CFC genoa

CFC genoa
Basic data
Surname	Genoa Cricket and Football Club SpA
Seat	Genoa , Italy
founding	September 7, 1893
Colours	Red Blue
president	Enrico Preziosi
Website	genoacfc.it
First soccer team
Head coach	Rolando Maran
Venue	Stadio Luigi Ferraris
Places	36,599
league	Series A
2019/20	17th place
home Away Alternatively

The Genoa Cricket and Football Club , or Genoa CFC or Genoa for short , known in German-speaking countries as CFC Genoa , is an Italian football club from the Ligurian capital, Genoa . It is considered to be the oldest Italian football club still in existence today . Other names are I Rossoblu ("The Red-Blue") and Il Grifone ("The Greif").

The Genoa CFC is a nine-time Italian champion and a one-time Italian cup winner .

The home venue is the Stadio Luigi Ferraris , which can seat 36,599 spectators . The club shares this with city rivals Sampdoria Genoa .

Although the name of the club is English , it is pronounced in Italian (in phonetic transcription : [ 'dʒɛnoa ]).

history

Beginnings

The Genoa CFC championship team in 1899

On September 7, 1893 , Charles De Grave Sells, S. Blake, G. Green, W. Riley, DG Fawcus, Sandys, E. De Thierry, Jonathan Summerhill Senior and Junior, and the British diplomat Sir Charles Alfred Payton founded Genoa Cricket & Athletic Club .

Since the club was originally supposed to represent England , they first played in white jerseys, like those worn by the English national team. Initially, no Italians were allowed to join the club.

In 1898 the club became Italian football champions for the first time . The first championship tournament that could be won took place in Turin on the afternoon of May 8th. The following year the club changed its name to Genoa Cricket & Football Club , deleting the Athletic from the name. The second title followed on April 16, 1899 . Another was to follow a year later.

The Genoa CFC team in 1937, after winning the Coppa Italia.

The Genoa CFC has been playing in blue and red striped jerseys since 1901. After the recently founded AC Milan won a title for the first time this year , three more titles followed. In 1902, the Genoese Club was the first Italian club to build a youth team for the U-16s. The next few years were not very happy: the seventh championship title only followed in the war year 1914/15 . The last time Genoa won the championship after the war, in 1923 and 1924 . With nine championships, CFC Genoa is the fourth most successful title holder behind Juventus Turin , Inter Milan and AC Milan, but never won a championship in Serie A and has been without a title in this competition for over 90 years. The first and so far only cup win is the Coppa Italia 1937 under coach Hermann Felsner .

In the Italian league system

In 1929 the Series A and Series B were introduced. Genoa immediately became runner-up in Serie A in the first season, followed by fourth place the following year .

In recent history, Genoa spent most of the seasons in Serie B , although promotions to Serie A are to be celebrated again and again . The greatest success in recent times was reaching fourth place in Serie A in 1991 . In the 1991/92 season , the team played in the UEFA Cup , where they advanced to the semi-finals and were finally eliminated from the eventual title winners Ajax Amsterdam . In 1995 , the club rose again from Serie B, where it now remained ten seasons in a row.

Match fixing and forced relegation 2005

For the 2005/06 season, Genoa should actually play in Serie A again after the promotion was made clear. Soon after the end of the season, however, voices were raised that the Genoa CFC had resorted to unfair means in the promotion campaign and manipulated games. On July 26, 2005, the Court of Justice found it proven in the judgment that the club had manipulated at least one game against the relegated AC Venezia , who had already been relegated at the time , by buying the 3-2 victory they had achieved. Enrico Preziosi , the club's president, presented the Venetian president Giuseppe Pagliara with 250,000 euros in cash, thereby securing Genoa's victory . The sports court therefore decided to rank the club in last place in the past Serie B championship, which in fact meant relegation to Serie C1 .

Genoa fans celebrating after being promoted back to Serie A in 2007

In the last instance Genoa had to admit defeat on August 8th and consequently compete in Serie C1 in the 2005/06 season. After the forced relegation of the Genoa CFC , 2,000 frustrated fans devastated the city center and Genova Brignole train station on August 8th. After another failure in court, there were repeated riots on August 20. 3000 fans had moved towards the Marassi Stadium , meanwhile some fans were involved in skirmishes with the Italian law enforcement officers, who used tear gas . Twelve policemen were injured. The association announced on August 22 that it would appeal against the ruling, and if necessary it would go to the European Court of Justice. Despite all efforts, Genoa played in Serie C1 in the 2005/06 season, where they were promoted to Serie B again . On June 10, 2007, the club, together with SSC Napoli, made it through to Serie A.

