U.C. Sampdoria
Encyclopedia
Unione Calcio Sampdoria is an Italian association football
club based in Genoa
. The club was formed in 1946 from the merger of two existing sports clubs whose roots can be traced back to the 1890s, Sampierdarenese and Andrea Doria. Both the team name and jersey do reflect this, the first being a combination of the former names, the second incorporating the former teams' colours (blue-white and red-black) in a single design.
Sampdoria currently compete in the Italian Serie B
. The team's colours are blue with white, red and black hoops
, hence the nickname blucerchiati. Sampdoria play at Stadio Luigi Ferraris
, capacity 36,536, which it shares with Genoa's other club, Genoa Cricket and Football Club. The derby between the two teams is commonly known as the Derby della Lanterna
.
Sampdoria have won the scudetto only once in their history, in the 1991 season. The club has also won the Coppa Italia
four times (1985, 1988, 1989, and 1994) and one Italian Super Cup. Their biggest European success came when they won the Cup Winners' Cup
in 1990
. They also reached the European Cup final in 1992
only to lose against the Spanish side FC Barcelona
with an 1–0 score after extra time.
which was organized by the Italian Federation of Football (F.I.F.) since instead they had enrolled themselves into a football tournament which was organized by the Italian Federation of Ginnastica. The club eventually joined the competition for the Italian Football Championship 1903, but did not win a game in the tournament until 1907 when they beat local rivals Genoa
3–1.
It was not until 1910–11
that the club began to show promise; during that season's tournament they finished above Juventus, Internazionale
and Genoa in the Piedmont-Lombardy-Liguria section.
. So, Samp and Doria met in the championship for the first time; Doria won in first-leg game (4–1 and 1–1), and they also arrived at second place after Genoa in Ligurian Championship, qualifying for the National Round.
With the 1921–22 season, the Italian top league was split into two competitions; both of the clubs in Sampdoria's history were in separate competitions that year too. Sampierdarenese played in the F.I.G.C.
run competition, whereas Andrea Doria played in the C.C.I.
variation.
Sampierdarenese won the Ligura section and then went onto the semi-finals, finishing top out of three clubs; this lead them to the final against Novese
. Both legs of the final ended in 0–0 draws, thus a repetition match was played in Cremona
on 21 May 1922. Still intensely difficult to separate, the match went into extra time with Novese eventually winning the tie (and the Championship) 2–1.
After the league system in Italy was brought back into one item, Sampierdarenese remained stronger than Andrea Doria by qualifying for the league. By 1924–25 the clubs were competing against each other in the Northern League; Doria who finished one place above their rivals won one game 2–1, while Sampierdarenese were victorious 2–0 in the other. At the end of the 1926–27 season, the clubs merged by fascist authorities under the name La Dominante.
, where they finished 3rd just missing out on promotion. The next season, under the name Liguria they had a disastrous year, finishing bottom of the table and were relegated.
Because of this, both Sampierdarenese and Andrea Doria reverted to their previous names as separate clubs. Sampierdarenese were back in Serie B
for the 1932–33 season and finished in the upper part; the following year they were crowned champions and were promoted into Serie A
for the first time. Andrea Doria on the other hand, battled out the 1930s down in Serie C
.
The 15 July 1937 saw Sampierdarenese, melting itself with Corniglianese and Rivarolese with the club using the name Associazione Liguria Calcio; this saw them reach 5th place in Serie A during 1939. In the early 1940s, the club was relegated, but bounced straight back up as Serie B champions in 1941.
; in a reverse of pre-war situations, Andrea Doria were now the top club out of the two. However on 12 August 1946 a merger took place that would stick for the two teams, together they formed Unione Calcio Sampdoria.
The first president of this new club was Piero Sanguineti, but the ambitious entrepreneur Amedeo Rissotto soon replaced him, while the first team coach during this period was a man from Florence
named Giuseppe Galluzzi. In the same month of the merger, the new club demanded that they should share the Stadio Luigi Ferraris
ground with Genoa
; the agreement was carried off without problems. Consequently, the stadium was prepared to accommodate the games of both clubs.
As if to further show that the merger really was equal parts of both previous clubs, a new football kit was designed for the club; it implemented the blue shirts of Andrea Doria with the white, red and black mid-section of Sampierdarenese.
three years later. In 1986 Vujadin Boskov
was appointed as new head coach; the club won their second Coppa Italia in 1988, being admitted to the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1988-89
, where they reached the final, being defeated 2–0 by Barcelona
. A second consecutive triumph in the Coppa Italia gave Sampdoria a spot in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1989-90
, which they finally won defeating Anderlecht
after extra time in the final. This was followed only one year
later by their first (and, as of 2010, only) scudetto, being crowned as Serie A champions with a five points advantage to second-placed Inter Milan. The winning team featured several notable players, such as Gianluca Pagliuca, Gianluca Vialli
, Roberto Mancini
, Toninho Cerezo
, Pietro Vierchowod
and Attilio Lombardo
, with Vujadin Boskov
as head coach. In the following season, Sampdoria reached the European Cup
final, and was defeated again by Barcelona at the Wembley Stadium.
Since this period Sampdoria have made a limited number of appearances in European cup competitions. During the 1994/1995 campaign they reached the semi-finals of the European Cup Winners' Cup before being eliminated on penalties in a memorable tie against Arsenal
. The club also participated in the 1997/1998 UEFA Cup but were eliminated by Atletico Bilbao of Spain in the First Round. The 2005/2006 season also proved to be a significant one, with Sampdoria returning to European competition for the first time since their promotion back to Serie A, with the club narrowly missing out on Champions League qualification and entering the UEFA cup. During this campaign, the team was minutes away from qualification to the last 32 when Lens
of France eliminated them by beating them 2–1. The club recently also took part in the 2007/2008 UEFA Cup, entering via the Intertoto cup. However it was to be a short and disappointing campaign, with Sampdoria being eliminated on away goals by AaB
of Denmark in the First Round. Participation in recent seasons of Europa League was marked by constant defeats by Metalist Kharkiv and lack of consistent play.
and Ariel Ortega
, loan signing Vincenzo Montella and international midfielders Clarence Seedorf
and Christian Karembeu
.
Despite this, in May 1999 Sampdoria were relegated from Serie A, and did not return to the top flight until 2002. Around this time Sampdoria was acquired by Riccardo Garrone
, an Italian oil businessman. Two of Garrone's most important initial moves were to inject new cash into the club and to appoint Walter Novellino as new head coach. Sampdoria returned to Serie A in 2003 lead by talisman Francesco Flachi
, and ended their first season in eighth place. In the Serie A 2004-05
they lost a spot in the UEFA Champions League to Udinese
in the final matchdays of the season, ending in fifth place. This was followed by a poor season; despite this, Novellino was confirmed for one more season and Sampdoria ended the 2006–07 Serie A campaign
in ninth place. As the 8th placed team in Serie A were not granted a UEFA licence, Sampdoria was able to enter the UEFA Intertoto Cup 2007
as a result. Novellino announced his farewell to Sampdoria soon after, with Walter Mazzarri
unveiled shortly after as his replacement.
The 2007–08 campaign
started very early for Sampdoria due to qualifying rounds. They defeated Cherno More Varna
in the Intertoto Cup and Hajduk Split in the second qualifying round of UEFA Cup, before being eliminated in the First Round proper by AaB
on away goals. The club took actively part in the transfer market, persuading Vincenzo Montella
to make a comeback at Samp and signing Antonio Cassano
from Real Madrid
on a loan basis. Having had such a successful loan period, Sampdoria have made the move permanent from the 2008-09 season. During the winter transfer window, Giampaolo Pazzini was signed and formed one of Serie A's most effective partnerships. Sampdoria ended the season in sixth place of the Italian Serie A and qualified for the UEFA Cup 2008-09. The following season, they qualified for the Champions League play-offs.
With the departure of Director of Sport Giuseppe Marotta
, coach Luigi Delneri, both of whom were credited with Samp's recent successes and club top scorers Cassano and Pazzini and the squad being stretched by Champions League football, Sampdoria embarked on a miserable run of results and were relegated from Serie B
after loss 2-1 at home to Palermo
in May 2011.
Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Sampdoria.
