•  Gianluca Pagliuca
•  Mario Pagotto
•  Adelmo Paris
•  Ezio Pascutti
•  Eraldo Pecci
•  Marino Perani
•  Bernardo Perin
•  Gino Pivatelli
•  Ivo Pulga
•  Ettore Puricelli
•  Ivan Radovanović
•  Carlo Reguzzoni
•  Tazio Roversi
•  Giuseppe Savoldi
•  Igor Shalimov
•  Giuseppe Signori
•  Angelo Schiavio
•  Igloo Tare
•  Roberto Tricella
•  Paride Tumburus
•  Giuseppe Vavassori
•  Giuseppe Della Valle
•  Nicola Ventola
•  Pierre Womé
•  Cristian Zaccardo
•  Theodoros Zagorakis
•  Giuseppe Zinetti

Coach history

Since 2019 head coach of FC Bologna, Siniša Mihajlović

Head coach
Term of office	Surname
1909-1919	no trainer
1920-1931	Hermann Felsner
1931-1932	Gyula Lelovics
1932	József Nagy
1932-1933	Achille Gama
1933-1934	Pietro Genovesi (Technical Commission)
1934	Lajos Kovács
1934-1938	Árpád Weisz
1938-1942	Hermann Felsner
1942-1943	Mario Montesanto
1945-1946	Alexander Popovich
1946	Pietro Genovesi (Technical Commission)
1946-1947	József viola
1947-1948	Gyula Lelovics
1948-1949	Anton Cargnelli
1949-1951	Edmund Crawford
1951	Raffaele Sansone
1951-1952	Giuseppe Galluzzi
1952	Gyula Lelovics
1952-1956	Gipo Viani
1956-1957	Aldo Campatelli
1957	Ljubo Benčić
1957-1958	György Sárosi
1958-1959	Alfredo Foni
1959-1961	Federico Allasio
1961-1965	Fulvio Bernardini
1965	Manlio Scopigno
1965-1968	Luis Carniglia

Head coach
Term of office	Surname
1968	Gipo Viani
1968-1969	Cesarino Cervellati
1969	Oronzo Pugliese
1969-1972	Edmondo Fabbri
1972-1976	Bruno Pesaola
1976-1977	Gustavo Giagnoni
1977	Cesarino Cervellati
1977-1979	Bruno Pesaola
1979	Marino Perani
1979	Cesarino Cervellati
1979-1980	Marino Perani
1980-1981	Luigi Radice
1981-1982	Tarcisio Burgnich
1982-1982	Francesco Liguori
1982	Alfredo Magni
1982-1983	Paolo Carosi
1983	Cesarino Cervellati
1983-1984	Giancarlo Cadè
1984	Nello Santin
1984-1985	Bruno Pace
1985-1986	Carlo Mazzone
1986-1987	Vincenzo Guerini
1987	Giovan Battista Fabbri
1987-1990	Luigi Maifredi
1990-1990	Franco Scoglio
1990-1991	Luigi Radice
1991	Luigi Maifredi
1991-1992	Nedo Sonetti
1992-1993	Eugenio Bersellini

Head coach
Term of office	Surname
1993	Aldo Cerantola
1993	Romano Fogli
1993	Alberto Zaccheroni
1993-1994	Edoardo Reja
1994-1998	Renzo Ulivieri
1998-1999	Carlo Mazzone
1999	Sergio Buso
1999-2003	Francesco Guidolin
2003-2005	Carlo Mazzone
2005	Renzo Ulivieri
2005-2006	Andrea Mandorlini
2006-2007	Renzo Ulivieri
2007	Luca Cecconi
2007-2008	Daniele Arrigoni
2008-2009	Siniša Mihajlović
2009	Giuseppe Papadopulo
2009-2010	Franco Colomba
2010-2011	Alberto Malesani
2011	Pierpaolo Bisoli
2011-2014	Stefano Pioli
2014	Davide Ballardini
2014-2015	Diego Lopez
2015	Delio Rossi
2015-2018	Roberto Donadoni
2018-2019	Filippo Inzaghi
2019–	Siniša Mihajlović

Club records

• Series A
  • Biggest win: 8-0 Bologna FC - US Triestina in the 1931/32 season.
  • Biggest defeat: 8-2 Lazio Rome - FC Bologna in the 1947/48 season.
  • Record player: Giacomo Bulgarelli with 392 appearances
  • Record goalscorer : Carlo Reguzzoni with 139 goals
  • Most goals in one season: Gino Pivatelli with 29 goals in the 1955/56 season

Web links

Commons : Bologna FC  - Collection of images

• Official website of FC Bologna (Italian, English)
• Bologna FC on legaseriea.it
• Bologna FC on UEFA.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prima Squadra. In: bolognafc.it. Bologna Football Club 1909, accessed March 1, 2018 (Italian). 
2. ^ FC Bologna squad. In: transfermarkt.de . Transfermarkt GmbH & Co. KG, accessed on August 12, 2019 .