Current developments

The first season after the recovery, the club completed in 2008 in tenth place in the table. Already in the following year the qualification for the first season of the UEFA Europa League succeeded with the fifth place in the table , but where they did not get beyond the group stage. The following seasons were marked by varying results, which is located in the Serie A established. While some seasons were dominated by the relegation battle, they reached sixth place in the 2014/15 season and qualified for the Europa League. However, the Genoese club was not granted the required license, so that the rival Sampdoria Genoa moved up.

Club colors and crests

The club colors have always been red and blue. The club's logo shows a griffin in a golden hue - a hybrid of an eagle and a lion, which is also depicted on the city arms of Genoa . Over the years the logo changed, but the key elements always remained the griffin and the club colors red and blue. The current logo refers to the club's colors, the griffin and the St. George's Cross , a traditional symbol of the city of Genoa.

The fans of the club sympathize with the symbols of Great Britain because of the history, which is why the Union Jack is also present in the curve at many home games .

Club successes

The Genoa CFC championship team in 1924

National	title	season
Italian championship	9	1898 , 1899 , 1900 , 1902 , 1903 , 1904 , 1914/15 , 1922/23 , 1923/24
Italian Cup	1	1936/37
International	title	season
Coppa delle Alpi	2	1962, 1964
English-Italian Cup	1	1995/96

Successes of the youth teams

• Torneo di Viareggio : 1965, 2007
• Campionato Primavera : 2010
• Coppa Italia Primavera : 2009

facts and figures

staff

Professional team squad (2019/20)

No.	Nat.	Surname	Date of birth	In the team since	Contract until
goalkeeper
22nd		Federico Marchetti	02/07/1983	2018	2020
25th		Rok Vodišek	05.12.1998	2018	2022
93		Jandrei	03/01/1993	2019	2020
97		Andrei Radu	05/28/1997	2019	2020
Defender
02		Cristián Zapata	09/30/1986	2019	2021
03		Antonio Barreca	03/18/1995	2019	2020
04th		Domenico Criscito	12/30/1986	2018	2022
05		Edoardo Goldaniga	11/02/1993	2019	2020
14th		Davide Biraschi	07/02/1994	2016	2022
17th		Cristian Romero	04/27/1998	2019	2020
18th		Paolo Ghiglione	02/02/1997	2012
32		Peter Ankersen	09/22/1990	2019	2021
33		Marko Pajač	05/11/1993	2019	2020
98		Nicholas Rizzo	03/11/2000	2019	2024
midfield player
08th		Lukas Lerager	07/12/1993	2019	2023
15th		Filip Jagiełło	08/08/1997	2019	2023
20th		Let beautiful	05/27/1986	2019	2021
21st		Ivan Radovanović	08/29/1988	2019	2021
23		Sandro	03/15/1989	2018	2021
27		Stefano Sturaro	03/09/1993	2019	2023
28		Kevin Agudelo	11/14/1998	2019
29		Francesco Cassata	07/16/1997	2019	2020
91		Riccardo Saponara	December 21, 1991	2019	2020
striker
09		Antonio Sanabria	03/04/1996	2019	2020
10		Sinan Gümüş	January 15, 1994	2019	2022
11		Christian Kouamé	December 06, 1997	2018	2023
19th		Goran Pandev	07/27/1983	2015	2020
30th		Andrea Favilli	05/17/1997	2019	2023
99		Andrea Pinamonti	05/19/1999	2019	2021
As of September 2, 2019

