U.S. Catanzaro 1929

U.S. Catanzaro 1929[1] is an Italian football club based in Catanzaro, Calabria.

U.S. Catanzaro 1929

Full name	Unione Sportiva Catanzaro 1929[1]
Nickname(s)	Aquile del Sud (Southern Eagles) Regina del Sud (Southern Queen) Timore del Nord (Fear of the North) Magico (Magic) Giallorossi (The Red-Yellows)
Founded	1927
Ground	Stadio Nicola Ceravolo, Catanzaro, Italy
Capacity	14,650
Owner	Catanzaro Calcio 2011 S.r.l.[2]
Chairman	Floriano Noto
Manager	Gaetano Auteri
League	Serie C
2019–20	Serie C Group C, 7th of 20
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Founded in 1927 (officially in 1929), plays since that year.[3]

In the course of its history the society was refounded twice: in 2006 and again in 2011, both for financial reasons.

The official colors of the club are, since its foundation, yellow and red. Its symbol is the golden eagle, same as the city of Catanzaro. The team plays its home matches at the Stadio Nicola Ceravolo, built in 1919, the oldest sports facility in Calabria.

In the 2019–2020 season, Catanzaro was playing in Serie C, the third level of the Italian soccer championship

In its history, Catanzaro has played for seven seasons in Serie A, five of which were consecutive. The best performance in Serie A was a seventh place in 1981-82 and an eighth place obtained in 1980–81. From its foundation to date it as only won seven championship: 1 of the First Division, 2 of Serie C, 3 of Serie C1 and 1 of the IV Series. Also at national level, a title of the IV Series, among the cups, is a Cup of the Alps in 1960 together with Rome, Alessandria, Verona, Naples, Catania, Triestina, Palermo for the Italian Federation and, at youth level, a Dante Berretti Trophy of Serie C in 1991–1992.

In Coppa Italia it has a second place, in the season 1965–1966, and two semi-finals in 1978–1979 and 1981–1982.

On 30 May 2018 the company, which already used the historic logo since 2011, announced the return of the old name "Unione Sportiva Catanzaro", with the final addition of "1929".[4][5]

History

Foundation and refoundations

The club were founded in 1927 as Unione Sportiva Catanzarese, then changed their denomination to Unione Sportiva Fascista Catanzarese in 1929, in 1946 to Unione Sportiva Catanzaro, and in 2006 to Football Club Catanzaro. The team assumed the current title in 2011, following the cancellation of the previous club's registration because of financial troubles.[6]

From Serie A to the first bankruptcy

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 for the following season, they won a reprieve thanks to forced relegations of 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 succumbed 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 being reinstated to Serie B due to vacancies related to the exclusion of other teams from Serie B. In its 2005/2006 Serie B campaign, Catanzaro came last again and was relegated to Serie C1; the relegation was followed by financial troubles which led to the federation cancelling the club's registration.

F.C. Catanzaro

In the summer 2006 the club was refounded with the new name of F.C. Catanzaro and registered to Serie C2 for the 2006–2007 season, with the hope to return to the upper divisions.

In season 2010–11, they were initially relegated from Lega Pro Seconda Divisione group C to Serie D,[7] but due to the relegation of Pomezia to last place, the club was saved from relegation.[8]

On 18 July 2011 it is excluded by the Federal Council from Lega Pro Seconda Divisione,[9] but on 27 July 2011 it wins appeal to Tnas and then can play in 2011–12 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione.[10]

U.S. Catanzaro 1929

On 30 June 2011 the company Catanzaro Calcio 2011 acquired permanently the company branch of the bankrupt F.C. Catanzaro.[11][12]

Since 6 August 2011, the company switched to the current denomination, after having purchased the historical brand and logo of U.S. Catanzaro.[1]

In the 2011–12 season, Catanzaro obtained a respectable second place in the Lega Pro Seconda Divisione and was promoted to Lega Pro Prima Divisione after playoffs. The following two seasons saw Catanzaro ending in tenth and fourth place respectively, and also a participation in the promotion play-offs (then lost to Benevento) in the latter case.

