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Atalanta

Full name	Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio S.p.A.
Nickname(s)	La Dea (The Goddess) Gli Orobici I Nerazzurri (The Black and Blues)
Founded	17 October 1907; 115 years ago (1907-10-17)
Ground	Gewiss Stadium
Ground Capacity	21,300
President	Antonio Percassi
Head coach	Gian Piero Gasperini
League	Serie A
2019/20	3rd
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio, often called Atalanta (nicknamed La Dea, the Nerazzuri, or the Orobici) is a football club based in Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy. The club plays in Serie A, as they were promoted from Serie B in 2010–11. They finished 3rd in the 2018–19 Serie A season, meaning they could play in the UEFA Champions League for the first time in the club's history. They play at the Gewiss Stadium, which has a capacity of 21,300. They have a long-standing rivalry with nearby club Brescia.

Players

Current squad

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No. Position Player 2 DF Rafael Tolói (vice-captain) 4 DF Boško Šutalo 6 DF José Luis Palomino 7 FW Sam Lammers 8 DF Robin Gosens 9 FW Luis Muriel 10 FW Alejandro Gómez (captain) 11 MF Remo Freuler 13 DF Mattia Caldara (on loan from Milan) 15 MF Marten de Roon 17 DF Cristian Romero (on loan from Juventus) 18 MF Ruslan Malinovskyi 19 DF Berat Djimsiti 21 DF Cristiano Piccini (on loan from Valencia) 24 GK Marco Carnesecchi 26 DF Johan Mojica (on loan from Girona) 27 DF Fabio Depaoli (on loan from Sampdoria) 31 GK Francesco Rossi

No. Position Player 32 MF Matteo Pessina 33 DF Hans Hateboer 40 DF Matteo Ruggeri 57 GK Marco Sportiello 59 MF Aleksei Miranchuk 72 FW Josip Iličić 79 FW Amad Traoré 88 MF Mario Pašalić 91 FW Duván Zapata 95 GK Pierluigi Gollini — GK Alessandro Pavan — GK Boris Radunović — GK Roberto Taliento — DF Fabio Eguelfi — MF Willy Braciano Ta Bi — FW Rilind Nivokazi — FW Marco Tumminello

Out on loan

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No. Position Player — GK Lorenzo Babbi (at Piacenza until 30 June 2021) — GK Stefano Mazzini (at Carrarese until 30 June 2021) — GK Khadim Ndiaye (at Ascoli until 30 June 2021) — GK Alessandro Santopadre (at Potenza until 30 June 2021) — DF Alberto Alari (at Ravenna until 30 June 2021) — DF Raoul Bellanova (at Pescara until 30 June 2021) DF Federico Bergonzi (at Feralpisalò until 30 June 2021) — DF Davide Bettella (at Monza until 30 June 2022) — DF Giorgio Brogni (at Feralpisalò until 30 June 2021) — DF Riccardo Burgio (at Avellino until 30 June 2021) — DF Nicolò Cambiaghi (at Reggiana until 30 June 2021) — DF Lennart Czyborra (at Genoa until 30 June 2022) — DF Alessio Girgi (at Legnago until 30 June 2021) — DF Rodrigo Guth (at Pescara until 30 June 2021) — DF David Heidenreich (at FK Teplice until 30 June 2021) — DF Roger Ibañez (at Roma until 30 June 2021) — DF Anton Krešić (at Padova until 30 June 2021) — DF Federico Mattiello (at Spezia until 30 June 2021) — DF Christian Mora (at Alessandria until 30 June 2022) — DF Caleb Okoli (at S.P.A.L. until 30 June 2021) — DF Arkadiusz Reca (at Crotone until 30 June 2021) — DF Matteo Salvi (at Pistoiese until 30 June 2021) — DF Marco Varnier (at Pisa until 30 June 2021) — DF Eyob Zambataro (at Monopoli until 30 June 2021) — DF Enrico Zanoni (at Ravenna until 30 June 2021) — DF Nadir Zortea (at Cremonese until 30 June 2021) — MF Isnik Alimi (at Sibenik until 30 June 2021)

No. Position Player — MF Thomas Bolis (at Ravenna until 30 June 2021) — MF Bryan Cabezas (at Emelec until 30 June 2021) — MF Marco Carraro (at Frosinone until 30 June 2022) — MF Andrea Colpani (at Monza until 30 June 2022) — MF Jacopo Da Riva (at Vicenza until 30 June 2021) — MF Enrico Del Prato (at Reggina until 30 June 2021) MF Sebastiano Finardi (at Giana Erminio until 30 June 2021) MF Nicolò Ghisleni (at Piacenza until 30 June 2021) — MF Nicolas Haas (at Empoli until 30 June 2021) — MF Erdis Kraja (at Grosseto until 30 June 2021) — MF Alessandro Mallamo (at Pordenone until 30 June 2021) — MF Filippo Melegoni (at Genoa until 30 June 2021) — MF Simone Muratore (at Reggiana until 30 June 2021) — MF Lorenzo Peli (at Reggina until 30 June 2021) — MF Matteo Pedrini (at Grosseto until 30 June 2021) MF Samuele Signori (at Lucchese until 30 June 2021) — MF Luca Valzania (at Cremonese until 30 June 2021) — FW Musa Barrow (at Bologna until 30 June 2021) — FW Christian Capone (at Pescara until 30 June 2021) — MF Ebrima Colley (at Hellas Verona until 30 June 2021) — FW Andreas Cornelius (at Parma until 30 June 2021) — FW Salvatore Elia (at Perugia until 30 June 2021) — FW Niccolò Ghisleni (at Piacenza until 30 June 2021) — FW Emmanuel Latte Lath (at Pro Patria until 30 June 2021) — FW Gabriel Lunetta (at Reggiana until 30 June 2021) FW Roberto Piccoli (at Spezia until 30 June 2021) — FW Luca Vido (at Pisa until 30 June 2021)

