US Catanzaro 1929

Catanzaro

File:FC Catanzaro logo.jpg
Full name	Football Club Catanzaro SpA
Nickname(s)	Aquile del sud (Southern Eagles)
Founded	1929 2006 (refounded)
Ground	Stadio Nicola Ceravolo, Catanzaro, Italy
Capacity	14,650
Chairman	Antonio Aiello
Manager	Gaetano Auteri
League	Lega Pro Seconda Divisione C
2009-10	Lega Pro Seconda Divisione C, 2nd
Home colours Away colours

Football Club Catanzaro is a football club based in Catanzaro, Calabria, southern Italy. The club were founded in 1929 as Catanzarese, then changed their denomination to Unione Sportiva Catanzaro in 1946, shortly after the end of the World War II. The team assumed the current denomination in 2006, following the cancellation of the previous club because of financial troubles, and is now playing in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione.

Their last stint in Serie A ended in 1983. The team's colors are red and yellow.

History

Old logo of US Catanzaro (used until 2006)

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Old logo of FC Catanzaro

Catanzaro achieved promotion to Serie B in 1959, and reached the Coppa Italia final in 1966. In 1971, they defeated Bari in a play-off to win promotion to Serie A for the first time.

Catanzaro's inaugural Serie A season saw them struggle and succumb to relegation on the final day with only 3 wins and 15 draws for 21 points. However, their first-ever Serie A win came in Round 16 with a 1-0 win over Juventus. After narrowly missing out on a return to Serie A in 1975, they bounced back in 1976 but once again lasted just one year.

A third promotion in 1978 ushered in the club's golden era with a five-year stay in Serie A. With a team including Claudio Ranieri, Gianni Improta and the iconic Massimo Palanca, Catanzaro managed a highly credible 9th place in 1979. Though they finished 14th and would have been relegated the following year, they won a reprieve thanks to forced relegations for AC Milan and Lazio. They managed 8th place in 1981 and 7th the following year before a dismal relegation in 1983. Much of the next four years was spent bouncing between Serie B and C1.

Catanzaro emerged as promotion contenders once more in 1988, with the ageless Palanca having returned to the club after a fruitless spell at Napoli. Finishing 5th, they would succumb to successive relegations in 1990 and 1991, staying in Serie C2 until 2003.

In 2005, after two consecutive promotions, Catanzaro returned to Serie B after a 15-year absence. However, after a poor season they ended their Serie B campaign in last place, meaning relegation to Serie C1. Catanzaro would immediately get another chance, the team becoming reinstated to the Serie B by office, because of vacancies related to other teams' exclusions. In its 2005/2006 Serie B campaign, Catanzaro came out last again and was relegated to Serie C1; the relegation was followed by financial troubles which led the federation to cancel the club. A new club, with the current name, was successively founded and registered to Serie C2 for the 2006-2007 season, where the club is currently playing with the hope to return back to the upper divisions.

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	GK	ITA	Andrea De Vona
—	GK	ITA	Roberto Mancinelli
—	GK	ITA	Alessandro Vono
—	DF	ITA	Ivano Ciano
—	DF	ITA	Christian Berger
—	DF	ITA	Ciro De Franco
—	DF	ITA	Roberto Di Maio
—	DF	ITA	Giovanni Giuseppe Di Meglio
—	DF	ITA	Roberto Gimmelli
—	MF	ITA	Settembrino Basile
—	MF	ITA	Giuseppe Benincasa
—	MF	ITA	Alessandro Bruno
—	MF	ITA	Andrea Capicotto
—	MF	ITA	Francesco Corapi

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	MF	ITA	Stefano Di Cuonzo
—	MF	ITA	Mattia Donati
—	MF	ITA	Emiliano Nicolas Forgione
—	MF	ITA	Denny Gigliotti
—	MF	ITA	Davide Lodi
—	MF	ITA	Mark Orosz
—	FW	ITA	Lucas Longoni
—	FW	ITA	Antonio Montella
—	FW	ITA	Manolo Mosciaro

Presidential history

Below is a presidential history list of Catanzaro, from when they were founded in 1929, until the present day.

Name Years Enrico Talamo 1929–1937 Arnaldo Pugliese 1937–1944 Italo Paparazzo 1944–1945 Umberto Riccio 1945–1946 Giuseppe Zamboni Pesci 1946–1948 Gino Guarnieri 1948–1950 Aldo Ferrara 1950–1958 Nicola Ceravolo 1958–1979

Name Years Adriano Merlo 1979–1984 Giuseppe Albano 1984–1995 Giuseppe Soluri 1995–1999 Giovanni Mancuso 1999–2002 Claudio Parente 2002–2006 Giancarlo Pittelli 2006–2008 Pasquale Bove 2008-2009 Antonio Aiello 2009-

Managerial history

Name Nationality Years Dino Baroni 1929–1931 Géza Kertész 1931–1933 Yuri Koszegi 1933–1936 Remo Migliorini Gorni Schoenfeld 1936–1937 Walter Colombati 1937–1938 Riccardo Mottola 1938–1946 Pietro Piselli 1946–1947

External links

http://www.uscatanzaro1929.it/