Italy Marcello Agnoletto
Giuseppe Baldini
Paolo Barison
Adriano Bassetto
Fabio Bazzani
Gianfranco Bedin
Romeo Benetti
Mario Bergamaschi
Gaudenzio Bernasconi
Stefano Bettarini
Emiliano Bonazzoli
Dario Bonetti
Ivano Bordon
Marco Borriello
Sergio Brighenti
Amedeo Carboni
Andrea Caracciolo
Antonio Cassano
Marcello Castellini
Luciano Chiarugi
Enrico Chiesa
Sandro Cois
Paolo Conti
Mario David
Gennaro Delvecchio Aimo Diana
Cristiano Doni
Giuseppe Dossena
Alberigo Evani
Giulio Falcone
Osvaldo Fattori
Giuseppe Farina Riccardo Ferri
Eddie Firmani
Alfio Fontana
Luca Fusi
Roberto Galia
Renato Gei Simone Inzaghi
Mark Iuliano
Marco Lanna
Giovanni Lodetti
Francisco Lojacono
Attilio Lombardo
Arnaldo Lucentini Christian Maggio
Roberto Mancini
Moreno Mannini
Massimo Marazzina
Giacomo Mari
Domenico Marocchino
Gianfranco Matteoli
Alessandro Melli
Aurelio Milani
Vincenzo Montella
Bruno Mora
Francesco Morini
Giuseppe Moro
Bruno Nicolè
Gianluca Pagliuca Angelo Palombo
Giampaolo Pazzini Fabrizio Poletti
Fabio Quagliarella
Pierluigi Ronzon
Giuseppe Sabadini
Patrizio Sala
Benito Sarti
Franco Semioli
Michele Serena
Giuseppe Signori
Angelo Sormani
Christian Terlizzi
Max Tonetto
Mario Tortul Gianluca Vialli
Pietro Vierchowod
Guido Vincenzi
Sergio Volpi
Luciano Zauri
Luciano Zecchini
Walter Zenga
Cristian Zenoni
Argentina Jonathan Bottinelli
Ariel Ortega
Juan Sebastián Verón
Austria Ernst Ocwirk
Belarus Vitali Kutuzov
Brazil Toninho Cerezo
Doriva Paulo Silas
Cameroon François Omam-Biyik
Chile Jorge Toro
Côte d'Ivoire Saliou Lassissi
Croatia Krunoslav Jurčić
Denmark Karl Aage Hansen
Harald Nielsen
England Trevor Francis
David Platt Lee Sharpe
Des Walker
France Alain Boghossian
Christian Karembeu
Pierre Laigle
Maryan Wisnieski
Germany Hans-Peter Briegel
Jürgen Klinsmann
Ghana Mark Edusei
Hungary Vladimir Koman
Zsolt Laczkó
Ireland Liam Brady
Japan Atsushi Yanagisawa
Lithuania Marius Stankevičius
Netherlands Ruud Gullit
Clarence Seedorf
Nigeria Ikechukwu Kalu
Scotland Graeme Souness
Slovenia Srečko Katanec
Serbia Vujadin Boškov
Zoran Jovičić
Vladimir Jugović
Siniša Mihajlović
Nenad Sakić
Todor Veselinović Bratislav Živković
Spain Luis Suárez
Víctor Muñoz
Sweden Ingvar Gärd
Lennart Skoglund
Switzerland Marco Padalino
Reto Ziegler
Uruguay Rubén Olivera
USSR
Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko
The white, blue, red and black colours within the crest represent the clubs origins of a merger between two teams, Sampierdarenese and Andrea Doria, who wore respectively red/black and white/blue jerseys.
Ultras Tito Cucchiaroni are apolitical, although there are smaller groups like Rude Boys Sampdoria, who are left wing. The main support with flags and flares comes from the southern Curva
, Gradinata Sud.
U.C Sampdoria biggest rivals is Genoa C.F.C.
: 1
Serie B
: 2
Coppa Italia
: 4
Supercoppa Italiana
: 1
European Cup/Champions League
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
: 1
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 based in Genoa
Genoa
Genoa |Ligurian]] Zena ; Latin and, archaically, English Genua) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria....
. The club was formed in 1946 from the merger of two existing sports clubs whose roots can be traced back to the 1890s, Sampierdarenese and Andrea Doria. Both the team name and jersey do reflect this, the first being a combination of the former names, the second incorporating the former teams' colours (blue-white and red-black) in a single design.
Sampdoria currently compete in the Italian 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...
. The team's colours are blue with white, red and black hoops
, hence the nickname blucerchiati. Sampdoria play at Stadio Luigi Ferraris
Stadio Luigi Ferraris
Stadio Comunale Luigi Ferraris, also known as the Marassi from the name of the ward where is located, is a multi-use stadium in Genoa, Italy. It opened in 1911 and is one of the first and oldest stadiums still in use for football and other sports in Italy.Hosts since its birth the inside of Genoa,...
, capacity 36,536, which it shares with Genoa's other club, Genoa Cricket and Football Club. The derby between the two teams is commonly known as the Derby della Lanterna
Derby della Lanterna
The Derby della Lanterna, translated as the Derby of the Lantern , is the official name of the matches played between Genoa's two professional sides U.C. Sampdoria and Genoa C.F.C...
.
Sampdoria have won the scudetto only once in their history, in the 1991 season. The club has also won the Coppa Italia
Coppa Italia
The Coppa Italia is an Italian football annual cup competition. Its first edition was held in 1922, but the second champions were not crowned until 1936. Roma and Juventus lead the way with nine wins. Roma has contested more finals, 16, while Torino and Juventus follow with 13...
four times (1985, 1988, 1989, and 1994) and one Italian Super Cup. Their biggest European success came when they won the Cup Winners' Cup
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a football club competition contested annually by the most recent winners of all European domestic cup competitions. The cup is one of the many inter-European club competitions that have been organised by UEFA. The first competition was held in the 1960–61 season—but...
in 1990
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1989-90
The season 1989-90 of the European Cup Winners' Cup was won for the only time by Sampdoria in the final against Anderlecht, 2-0 at Nya Ullevi in Göteborg, on 9 May 1990...
. They also reached the European Cup final in 1992
European Cup 1991-92
The 1991–92 season of the European Cup football club tournament was won for the first time by Barcelona after extra time in the final against Sampdoria, giving Spain its first championship trophy since 1966. The winning goal was scored by Ronald Koeman with a free-kick. This was the last tournament...
only to lose against the Spanish side FC Barcelona
FC Barcelona
Futbol Club Barcelona , also known as Barcelona and familiarly as Barça, is a professional football club, based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain....
with an 1–0 score after extra time.
History
The Ginnastica Sampierdarenese was founded in 1891, opening its football section in 1899. Also around this time, a club named Society Andrea Doria was founded in 1895, and began to increase their focus on dedicating itself to football.Andrea Doria: early league participation
Andrea Doria did not participate in the first Italian Football ChampionshipItalian 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...
which was organized by the Italian Federation of Football (F.I.F.) since instead they had enrolled themselves into a football tournament which was organized by the Italian Federation of Ginnastica. The club eventually joined the competition for the Italian Football Championship 1903, but did not win a game in the tournament until 1907 when they beat local rivals Genoa
Genoa C.F.C.
Genoa Cricket and Football Club, commonly referred to simply as Genoa , is a professional Italian football club based in the city of Genoa, Liguria...
3–1.
It was not until 1910–11
Italian Football Championship 1910-11
The winner was Pro Vercelli.-Classification:-Results table:* Please note that the home teams are read down the left hand side while the away teams are indicated along the top.-Classification:-Results table:...
that the club began to show promise; during that season's tournament they finished above Juventus, Internazionale
F.C. Internazionale Milano
Football Club Internazionale Milano, often referred to as Internazionale or simply Inter, is a professional Italian football club based in Milan, Italy. Outside Italy, the club is often called Inter Milan. They are the reigning FIFA Club World champions and Coppa Italia holders.Inter have always...
and Genoa in the Piedmont-Lombardy-Liguria section.
Post-World War I
After World War I, Sampierdarenese finally began to compete in the Italian Championship, after they bought a pre-war club of Genoa province: Pro Liguria of BolzanetoBolzaneto
Bolzaneto is a quarter of the city of Genoa, in northwest Italy, and is part of the Municipality Valpolcevera of Genoa.-Geography:Bolzaneto was once a hamlet located outside of the city limits in the Polcevera valley, but in the recent centuries it became an industrial area...
