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Brindisi FC
Founded 1912
1990 (refounded)
2004 (refounded)
2011 (refounded)
2015 (refounded)
Ground Stadio Franco Fanuzzi,
Brindisi, Italy
Ground Capacity 7,600
Chairman Daniele Arigliano
Manager Ciro Danucci

Brindisi Football Club is an Italian association football club located in Brindisi, in the region of Apulia in southern Italy.

History

Brindisi was founded in 1912 as F.B. Brindisi 1912 and refounded in 1990 and then refounded in 2004 and then refounded in 2011 and then refounded in 2015 with the current name.

Brindisi Calcio

The team played in Serie C2 in the 2003–04 season. At the end of the year, the team went bankrupt and the new club was placed in Eccellenza.

F.B. Brindisi 1912

In the 2004–05 season of Eccellenza Apulia, Brindisi placed second, qualifying for the national playoffs. The team won its two rounds in the playoffs, thus winning promotion to Serie D.

For the next 4 season, the team played in Serie D. In the 2008–09 season, Brindisi clinched first place in Girone H, thus gaining direct promotion to Lega Pro Seconda Divisione.

In summer 2011, it did not appeal against the exclusion of Covisoc.

S.S.D. Città di Brindisi

The club is restarted in Serie D with the new denomination of Società Sportiva Dilettantistica Città di Brindisi. It went bankrupt in only four years.

New Brindisi

Real Paradiso Brindisi in Prima Categoria created the new Brindisi in 2015. Following the club promotion in Serie C at the end of the 2022/2023 season, they reached professional football again and dropped the "SSD" ("Società Sportiva Dilettantistica", which means "Amateur Sports Club" in italian) in their name, being for the first time in 33 years a fully professional football club again.

Current squad

No. Position Player
1 Italy GK Vittorio Antonino
2 Italy DF Antonello Vona (on loan from Parma)
3 Italy DF Niccolò Monti
4 Argentina DF Franco Gorzelewski
6 Sierra Leone MF Winston Ceesay
7 Italy FW Daniele Vantaggiato
8 Italy MF Mattia Speranza (on loan from Novara)
9 Italy FW Cristian Bunino (on loan from Lecco)
10 Italy MF Davide Petrucci
12 Italy GK Cristiano Auro
13 Dominican Republic DF Tano Bonnín
15 Italy DF Niccolò Bellucci
16 Argentina DF Bruno Valenti
17 Italy MF Giovanni Pinto
19 Italy FW Angelo Guida
20 Italy MF Valerio Labriola (on loan from Giugliano)
No. Position Player
22 Italy GK Ivan Saio (on loan from Sampdoria)
23 Italy MF Vincenzo Spingola (on loan from Cosenza)
26 Italy DF Tommaso Merletti
27 Italy DF Marco Calderoni
29 Italy FW Marcello Trotta
30 Italy FW Gianmarco De Feo
33 Italy DF Luca Falbo (on loan from Avellino)
34 Italy DF Davide Galazzini
44 Italy FW Mattia Pagliuca (on loan from Bologna)
55 Italy DF Ciro Cipolletta
70 Nigeria FW Malik Olalekan Opoola (on loan from Carrarese)
73 Italy MF Niccolò Bagatti (on loan from Novara)
77 Italy FW Patrizio Zerbo
90 Italy FW Lorenzo Grassi (on loan from Fermana)
Italy MF Paolo De Angelis

Colors and badge

Its colors are white and blue.

Honours

  • Coppa Italia Serie C
    • Winners (1): 2002–03

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Brindisi Football Club para niños

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