FC Crotone

FC Crotone
Basic data
Surname	Football Club Crotone Srl
Seat	Crotone , Italy
founding	1910
Colours	Red Blue
president	Gianni Vrenna
Website	fccrotone.it
First soccer team
Head coach	Giovanni Stroppa
Venue	Ezio Scida Stadium
Places	16,108
league	Series A
2019/20	▲ 2nd place Series B
home Away Alternatively

The FC Crotone (officially: Football Club Crotone Srl , shortly FC Crotone ) is an established in 1910 Italian football club from the Calabrian town of Crotone . Other names are I Pitagorici ("The Pythagoreans "), I Squali ("The Sharks") and I Rossoblù ("The Red-Blue").

The club's home ground is the 16,108-seat Stadio Ezio Scida .

history

The Società Sportiva Crotona in 1923

The first football club was formed in Crotone in 1910 under the name Società Sportiva Crotona , at that time it took part in the regional championship of the I Division (today roughly corresponds to Serie C). After World War II , US Crotone and Milone Crotone merged and continued to play in Series C together . From 1952/53 AS Crotone played in the IV series , followed by three seasons in the third division. In 1963 they relegated to Serie D, but the following year they were promoted again. In the 1976/77 season, AS Crotone was ranked 3rd, behind AS Bari and Paganese Calcio . In 1978, AS Crotone was relegated to the C2 series due to a league reform . However, one could not assert oneself in the C2 series and was even relegated to the D series . Before the 1986/87 season, the worst problems from which AS Crotone suffered could be alleviated, and the club was renamed from AS Crotone to Crotone Calcio. Already at the end of this season, the chosen course showed its first successes, and one rose again to the C2 series. They stayed here for four seasons, but then there was another crash and the club went bankrupt.

In 1993 the club was re-established as FC Crotone Calcio. As a result, the association launched a meteoric rise in just just seven seasons the club was relegated from the Promozione Calabrese in the Serie B on.

For the season 2016/17 , the club from Calabria who rose to the highest Italian league, Serie A on. The relegation back to Serie B took place after the 2017/18 season . The club from Calabria will return to Serie A for the 2020/21 season.

successes

• Italian third division champions : 1999/2000

Former players

• Salvatore Aronica 1999–2002 ,, defender, 82 games - 1 goal
• Nicolás Andrés Córdova 2001/02 ,, midfielder, 14 games - 1 goal
• Federico Bernardeschi 2013/14 ,, striker, 39 games - 12 goals
• Danilo Cataldi 2013/14 ,, midfielder, 35 games - 4 goals
• Jacopo Dezi 2013–2015 ,, midfielder, 72 games - 4 goals
• Tomás Guzmán 2004–2006,, midfielder, 57 games - 12 goals
• Mikael Ishak 2013/14 ,, striker, 13 games - 2 goals
• Antonio Mirante 2004/05 ,, goalkeeper, 41 games
• Antonio Nocerino 2005/06 ,, midfielder, 15 games
• Matteo Paro 2004–2005,, midfielder, 54 games - 4 goals
• Ivan Jurić 2001–2006 ,, midfielder, 148 games - 10 goals
• Giuseppe Sculli 2000 / 01–2001 / 02,, striker, 51 games - 8 goals
• Alessandro Florenzi 2011/2012 , defender, 37 games - 11 goals
• Ante Budimir 2015/2016, 2017–2019 , striker, 83 games - 27 goals
• Graziano Pellè 2005/2006 ,, striker, 17 games - 5 goals

Former trainers

•  Omero Tognon (1972–1973)
•  Antonello Cuccureddu (1999-2000)
•  Antonio Cabrini (2001)
•  Gian Piero Gasperini (2003-2004)
•  Andrea Agostinelli (2004-2005)
•  Gian Piero Gasperini (2005-2006)
•  Ivan Jurić (2015-2016)
•  Davide Nicola (2016-2017)
•  Walter Zenga (2017-2018)
•  Massimo Oddo (2018)

Web links

Commons : FC Crotone  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of FC Crotone
• FC Crotone on legaseriea.it

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ilcrotonese.it - ​​Ss Crotona, l'antenata dell'Fc Crotone è nata nel 1910
2. ↑ Crotone fixes promotion to Serie A. (No longer available online.) In: boerse-express.com. Archived from the original on April 30, 2016 ; Retrieved April 29, 2016 .