. So, Samp and Doria met in the championship for the first time; Doria won in first-leg game (4–1 and 1–1), and they also arrived at second place after Genoa in Ligurian Championship, qualifying for the National Round.
With the 1921–22 season, the Italian top league was split into two competitions; both of the clubs in Sampdoria's history were in separate competitions that year too. Sampierdarenese played in the F.I.G.C.
Italian Football Championship 1921-22 (F.I.G.C.)
During the Summer of 1921, a dispute between the Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio and the main teams arose.The teams asked for a reduction of the number of participants in the 1a Divisione....
run competition, whereas Andrea Doria played in the C.C.I.
Italian Football Championship 1921-22 (C.C.I.)
Italian Football Championship 1921-22 was formed during the summer of 1921, as a result of a dispute between the Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio and the main teams....
variation.
Sampierdarenese won the Ligura section and then went onto the semi-finals, finishing top out of three clubs; this lead them to the final against Novese
U.S. Novese
Unione Sportiva Dilettantistica Novese is an Italian football club from Novi Ligure, Piedmont. The club has won the Italian First Division in the past, but now plays in Serie D/A....
. Both legs of the final ended in 0–0 draws, thus a repetition match was played in Cremona
Cremona
Cremona is a city and comune in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po River in the middle of the Pianura Padana . It is the capital of the province of Cremona and the seat of the local City and Province governments...
on 21 May 1922. Still intensely difficult to separate, the match went into extra time with Novese eventually winning the tie (and the Championship) 2–1.
After the league system in Italy was brought back into one item, Sampierdarenese remained stronger than Andrea Doria by qualifying for the league. By 1924–25 the clubs were competing against each other in the Northern League; Doria who finished one place above their rivals won one game 2–1, while Sampierdarenese were victorious 2–0 in the other. At the end of the 1926–27 season, the clubs merged by fascist authorities under the name La Dominante.
La Dominante Genova split: 1930s
Wearing green and black striped shirts, La Dominante Genova were admitted to the first ever season of 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...
, where they finished 3rd just missing out on promotion. The next season, under the name Liguria they had a disastrous year, finishing bottom of the table and were relegated.
Because of this, both Sampierdarenese and Andrea Doria reverted to their previous names as separate clubs. Sampierdarenese were back in 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...
for the 1932–33 season and finished in the upper part; the following year they were crowned champions and were promoted into 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...
for the first time. Andrea Doria on the other hand, battled out the 1930s down in 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...
.
The 15 July 1937 saw Sampierdarenese, melting itself with Corniglianese and Rivarolese with the club using the name Associazione Liguria Calcio; this saw them reach 5th place in Serie A during 1939. In the early 1940s, the club was relegated, but bounced straight back up as Serie B champions in 1941.
Merger
After World War II, both clubs were competing in Serie ASerie 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...
; in a reverse of pre-war situations, Andrea Doria were now the top club out of the two. However on 12 August 1946 a merger took place that would stick for the two teams, together they formed Unione Calcio Sampdoria.
The first president of this new club was Piero Sanguineti, but the ambitious entrepreneur Amedeo Rissotto soon replaced him, while the first team coach during this period was a man from Florence
Florence
Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
named Giuseppe Galluzzi. In the same month of the merger, the new club demanded that they should share the Stadio Luigi Ferraris
Stadio Luigi Ferraris
Stadio Comunale Luigi Ferraris, also known as the Marassi from the name of the ward where is located, is a multi-use stadium in Genoa, Italy. It opened in 1911 and is one of the first and oldest stadiums still in use for football and other sports in Italy.Hosts since its birth the inside of Genoa,...
ground with Genoa
Genoa C.F.C.
Genoa Cricket and Football Club, commonly referred to simply as Genoa , is a professional Italian football club based in the city of Genoa, Liguria...
; the agreement was carried off without problems. Consequently, the stadium was prepared to accommodate the games of both clubs.
As if to further show that the merger really was equal parts of both previous clubs, a new football kit was designed for the club; it implemented the blue shirts of Andrea Doria with the white, red and black mid-section of Sampierdarenese.
European and domestic successes
In 1979 the club, then playing Serie B, was acquired by oil businessman Paolo Mantovani, who invested in the team in order to bring Sampdoria to the top flights. In 1982 Sampdoria made their Serie A return, and they won their first Coppa ItaliaCoppa Italia
The Coppa Italia is an Italian football annual cup competition. Its first edition was held in 1922, but the second champions were not crowned until 1936. Roma and Juventus lead the way with nine wins. Roma has contested more finals, 16, while Torino and Juventus follow with 13...
three years later. In 1986 Vujadin Boskov
Vujadin Boškov
Vujadin Boškov is a retired Serbian football player and coach.Boškov was born in the village of Begeč near Novi Sad, Danube Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia). He played with FK Vojvodina for most of his career...
was appointed as new head coach; the club won their second Coppa Italia in 1988, being admitted to the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1988-89
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1988-89
The season 1988-89 of the European Cup Winners' Cup was won for the third time by Barcelona in the final against Italian entrants Sampdoria. The same two sides reached the final of the European Cup 1991–92, which Barcelona also won. Wimbledon F.C...
, where they reached the final, being defeated 2–0 by Barcelona
FC Barcelona
Futbol Club Barcelona , also known as Barcelona and familiarly as Barça, is a professional football club, based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain....
. A second consecutive triumph in the Coppa Italia gave Sampdoria a spot in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1989-90
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1989-90
The season 1989-90 of the European Cup Winners' Cup was won for the only time by Sampdoria in the final against Anderlecht, 2-0 at Nya Ullevi in Göteborg, on 9 May 1990...
, which they finally won defeating Anderlecht
R.S.C. Anderlecht
Royal Sporting Club Anderlecht, usually known as Anderlecht or RSCA , is a Belgian professional football club based in Anderlecht in the Brussels Capital Region. Anderlecht plays in the Belgian Pro League and is the most successful Belgian football team in European competitions as well as in the...
after extra time in the final. This was followed only one year
Serie A 1990-91
-Final classification:-Results:-Top scorers:19 goals* Gianluca Vialli 16 goals* Lothar Matthäus 15 goals* Carlos Aguilera * Tomáš Skuhravý 14 goals* Roberto Baggio...
later by their first (and, as of 2010, only) scudetto, being crowned as Serie A champions with a five points advantage to second-placed Inter Milan. The winning team featured several notable players, such as Gianluca Pagliuca, Gianluca Vialli
Gianluca Vialli
Gianluca Vialli is an Italian football manager and former player. Since retiring, he has gone into management and punditry and is a commentator for Sky Sport Italia....
, Roberto Mancini
Roberto Mancini
Roberto Mancini is an Italian football manager, formerly an international player and current manager of Premier League club Manchester City.As a player Mancini was best known for his time at Sampdoria, where he played more than 550 matches, and helped them win the Serie A league title, four Coppa...
, Toninho Cerezo
Toninho Cerezo
Toninho Cerezo, real name Antônio Carlos Cerezo, is a former football player from Brazil.- Career :...
, Pietro Vierchowod
Pietro Vierchowod
Pietro Vierchowod is an Italian former footballer turned coach.Vierchowod was nicknamed the zar because he was the son of a Ukrainian Red Army soldier. Vierchowod was a man-marker ....
and Attilio Lombardo
Attilio Lombardo
Attilio Lombardo is a retired football player turned manager.-Playing:...
, with Vujadin Boskov
Vujadin Boškov
Vujadin Boškov is a retired Serbian football player and coach.Boškov was born in the village of Begeč near Novi Sad, Danube Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia). He played with FK Vojvodina for most of his career...
as head coach. In the following season, Sampdoria reached the European Cup
UEFA Champions League
The UEFA Champions League, known simply the Champions League and originally known as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or European Cup, is an annual international club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations since 1955 for the top football clubs in Europe. It...
final, and was defeated again by Barcelona at the Wembley Stadium.
Since this period Sampdoria have made a limited number of appearances in European cup competitions. During the 1994/1995 campaign they reached the semi-finals of the European Cup Winners' Cup before being eliminated on penalties in a memorable tie against Arsenal
Arsenal F.C.
Arsenal Football Club is a professional English Premier League football club based in North London. One of the most successful clubs in English football, it has won 13 First Division and Premier League titles and 10 FA Cups...
