History of US Salernitana 1919

Salerno

Full name	Salerno Calcio
Founded	1919 2005 (refounded) 2011 (refounded)
Ground	Stadio Arechi, Salerno, Italy
Capacity	37,245
Chairman	Marco Mezzaroma
Manager	Carlo Perrone
League	Serie D/G
2010–11	Lega Pro Prima Divisione, 4th
Home colours Away colours

Salerno Calcio (formerly Salernitana Sport and Salernitana Calcio 1919), is a professional Italian association football club from Salerno, Campania.

In the season 2011-12 it plays in Serie D.

Founded in 1919, as Salernitana Sport have spent the vast majority of their history at the Serie B and Serie C levels of Italian football.

In their earliest years, Salernitana competed in the Italian Football Championship when it was competed on a regional basis, they played at this level for four seasons during the 1920s. Since that time the club returned to the top level of Italian football twice; they played in Serie A during 1947–48 and 1998–99.

Salernitana, who wear an all-maroon kit, have had several name changes since they first appeared in 1919; one was after a merger with Audax Salerno.

In 2005 the club went bankrupt but were refounded by Antonio Lombardi changing the name from Salernitana Sport to Salernitana Calcio 1919.

The most recent change was in 2011, when the club were refounded by the company Morgenstern. However, they were forced to give up their Salernitana Calcio 1919 name for the present one.

History

From Salernitana Sport to Salernitana Calcio 1919

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Old Salernitana logo

Unione Sportiva Salernitana was founded on 19 June 1919 by Adalgiso Onesti, who initiated the merger of an older club using the same name; which itself was founded in 1911 by a merger of four local clubs; and Foot-Ball Club Salerno.

The club was known as Società Sportiva Salernitanaudax for a time during the 1920s. It can be argued that Salernitana's best period as a club was 1997–1999. In the 1997–98 season, Salernitana topped Serie B and gained their second promotion to Serie A (first was in 1947–48). A young Marco Di Vaio led the scoring charts with 21 goals. In the 1998–99 season, their first in Serie A after 50 years, Salernitana fought hard and were led by Cameroonian international Rigobert Song and Salvatore Fresi in defense, a young Gennaro Gattuso in midfield, and Marco Di Vaio and David Di Michele leading the attack. They recorded surprise wins against Inter, Juventus, Roma and Lazio. Unfortunately, they finished 1 point shy of salvation and were relegated.

Since then, the club did not manage to return to the top flight, and was excluded by Serie B in 2005. A new club, who started back from Serie C1, was then established. In 2008, Salernitana finally returned to Serie B as Serie C1/B champions, after mathematically securing the title on 27 April.

In the season 2009-10 the club was relegated to Lega Pro Prima Divisione with 6 point deduction for match fixing.

In summer 2011, it does not appeal against the exclusion of Covisoc and it is definitely excluded by the Italian football.

Salerno Calcio

On july 21, 2011 the mayor of Salerno Vincenzo De Luca chooses the proposal of the company Morgenstern Srl administered by Gianni Mezzaroma making so born the new team Salerno Calcio, thus representing the city in Serie D. Member of society and the great protagonist of the project is Claudio Lotito, president of Lazio. His brother in law and Gianni's son, Marco Mezzaroma is the president of team: he is the husband of the minister Mara Carfagna, born in the town.

Notable players

Main article: List of Salernitana Calcio 1919 players

For a list of all former and current Salernitana players with a Wikipedia article, see Category:Salernitana Calcio 1919 players.

Presidential history

Below is the complete presidential history of Salernitana, from when Adalgiso Onesti was first in place at the club in 1919, until the present day.

Name Years Adalgiso Onesti 1919–20 Renato De Crescenzo 1920–21 Settimio Mobilio Raffaele Schiavone 1921–22 Settimio Mobilio 1922–23 Adalgiso Onesti 1923–24 Settimio Mobilio Carmine Caiafa 1924–25 Antonio Conforti Vittorio La Rocca 1927–28 Pasquale Pinto 1928–29 Luigi Conforti Enrico Chiari 1929–30 Giovanni Negri Enrico Chiari 1930–31 Enrico Chiari 1931–33 Riccardo Gambrosie 1933–34 Enrico Chiari 1934–36 Savino Mione 1936–37 Giuseppe Carpinelli 1937–40 Eugenio Saligeri-Zucchi 1940 Matteo Scaramella 1940–43

Name Years Felice Del Galdo 1944–45 Domenico Mattioli 1945–48 Marcantionio Ferro 1948–54 Roberto Spirito 1954–55 Michele Scarmella Achille Lauro 1955–56 Carmine De Martino 1956–57 Giuseppe Tortorella 1957–58 Matteo Guariglia 1958–60 Leopoldo Fulgione 1960 Pasquale Gagliardi 1960–63 Antonio D'Amico Michele Scozia 1963–64 Michele Scozia 1964–65 Michele Gagliardi 1965–67 Giuseppe Tedesco 1967–72 Americo Vessa Alfredo Caiafa 1972–73 Americo Vessa Giovanni Benvenuto Cesare Trucillo 1973–74 Americo Vessa 1974–75

Name Years Pietro Esposito 1975–76 Pietro Esposito Aldo Matera 1976–77 Enzo Paolillo Giovanni Benvenuto 1977–78 Enzo Paolillo Vincenzo Grieco 1978–79 Antonio Ventura Federico De Piano Vincenzo Grieco 1979–80 Filippo Troisi 1980–82 Antonio Scermino 1983 Arcangelo Japicca 1983–85 Augusto Strianese 1985–87 Giuseppe Soglia 1987–91 Franco Del Mese 1991–94 Aniello Aliberti 1994–05 Antonio Lombardi 2005–2011 Marco Mezzaroma 2011–

Managerial history

See also Category:Salernitana Calcio 1919 managers.

