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Salernitana

Full name

Unione Sportiva Salernitana 1919 S.r.l.

Nickname(s)

I Granata (The Garnets)

Founded

19 June 1919; 105 years ago (as Unione Sportiva Salernitana)

Ground

Stadio Arechi

Capacity

37,800

CEO

Danilo Iervolino

Head coach

Stefano Colantuono

League

Serie A

2018–19

Serie B, 16th of 19

Home colours

Away colours

Third colours

The performance of Salernitana in the Italian football league structure since the first season of a unified Serie A (1929/30)

Unione Sportiva Salernitana 1919, commonly referred to as Salernitana, is an Italian professional football club based in Salerno, Campania. The original club was founded in 1919 and has been reconstituted three times in the course of its history, most recently in 2011. The current club is the heir of the former Salernitana Calcio 1919, and it restarted from Serie D in the 2011–12 season. Salernitana returned to Serie A in 2021, after a break of 23 seasons, having finished second in Serie B.

History

From Unione Sportiva Salernitana to Salernitana Calcio 1919

The Salerno-based club was originally founded in 1919 as the Unione Sportiva Salernitana. The club was known as Società Sportiva Salernitanaudax for a time during the 1920s following a merger with Audax Salerno. In 1978, the club was renamed Salernitana Sport. The club has spent the majority of its history at the Serie B and Serie C levels of Italian football.

Salernitana play their home matches at Stadio Arechi.

In their early years, Salernitana competed in the regional Italian Football Championship for four seasons during the 1920s. After that time, the club returned to the top level of Italian football twice; they played in Serie A during 1947–48 and 1998–99.

In 2005, the club went bankrupt, but was restarted by Antonio Lombardi, changing the name from Salernitana Sport to Salernitana Calcio 1919.

In 2011, the club did not appeal against a decision by Commissione di Vigilanza sulle Società di Calcio Professionistiche (Co.Vi.So.C) and was excluded from Italian football.

Club refoundation: from Serie D to the top flight

Salernitana-Cosenza 2014–15

On 21 July 2011, following the exclusion of the original Salernitana club, Salerno mayor Vincenzo De Luca, in compliance with Article 52 of NOIF, assigned the new title to Marco Mezzaroma, brother-in-law of Lazio owner and chairman Claudio Lotito. The new club was admitted to Serie D under the denomination of Salerno Calcio.

In the 2011–12 season, Salernitana was immediately promoted to Lega Pro Seconda Divisione after winning Group G of Serie D.

On 12 July 2012, the club was renamed US Salernitana 1919. In the 2012–13 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione season, Salernitana finished first in Girone B, and was promoted to Lega Pro Prima Divisione. This was the second consecutive promotion for the team. Finally Salernitana won Group C of Lega Pro and returned Serie B in 2014–15 season.

After several seasons at Serie B level, Salernitana won promotion to Serie A at the end of the 2020–21 Serie B season under the tenure of head coach Fabrizio Castori, finishing in 2nd place behind champions Empoli. Promotion was secured with a 3–0 victory over Pescara on the final matchday. Salernitana's return to Serie A, however, required Lotito and Mezzaroma to sell the club, due to Italian football laws not allowing two clubs from the same owner to play in the same league. On 7 July 2021, the FIGC Federal Council approved the trust of Salernitana to take control of the club, meaning it was officially enrolled in Serie A for the first time in 23 years.

Return to Serie A: 2021–present

Salernitana's first match in its return to the top flight was a 3–2 defeat against Bologna on 22 August 2021. After a poor start to the season, earning only one point from the first six matches, the club picked up its first Serie A victory against Genoa on matchday seven, winning 1–0 due to a goal from Milan Đurić. In October, the Salernitana board fired Castori after a 2–1 loss to Spezia had left the club at the bottom of the table, with four points from their opening eight league games. Stefano Colantuono was named as his replacement, returning for a second spell as head coach having previously led Salernitana from December 2017 to December 2018.

On 22 May 2022, Salernitana avoided relegation by finishing with the lowest points tally in Serie A history with just 31 points. Salernitana managed to pull off the great escape by securing 18 points from their last 15 matches.

Colours, badge and nicknames

Salernitana's original kit

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, as Salerno lies right next to the Gulf of Salerno and has a long tradition as a port city. In the 1940s, the club changed to garnet-coloured shirts, which has gained them the nickname granata in their homeland.

During the 2011–12 season their kit colours were striped blue and deep red, resembling FC Barcelona. The symbol of St. Matthew, patron saint of Salerno, was also a part of the redesigned kit.

Since renaming the club US Salernitana 1919, however, their home colours have again been the traditional garnet.

The 100th anniversary logo was announced on 24 June 2019, and appeared on their 2019–20 season kits.