. The club also participated in the 1997/1998 UEFA Cup but were eliminated by Atletico Bilbao of Spain in the First Round. The 2005/2006 season also proved to be a significant one, with Sampdoria returning to European competition for the first time since their promotion back to Serie A, with the club narrowly missing out on Champions League qualification and entering the UEFA cup. During this campaign, the team was minutes away from qualification to the last 32 when Lens
RC Lens
Racing Club de Lens is a French association football club based in the northern city of Lens in the Pas-de-Calais department. Its nickname, sang et or , comes from its traditional colours of red and gold. Their primary rivals are their northern neighbors Lille OSC, whom they contest the Derby du...
of France eliminated them by beating them 2–1. The club recently also took part in the 2007/2008 UEFA Cup, entering via the Intertoto cup. However it was to be a short and disappointing campaign, with Sampdoria being eliminated on away goals by AaB
Aalborg Boldspilklub
Aalborg Boldspilklub is a Danish professional sports club based in the city of Aalborg. The club is also known as Aalborg BK or AaB for short. Through time the club has had branches in cricket, tennis and basketball, but currently controls teams in football, American football, ice hockey,...
of Denmark in the First Round. Participation in recent seasons of Europa League was marked by constant defeats by Metalist Kharkiv and lack of consistent play.
Decline and resurgence
On 14 October 1993 Paolo Mantovani suddenly died; he was replaced by his son Enrico. During Enrico Mantovani's first season (1993/94) Sampdoria won one more Italian Cup and placed 3rd in the national championship. During the following four seasons many players from his father's team left the club but many important acquisitions were made which kept Sampdoria in the top tier of the Italian Serie A. The likes of Enrico Chiesa, Argentine internationals Juan Sebastian VeronJuan Sebastián Verón
Juan Sebastián Verón is an Argentinian professional football player who is the current captain and midfielder for Estudiantes de La Plata in the Argentine Primera División....
and Ariel Ortega
Ariel Ortega
Arnaldo Ariel Ortega is an Argentine football attacking midfielder. His nickname is "El Burrito" , thus he is called "Burrito Ortega"....
, loan signing Vincenzo Montella and international midfielders Clarence Seedorf
Clarence Seedorf
Clarence Clyde Seedorf OON is a Dutch footballer who currently plays as an attacking midfielder for Serie A club Milan. Seedorf is the first player to have won the Champions League with three different clubs - Ajax in 1995, Real Madrid in 1998 and Milan in 2003 and 2007...
and Christian Karembeu
Christian Karembeu
Christian Karembeu is a retired French international footballer and current scout for Arsenal Football Club...
.
Despite this, in May 1999 Sampdoria were relegated from Serie A, and did not return to the top flight until 2002. Around this time Sampdoria was acquired by Riccardo Garrone
Riccardo Garrone (born 1936)
Riccardo Garrone is an Italian enterpreneur. He is the owner Serie A association football club U.C. Sampdoria, and honorary chairman and former CEO of Italian oil firm ERG, which is owned by his family....
, an Italian oil businessman. Two of Garrone's most important initial moves were to inject new cash into the club and to appoint Walter Novellino as new head coach. Sampdoria returned to Serie A in 2003 lead by talisman Francesco Flachi
Francesco Flachi
Francesco Flachi is a former Italian professional footballer who is currently suspended from active football due to doping positiveness until 2022.-Fiorentina, Bari and Ancona: 1993–1998 :...
, and ended their first season in eighth place. In the Serie A 2004-05
Serie A 2004-05
In the 2004–05 season, the Serie A, the highest professional football league in Italy, was composed of 20 teams for the first time in several years....
they lost a spot in the UEFA Champions League to 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....
in the final matchdays of the season, ending in fifth place. This was followed by a poor season; despite this, Novellino was confirmed for one more season and Sampdoria ended the 2006–07 Serie A campaign
Serie A 2006-07
The Serie A 2006–2007 season began September 10, 2006. It was scheduled to begin on August 26 and 27, but was then postponed due to the Serie A scandal of 2006. It is the 104th Italian championship ever held, the first without the presence of Juventus, and the 75th Serie A league, the first...
in ninth place. As the 8th placed team in Serie A were not granted a UEFA licence, Sampdoria was able to enter the UEFA Intertoto Cup 2007
UEFA Intertoto Cup 2007
The UEFA Intertoto Cup 2007 was the 19th and penultimate edition of the competition and took 50 entries. Three rounds were held, and 11 teams qualified for the second qualifying round of the UEFA Cup. The draw took place at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland on 23 April 2007...
as a result. Novellino announced his farewell to Sampdoria soon after, with Walter Mazzarri
Walter Mazzarri
Walter Mazzarri is a retired Italian footballer and the current manager of S.S.C. Napoli.-Playing career:Mazzarri, a midfielder and a product of Fiorentina's youth system, made his professional debut in 1981 for Pescara of Serie B, and played a short Serie A stint in Cagliari the following season,...
unveiled shortly after as his replacement.
The 2007–08 campaign
Serie A 2007-08
The 2007-08 Serie A football season was the seventy-sixth since its establishment, and started on August 26, 2007 and ended on May 18, 2008. Internazionale successfully defended the championship on the final day of the season, finishing first with 85 points, three ahead of Roma.-Plusvalenze...
started very early for Sampdoria due to qualifying rounds. They defeated Cherno More Varna
PFC Cherno More Varna
PFC Cherno More Varna , or simply Cherno More is a Bulgarian professional football club from the city of Varna, which currently competes in Bulgaria's top football league, the A PFG....
in the Intertoto Cup and Hajduk Split in the second qualifying round of UEFA Cup, before being eliminated in the First Round proper by AaB
Aalborg Boldspilklub
Aalborg Boldspilklub is a Danish professional sports club based in the city of Aalborg. The club is also known as Aalborg BK or AaB for short. Through time the club has had branches in cricket, tennis and basketball, but currently controls teams in football, American football, ice hockey,...
on away goals. The club took actively part in the transfer market, persuading Vincenzo Montella
Vincenzo Montella
Vincenzo Montella is a retired Italian footballer. Currently he is the youngest head coach of Serie A, after being named at the helm of Sicilian outfit Catania on 9 June 2011....
to make a comeback at Samp and signing Antonio Cassano
Antonio Cassano
Antonio Cassano is an Italian footballer who plays for Serie A club Milan as a striker. Nicknamed Il Gioiello di Bari Vecchia , he is known for his short temper as much as his ability on the pitch, which led to the coining of the neologism Cassanata by his former coach, Fabio Capello, in November...
from Real Madrid
Real Madrid C.F.
Real Madrid Club de Fútbol , commonly known as Real Madrid, is a professional football club based in Madrid, Spain. The club have won a record 31 La Liga titles, the Primera División of the Liga de Fútbol Profesional , 18 Copas del Rey, 8 Spanish Super Cups, 1 Copa Eva Duarte and 1 Copa de la...
on a loan basis. Having had such a successful loan period, Sampdoria have made the move permanent from the 2008-09 season. During the winter transfer window, Giampaolo Pazzini was signed and formed one of Serie A's most effective partnerships. Sampdoria ended the season in sixth place of the Italian Serie A and qualified for the UEFA Cup 2008-09. The following season, they qualified for the Champions League play-offs.
With the departure of Director of Sport Giuseppe Marotta
Giuseppe Marotta
Giuseppe "Beppe" Marotta is an Italian football executive currently serving as Director General and Sports Department CEO of Italian football club Juventus.- Early career :...
, coach Luigi Delneri, both of whom were credited with Samp's recent successes and club top scorers Cassano and Pazzini and the squad being stretched by Champions League football, Sampdoria embarked on a miserable run of results and were relegated from 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...
after loss 2-1 at home to Palermo
U.S. Città di Palermo
Unione Sportiva Città di Palermo is an Italian football club from Palermo, Sicily which currently plays in Serie A, the top level of Italian football. Formed in 1900 as Anglo Panormitan Athletic and Football Club, the club had various names before assuming its final form in 1987 and is currently...
in May 2011.
Current squad
Youth Players
Out on loan
Capped players
Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Sampdoria.
Italy Marcello Agnoletto
Marcello Agnoletto
Marcello Agnoletto is a retired professional Italian football player.He played for 6 seasons in the Serie A for Calcio Padova, U.C. Sampdoria and L.R. Vicenza....
Giuseppe Baldini
Giuseppe Baldini
Giuseppe Baldini was an Italian association football player and manager. During his playing career, Baldini played at both professional and international levels as a striker, before becoming a football manager.-Career:Born in Russi, Baldini began his career as a youth player with Pontedera, before...
