A.S. Cosenza Calcio
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Nuova Cosenza Calcio is an Italian
football
club, based in Cosenza
, Calabria
. The team's official colours are red and blue.
and launching several famous players. They also won the Anglo-Italian Cup
in 1983. During the 1980s and the 1990s, the Calabrian side barely missed promotion to the Italian top flight several times, most notably in 1989, when they ended with the same points than fourth-placed Cremonese
and Reggina
, but being not admitted to the promotion playoff as having the worst results of the three in head-to-head matches. In 1991–92, Cosenza lost promotion again, with a final fifth place only two points behind of Udinese
.
Following these highs, the club successively started experiencing hard times, being ultimately excluded in July 2003 by the federation due to financial issues, leaving Cosenza suddendly without a club.
as relocation of rival Calabrian side Castrovillari
.
In 2004, the old Cosenza 1914 franchise was however admitted back into Serie D following a judicial sentence; this caused the city of Cosenza to have two different "rival" clubs into the same division. This lasted only one year, as Cosenza 1914 finally folded in 2005 and AS Cosenza FC then switched its denomination into A.S. Cosenza Calcio. However, the club missed promotion once again in 2006 and 2007, being defeated by Siracusa
in the promotion playoffs both times.
In 2007, AS Cosenza Calcio gave up its Serie D membership, but all the team players later joined new club Fortitudo Cosenza, born as relocation of Rende Calcio
, a team from the neighbouring city of Rende
which was relegated from Serie C2
in 2006-07
and moved
to Cosenza soon after. The new club quickly managed to win the Serie D - Girone I championship in 2007-08, ensuring a place back into the Lega Pro Seconda Divisione (the renamed Serie C2) for the 2008-09 season.
Following this, the new club renamed itself, taking the old historical denomination of Cosenza Calcio 1914 with the aim to rise up the Italian football pyramid. In 2008-09, their first season in the Lega Pro, Cosenza showed all of their intentions by winning the Lega Pro Seconda Divisione - Girone C championship. The team played the 2009-10 season in the Lega Pro Prima Divisione - Girone B, finishing 11th in the table.
At the end of the 2010-11 Lega Pro Prima Divisione season the team was relegated after losing the playoff.
The team was then excluded from professional Championship by Co.Vi.Soc. and it didn't appeal.
Attilio Demaría
Christian Manfredini
Mark Edusei
Federico Agliardi
Angelo Alessio
Luca Altomare Domenico Danti
Stefano Fiore
Gianluigi Lentini
Cristiano Lucarelli
Pietro Maiellaro
Luigi Marulla Roberto Mazzotta Stefano Morrone
Marco Negri
Tomaso Tatti Michele Padovano
Florian Radu
Marius Stankevičius
Paulo da Silva Massimo Margiotta
Notable Former Managers Attilio Demaría
Gianni De Biasi
Emiliano Mondonico
Edoardo Reja
Francesco Scoglio Luigi Simoni
Nedo Sonetti
Alberto Zaccheroni Gyula Zsengellér
Gianni Di Marzio
Italy
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football
Football (soccer)
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club, based in Cosenza
Cosenza
Cosenza is a city in southern Italy, located at the confluence of two historic rivers: the Busento and the Crathis. The municipal population is of around 70,000; the urban area, however, counts over 260,000 inhabitants...
, Calabria
Calabria
Calabria , in antiquity known as Bruttium, is a region in southern Italy, south of Naples, located at the "toe" of the Italian Peninsula. The capital city of Calabria is Catanzaro....
. The team's official colours are red and blue.
Early times and Serie B
The club was founded in 1914 as Cosenza Calcio 1914 and enjoyed a long time in the professional leagues, spending several years in the Serie BSerie B
Serie B, currently named Serie bwin due to sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It is contested by 22 teams and organized by the Lega Serie B since July 2010, after the split of Lega Calcio that previously took care of both the...
and launching several famous players. They also won the Anglo-Italian Cup
Anglo-Italian Cup
The Anglo-Italian Cup is a defunct European football competition that was played intermittently between 1970 and 1996 between clubs from England and Italy. Founded by Gigi Peronace in 1970, following the success of the Anglo-Italian League Cup, it was played as a professional tournament until 1973...
in 1983. During the 1980s and the 1990s, the Calabrian side barely missed promotion to the Italian top flight several times, most notably in 1989, when they ended with the same points than fourth-placed Cremonese
U.S. Cremonese
Unione Sportiva Cremonese is an Italian football club, based in Cremona. The club was founded in 1903. Cremonese played the 2005/2006 season in Serie B, having won Serie C1/A the previous season. However, in the 2005/2006 Serie B campaign, Cremonese came out twenty-first, being therefore relegated...
and Reggina
Reggina Calcio
Reggina Calcio are an Italian association football club, the main club of the city of Reggio Calabria. Founded in 1914, they currently play in the Italian Serie B, and play their home matches at the 27,763 seater Stadio Oreste Granillo...