Honours

League

Serie B:

Winners: 1946–47 (Group C), 1997–98

Serie C / Serie C1:

Winners: 1937–38, 1965–66, 2007–08, 2014–15

Lega Pro Seconda Divisione: / Serie C2:

Winners: 2012–13

Serie D:

Winners: 2011–12 (as Salerno Calcio)

Cups

Coppa Italia Serie C:

Winners: 2013–14

Supercoppa di Lega di Seconda Divisione:

Winners: 2012–13

Internationally

Anglo-Italian Cup:

Quarter Finalist: 1994-1995

Divisional movements

Series	Years	Last	Promotions	Relegations
A	4	2022–23	–	2 (1948, 1999)
B	30	2020–21	3 (1947, 1998, 2021)	6 (1939, 1956, 1967, 1991, 2005✟, 2010)
C +C2	55 +1	2014–15	7 (1938, 1943, 1966, 1990, 1994, 2008, 2015) 1 (2013 C2)	1 (2011✟)
89 out of 90 years of professional football in Italy since 1929
D	1	2011–12	1 (2012)	never

Players

Current squad

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Vincenzo Fiorillo
3	DF	Domagoj Bradarić
4	DF	Triantafyllos Pasalidis
5	DF	Jérôme Boateng
6	DF	Junior Sambia
7	MF	Agustín Martegani (on loan from San Lorenzo)
9	FW	Simy
10	FW	Boulaye Dia
11	MF	Iron Gomis (on loan from Kasımpaşa)
13	GK	Guillermo Ochoa
14	FW	Shon Weissman (on loan from Granada)
17	DF	Federico Fazio (captain)
18	MF	Lassana Coulibaly
20	MF	Grigoris Kastanos
22	FW	Chukwubuikem Ikwuemesi

No.	Position	Player
23	DF	Norbert Gyömbér (3rd captain)
24	DF	Marco Pellegrino (on loan from AC Milan)
25	MF	Giulio Maggiore
26	MF	Toma Bašić (on loan from Lazio)
27	DF	Niccolò Pierozzi (on loan from Fiorentina)
33	FW	Loum Tchaouna
36	MF	Andres Sfait
44	DF	Kostas Manolas
55	MF	Emanuel Vignato (on loan from Pisa)
56	GK	Benoît Costil
59	DF	Alessandro Zanoli (on loan from Napoli)
62	GK	Pasquale Allocca
87	MF	Antonio Candreva (vice-captain)
98	DF	Lorenzo Pirola
99	MF	Mateusz Łęgowski

Other players under contract

No.		Position	Player
		FW	Mikael

Players out on loan

No.		Position	Player
		GK	Luigi Sepe (at Lazio until 30 June 2024)
		GK	Alessio Di Giorgio (at Fossombrone until 30 June 2024)
		DF	Dylan Bronn (at Servette until 30 June 2024)
		DF	Flavius Daniliuc (at RB Salzburg until 30 June 2024)
		DF	Matteo Lovato (at Torino until 30 June 2024)
		DF	Andrei Moțoc (at Legnago Salus until 30 June 2024)
		MF	Emil Bohinen (at Genoa until 30 June 2024)

No.		Position	Player
		MF	Mamadou Coulibaly (at Palermo until 30 June 2024)
		MF	Edoardo Iannoni (at Perugia until 30 June 2024)
		MF	Antonio Pio Iervolino (at Vis Pesaro until 30 June 2024)
		MF	Kaleb Jiménez (at Atalanta U23 until 30 June 2024)
		FW	Federico Bonazzoli (at Hellas Verona until 30 June 2024)
		FW	Trivante Stewart (at Javor-Matis until 30 June 2024)
		FW	Diego Valencia (at Atromitos until 30 June 2024)

Primavera

No.		Position	Player
40		DF	Emanuele Elia
41		DF	Tommaso Ferrari

No.		Position	Player
51		MF	Ciro Borrelli (on loan from Napoli Primavera)
65		GK	Gregorio Salvati

Non-playing staff

Position	Staff
Sporting director	Walter Sabatini
Head coach	Stefano Colantuono
Assistant coach	Andrea Bovo
Technical collaborator	Manolo Pestrin
Goalkeeping coach	Mauro Lamberti
Athletic coach	Armando Fucci Vincenzo Laurino Marco Celia Daniele Tozzi
Match analyst	Sandro Antonini
Team manager	Salvatore Avallone
Referee Caretaker	Cristina Lambiase Savage
Kit Manager	Gerardo Salvucci Rosario Fiorillo Mario Gaeta
Head of medical staff	Dott. Vincenzo Rosciano
Medical area coordinator	Dott. Gennaro Alfano
Team Doctor	Dott. Italo Leo
Nutritionist	Dott. Stefano Gallo
Physiotherapist - Osteopath	Giovanni Carmando Giuseppe Magliano Paolo Chianese
Massophysiotherapist	Davide Bisogno
Physiotherapist	Simone Sigillo Francesco Minieri Andrea Ciccarino
Scientific consultant	Prof. Marcello Zappia Dott. Antonio Lambiase Dott. Daniele Masarone Dott. Luca Bardi
Podiatrist	Sergio Di Palma
Goalkeeping Co-ordinator	Luigi Genovese