Paolo Barison
Paolo Barison
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Adriano Bassetto
Adriano Bassetto
Adriano Bassetto was an Italian football player.Bassetto was born in Vicenza, Veneto.He was an attacking midfielder playing mainly for Sampdoria and Atalanta in Serie A during 1946–1957. He also played for Siena, Vicenza, Lucchese and Cesena. In total, he scored 149 goals in 329 appearances in...
Fabio Bazzani
Fabio Bazzani
Fabio Bazzani is an Italian association football striker, who currently plays for A.S.D. Mezzolara.He is a striker, notable for his headers, as well as his shooting and strength.-Career:...
Gianfranco Bedin
Gianfranco Bedin
Gianfranco Bedin is a former Italian footballer who played for Internazionale and was part of their European Cup victory in 1965. He earned 6 caps for the Italy national football team. - External links :*...
Romeo Benetti
Romeo Benetti
Romeo Benetti is a former Italian footballer. Benetti was a spiteful, brutal pioneer of the Italian midfielder enforcer who also took his defensive duties very seriously and epitomised the ultra-defensive, dont-lose-at all-costs attitude of Italy in the early 1970s with a hard tackle and stamina...
Mario Bergamaschi
Mario Bergamaschi
Mario Bergamaschi is a retired Italian football player.He played for 14 seasons in the Serie A for Calcio Como, A.C. Milan and U.C...
Gaudenzio Bernasconi
Gaudenzio Bernasconi
Gaudenzio Bernasconi is a retired Italian football player and coach.He played for 13 seasons in the Serie A for Atalanta B.C. and U.C. Sampdoria...
Stefano Bettarini
Stefano Bettarini
Stefano Bettarini is a former Italian footballer. He played once for Italy national team.-Biography:Born in Forlì, Emilia–Romagna, Bettarini spent his childhood at Buonconvento, the Province of Siena, Tuscany. He then spent his youth career at Staggia Senese, Poggibonsi, the Province of Siena and...
Emiliano Bonazzoli
Emiliano Bonazzoli
Emiliano Bonazzoli is an Italian footballer, a striker, currently playing for Reggina.- Career :Bonazzoli started his career at Brescia. He played his first professional match on 15 May 1997 against Lecce, which his only match of the season the Serie B Champion. In the next two seasons he...
Dario Bonetti
Dario Bonetti
Dario Bonetti is an Italian football manager and former defender. He is the elder brother of Ivano Bonetti.-Playing career:Bonetti made his professional debut in the 1978-79 season with Brescia...
Ivano Bordon
Ivano Bordon
Ivano Bordon is an Italian former football goalkeeper.He was born at Marghera, Venice. During his Serie A career he played for Inter , Sampdoria , Sanremese and Brescia .For the Italy national football team he participated at the 1978 FIFA World Cup, Euro 1980 and was 1982 World...
Marco Borriello
Marco Borriello
Marco Borriello is an Italian footballer who plays as a striker for Serie A club Roma. He has previously played for other Italian clubs, including Milan, Sampdoria, Treviso, Reggina, Empoli, Triestina, and Genoa.-Early career:...
Sergio Brighenti
Sergio Brighenti
Sergio Brighenti is an Italian former football player and coach. As a player, Brighenti played at both professional and international level as a striker, before beginning his coaching career.-Personal life:...
Amedeo Carboni
Amedeo Carboni
Amedeo Carboni is a retired Italian footballer who played as a left defender.In a professional career which spanned 22 years and saw him appear in nearly 700 official games, he played mainly for Roma and Valencia , winning eight major titles for the two clubs combined.Carboni was capped 18 times...
Andrea Caracciolo
Andrea Caracciolo
Andrea Caracciolo , is an Italian footballer who plays for Genoa.-Career:His first football appearances were for Sancolombano of Italian Serie D ; later playing for Como and Pro Vercelli, both in professional leagues, before being signed by Brescia, the team in which he made his Serie A debut on 6...
Antonio Cassano
Antonio Cassano
Antonio Cassano is an Italian footballer who plays for Serie A club Milan as a striker. Nicknamed Il Gioiello di Bari Vecchia , he is known for his short temper as much as his ability on the pitch, which led to the coining of the neologism Cassanata by his former coach, Fabio Capello, in November...
Marcello Castellini
Marcello Castellini
Marcello Castellini is an Italian footballer who currently without a club. Castellini has played over 300 matches at Serie A and capped once for Italy.-Perugia & Parma:...
Luciano Chiarugi
Luciano Chiarugi
Luciano Chiarugi is an Italian football manager and former player.-Player:Chiarugi started his career with ACF Fiorentina, being part of the lineup that won the 1968–69 Serie A title...
Enrico Chiesa
Enrico Chiesa
Enrico Chiesa is an Italian football coach and former striker.Chiesa performed regularly at Serie A level for over a decade, and was also part of the Italy national football team. He was considered one of the most exciting and dynamic strikers in Italy during the mid 90's.-Club:Chiesa moved his...
Sandro Cois
Sandro Cois
Sandro Cois is a retired Italian football player. He has enjoyed a long career playing primarily as a defensive midfielder.He played for several clubs, including Torino and Piacenza...
Paolo Conti
Paolo Conti
Paolo Conti is a former Italian football goalkeeper.He played for 9 seasons in the Serie A for A.S. Roma, U.C. Sampdoria and ACF Fiorentina....
Mario David
Mario David
Mario David was an Italian football player and coach.David was born at Udine. He played in a defensive role from 1952 to 1966 in Livorno, Lanerossi Vicenza, A.C. Milan and U.C. Sampdoria. He won a European Cup Championship with Milan in Wembley 1963 final. In Italy national football team, he...
Gennaro Delvecchio Aimo Diana
Aimo Diana
Aimo Stefano Diana is an Italian footballer who plays for A.C. Lumezzane in Lega Pro Prima Divisione. A player of wide range, he can appear as a midfielder or a defender, always on the right flank.-Club career:...
Cristiano Doni
Cristiano Doni
Cristiano Doni is an Italian professional footballer who plays for Atalanta B.C. as an attacking midfielder.Most of his senior career was associated with Atalanta, as he appeared in more than 300 official games for the club, netting more than 100 goals.Doni represented Italy at the 2002 World...
Giuseppe Dossena
Giuseppe Dossena
Giuseppe Dossena is an Italian football manager and former player. Dossena began his playing career for Torino, being successively even capped for the 1982 FIFA World Cup...
Alberigo Evani
Alberigo Evani
Alberigo Evani is an Italian former football player in midfielder role. Born in Massa, Tuscany, he played in Serie A 353 times with 16 goals...
Giulio Falcone
Giulio Falcone
Giulio Falcone is an Italian footballer.He signed for U.C. Sampdoria on free transfer in 2003.Falcone made his Italy national team debut with Sampdoria teammates Christian Terlizzi, Gennaro Delvecchio, and Angelo Palombo in a 2-0 loss to Croatia in Livorno, on August 16, 2006.- External links :...
Osvaldo Fattori
Osvaldo Fattori
Osvaldo Fattori was an Italian football player.Osvaldo Fattori was one of the major figures in the player transfer market after the second world war...
Giuseppe Farina Riccardo Ferri
Riccardo Ferri
Riccardo Ferri is an Italian former footballer, centre-back.-Club career:Ferri was born in Crema, and debuted in Serie A with Internazionale in October 1981. Soon a titular defender, he became a mainstay of the team, playing for Internazionale for a total of 13 seasons.He won the Scudetto in...
Eddie Firmani
Eddie Firmani
Edwin Ronald "Eddie" Firmani is a retired football player and manager. He was born in South Africa but represented Italy internationally.-Playing career:...
Alfio Fontana
Alfio Fontana
Alfio Fontana was an Italian professional football player.He played for 13 seasons in the Serie A for A.C. Milan, U.S. Triestina Calcio, A.S. Roma and U.C. Sampdoria....
Luca Fusi
Luca Fusi
Luca Fusi is a retired Italian footballer turned manager, who last served as head coach of Lega Pro Prima Divisione team Foligno.During his club career he played for Como, Sampdoria, Napoli, Torino and Juventus...
Roberto Galia
Roberto Galia
Roberto Galia is an Italian professional football coach and a former player. Currently, he manages S.C. Insubria A.S.D..He represented Italy at the 1988 Summer Olympics.-External links:*...
