U.S. Sassuolo Calcio

Unione Sportiva Sassuolo Calcio, commonly referred to as Sassuolo (Italian pronunciation: [sasˈswɔːlo]), is an Italian football club based in Sassuolo, Emilia-Romagna.[2] Their colours are black and green, hence the nickname Neroverdi (literally "black and green", in Italian).

Sassuolo
Full nameUnione Sportiva Sassuolo
Calcio S.r.l.
Nickname(s)I Neroverdi (The Black and Greens)
Founded17 July 1920 (1920-07-17)
Ground
Capacity21,584[1]
OwnerMapei
ChairmanCarlo Rossi
Head coachRoberto De Zerbi
LeagueSerie A
2019–20Serie A, 8th of 20
WebsiteClub website

Founded in 1920,[3] Sassuolo have played in Serie A from the 2013–14 season, joining a select group of teams playing in the Serie A but not belonging to a provincial capital city: Empoli, Legnano, Pro Patria, Carpi and Casale.[4]

History

The club was founded in 1920 and played in the Emilian amateur divisions for most of its history until its first promotion to Serie D in 1968. In this era, the club merged with other local football teams to eventually form the current US Sassuolo Calcio in 1974. In 1984, it first gained promotion to Serie C2, the lowest level of professional football in Italy. However, they were relegated again in 1990 and subsequently spent most of the decade back in Serie D. In 1998, a second-place finish ensured promotion back to Serie C2.

Serie C1

Sassuolo reached Serie C1 in 2006 after winning the Serie C2 promotion play-offs by beating Sansovino in the final. In the following years, Sassuolo proved to be a serious contender for promotion to Serie B, barely missing it in 2007, with Gian Marco Remondina as head coach, as they lost immediate promotion to Grosseto in the final season days, and were defeated by fifth-placed Monza in the play-off semi-finals. Remondina then left Sassuolo to join Serie B's Piacenza, and former Serie A player Massimiliano Allegri was then chosen as new head coach.

Under Allegri, Sassuolo quickly revived their hopes to obtain promotion to Serie B; this ultimately came on 27 April 2008, when they won the Serie C1/A title, thus ensuring a historical promotion to Serie B, the first in the club's history.[5]

Serie B

Following Sassuolo's promotion to the Italian second tier, Allegri left Sassuolo to fill the head coaching position at Serie A team Cagliari. On July 2008, the club appointed former Atalanta and Siena boss Andrea Mandorlini for the 2008–09 season.

Massimiliano Allegri, manager of Sassuolo in 2008 who won promotion to Serie B, winning group A of Serie C1 and the Supercoppa Lega Pro.

Sassuolo had a surprisingly good start to the 2008–09 campaign and held a promotion playoff place for very long time. They only won two points in their last five matches to eventually finish in seventh place. Despite a successful season, Mandorlini left Sassuolo by mutual consent in June 2009, whereupon the team then appointed former Piacenza coach Stefano Pioli on 11 June 2009.

Sassuolo successively qualified to the Serie B promotion playoffs in 2009–10 by placing fourth, and 2011–12 in third, being eliminated at the semi-finals in both seasons.

In the 2012–13 season, however, under the guidance of new head coach Eusebio Di Francesco, Sassuolo won the Serie B title, thus achieving direct promotion to Serie A and ensuring a first top-flight campaign ever for the 2013–14 season.

Serie A

During pre-season training, Sassuolo won the TIM Trophy after losing to Juventus on penalties then beating Milan 2–1, marking the first time a team other than Milan, Internazionale or Juventus have won the Cup.

Eusebio Di Francesco, manager of the historic promotion to Serie A for the Neroverdi in 2013.

On 25 August 2013, Sassuolo played their first-ever Serie A match, a 2–0 loss away at Torino.[6] The team's second match was their first at home, against Livorno, where striker Simone Zaza scored Sassuolo's first top-flight goal as they lost 4–1.[7] On 22 September 2013, Sassuolo endured a heavy 7–0 defeat at home to Internazionale. The team earned their first point in their fifth match, on 25 September away to Napoli. Zaza equalised as the game finished 1–1, ending the hosts' perfect start to the season.[8] This was followed by a first home point on 29 September, a 2–2 draw with Lazio.[9] On 20 October 2013, Sassuolo won their first Serie A game, defeating Bologna 2–1 at home with goals from Domenico Berardi and Antonio Floro Flores, moving the club off bottom place.[10] Sassuolo won away for the first time in Serie A on 3 November against Sampdoria, with Berardi scoring their first top-flight hat-trick to win 4–3.[11] Since the following match, a 1–1 draw at Roma on 10 November, the club has been outside the relegation zone.[12] On 12 January 2014, Berardi was the only player in the season to score four goals in a game, as Sassuolo came from 2–0 down to win 4–3 against Milan.[13] Towards the end of January 2014, Sassuolo were in bottom place and so manager Di Francesco was relieved of his duties and Alberto Malesani was brought in. The managerial change did not have the desired effects and so in early March, Sassuolo re-entrusted the side to the management of Di Francesco. Sassuolo won its away match against Fiorentina 4–3 on 6 May 2014, and after winning 4–2 against Genoa on 11 May, Sassuolo guaranteed its place in Serie A for the 2014–15 season. Berardi finished in equal 7th place in the Serie A top scorers list, with 16 goals for the season.