Colors and badge

Colours

The team's colours, since foundatuon, are red and yellow, just as the whole city

The most used uniform in the eighty years of history of the Aquile is the solid red one, with the yellow V collar with red shorts and socks with yellow edges.

Those pairings have accompanied the Calabrians in the golden years of the Serie A and therefore are the most dear to the Catanzaro environment. Equally used was the vertical striped yellow and red shirt with red shorts and socks with yellow edges, especially in the post-failure years of 2006.

Most rarely Catanzaro has used a shirt with yellow and red horizontal stripes. However, this uniform was used by the Calabrians in the historic match in Turin, won against Juventus, in the Italian Cup 1965-66, which was to launch the Catanzaro in the final, then lost against the lilies of Florence.

As for the away shirt is, the most used is completely blue with references to the Giallorossi ,but also completely white or yellow seals were worn

Occasionally le Aquile, have also used a third uniform which, depending on the color of the home squad, could be either blue or white or yellow. Same for the fourth currency

Badges

The corporate coat of arms consists of a shield in which stands the historic symbol of Catanzaro, the Golden eagle, faithfully taken from the city's coat of arms, which holds a blue ribbon on its beak bearing the motto Sanguinis effusione, motivated by the losses reported in various battles by the Catanzaro fighters.

On the belly of the eagle takes place a shield that reproduces the three hills on which the city stands. A vertical line splits the emblem in two, so as to allow the insertion of the team's social colors, which is completed by the name of the company, placed at the top on a blue background.

Presidential history

Below is a presidential history list of Catanzaro, from when they were founded in 1927, until the present day.[13]

Name Years Antonio Susanna 1927–1928 Enrico Talamo 1928–1937 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 Adriano Merlo 1979–1984 Giuseppe Albano 1984–1995 Giuseppe Soluri 1995–1999

Name Years Giovanni Mancuso 1999–2003 Domenico Cavallaro 2003 Claudio Parente 2003–2006 Bernardo Colao 2006 Domenico Cavallaro 2006 Giancarlo Pittelli 2006–2008 Pasquale Bove 2008–2009 Antonio Aiello 2009–2010 Maurizio Ferrara 2010–2011 Giuseppe Santaguida 2011 Giuseppe Cosentino 2011–2017 Floriano Noto 2017-

Managerial history

Name	Nationality	Years
Dino Baroni		1928–1931
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
Todor Veselinović		1986
Claudio Tobia		1986-1987
Vincenzo Guerini		1987-1988
Tarcisio Burgnich		1988-1989
Gianni Di Marzio		1989
Fausto Silipo		1989-1990
Renzo Aldi		1990
Fausto Silipo		1990
Claudio Sala		1990-1991
Francesco Brignani		1991
Claudio Sala		1991
Gennaro Rambone		1991-1992
Franco Selvaggi		1992-1993
Adriano Banelli		1993
Paolo Dal Fiume		1993
Adriano Banelli		1993
Gianni Improta		1993-1995
Enrico Nicolini		1995
Saverio Leotta		1995
Enrico Nicolini		1995
Mauro Zampollini		1995-1996
Marcello Pasquino		1996
Adriano Banelli		1996
Rino Lavezzini		1996-1997
Giuseppe Sabadini		1997
Rino Lavezzini		1997
Francesco Paolo Specchia		1997-1998
Giuseppe Vuolo		1998
Juan Carlos Morrone		1998-1999
Salvatore Esposito		1999-2000
Fortunato Torrisi		2000
Giuseppe Galluzzo		2000
Agatino Cuttone		2000-2001
Leonardo Bitetto		2001-2002
Massimo Morgia		2002
Franco Dellisanti		2002-2003
Piero Braglia		2003-2005
Luigi Cagni		2005
Bruno Bolchi		2005
Sergio Buso		2005-2006
Vincenzo Guerini		2006
Bruno Giordano		2006
Franco Cittadino		2006
Manuele Domenicali		2006-2007
Fausto Silipo		2007-2008
Franco Cittadino		2008
Agatino Cuttone		2008
Nicola Provenza		2008-2009
Gaetano Auteri		2009-2010
Zé Maria		2010-2011
Antonio Aloi		2011
Francesco Cozza		2011–2013
Fulvio D'Adderio		2013
Oscar Brevi		2013-2014
Francesco Moriero		2014-2015
Massimo D’Urso		2015
Stefano Sanderra		2015
Massimo D’Urso		2015
Alessandro Erra		2015-2016
Giulio Spader		2016
Mario Somma		2016
Nunzio Zavettieri		2016-2017
Alessandro Erra		2017
Davide Dionigi		2017-2018
Giuseppe Pancaro		2018
Gaetano Auteri		2018-2019
Gianluca Grassadonia		2019-2020
Gaetano Auteri		2020-