Renato Gei Simone Inzaghi
Simone Inzaghi
Simone Inzaghi is a retired Italian professional footballer who played as a striker.During his professional career, he played for a host of clubs, namely Lazio, where he remained for more than one decade, being used irregularly....
Mark Iuliano
Mark Iuliano
Mark Iuliano is a former Italian football defender, who spent the bulk of his career with Italian powerhouse, Juventus FC, in the Italian Serie A.-Salernitana Calcio 1919:...
Marco Lanna
Marco Lanna
Marco Lanna is an Italian former footballer who played at both professional and international levels as a defender.-Career:...
Giovanni Lodetti
Giovanni Lodetti
Giovanni Lodetti is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.- Club :*A.C. Milan**Serie A: 1961–62, 1967–68**Coppa Italia: 1966–67**European Cup: 1962–63, 1968–69**Cup Winners' Cup: 1967–68...
Francisco LojaconoFrancisco Lojacono
Francisco Ramón Lojacono was an Italian Argentine football player and manager who began his playing career in Argentina with San Lorenzo, before moving to Italy to play with Vicenza, Fiorentina, AS Roma, Sampdoria, Alessandria and A.C. Legnano. Lojacono finished his career back in Argentina with...
Attilio Lombardo
Attilio Lombardo
Attilio Lombardo is a retired football player turned manager.-Playing:...
Arnaldo Lucentini Christian Maggio
Christian Maggio
Christian Maggio is an Italian footballer who currently plays as a defender for Serie A club Napoli and Italian national team.-Vicenza:Maggio began his career at Vicenza making his Serie A debut in the 2000–2001 season, finishing the campaign with six appearances...
Roberto Mancini
Roberto Mancini
Roberto Mancini is an Italian football manager, formerly an international player and current manager of Premier League club Manchester City.As a player Mancini was best known for his time at Sampdoria, where he played more than 550 matches, and helped them win the Serie A league title, four Coppa...
Moreno Mannini
Moreno Mannini
Moreno Mannini is a retired Italian footballer who played as a right defender.-Club career:Mannini started playing professionally with Calcio Como, in Serie B, appearing in 36 games in his second season as the Lombardy club promoted to Serie A. In the following off-season, he signed with fellow...
Massimo Marazzina
Massimo Marazzina
Massimo Marazzina is an Italian footballer who plays as a striker.-Early years:Marazzina was born in Pandino, a city near Lodi in the Province of Cremona. He finished his football formation at F.C. Internazionale Milano, and made his Serie A debut on 27 February 1994, in a 0–2 away loss against A.C...
Giacomo Mari
Giacomo Mari
Giacomo Mari was an Italian football player.Giacomo Mari is one of five Italian players that played in both the 1950 and 1954 World Cups...
Domenico Marocchino
Domenico Marocchino
Domenico Marocchino is a retired Italian professional football player.-External links:*...
Gianfranco Matteoli
Gianfranco Matteoli
Gianfranco Matteoli is a retired Italian footballer.During his club career he played for Cantu San Paolo, Como, Osimana, Reggiana, Sampdoria, Internazionale, Cagliari and Perugia. He earned 6 caps for the Italy national football team....
Alessandro Melli
Alessandro Melli
Alessandro Melli is a retired Italian footballer who played as a striker.-Club career:Melli's father was a professional footballer, playing as a centre forward for Parma FC, and the son followed in his footsteps...
Aurelio Milani
Aurelio Milani
Aurelio Milani is a former Italian footballer who played for Internazionale and was part of their European Cup victory in 1964. He earned 1 cap for the Italy national football team. Milani was joint topscorer with José Altafini in 1961-62....
Vincenzo Montella
Vincenzo Montella
Vincenzo Montella is a retired Italian footballer. Currently he is the youngest head coach of Serie A, after being named at the helm of Sicilian outfit Catania on 9 June 2011....
Bruno Mora
Bruno Mora
Bruno Mora was an Italian football player and coach.He played 13 seasons in the Serie A for U.C. Sampdoria, Juventus F.C., A.C. Milan and A.C...
Francesco Morini
Francesco Morini
Francesco Morini is a retired Italian football player. He competed for the Italian national team in the 1974 FIFA World Cup and earned a total of 11 caps. He played for clubs such as Sampdoria and Juventus....
Giuseppe Moro
Giuseppe Moro
Giuseppe Moro was an Italian football player.In eight season in Serie A Giuseppe Moro defended the goal of six different teams...
Bruno Nicolè
Bruno Nicolè
Bruno Nicolè is a retired Italian professional football player.-Honours:* Serie A champion: 1957/58, 1959/60, 1960/61.* Coppa Italia winner: 1958/59, 1959/60, 1963/64.* Coppa delle Alpi winner: 1963.-External links:*...
Gianluca Pagliuca Angelo Palombo
Angelo Palombo
Angelo Palombo is an Italian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie B club Sampdoria. Tenacious in the tackle and hard-working on the pitch, he is known for his play-making skills and never-say-die attitude...
Giampaolo Pazzini Fabrizio Poletti
Fabrizio Poletti
Fabrizio Poletti is a former Italian footballer.During his club career he played for AC Asti , Torino , Cagliari and Sampdoria....
Fabio Quagliarella
Fabio Quagliarella
Fabio Quagliarella is an Italian footballer who plays as a striker for Serie A club Juventus and internationally for the Italian national team. He is known for scoring incredible goals from unconventional angles that often catch the goalkeeper by surprise.-Early career:Quagliarella began his...
Pierluigi Ronzon
Pierluigi Ronzon
Pierluigi Ronzon is a former Italian football player from Gemona del Friuli in the Province of Udine. He played club football for some of the top clubs in his country, including Sampdoria, Napoli, Lazio, Atalanta and AC Milan....
Giuseppe Sabadini
Giuseppe Sabadini
Giuseppe Sabadini is an Italian football coach and a former player.He played 18 seasons in the Serie A for U.C. Sampdoria, A.C. Milan, F.C...
Patrizio Sala
Patrizio Sala
Patrizio Sala is an Italian former footballer.Sala was born in Bellusco, Lombardy.During his club career he played for Torino, Sampdoria, Fiorentina, Pisa, Cesena, and Parma. He also played for the Italy national football team, and was a member of the 1978 FIFA World Cup squad, playing in one game...
Benito Sarti
Benito Sarti
Benito Sarti is a retired Italian professional football player.-Honours:* Serie A champion: 1959/60, 1960/61, 1966/67.* Coppa Italia winner: 1958/59, 1964/65.-External links:*...
Franco Semioli
Franco Semioli
Franco Semioli is an Italian footballer for U.C. Sampdoria of Serie A. He plays in the role of right wing.-Club career:...
Michele Serena
Michele Serena
Michele Serena is an Italian former football defender and current manager of Spezia.- Player :Serena started his playing career with Mestre of Serie C2, then become Venezia following a merger. He was signed by Juventus in 1989, and made four league appearances with the bianconeri...
Giuseppe Signori
Giuseppe Signori
Giuseppe "Beppe" Signori is a retired Italian football striker, one of the top scorers in Serie A history and widely regarded as one of the best football players to have never received a winners medal in competitive football. He was a fast, left footed striker who was prolific goalscorer...
Angelo Sormani
Angelo Sormani
Ángelo Benedicto Miguel Sormani is a former Italian Brazilian footballer.During his club career, he played for Santos Futebol Clube of Brazil, and A.C. Mantova, A.S. Roma, U.C. Sampdoria, A.C. Milan, S.S.C...
Christian Terlizzi
Christian Terlizzi
Christian Terlizzi is an Italian professional footballer who plays for A.S. Varese 1910. He has played for clubs on all professional levels of Italian football, including U.S. Città di Palermo, U.C. Sampdoria, and Catania Calcio in the Serie A. He has also been capped for the Italy national...
Max Tonetto
Max Tonetto
Max Tonetto is an Italian football defender. Naturally left footed, his preferred position is the left midfielder position...
Mario Tortul Gianluca Vialli
Gianluca Vialli
Gianluca Vialli is an Italian football manager and former player. Since retiring, he has gone into management and punditry and is a commentator for Sky Sport Italia....
Pietro Vierchowod
Pietro Vierchowod
Pietro Vierchowod is an Italian former footballer turned coach.Vierchowod was nicknamed the zar because he was the son of a Ukrainian Red Army soldier. Vierchowod was a man-marker ....
