Salernitana Calcio 1919
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Salerno Calcio, or simply Salerno is an Italian association football
club from Salerno
, Campania.
The club is not the legitimate heir of the former Salernitana Calcio 1919, but there is however a sports continuity between the two companies thanks to Article 52 NOIF of FIGC, and the fact that they restarted from Serie D
instead of Terza Categoria
.
In the 2011-12 season Salerno plays in Serie D
.
was founded the former Salernitana Sport which 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
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 was refounded by the company Morgenstern S.r.l.; However, they were forced to give up their Salernitana Calcio 1919 name for the present one.
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 from Serie B in 2005. A new club, which started again 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 the summer 2011, it did not appeal against the exclusion of Covisoc and it is definitely excluded by the Italian football.
. 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.
Raffaele Schiavone
|align=left|1921–22
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|align=left|Settimio Mobilio
|align=left|1922–23
|-
|align=left|Adalgiso Onesti
|align=left|1923–24
|-
|align=left|Settimio Mobilio
Carmine Caiafa
|align=left|1924–25
|-
|align=left|Antonio Conforti
Vittorio La Rocca
|align=left|1927–28
|-
|align=left|Pasquale Pinto
|align=left|1928–29
|-
|align=left|Luigi Conforti
Enrico Chiari
|align=left|1929–30
|-
|align=left|Giovanni Negri
Enrico Chiari
|align=left|1930–31
|-
|align=left|Enrico Chiari
|align=left|1931–33
|-
|align=left|Riccardo Gambrosie
|align=left|1933–34
|-
|align=left|Enrico Chiari
|align=left|1934–36
|-
|align=left|Savino Mione
|align=left|1936–37
|-
|align=left|Giuseppe Carpinelli
|align=left|1937–40
|-
|align=left|Eugenio Saligeri-Zucchi
|align=left|1940
|-
|align=left|Matteo Scaramella
|align=left|1940–43
|}
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Football in Italy
Football is the most popular sport in Italy. The Italian national football team has won the FIFA World Cup 4 times , trailing only Brazil . Italy's club sides have won 27 major European trophies, making them the most successful European nation in the subject of football...
club from Salerno
Salerno
Salerno is a city and comune in Campania and is the capital of the province of the same name. It is located on the Gulf of Salerno on the Tyrrhenian Sea....
, Campania.
The club is not the legitimate heir of the former Salernitana Calcio 1919, but there is however a sports continuity between the two companies thanks to Article 52 NOIF of FIGC, and the fact that they restarted from Serie D
Serie 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...
instead of Terza Categoria
Terza Categoria
Terza Categoria is the name of the lowest level of "amateur" football in Italy. It is considered to be the 10th and lowest level in the Italian football league system. Each individual league winner within the Terza Categoria level progresses to their closest regional league in the Seconda...
.
In the 2011-12 season Salerno plays in Serie D
Serie 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...
.
Brief history
The origins of the team go back to 1919 when in SalernoSalerno
Salerno is a city and comune in Campania and is the capital of the province of the same name. It is located on the Gulf of Salerno on the Tyrrhenian Sea....
was founded the former Salernitana Sport which spent the vast majority of their history at the Serie B
Serie 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 Serie C
Serie C
The Lega Italiana Calcio Professionistico , commonly known as Lega Pro , is the governing body that runs the third and fourth highest football divisions in Italy, the Prima Divisione and Seconda Divisione respectively. It also includes the sole professional club of San Marino...
levels of Italian football.
In their earliest years, Salernitana competed in the Italian Football Championship
Italian Football Championship
The Italian Football Championship was the most senior football championship in Italy from the 1897/1898 season to the 1921/1922 season. In that last season, a concurrent championship, the Prima Divisione, was played by the richest clubs, which wanted to improve their income with a more elitarian...
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
Serie A
Serie A , now called Serie A TIM due to sponsorship by Telecom Italia, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and has been operating for over eighty years since 1929. It had been organized by Lega Calcio until 2010, but a new...
during 1947–48
Serie A 1947-48
-Final classification:-Results:...
and 1998–99
Serie A 1998-99
AC Milan won their 16th Scudetto, led by coach Alberto Zaccheroni. Lazio finished second, losing the title on the last day. Inter with an often Injured or rested Ronaldo had a disastrous season, finishing in 8th position, whereas Juventus impressive start was cut short by a bad injury to Alessandro...
.
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 was refounded by the company Morgenstern S.r.l.; However, they were forced to give up their Salernitana Calcio 1919 name for the present one.
From Salernitana Sport to Salernitana Calcio 1919
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
Serie 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 gained their second promotion to Serie A (first was in 1947–48). A young Marco Di Vaio
Marco Di Vaio
Marco Di Vaio is an Italian football striker, who currently plays for Bologna FC. In his long career, Di Vaio has played for the likes of Lazio, Hellas Verona, Bari, Salernitana, Parma, Juventus, Valencia and Monaco...