, but being not admitted to the promotion playoff as having the worst results of the three in head-to-head matches. In 1991–92, Cosenza lost promotion again, with a final fifth place only two points behind of Udinese
Udinese Calcio
Udinese Calcio is an Italian football club based in Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, and currently plays in the Serie A. Founded in 1896, Udinese is the second oldest club in the Serie A, after Genoa....
.
Following these highs, the club successively started experiencing hard times, being ultimately excluded in July 2003 by the federation due to financial issues, leaving Cosenza suddendly without a club.
Serie D times
Following the club's cancellation from the Italian football panorama, then Cosenza Mayor Eva Catizone started a group with the aim to form a new club, A.S. Cosenza F.C., that was successively admitted into Serie DSerie D
Serie D is the top level of the Italian non-professional football association called Lega Nazionale Dilettanti. The association represents over a million football players and thousands of football teams across Italy. Serie D ranks just below Lega Pro Seconda Divisione , and is thus considered the...
as relocation of rival Calabrian side Castrovillari
U.S. Castrovillari Calcio
Unione Sportiva Castrovillari Calcio is an Italian association football club located in Castrovillari, Calabria.It currently plays in Eccellenza Calabria.Its colors are red and black.-2009–2010 squad:-External links:* *...
.
In 2004, the old Cosenza 1914 franchise was however admitted back into Serie D following a judicial sentence; this caused the city of Cosenza to have two different "rival" clubs into the same division. This lasted only one year, as Cosenza 1914 finally folded in 2005 and AS Cosenza FC then switched its denomination into A.S. Cosenza Calcio. However, the club missed promotion once again in 2006 and 2007, being defeated by Siracusa
U.S. Siracusa
Unione Sportiva Siracusa, commonly referred to as simply Siracusa or the abbreviation US Siracusa, is an Italian association football club located in Syracuse, Sicily. The club was founded in 1924 and for most of its history has played in the lower divisions of professional Italian football...
in the promotion playoffs both times.
Fortitudo Cosenza: three seasons in professionalism
Rende Calcio
Società Sportiva Rende are an Italian association football club, based in Rende, Calabria, currently playing in the regionally-based amateur Promozione league. The team's colors are red and white.-History:...
, a team from the neighbouring city of Rende
Rende
- Churches :Miracle of St. James]]* Church of Our Lady of the AssumptionThe small building rises not far from the old church rebuilt several times and destroyed by a landslide. The old chapel were two columns, which still are the pillars of the new, and a marble bas-relief: the miracle of Saint...
which was relegated from Serie C2
Serie C2
Lega Pro Seconda Divisione is the name of the fourth highest football league in Italy, the lowest with a professional status. Usually it consists of 54 teams, but in the season 2010–11 the teams are only 49 divided geographically into three divisions of 17, 16 and 16 teams each...
in 2006-07
Serie C2 2006-07
The 2006-07 Serie C2 was the football league season of Italian Serie C2 for the years 2006 and 2007. It was divided into two phases: the regular season, played from September 3, 2006 to May 13, 2007 and the playoff phase. Once the regular season was over, teams placed 2nd to 5th entered a playoff...
and moved
Relocation of professional sports teams
Relocation of professional sports teams is a practice which involves a sporting franchise moving from one metropolitan area to another, although occasionally moves between municipalities in the same conurbation are also included...
to Cosenza soon after. The new club quickly managed to win the Serie D - Girone I championship in 2007-08, ensuring a place back into the Lega Pro Seconda Divisione (the renamed Serie C2) for the 2008-09 season.
Following this, the new club renamed itself, taking the old historical denomination of Cosenza Calcio 1914 with the aim to rise up the Italian football pyramid. In 2008-09, their first season in the Lega Pro, Cosenza showed all of their intentions by winning the Lega Pro Seconda Divisione - Girone C championship. The team played the 2009-10 season in the Lega Pro Prima Divisione - Girone B, finishing 11th in the table.
At the end of the 2010-11 Lega Pro Prima Divisione season the team was relegated after losing the playoff.
The team was then excluded from professional Championship by Co.Vi.Soc. and it didn't appeal.
Nuova Cosenza Calcio
In summer 2011 the club was refounded as Nuova Cosenza Calcio and restarted from Serie DSerie D
Serie D is the top level of the Italian non-professional football association called Lega Nazionale Dilettanti. The association represents over a million football players and thousands of football teams across Italy. Serie D ranks just below Lega Pro Seconda Divisione , and is thus considered the...