Guido Vincenzi
Guido Vincenzi
Guido Vincenzi was an Italian football player.Just after reaching twenty-one years of age he left Reggiana, which was in Serie C, made his way to Inter, the Italian champions at the time, and in three months made his Serie A debut...
Sergio Volpi
Sergio Volpi
Sergio Volpi is a former Italian footballer. Volpi capped twice for Italy and had spent over 10 seasons at Serie A.-Career:...
Luciano Zauri
Luciano Zauri
Luciano Zauri is an Italian footballer who plays for Lazio.-Atalanta:Zauri made his debut in Serie A in the 1996–97 season with Atalanta in a 4–0 loss at home to Roma....
Luciano Zecchini
Luciano Zecchini
Luciano Zecchini is an Italian professional football coach and a former player.He played 11 seasons in the Serie A for Brescia Calcio, Torino Calcio, A.C. Milan, U.C...
Walter Zenga
Walter Zenga
Walter Zenga is a retired Italian footballer and current manager. He is a long-time goalkeeper for the Italian national team and Internazionale. He also holds Romanian citizenship...
Cristian Zenoni
Cristian Zenoni
Cristian Zenoni is an Italian football defender who currently a free-agent. His twin brother Damiano Zenoni also is a professional player.-Football career:...
Argentina Jonathan Bottinelli
Jonathan Bottinelli
Jonathan Pablo Bottinelli is an Argentine footballer. He currently under contract with San Lorenzo. He is the brother of fellow professional footballer Darío Bottinelli.-Career:...
Ariel Ortega
Ariel Ortega
Arnaldo Ariel Ortega is an Argentine football attacking midfielder. His nickname is "El Burrito" , thus he is called "Burrito Ortega"....
Juan Sebastián Verón
Juan Sebastián Verón
Juan Sebastián Verón is an Argentinian professional football player who is the current captain and midfielder for Estudiantes de La Plata in the Argentine Primera División....
Austria Ernst Ocwirk
Ernst Ocwirk
Ernst Ocwirk was an Austrian football player and coach. He is considered one of the greatest Austrian footballers of all time....
Belarus Vitali Kutuzov
Vitali Kutuzov
Vitali Vladimirovich Kutuzov is a Belarusian football player, who plays the Belarusian national team.- Career :In 2001 he joined Italian side A.C. Milan from BATE Borisov, Belarus. During the half of the season he spent with the team he failed to establish himself in the first team, playing only...
Brazil Toninho Cerezo
Toninho Cerezo
Toninho Cerezo, real name Antônio Carlos Cerezo, is a former football player from Brazil.- Career :...
Doriva Paulo Silas
Paulo Silas
Paulo Silas do Prado Pereira, best known as Silas is a former Brazilian football player and is currently manager of the Qatari club Al-Arabi.-Career:...
Cameroon François Omam-Biyik
François Omam-Biyik
François Omam-Biyik is a former football player from Cameroon. He also has French nationality. He was one of the most important players of the Cameroonian national team in the nineties, playing at the three World Cups in 1990, 1994 and 1998...
Chile Jorge Toro
Jorge Toro
Jorge Luis Toro Sánchez is a retired football midfielder from Chile, who represented his native country at the 1962 FIFA World Cup in Chile. He scored the second goal in Chile's 2-0 win over Italy at that tournament, in a match that is remembered as the Battle of Santiago.- Honors:-References:...
Côte d'Ivoire Saliou Lassissi
Saliou Lassissi
Saliou Lassissi is a former Côte d'Ivoire football player.-Return to football:In April 2011, he returned to football to polish lower league Sokol Skromnica alongside Abdou Cissokho.-External links:*...
Croatia Krunoslav Jurčić
Krunoslav Jurcic
Krunoslav "Kruno" Jurčić is a retired Croatian professional footballer who is now a coach.-Club career:He started his professional career at Dinamo Zagreb in 1988, before moving to Inker Zaprešić in 1991 and Uljanik Pula in 1993. He went on join Belgian side Beveren in 1995, but returned to Dinamo...
Denmark Karl Aage Hansen
Karl Aage Hansen
Karl Aage Hansen was a Danish football player, who won a bronze medal with the Denmark national football team at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. He scored 17 goals in 22 games for the Danish national team, and was Danish team captain on 17 occasions...
Harald Nielsen
Harald Nielsen
Harald Ingemann Nielsen is a Danish former football player, who most notably played professionally for Italian club Bologna F.C. where he was the league top scorer in Bologna's 1964 Serie A championship winning season...
England Trevor Francis
Trevor Francis
Trevor John Francis , is a former footballer who won the European Cup with Nottingham Forest and played for England 52 times. He was England's first £1 million player...
David Platt Lee Sharpe
Lee Sharpe
Lee Stuart Sharpe is an English former footballer. Predominantly a left winger, Sharpe joined Manchester United from Torquay United as a youngster in 1988, playing for the club up until 1996...
Des Walker
Des Walker
Desmond Sinclair "Des" Walker is a former England international footballer who is best remembered for his spells with Nottingham Forest and Sheffield Wednesday...
France Alain Boghossian
Alain Boghossian
Alain Boghossian is a retired French-Armenian football player and now assistant coach for the French national team.-Club career:...
Christian Karembeu
Christian Karembeu
Christian Karembeu is a retired French international footballer and current scout for Arsenal Football Club...
Pierre Laigle
Pierre Laigle
Pierre Laigle is a retired French footballer. He last played for AS Saint-Priest in the Championnat de France amateur....
Maryan Wisnieski
Germany Hans-Peter Briegel
Hans-Peter Briegel
Hans-Peter Briegel is a former German football player and manager.One of the most popular players in his days, Hans-Peter Briegel's original sport was athletics, being successful in various events such as long jump , triple jump and specifically in heptathlon-forerunner pentathlon...
Jürgen Klinsmann
Jürgen Klinsmann
Jürgen Klinsmann is a German football manager and former player who is currently the coach of the United States Men's National Team. As a player, Klinsmann played for several prominent clubs in Europe and was part of the West German team that won the 1990 FIFA World Cup and the German one that...
Ghana 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:...
Hungary Vladimir Koman
Vladimir Koman
Vladimir Koman Jr. is a Ukrainian–born Hungarian footballer, currently playing for Italian Serie B team Sampdoria. He is most known for his strong performance in the in the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup, gaining the Silver Boot by scoring five goals for the Hungarian team...
Zsolt Laczkó
Zsolt Laczko
Zsolt Laczkó is a Hungarian footballer currently playing for U.C. Sampdoria in Italy.-Ferencváros:...
Ireland Liam Brady
Liam Brady
Liam Brady is a former Irish association football player, and former assistant manager of the Republic of Ireland national football team....
Japan Atsushi Yanagisawa
Atsushi Yanagisawa
is a Japanese football player. Currently he is a striker for Vegalta Sendai in the top division of the J-League. Yanagisawa was born in Kosugi-machi, Toyama-ken, Japan...
Lithuania 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:...
Netherlands Ruud Gullit
Ruud Gullit
OON is a Dutch football manager and former football player, who played professionally in the 1980s and 1990s. He was the captain of the Netherlands national team that was victorious at Euro 88 and was also a member of the squad for the 1990 World Cup. He was named the European Footballer of the...
Clarence Seedorf
Clarence Seedorf
Clarence Clyde Seedorf OON is a Dutch footballer who currently plays as an attacking midfielder for Serie A club Milan. Seedorf is the first player to have won the Champions League with three different clubs - Ajax in 1995, Real Madrid in 1998 and Milan in 2003 and 2007...
Nigeria Ikechukwu Kalu
Ikechukwu Kalu
Ikechukwu Kalu is a Nigerian football striker who plays for Chiasso. His name, Ikechukwu, means "Power of God".-Football career:...
Scotland Graeme Souness
Graeme Souness
Graeme James Souness is a Scottish former professional football player and manager.Souness was the captain of the successful Liverpool team of the early 1980s and player-manager of Rangers in the late 1980s as well as captain of the Scottish national team. He also played for Tottenham Hotspur,...
Slovenia Srečko Katanec
Srecko Katanec
Srečko Katanec is a Slovenian football manager and a former player capped for Yugoslavia and Slovenia. His last position was as the manager of the United Arab Emirates national football team.-Career:...