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
Rigobert Song
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and Salvatore Fresi
Salvatore Fresi
Salvatore Fresi is an Italian footballer.Fresi was born at La Maddalena, Sardinia. His first professional championship was with Salernitana, with whom he conquered the promotion to Serie B...
in defense, a young Gennaro Gattuso
Gennaro Gattuso
Gennaro Ivan Gattuso, Ufficiale OMRI is an Italian footballer, who plays for Serie A club Milan. He mainly plays as a defensive midfielder. Gattuso is an aggressive, hard tackling player and in his prime, was widely regarded as one of the best defensive midfielders in the world...
in midfield, and Marco Di Vaio
Marco Di Vaio
Marco Di Vaio is an Italian football striker, who currently plays for Bologna FC. In his long career, Di Vaio has played for the likes of Lazio, Hellas Verona, Bari, Salernitana, Parma, Juventus, Valencia and Monaco...
and David Di Michele
David di Michele
David Di Michele is an Italian footballer who currently plays as a striker for Lecce.-Club career:Di Michele, whose mother is from Casarano, began his career with Lodigiani in the Italian Serie C1 near to his hometown Guidonia, and played for them from 1993 to 1996...
leading the attack. They recorded surprise wins against Inter
F.C. Internazionale Milano
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, Juventus
Juventus F.C.
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, Roma
A.S. Roma
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and Lazio
S.S. Lazio
Società Sportiva Lazio, commonly referred to as Lazio, is a professional Italian football club based in Rome. The team, founded in 1900, play in the Serie A and have spent most of their history in the top tier of Italian football...
. 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 from Serie B in 2005. A new club, which started again from Serie C1
Serie C1
Lega Pro Prima Divisione is the name of the third highest football league in Italy. It consists of 36 teams, divided geographically into two divisions of 18 teams each. Until 2008 it was known as 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 the summer 2011, it did 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 S.r.l. administered by Gianni Mezzaroma making so born the new team Salerno Calcio, thus representing the city in 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...
. Member of society and the great protagonist of the project is Claudio Lotito
Claudio Lotito
Claudio Lotito is an Italian entrepreneur. He is the owner and president of the Serie A football club S.S. Lazio since 2004....
, president of Lazio
S.S. Lazio
Società Sportiva Lazio, commonly referred to as Lazio, is a professional Italian football club based in Rome. The team, founded in 1900, play in the Serie A and have spent most of their history in the top tier of Italian football...
. His brother in law and Gianni's son, Marco Mezzaroma is the president of team: he is the husband of the minister Mara Carfagna
Mara Carfagna
Maria Rosaria Carfagna is an Italian politician and former showgirl and topless model. After obtaining a degree in law, Carfagna worked for several years on Italian television shows and as a model. She later entered politics and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for Forza Italia party in 2006...
, born in the town.
Notable players
Presidential history
Below is the complete presidential history of Salernitana, from when Adalgiso Onesti was first in place at the club in 1919 and of Salerno Calcio, from 2011 until the present day.Raffaele Schiavone
|align=left|1921–22
|-
|align=left|Settimio Mobilio
|align=left|1922–23
|-
|align=left|Adalgiso Onesti
|align=left|1923–24
|-
|align=left|Settimio Mobilio
Carmine Caiafa
|align=left|1924–25
|-
|align=left|Antonio Conforti
Vittorio La Rocca
|align=left|1927–28
|-
|align=left|Pasquale Pinto
|align=left|1928–29
|-
|align=left|Luigi Conforti
Enrico Chiari
|align=left|1929–30
|-
|align=left|Giovanni Negri
Enrico Chiari
|align=left|1930–31
|-
|align=left|Enrico Chiari
|align=left|1931–33
|-
|align=left|Riccardo Gambrosie
|align=left|1933–34
|-
|align=left|Enrico Chiari
|align=left|1934–36
|-
|align=left|Savino Mione
|align=left|1936–37
|-
|align=left|Giuseppe Carpinelli
|align=left|1937–40
|-
|align=left|Eugenio Saligeri-Zucchi
|align=left|1940
|-
|align=left|Matteo Scaramella
|align=left|1940–43
|}
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|valign="top"|
| 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 |
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|valign="top"|
| 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 .
Salernitana and Salerno Calcio (from 2011) have had many managers and trainers running the team during their history, here is a chronological list of them from 1919 onwards.
Colours, badge and nicknames
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, SalernoSalerno
Salerno is a city and comune in Campania and is the capital of the province of the same name. It is located on the Gulf of Salerno on the Tyrrhenian Sea....
the city lies right next to the Gulf of Salerno
Gulf of Salerno
The Gulf of Salerno is a gulf of the Tyrrhenian Sea in the coast of the province of Salerno in south-western Italy. The northern part of this coast is the touristic Costiera Amalfitana, including towns like Amalfi, Maiori, Positano and the city of Salerno itself.The Gulf of Salerno is separated...
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
FC Barcelona
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.
Honours
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...
:
- Winners (2): 1947–48; 1997–98
Serie C
Serie C
The Lega Italiana Calcio Professionistico , commonly known as Lega Pro , is the governing body that runs the third and fourth highest football divisions in Italy, the Prima Divisione and Seconda Divisione respectively. It also includes the sole professional club of San Marino...
/ Serie C1
Serie C1
Lega Pro Prima Divisione is the name of the third highest football league in Italy. It consists of 36 teams, divided geographically into two divisions of 18 teams each. Until 2008 it was known as Serie C1....
:
- Winners (2): 1937–38; 1965–66; 2007–08
- Runners-up (2): 1989–90; 1993–94
Coppa Italia Serie C
Coppa Italia Serie C
Coppa Italia Lega Pro , formerly named Coppa Italia Serie C, is a straight knock-out based competition involving teams from Lega Pro in Italian football. All games, including the final, are on a home/away basis....
:
- Runners-up (1): 1980