Current squad

As of 31 January 2020

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  ITA Raffaele Di Gennaro 3 DF  BUL Zhivko Atanasov 4 MF  ITA Francesco Corapi 5 DF  ITA Daniele Celiento 6 DF  ITA Manuel Nicoletti 7 FW  SEN Mamadou Kanouté 8 MF  ITA Francesco Urso 9 FW  ITA Matteo Di Piazza 10 FW  ITA Luca Giannone 11 FW  ITA Giuseppe Statella 12 GK  ITA Rocco Mittica 14 DF  ITA Cristian Riggio 17 FW  ITA Gabriele Novello

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 FW  ITA Andrea Bianchimano (on loan from Perugia) 19 MF  ITA Carlo De Risio 20 MF  ITA Lorenzo Di Livio 21 MF  ITA Massimiliano Carlini 22 GK  ITA Marco Bleve (on loan from Lecce) 23 DF  ITA Sergio Contessa 24 MF  ITA Alberto Cristiano 25 DF  ITA Luca Martinelli 26 FW  ITA Giacomo Tulli 27 FW  ITA Giacomo Casoli 28 MF  BRA Álvaro Juliano (on loan from Potenza) 30 DF  ITA Paride Pinna 31 DF  ITA Danilo Quaranta (on loan from Ascoli)

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  ITA Andrea Signorini (at Triestina) — MF  ITA Andrea Risolo (at Virtus Francavilla)

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW  ITA Doudou Mangni (at Gozzano)

References

1. UsCatanzaro.net. "UsCatanzaro.net – Il Catanzaro Calcio torna US". uscatanzaro.net. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
2. La Societa'
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4. "Us Catanzaro: slitta annuncio di Auteri ma niente panico". CatanzaroInforma.it. 30 May 2018. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
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6. "2^ Divisione, il punto sul Catanzaro e le altre calabresi". tuttolegapro.com. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 11 September 2011. Retrieved 24 April 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
8. "Lega Pro 2/C: Pomezia retrocesso in serie D – Calcio, 2010–2011, Legapro, Generico – Datasport.it". datasport.it. Archived from the original on 8 May 2017. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
9. "Dal Consiglio federale ok alla Lega Pro a 76 squadre – Riviera Oggi". rivieraoggi.it. 19 July 2011. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
10. "Catanzaro, Tnas accoglie ricorso: ok a Lega Pro". Corriere dello Sport – Stadio. Archived from the original on 6 October 2016. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
11. http://www.calabrialiving.it/web/2011/07/il-catanzaro-calcio-2011-si-aggiudica-il-titolo-dellfc/%5B%5D
12. Il Giornale di Calabria: il primo giornale online calabrese per i calabresi
13. "La Storia Del Catanzaro". USCatanzaro.net. 23 June 2007. Archived from the original on 30 August 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2013.

External links

• Official Site (in Italian)