Serbia Vujadin Boškov
Vujadin Boškov
Vujadin Boškov is a retired Serbian football player and coach.Boškov was born in the village of Begeč near Novi Sad, Danube Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia). He played with FK Vojvodina for most of his career...
Zoran Jovičić
Zoran Jovicic (footballer)
Zoran Jovičić is a retired Serbian international football player.-References:* *...
Vladimir Jugović
Vladimir Jugovic
Vladimir Jugović is a retired Serbian football player renowned for his vision and technique.-Career:Born in Milutovac, a village near Trstenik, Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia, Jugović played throughout his career for numerous top European teams, winning the Champions League twice...
Siniša Mihajlović
Siniša Mihajlovic
Siniša Mihajlović is a Serbian football manager and former player. He was in charge of Serie A club Fiorentina since June 2010 to November 2011....
Nenad Sakić
Nenad Sakic
Nenad Sakić is a former Serbian footballer. After finishing out his playing career he became the director of football at FK Napredak Kruševac...
Todor Veselinović Bratislav Živković
Bratislav Živkovic
Bratislav Živković is a Serbian former football midfielder. He played for Red Star Belgrade and Italian club Sampdoria throughout his career, and retired in 2005 after one season with Serbian side FK Obilić. In July 2007, he was named the president of FK Dubočica from Leskovac.-External links:**...
Spain Luis Suárez
Luis Suárez Miramontes
Luis Suárez Miramontes , also known by the diminutive Luisito, is a Spanish former footballer and manager. He played as a midfielder for Deportivo de La Coruña, CD España Industrial, CF Barcelona, Internazionale, Sampdoria and Spain. Suárez is regarded as one of Spain's greatest players; as a...
Víctor Muñoz
Sweden Ingvar Gärd
Ingvar Gärd
Gustaf Ingvar Bertil Gärd is a Swedish football midfielder who played for Sweden in the 1950 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Malmö FF.-External links:*...
Lennart Skoglund
Lennart Skoglund
Karl Lennart "Nacka" Skoglund, , was a Swedish football player.-Biography:Nicknamed through-out his career as Nacka , Lennart Skoglund was a star of two Swedish World Cup sides in the 1950s. First as a young inside-left in 1950 and then as a mature left winger on home soil in 1958...
Switzerland Marco Padalino
Marco Padalino
Marco Padalino is a Swiss football player. He plays for U.C. Sampdoria.-References:...
Reto Ziegler
Reto Ziegler
Reto Ziegler is a Swiss footballer who plays for Turkish Süper Lig club Fenerbahçe.-Early career:Ziegler was in the summer of 2004 signed by Tottenham Hotspur to a contract initially meant to begin on 1 January 2005, when his contract with Grasshoppers expired...
Uruguay Rubén Olivera
Rubén Olivera
Rubén Ariel Olivera da Rosa is a Uruguayan football player.He began his career in Danubio and signed by Juventus F.C., and made his Serie A debut in 2–1 win to A.S...
USSR
Oleksiy MykhaylychenkoColours, badge and nicknames
The club crest features a sailor in profile known by the old Genoese name of Baciccia, which translates to Giovanni Battista in Italian or John-Baptist in English. The image of a sailor is appropriate due to Sampdoria being based in the port city of Genoa.The white, blue, red and black colours within the crest represent the clubs origins of a merger between two teams, Sampierdarenese and Andrea Doria, who wore respectively red/black and white/blue jerseys.
Supporters and Rivalries
U.C Sampdoria supporters come mainly from the city of Genova. The biggest group is Ultras Tito Cucchiaroni, named after an Argentinian left winger who played for Sampdoria. The group was founded in 1969, making it one of the oldest ultra groups in Italy.Ultras Tito Cucchiaroni are apolitical, although there are smaller groups like Rude Boys Sampdoria, who are left wing. The main support with flags and flares comes from the southern Curva
Curva (stadia)
Curva is an Italian term or name for curved stands of seating located at sports stadiums, particularly in Italy; so named, originally, due to their curved or bending shape...
, Gradinata Sud.
U.C Sampdoria biggest rivals is Genoa C.F.C.
Genoa C.F.C.
Genoa Cricket and Football Club, commonly referred to simply as Genoa , is a professional Italian football club based in the city of Genoa, Liguria...
Honours
Serie ASerie 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...
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- Winners: 1990–91Serie A 1990-91-Final classification:-Results:-Top scorers:19 goals* Gianluca Vialli 16 goals* Lothar Matthäus 15 goals* Carlos Aguilera * Tomáš Skuhravý 14 goals* Roberto Baggio...
- Runners-up (1): 1921–22 (F.I.G.C.Italian Football Championship 1921-22 (F.I.G.C.)During the Summer of 1921, a dispute between the Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio and the main teams arose.The teams asked for a reduction of the number of participants in the 1a Divisione....
as Sampierdarenese)
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...
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- Winners: 1933–34Serie B 1933-34The Serie B 1933-34 was the fifth tournament of this competition played in Italy since its creation. This championship was organized with two gironi and a final round to determine the promoted team.-Girone A:-Final classification:-Results:...
, 1966–67Serie B 1966-67This article contains information on the 1966-1967 season of Serie B, the second highest football league in Italy.-Final classification:-Results:-References and sources:... - Runners-up (2): 1981–82Serie B 1981-82This article contains information on the 1981-1982 season of Serie B, the second highest football league in Italy.-Final classification:-Results:-References and sources:...
, 2002–03Serie B 2002-03This article contains information on the 2002-2003 season of Serie B, the second highest football league in Italy.- Final classification :- Results :...
Coppa Italia
Coppa Italia
The Coppa Italia is an Italian football annual cup competition. Its first edition was held in 1922, but the second champions were not crowned until 1936. Roma and Juventus lead the way with nine wins. Roma has contested more finals, 16, while Torino and Juventus follow with 13...
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- Winners: 1984–85, 1987–88Coppa Italia 1987-88The 1987–88 Coppa Italia was the 40th Coppa Italia, the major Italian domestic cup. The competition was won by Sampdoria, who defeated Torino 3–2 on aggregate in a two-legged final played at Stadio Luigi Ferraris in Genoa and Stadio Comunale in Turin....
, 1988–89Coppa Italia 1988-89The 1988–89 Coppa Italia was the 41st Coppa Italia, the major Italian domestic cup. The competition was won by Sampdoria, who defeated SSC Napoli 4–1 on aggregate in a two-legged final played at Stadio San Paolo and Stadio Giovanni Zini .-First leg:-Second...
, 1993–94Coppa Italia 1993-94-First leg:-Second leg:Sampdoria won 6–1 on aggregate.-References:*... - Runners-up (3): 1985–86Coppa Italia 1985-86-Tournament Bracket:¹Awarded to Sampdoria for fans troubles during extra times-First leg:-Second leg:Roma won 3–2 on aggregate.-References:*...
, 1990–91Coppa Italia 1990-91-First leg:-Second leg:Roma won 4–2 on aggregate.-References:*...
, 2008–092009 Coppa Italia Final-Post-match:After the match, some Lazio players wore a T-shirt to joke A.S. Roma rivals with written on it Io campione, tu zero titoli , quoting a sentence said by José Mourinho who had, earlier in the season, correctly predicted that Milan, Juve and Roma would have completed the season with no...
Supercoppa Italiana
Supercoppa Italiana
The Supercoppa Italiana is a pre-season football competition held the week before the season begins in Italy every year. It is contested by the winners of the Serie A and the Coppa Italia in the previous season, as a curtain raiser to the new season. It is usually played at the home of the Serie A...
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- Winners: 1991
- Runners-up (3): 1988, 1989, 1994
European Cup/Champions League
UEFA Champions League
The UEFA Champions League, known simply the Champions League and originally known as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or European Cup, is an annual international club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations since 1955 for the top football clubs in Europe. It...
- Runners-up (1): 1991–921992 European Cup FinalThe 1992 European Cup Final was a football match held on 20 May 1992 at Wembley Stadium, London, between FC Barcelona of Spain and U.C. Sampdoria of Italy. Barcelona won the game 1–0, thanks to a Ronald Koeman free-kick, to record their first triumph in the competition. This was the last tournament...
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a football club competition contested annually by the most recent winners of all European domestic cup competitions. The cup is one of the many inter-European club competitions that have been organised by UEFA. The first competition was held in the 1960–61 season—but...
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- Winners: 1989–90
- Runners-up (1): 1988–89