The Neroverdi had a much better 2014–15 Serie A season, finishing comfortably beyond relegation in 12th place. Berardi was once more the club's top goalscorer with 15 league goals.

Sassuolo improved again in the 2015–16 Serie A season, finishing ahead of the likes of Milan and Lazio in sixth place. The season included an opening day win over Napoli,[14] a Round 10 1–0 victory over Juventus at Mapei Stadium[15] and a 1–0 victory over Inter at the San Siro.[16]

On 21 May 2016, Sassuolo achieved their first ever Europa League qualification after finishing sixth in Serie A courtesy of a Juventus Coppa Italia win over Milan as Milan would have gone to Europe instead if they had won the final.[17] On 25 August 2016, Sassuolo qualified for the Europa League group stage after beating Red Star Belgrade 4–1 on aggregate in the playoff round.[18]

Stadium
The Stadio Alberto Braglia in Modena was Sassuolo's temporary home while playing in Serie B.

Sassuolo's home stadium is the Stadio Enzo Ricci in Sassuolo, still used by the club for training, but due to its tiny capacity (4,000) the club played Serie B seasons in Modena's Stadio Alberto Braglia.[19][20]

Starting from the 2013–14 season, the first Serie A campaign for the club, Sassuolo plays in Reggio Emilia at the renovated Mapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore (formerly Stadio Giglio) in a venue-sharing agreement with Lega Pro Prima Divisione club Reggiana.[21] The stadium was also bought by the parent company of Sassuolo, Mapei.[22]

Players

Current squad
As of 29 July 2020 [23]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
2 DF  BRA Marlon
4 MF  ITA Francesco Magnanelli (captain)
6 DF  BRA Rogério
7 MF  CIV Jérémie Boga
9 FW  ITA Francesco Caputo
10 MF  SRB Filip Đuričić
11 FW  FRA Grégoire Defrel
13 DF  ITA Federico Peluso
14 MF  EQG Pedro Obiang
17 DF  TUR Mert Müldür
18 FW  ITA Giacomo Raspadori
19 DF  ITA Filippo Romagna (on loan from Cagliari)
21 DF  ROU Vlad Chiricheș
22 DF  GER Jeremy Toljan (on loan from Borussia Dortmund)
23 MF  CIV Hamed Junior Traorè (on loan from Empoli)
No. Pos. Nation Player
25 FW  ITA Domenico Berardi (vice-captain)
27 MF  SVK Lukáš Haraslín
31 DF  ITA Gian Marco Ferrari
32 DF  ITA Giangiacomo Magnani
33 DF  ITA Alessandro Tripaldelli
44 MF  ITA Andrea Ghion
47 GK  ITA Andrea Consigli (3rd captain)
53 FW  ITA Giacomo Manzari
56 GK  ITA Gianluca Pegolo
63 GK  ITA Stefano Turati
64 GK  ITA Alessandro Russo
68 MF  MAR Mehdi Bourabia
73 MF  ITA Manuel Locatelli
77 DF  GRE Giorgos Kyriakopoulos
99 FW  ITA Jacopo Pellegrini

Other players under contract
As of 4 August 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
— GK  ITA Matteo Campani
— GK  ITA Giacomo Satalino
— DF  ITA Claud Adjapong
— DF  ITA Raffaele Celia
— DF  ITA Cristian Dell'Orco
— DF  ITA Edoardo Goldaniga
— DF  ITA Luca Ravanelli
— DF  ITA Marco Sala
— DF  ITA Leonardo Sernicola
— MF  ITA Jérémie Broh
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF  ITA Stefano Sensi
— FW  SEN Khouma Babacar
— FW  ITA Roberto Battaglia
— FW  ITA Enrico Brignola
— FW  ITA Federico Di Francesco
— FW  ALB Aristidi Kolaj
— FW  DEN Jens Odgaard
— FW  ITA Nicholas Pierini
— FW  ITA Gianluca Scamacca

Out on loan
As of 3 August 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
— DF  ITA Riccardo Marchizza (at Spezia until 31 August 2020) [24]
— DF  ITA Andrea Meroni (at Pisa until 30 June 2021) [25]
— DF  ITA Marco Pinato (at Pisa until 31 August 2020) [26]
— MF  ITA Davide Frattesi (at Empoli until 31 August 2020) [27]
No. Pos. Nation Player
— FW  ITA Andrea Cisco (at Novara until 30 June 2021) [28]
— FW  ITA Ettore Gliozzi (at Monza until 30 June 2021) [29]
— FW  ITA Federico Iodice (at Modena until 30 June 2021) [30]
— FW  ITA Federico Ricci (at Spezia until 31 August 2020) [31]

Youth Sector
Main article: U.S. Sassuolo Calcio Youth Sector

Managers

Honours
Winners: 2012–13
Winners: 2008

In Europe

UEFA Europa League
Season Round Club Home Away Aggregate Reference
2016–17 Third qualifying round Luzern 3–0 1–1 4–1 [32]
Play-off round Red Star Belgrade 3–0 1–1 4–1
Group F Athletic Bilbao 3–0 2–3 4th
Genk 0–2 1–3
Rapid Wien 2–2 1–1
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