Salernitana have had many managers and trainers running the team during their history, here is a chronological list of them from 1919 onwards.

Name Nationality Years Vincenzo Giordano 1919 Raffaele Schiavone 1919–21 Toledo 1921–22 Ciminari 1922–23 Alfonso Guasco 1923–24 Willy Kargus 1924–25 Bellone 1925 Venturini 1927–28 Barone 1928 Finizio 1928–29 Apicella 1929 Géza Kertész 1929–31 Luigi Leone 1931–32 Mora 1932 Ivo Fiorentini 1932–33 Walter Colombati 1933–34 Imre Schoffer 1934–35 Buratti 1935 Armand Halmos 1935–36 Ferenc Hirzer 1936–38 Francesco Hansel 1938–39 Attila Sallustro 1939 Béla Karoly 1939–40 Ferenc Hirzer 1940–41 Géza Kertész 1941 Antonio Valese 1941 Giuseppe Viani 1941–43 Milite 1944 Antonio Valese 1944–45 Vittorio Mosele 1945 Ferenc Hirzer 1945 Giuseppe Viani 1945–47 Pietro Piselli 1948–50 Arnaldo Sentimenti 1950 Walter Crociani 1950–51 Rodolphe Hiden 1951–52 Carlo Ceresoli 1952–53 Enrico Carpitelli 1953–55 Saracino 1955 Antonio Valese 1955–56 Saracino 1956 Paolo Todeschini 1956–57 Enrico Carpitelli 1957 Giovanni Varglien 1957–58 Nicolò Nicolosi 1958–59 Vittorio Mosele 1959 István Mike Mayer 1959 Pietro Piselli 1959–60 Ettore Puricelli 1960–61 Di Gennaro 1961–62 Gyula Zsengellér 1962 Piero Pasinati 1962–63 Giunchi 1963–64 Rodolphe Hiden 1964 Riccardo Carapellese 1964–65 Rodolphe Hiden 1965 Rosati 1965–66 Oscar Montez 1967 Guido Settembrino 1967–69 Pietro Magni 1969 Sergio Piacentini 1969–70 Edi Gratton 1970 Rosati 1970–71 Giancarlo Vitali 1971–72 Nicola Chiricallo 1972–73

Name Nationality Years Franco Viviani 1973–74 Ettore Recagni 1974–75 Giacomo Losi 1975 Guido Settembrino 1975 Massimo Giacomini 1975–76 Ottavio Bugatti 1976 Carlo Regalia 1976–77 Lucio Muiesan 1977 Carlo Facchin 1977 Enea Masiero 1977–78 Lucio Muiesan 1978 Rosati 1978–79 Franco Viviani 1979–80 Antonio Giammarinaro 1980 Gigante 1980 Lamberto Leonardi 1980–81 Antonio Giammarinaro 1981–82 Romano Mattè 1982 Francisco Lojacono 1982–83 Marino Perani 1983 Mario Facco 1983–84 Gian Piero Ghio 1984–86 Giorgio Sereni 1986 Carmelo Russo 1986–87 Claudio Tobia 1987–88 Roberto Clagluna 1988 Carlo Soldo 1988 Giancarlo Pasinato 1988–89 Lamberto Leonardi 1989 Giancarlo Ansaloni 1989–91 Gianni Simonelli 1991–92 Tarcisio Burgnich 1992 Giuliano Sonzogni 1992–93 Delio Rossi 1993–95 Franco Colomba 1995–97 Franco Varrella 1997 Delio Rossi 1997–99 Francesco Oddo 1999 Adriano Cadregari 1999 Luigi Cagni 1999–00 Adriano Cadregari 2000 Francesco Oddo 2000–01 Nedo Sonetti 2001 Zdeněk Zeman 2001–03 Franco Varrella 2003 Stefano Pioli 2003–04 Aldo Ammazzalorso 2004–05 Angelo Gregucci 2005 Maurizio Costantini 2005–06 Stefano Cuoghi 2006 Raffaele Novelli 2006 Gianfranco Bellotto 2007 Andrea Agostinelli 2007–08 Fabio Brini 2008– Bortolo Mutti 2008– Fabrizio Castori 2008–09 Fabio Brini 2009 Marco Cari 2009 Gianluca Grassadonia 2009–10 Ersilio Cerone 2010 Roberto Breda 2010-11 Carlo Perrone 2011-

Colours, badge and nicknames

Salernitana's original kit.

Salernitana originally wore light blue and white striped shirts, known in Italy as biancocelesti. The blue on the shirt was chosen to represent the sea, Salerno the city lies right next to the Gulf of Salerno and has a long tradition as a porting city. During the 1940s the club changed to maroon coloured shirts, which has gained them the nickname granata in their homeland.

Since the summer 2011 the first shirt is striped blue and deep red, with the symbol of St. Matthew, patron of the city, similar to that of Barcelona.

Honours

Serie B:

• Winners (2): 1947–48; 1997–98

Serie C / Serie C1:

• Winners (2): 1937–38; 1965–66; 2007–08
• Runners-up (2): 1989–90; 1993–94

Coppa Italia Serie C:

• Runners-up (1): 1980

External links

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