Former players

•  Julio Abbadie
•  Carlos Aguilera
•  Antonio Angelillo
•  Pietro Arcari
•  Valerio Bacigalupo
•  Giuseppe Baldini
•  Paolo Barison
•  Sergio Bertoni
•  Nils Bennike
•  Giuseppe Bigogno
•  Marco Borriello
•  Saša Bjelanović
•  Branco
•  Valon Behrami
•  Massimo Briaschi
•  Lorenzo Buffon
•  Nicola Caccia
•  Riccardo Carapellese
•  Carlo Ceresoli
•  Bruno Chizzo
•  Paul Codrea
•  Giancarlo Corradini
•  Hernán Crespo
•  Dario Dainelli
•  Kevin van Dessel
•  Flavio Emoli
•  Stefano Eranio
•  Luigi Ferraris
•  Davide Fontolan
•  Andrea Fortunato
•  Giovanni Francini
•  Cosimo Francioso
•  Giuseppe Gemiti
•  Mario Genta
•  Michaël Goossens
•  Gunnar Gren
•  Mohamed Kallon
•  Ardico Magnini
•  Rolando Mandragora
•  Giovanni Martusciello
•  John Mensah
•  Alexander Merkel
•  Gigi Meroni
•  Diego Milito
•  Emiliano Moretti
•  Arrigo Morselli
•  Thiago Motta
•  Giacomo Neri
•  Davide Nicola
•  Antonio Nocerino
•  Michele Padovano
•  Christian Panucci
•  Rubén Paz
•  Mario Perazzolo
•  Bruno Pesaola
•  Dan Petrescu
•  Rubinho
•  Claudio Sala
•  Mauro Sandreani
•  Giuseppe Sculli
•  Tomáš Skuhravý
•  James Richardson Spensley
•  Guillermo Stábile
•  Stefano Sturaro
•  Giovanni Tedesco
•  Luca Toni
•  Renzo De Vecchi
•  Giancarlo Vitali
•  René Vandereycken
•  Corrado Viciani
•  Tomás Rincon

Player records

Diego Milito

(Status: end of season 2018/19; all league games and goals are given)

Calls
1	Gennaro Ruotolo	1988-2002	444
2	Fosco Becattini	1945–1961	425
3	Vincenzo Torrente	1985-2000	412
4th	Amedeo Cattani	1942-1955	310
5	Ottavio Barbieri	1919-1932	299
6th	Renzo De Vecchi	1913-1929	269
7th	Giovanni De Prà	1921-1933	260
8th	Marco Rossi	2003-2004 2005-2013	253
9	Franco Rivara	1956-1970	248
10	Luigi Burlando	1921-1932	228

Gates
1	Edoardo Catto	1921-1929	96
2	Virgilio Felice Levratto	1925-1932	86
3	Enrico Sardi	1913-1915 1919-1921	81
4th	Cosimo Francioso	1998-2002	76
5	Aristodemo Santamaria	1913-1919 1922-1926	75
6th	Attilio Frizzi	1951-1957	58
7th	Tomáš Skuhravý	1990-1996	58
8th	Diego Milito	2004-2005 2008-2009	57
9	Roberto Pruzzo	1973-1978	57
10	Giorgio Dal Monte	1952-1955 1956-1961	48

Coach history

Head coach
Term of office	Surname
1893-1896	Technical Commission
1896-1903	James Richardson Spensley 1
1904-1905	Karl Senft 1
190600000	Étienne Bugnion 1
190700000	James Richardson Spensley 1
190800000	Vieri Arnaldo Goetzlof 1
1909-1910	Daniel Hug 1
1910-1912	Eugene Herzog 1
1912-1915	William Garbutt
1915-1916	Thomas Coggins
1916-1919	Enrico Pasteur
1919-1927	William Garbutt
1927-1930	Renzo De Vecchi
1930-1931	Géza Székány
1931-1932	Luigi Burlando and Guillermo Stábile
1932-1933	Karl Rumbold
1933-1934	József Nagy
1934-1935	Vittorio Faroppa Renzo De Vecchi and Carlo Carcano ( Technical Director )
1935-1936	György Orth
1936-1937	Hermann Felsner
1937-1939	William Garbutt
1939-1940	Ottavio Barbieri and William Garbutt
1940-1941	Ottavio Barbieri
1941-1944	Guido Ara
1945-1946	József Viola Ottavio Barbieri
1946-1948	William Garbutt
1948-1949	Federico Allasio
1949-1950	Dai Astley Dai Astley and Federico Allasio Manlio Bacigalupo
1950-1951	Manlio Bacigalupo
1951-1952	Imre Senkey Valentino Sala and Giacinto Ellena
1952-1953	Giacinto Ellena
1953-1955	György Sárosi Ermelindo Bonilauri
1955-1958	Renzo Magli Annibale Frossi
1958-1959	Annibale Frossi
1959-1960	Gipo Poggi and Antonio Busini Jesse Carver Annibale Frossi