Retired numbers

12 – Dedication to fans, the 12th man
14 – Federico Pisani, Forward (1991–97) – posthumous honour.
80 – Elio Corbani, radio journalist.

Managerial history

Atalanta have had many managers and head coaches throughout their history, below is a chronological list of them from when Serie A was changed into a league format, from 1929–30 onwards.

Name Nationality Years Cesare Lovati 1923–27 Imre Payer 1927–29 Enrico Tirabassi 1928–29 Luigi Cevenini 1929–30 József Viola 1930–33 Imre Payer 1933 Angelo Mattea 1933–35 Imre Payer 1935–36 Ottavio Barbieri 1936–38 Géza Kertész 1938–39 Ivo Fiorentini 1939–41 János Nehadoma 1941–46 Giuseppe Meazza 1946 Luis Monti 1946 Ivo Fiorentini 1946–49 Alberto Citterio Carlo Carcano 1949 Giovanni Varglien 1949–51 Denis Charles Neville 1951–52 Carlo Ceresoli 1952 Luigi Ferrero 1952–54 Francesco Simonetti Luigi Tentorio 1954 Luigi Bonizzoni 1954–57

Name Nationality Years Carlo Rigotti 1957–58 Giuseppe Bonomi 1958 Karl Adamek 1958–59 Ferruccio Valcareggi 1959–62 Paolo Tabanelli 1962–63 Carlo Alberto Quario 1963–64 Carlo Ceresoli 1964 Héctor Puricelli 1965–66 Stefano Angeleri 1966–67 Paolo Tabanelli 1967–68 Stefano Angeleri 1968–69 Silvano Moro 1969 Carlo Ceresoli 1969 Corrado Viciani 1969–70 Renato Gei 1970 Giovan Battista Rota 1970 Giulio Corsini 1970–74 Heriberto Herrera Udrizar 1974–75 Angelo Piccioli 1975 Giancarlo Cadé 1975–76 Gianfranco Leoncini 1976 Giovan Battista Rota 1976–80 Bruno Bolchi 1980–81 Giulio Corsini 1981

Name Nationality Years Ottavio Bianchi 1981 – 30 June 1983 Nedo Sonetti 1 July 1983 – 30 June 1987 Emiliano Mondonico 1 July 1987 – 30 June 1990 Pierluigi Frosio 1990–91 Bruno Giorgi 1991–92 Marcello Lippi 1 July 1992 – 30 June 1993 Francesco Guidolin 1 July 1993 – 30 September 1993 Andrea Valdinoci Cesare Prandelli 1 November 1993 – 30 June 1994 Emiliano Mondonico 1 July 1994 – 30 June 1998 Bortolo Mutti 1 July 1998 – 30 June 1999 Giovanni Vavassori 1 July 1999 – 30 November 2002 Giancarlo Finardi 1 December 2002 – 30 June 2003 Andrea Mandorlini 1 July 2003–05 Delio Rossi 6 December 2004 – 30 June 2005 Stefano Colantuono 1 July 2005 – 30 June 2007 Luigi Delneri 1 July 2007 – 30 June 2009 Angelo Gregucci 1 July 2009 – 21 September 2009 Antonio Conte 21 September 2009 – 7 January 2010 Valter Bonacina (interim) 7 January 2010 – 10 January 2010 Bortolo Mutti 11 January 2010 – 10 June 2010 Stefano Colantuono 14 June 2010 – 4 March 2015 Edoardo Reja 4 March 2015 – 14 June 2016 Gian Piero Gasperini 14 June 2016 –

Honours

Domestic

• Coppa Italia

Winners: 1962–63

Runners-up (3): 1986–87, 1995–96, 2018–19

• Serie B

Winners (6): 1927–28, 1939–40, 1958–59, 1983–84, 2005–06, 2010–11

Runners-up (4): 1936–37, 1970–71, 1976–77, 1999–2000

• Serie C1 North

Winners: 1981–82

Images for kids

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  Performances of Atalanta in the Italian league since the first season of a unified Serie A

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  Atalanta players Angelo Domenghini and Piero Gardoni hoisting the 1962–63 Coppa Italia

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  Atalanta team that finished fourth in Serie A in 2017

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  Gianpaolo Bellini with Atalanta in 2016

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  Josip Iličić with Atalanta in 2020 (away kit, featuring the running girl in place of the club's crest)

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  Choreography on display in the Curva Nord during the 1996 Coppa Italia Final, including the large striped flag

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  Gian Piero Gasperini as Atalanta coach in 2019

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  A young Gaetano Scirea, one of the most famous footballers produced by the Atalanta youth system, during the 1972–73 season