Benevento Calcio

Benevento Calcio
	Benevento Calcio
Basic data
Surname	Benevento Calcio Srl
Seat	Benevento , Italy
founding	1929
Colours	yellow Red
president	Oreste Vigorito
Website	beneventocalcio.club
First soccer team
Head coach	Filippo Inzaghi
Venue	Stadio Ciro Vigorito
Places	16,867
league	Series A
2019/20	▲ 1st place ( Serie B )

Benevento Calcio is an Italian football club founded in 1929 from the Campanian city of Benevento . Other names are Gli Stregoni ("The Magicians"), I Sanniti ("The Samnites ") and I Giallorossi ("The Yellow-Reds").

The club's home ground is the 16,867-seat Stadio Ciro Vigorito .

In the 2017/18 season , Benevento Calcio played in the first Italian league, Serie A, for the first time in its history . Here he lost the first 14 games in a row, setting a negative record.

history

Beginnings

Benevento Calcio was founded in 1929. At that time the club was still called AC Benevento. The team played on a sports field in the Rione Libertà district , all of the players were still from the region at the time and were based in Benevento . In 1934, the AC Benevento players made it into Serie C for the first time . Four years later they even won their first title, namely the national Capocci tournament. The reward for this was a plate of gold . In 1942, the company that had previously sponsored AC Benevento changed its name, it was now called GUF (Gruppo universitario fascista), which means "fascist university group". In the following years, AC Benevento managed to move up to Serie B several times . However, for financial reasons, you soon had to go down. With this decline began the sporting crisis in Benevento, which lasted about a whole decade. The team fell apart and the club sank into insignificance.

Merger to form Benevento Calcio

After the formerly nationally known club from Campania played somewhere in the lower leagues for several decades, AC Benevento merged with SS San Vito, another popular club from the Benevento area, in 1963 . The result was Benevento Calcio. The newly formed association was to be far more successful than the two founding associations. Although this club never won a title and the issue of relegation always played a major role, Benevento Calcio stayed in the upper Italian leagues and did not disappear as into oblivion like AC Benevento.

Successful time

The ten years from 1970 to 1980 represented the most successful period in the history of Benevento Calcio. During this time, the club was promoted to Serie C, where they finished fourth in the first season and took part in the English-Italian Cup secured. The only disappointment at this time was the missed promotion to Serie B in the 1975/76 season, when Benevento gambled away the promotion that was believed to be safe in the last days of the championship. In 1979 the stadium of Benevento Calcio, the then Stadio Santa Colomba, was opened, which had almost 19,000 seats. Ascoli Calcio was a guest at the first game in the new stadium . The Stadio Santa Colomba was overcrowded with an audience of 25,000. But now the years of success in Benevento were already over.

present

After the glory days of the 1970s, things didn't go so well for Benevento Calcio. One soon relegated to the C2 series . 1996 Benevento Calcio was able to qualify for the promotion playoffs of the series C2, but failed in the semifinals. In the 1998/99 season, the Campanian team won fourth place in the league and thus qualified for the play-offs for promotion to the third highest division. After FC Catanzaro was defeated in the semi-finals , they also won the final against FC Messina and Benevento made it to the next higher league. This event was followed by another crisis in the history of Benevento Calcio.

In 2006, after its bankruptcy, the club was taken over by a company from Benevento and continued playing in the fourth-class C2 series. In the 2007/08 season Benevento Calcio rose again under the direction of Gianni Simonelli in the C1 series . They are currently playing there after being relegated to the Lega Pro Prima Divisione again in the 2008/09 season . In the 2009/10 season Benevento Calcio reached the second round in the Coppa Italia after AC Prato was defeated 3-1 in the first round. It only failed because of the second division Salernitana Calcio .

In the 2015/16 season Benevento Calcio rose to Serie B. In the following season , the team of coach Marco Baroni reached fifth place and qualified for the promotion play-offs. With a 1-0 win in the final against FC Carpi , the club secured promotion to Serie A for the first time in the club's history . In October 2017, promotion coach Marco Baroni was dismissed after nine defeats from the first nine games, as was sports director Salvatore Di Somma. Baroni's successor was Roberto De Zerbi . After the change of coach, the series of defeats initially continued; Only on the 15th matchday did the team manage a draw and finally on the 19th matchday against Chievo Verona their first win. This was followed by relegation to Serie B. For the 2020/21 season , the club from Campania will return to Serie A.

Current squad 2018/19

As of February 13, 2019

No.		position	Surname
1	Italy	TW	Christian Puggioni
3	Italy	FROM	Gaetano Letizia
4th	Italy	MF	Lorenzo Del Pinto
5	Italy	FROM	Luca Antei
7th	Italy	FROM	Gianluca Di Chiara
8th	Colombia	MF	Andrés Tello
9	Italy	ST	Massimo Coda
10	Italy	MF	Nicolas Viola
11	Italy	FROM	Christian Maggio
12	Italy	TW	Lorenzo Montipò
13	Italy	FROM	Alessandro Tuia
14th	Italy	FROM	Massimo Volta
15th	Italy	FROM	Andrea Costa
16	Italy	ST	Riccardo Improta
17th	Italy	ST	Cristian Buonaiuto

No.		position	Surname
18th	Ghana	FROM	Bright Gyamfi
19th	Italy	ST	Roberto Insigne
21st	Japan	MF	Cy Goddard
22nd	Italy	TW	Pier Graziano Gori
25th	Italy	MF	Filippo Bandinelli
26th	Italy	ST	Antonio Santarpia
27	Italy	ST	Federico Ricci
28	Italy	MF	Giovanni Volpicelli
29	Spain	ST	Raúl Asencio
31	Ivory Coast	ST	Siriki Sanogo
33	Sweden	ST	Samuel Armenteros
34	Italy	MF	Lorenzo Crisetig
35	Italy	FROM	Luca Caldirola
	Slovenia	MF	Dejan Vokic