Head coach
Term of office	Surname
1960-1961	Annibale Frossi Angelo Rosso
1961-1963	Renato Gei Angelo Rosso
1963-1964	Beniamino Santos
1964-1965	Paulo Amaral Roberto Lerici
1965-1966	Luigi Bonizzoni and Gipo Viani (Technical Director)
1966-1967	Giorgio Ghezzi Paolo Tabanelli
1967-1968	Livio Fongaro Aldo Campatelli
1968-1969	Aldo Campatelli Aldo Campatelli and Maurizio Bruno
1969-1970	Franco Viviani Maurizio Bruno and Ermelindo Bonilauri Aredio Gimona and Ermelindo Bonilauri
1969-1970	Franco Viviani Maurizio Bruno and Ermelindo Bonilauri Aredio Gimona and Ermelindo Bonilauri
1970-1974	Arturo Silvestri
1975-1975	Guido Vincenzi Luigi Simoni
1975-1988	Luigi Simoni
1978-1979	Pietro Maroso Ettore Puricelli Gianni Bui
1979-1980	Gianni Di Marzio
1980-1984	Luigi Simoni
1984-1986	Tarcisio Burgnich
1986-1987	Attilio Perotti
1987-1988	Luigi Simoni Attilio Perotti
1988-1990	Franco Scoglio
1990-1992	Osvaldo Bagnoli
1992-1993	Bruno Giorgi Luigi Maifredi Claudio Maselli
1993-1994	Claudio Maselli Franco Scoglio
1994-1995	Franco Scoglio Giuseppe Marchioro Claudio Maselli
1995-1996	Luigi Radice Gaetano Salvemini
1996-1997	Attilio Perotti

Head coach
Term of office	Surname
1997-1998	Gaetano Salvemini Claudio Maselli Tarcisio Burgnich
1998-1999	Giuseppe Pillon Luigi Cagni
1999-2000	Delio Rossi Bruno Bolchi
2000-2001	Bruno Bolchi Guido Carboni and Alfredo Magni Bruno Bolchi Claudio Onofri Franco Scoglio
2001-2002	Franco Scoglio Edoardo Reja Claudio Onofri
2002-2003	Claudio Onofri Vincenzo Torrente and Rino Lavezzini
2003-2004	Roberto Donadoni Luigi De Canio
2004-2005	Luigi De Canio Serse Cosmi
2005-2006	Francesco Guidolin Giovanni Vavassori Attilio Perotti Giovanni Vavassori
2006-2010	Gian Piero Gasperini
2010-2011	Davide Ballardini
2011–2012	Alberto Malesani Pasquale Marino Alberto Malesani Luigi De Canio
2012-2013	Luigi De Canio Luigi Delneri Davide Ballardini
201300000	Fabio Liverani
2013-2016	Gian Piero Gasperini
2016-2017	Ivan Jurić Andrea Mandorlini Ivan Jurić
2017-2018	Ivan Jurić Davide Ballardini
2018-2019	Cesare Prandelli
201900000	Thiago Motta
2019-2020	Davide Nicola
2020–0000	Rolando Maran

¹ Team captain and coach

European Cup balance sheet

season	competition	round	opponent	total	To	Back
1991/92	Uefa cup	1 round	Real Oviedo	3: 2	0: 1 (A)	3: 1 (H)
		2nd round	Dinamo Bucharest	5: 3	3: 1 (H)	2: 1 (A)
		3rd round	Steaua Bucharest	2-0	1: 0 (A)	1: 0 (H)
		Quarter finals	Liverpool FC	4: 1	2: 0 (H)	2: 1 (A)
		Semifinals	Ajax Amsterdam	3: 4	2: 3 (H)	1: 1 (A)
2009/10	UEFA Europa League	Play-offs	Odense BK	4: 2	3: 1 (H)	1: 1 (A)
		Group stage	Slavia Prague	2-0	2: 0 (H)	0: 0 (A)
			Valencia CF	3: 5	2: 3 (A)	1: 2 (H)
			Lille OSC	3: 5	0: 3 (A)	3: 2 (H)

Legend: (H) - home game, (A) - away game, (N) - neutral place, (a) - away goal rule , (i. E.) - on penalties , (n. V.) - after extra time

Overall record: 18 games, 10 wins, 3 draws, 5 defeats, 29:22 goals (goal difference +7)

Web links

Commons : CFC Genoa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of CFC Genoa (Italian, English)
• CFC Genoa on legaseriea.it
• CFC Genoa on UEFA.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1902/03 season Italia on iffhs.de, accessed on June 30, 2013
2. ↑ Prima Squadra. In: genoacfc.it. Genoa Cricket and Football Club, accessed March 2, 2018 (Italian). 
3. ↑ CFC Genoa squad. In: transfermarkt.de . Transfermarkt GmbH & Co. KG, accessed on August 12, 2019 .