A.C. Reggiana 1919

Reggiana
Full name	Associazione Calcio Reggiana 1919 SRL
Nickname(s)	Teste quadre (Square heads),; Granata (Maroons)
Founded	1919; 2005 (refounded)
Ground	Stadio Città del Tricolore,; Reggio Emilia, Italy; (Capacity: 20,084)
Chairman	Alessandro Barilli
Manager	Lamberto Zauli
League	Lega Pro Prima Divisione A
2010-11	Lega Pro Prima Divisione A, 8th
Home colours	Away colours

Not to be confused with Reggina Calcio, a Serie B team based in Reggio Calabria.

Associazione Calcio Reggiana 1919 is an Italian association football club, based in Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna. The club was founded in 1919 as A.C. Reggiana and refounded in July 2005 as Reggio Emilia F.C., but it was renamed A.C. Reggiana 1919 soon after the start of the 2005–06 season. The club last played in Serie A in 1997. The team's color is dark red (Granata).

In the Serie C2 2007-08 regular season the team finished first in Girone B, winning direct promotion to, the now called, Lega Pro Prima Divisione for the 2008–09 season.

Some famous players played for Reggiana, including Felice Romano, Angelo Di Livio, Ruggiero Rizzitelli, Fabrizio Ravanelli, Luca Bucci, Claudio Taffarel, Paulo Futre, Stefano Torrisi, Francesco Antonioli, Igor Simutenkov, Angelo Adamo Gregucci, Sunday Oliseh, Filippo Galli, Alberigo Evani, Luigi Sartor, Marco Ballotta, Max Tonetto, Adolfo Valencia, Cristiano Zanetti and Obafemi Martins. Reggiana played in Italian First Division for many seasons in the 1920s; the club took part in Italian Serie A in 1993/94, 1994/95 and 1996/97. Best result is 13th place in 1993/94 Serie A championship. Most famous coach has been Carlo Ancelotti, who has been working for A.C. Milan from 2001 to 2009 and then managed Chelsea F.C. Reggiana played all matches in Mirabello Stadium until 1994; then they moved to a new and modern arena, called Stadio Giglio.

Reggiana numbers former EU commissioner and former Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi among its supporters.

[edit] Squad

As of 23 January 2012.^[2]

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

No.		Position	Player
		GK	Niccolò Bellucci
		GK	Marco Silvestri (on loan from Chievo)
		DF	Ramzi Aya
		DF	Simone Bettati
		DF	Riccardo Carlini
		DF	Benedetto Iraci
		DF	Daniele Magliocchetti
		DF	Massimiliano Mei
		DF	Erik Panizzi
		DF	Adriano Siragusa
		DF	Nicolò Sperotto
		DF	Danilo Zini (captain)
		MF	Davide Matteini

No.		Position	Player
		MF	Giuseppe Alessi
		MF	Matteo Arati
		MF	Francesco Ardizzone
		MF	Giampaolo Calzi
		MF	Gianmarco Cavalieri
		MF	Davide Matteini
		MF	Mattia Spezzani (on loan from Modena)
		MF	André Viapiana
		FW	Simone Esposito
		FW	Francesco Fedi
		FW	Mario Gurma
		FW	Ajdin Redžić
		FW	Paolo Rossi