Notable former players
Attilio DemaríaAttilio Demaria
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Christian Manfredini
Christian Manfredini
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Mark Edusei
Mark Edusei
Mark Edusei is a Ghanaian football midfielder. Throughout his career Edusei has moved around a lot, playing for clubs based in six different countries.-Catania:...
Federico Agliardi
Federico Agliardi
Federico Agliardi is an Italian footballer, currently playing as goalkeeper with Bologna F.C. 1909.-Career:Agliardi grew up in his native city's team, Brescia Calcio, and made his professional debut with Cosenza of Serie B on 2002–03. He debuted in Serie A on 8 November 2003 with Brescia in a...
Angelo Alessio
Angelo Alessio
Angelo Alessio is a professional Italian football coach and a former player.-External links:*...
Luca Altomare Domenico Danti
Domenico Danti
Domenico Danti is an Italian footballer, who plays for Vicenza Calcio.-Career:On 28 January 2010 Associazione Calcio Siena signed the forward on a 50% joint ownership deal from third division club Cosenza Calcio 1914. However, the youngster will move to Siena not before next summer. On 31 August...
Stefano Fiore
Stefano Fiore
Stefano Fiore is an Italian football manager and former player, who can play as an attacking midfielder or on the wing. He is currently in charge as manager technical area of Cosenza in Serie D.-Parma and early years:...
Gianluigi Lentini
Gianluigi Lentini
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Cristiano Lucarelli
Cristiano Lucarelli
He is a staunch admirer of Che Guevara, whose face is frequently displayed on Livorno fans' banners and T-shirts during matches. This first came to the fore in 1997, when, after scoring for Italy's Under-21 side, he celebrated by pulling his jersey over his face to reveal a shirt bearing the...
Pietro Maiellaro
Pietro Maiellaro
Pietro Maiellaro is a former Italian football player, in the role of midfielder, and now a coach....
Luigi Marulla Roberto Mazzotta Stefano Morrone
Stefano Morrone
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Marco Negri
Marco Negri
Marco Negri is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a striker for Cosenza, Perugia, Rangers, Bologna and Livorno.- Career :...
Tomaso Tatti Michele Padovano
Michele Padovano
Michele Padovano is an Italian retired football player.Padovano began his professional career at Asti T.S.C. in Serie C2, before short spells at Pisa, Napoli and Genoa, he signed for Reggiana where he impressed...
Florian Radu
Florian Radu
Florian Radu was a Romanian footballer who played for hometown club Rapid Bucureşti. When the Communists took over Romania, Radu moved abroad in Italy and France playing for AS Roma, Cosenza, Marsala and few other teams until his retirement in 1956.Radu has earned only one cap for Romania on 11...
Marius Stankevičius
Marius Stankevicius
Marius "StankyLeg" Stankevičius is a Lithuanian professional footballer who plays for the Serie A club S.S. Lazio, as a defender . He was the Lithuanian player of the year in 2008 and 2009.-International career:...
Paulo da Silva
Massimo MargiottaMassimo Margiotta
Massimo Margiotta is an Italian-Venezuelan footballer who plays for Barletta.-Career:Margiotta was signed by Vicenza in co-ownership deal with Udinese in mid 2001. In August 2003 he was loaned to Perugia but returned to January 2004. In August 2005 he left for Piacenza...
Notable Former Managers
Attilio DemaríaAttilio Demaria
Atilio José Demaría was an Italian Argentine footballer player, who played for Argentina in the 1930 World Cup and for Italy in the 1934 World Cup.He was born in Buenos Aires...
Gianni De Biasi
Gianni De Biasi
Gianni De Biasi is an Italian football coach and former player, who last served as head coach of Udinese.-Playing career:...
Emiliano Mondonico
Emiliano Mondonico
Emiliano Mondonico is an Italian football manager. He last served as head coach of Serie B side AlbinoLeffe.-Career:...
Edoardo Reja
Edoardo Reja
Edoardo "Edy" Reja is an Italian football coach and former player, currently managing Lazio in the Italian Serie A. Born in Italy to Slovenian parents, Reja speaks Slovene and Italian. He is also fluent in Friulan....
Francesco Scoglio Luigi Simoni
Luigi Simoni
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Nedo Sonetti
Nedo Sonetti
Nedo Sonetti is an Italian veteran football manager.-Career:Sonetti was born in Piombino, southern Tuscany and lives now in Gorle.He played in Serie B and Serie C for Spezia Calcio 1906 and Reggina....
Alberto Zaccheroni Gyula Zsengellér
Gyula Zsengellér
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Gianni Di Marzio