2019–20 Benevento Calcio season

The 2019–20 season is Benevento's's second consecutive season in the second division of Italian football after relegation from Serie A in 2018.

Benevento

2019–20 season
Chairman	Oreste Vigorito
Manager	Filippo Inzaghi
Stadium	Stadio Ciro Vigorito
Serie B	1st (promoted)
Coppa Italia	Second round
Top goalscorer	League: Marco Sau (12) All: Marco Sau (12)
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Along with competing in the league, the club also participated in the Coppa Italia.

On 29 June 2020, Benevento secured promotion to the Serie A with seven matches to spare.[1] At the time, Benevento had won 23 of their 31 league games and lost just once, and had a 24-point advantage over nearest rivals Crotone and Cittadella.[1] Ascoli were the last club to be promoted with seven games remaining, and they did so in 1977–78 when only two points were awarded for a victory.[1]

Players

Squad information

As of 30 January 2020[2]

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 Lorenzo Montipò 2 DF  ITA Francesco Rillo 3 DF  ITA Gaetano Letizia 4 MF  ITA Lorenzo Del Pinto 5 DF  ITA Luca Caldirola 6 MF  CIV Siriki Sanogo 7 MF  GER Oliver Kragl 8 MF  COL Andrés Tello 9 FW  ITA Massimo Coda 10 MF  ITA Nicolas Viola (Vice-captain) 11 DF  ITA Christian Maggio (Captain) 12 GK  ITA Niccolò Manfredini 13 DF  ITA Alessandro Tuia 14 DF  ITA Massimo Volta

No. Pos. Nation Player 16 MF  ITA Riccardo Improta 17 MF  GHA Abdallah Basit 18 DF  GHA Bright Gyamfi 19 MF  ITA Roberto Insigne 20 FW  ITA Giuseppe Di Serio 21 MF  FIN Përparim Hetemaj 22 GK  ITA Pier Graziano Gori 23 DF  ITA Luca Antei 25 FW  ITA Marco Sau 27 MF  SVN Dejan Vokić 28 MF  ITA Pasquale Schiattarella 32 FW  ITA Gabriele Moncini 35 DF  ITA Federico Barba (on loan from Chievo)

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 Gianluca Di Chiara (at Perugia) — DF  ITA Luca Sparandeo (at Virtus Francavilla) — DF  ITA Salvatore Tazza (at Arzignano) — MF  ITA Alessio Donnarumma (at Picerno) — MF  JPN Cy Goddard (at Pafos)

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  BRA Guilherme (at Yeni Malatyaspor) — MF  ITA Giovanni Volpicelli (at Arezzo) — FW  SWE Samuel Armenteros (at Crotone) — FW  ITA Pietro Iemmello (at Perugia)

Competitions

Serie B

Main article: 2019–20 Serie B

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Benevento (C, P)	38	26	8	4	67	27	+40	86	Promotion to Serie A
2	Crotone (P)	38	20	8	10	63	40	+23	68
3	Spezia (Q)	38	17	10	11	54	40	+14	61	Qualification to promotion play-offs semi-finals
4	Pordenone	38	16	10	12	48	46	+2	58[lower-alpha 1]
5	Cittadella	38	17	7	14	49	49	0	58[lower-alpha 1]	Qualification to promotion play-offs preliminary round

Source: Lega Serie B (in Italian) SOCCERWAY (in English)
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goal difference; 5) Goals scored; 6) Draw.[3]
(C) Champion; (P) Promoted; (Q) Qualified to the phase indicated.
Notes:

1. Pordenone finished ahead of Cittadella on head-to-head points: Pordenone 0–0 Cittadella, Cittadella 0–2 Pordenone.

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
35	24	8	3	60	22	+38	80	14	4	0	39	8	+31	10	4	3	21	14	+7

Last updated: 19 July 2020.
Source: Soccerway

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of Benevento after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards.

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38
Benevento	9	4	2	1	2	4	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

	Champions, promotion to Serie A
	Promotion to Serie A
	Play-off semifinals
	Play-off preliminary round
	Play-out
	Relegation to Serie C

Source: Serie BKT

Coppa Italia

Main article: 2019–20 Coppa Italia

Second round

Benevento (2) v Monza (3)

11 August 2019	Benevento (2)	3–4	Monza (3)	Benevento
CEST (UTC+02:00)	Tello  51', 83' Viola  90+4' (pen.)		Bellusci  4' Finotto  17', 88' Iocolano  49'	Stadium: Stadio Ciro Vigorito

Statistics

Hat-tricks

As of 3 July 2020.

Player	Against	Result	Date
Nicolas Viola	Trapani	5–0 (H)	6 December 2019
Marco Sau	Ascoli	4–0 (H)	29 December 2019

Note

(H) – Home (A) – Away

Clean sheets

As of 3 July 2020.

Player	Clean sheets	Weeks
Lorenzo Montipò	18	1, 3, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 23, 25, 28, 29, 30, 31

References

1. "Filippo Inzaghi leads Benevento to Serie A promotion". The World Game. 30 June 2020. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
2. http://www.beneventocalcio.club/squadra/giocatori/ Accessed 17 July 2017
3. "Norme organizzative interne della F.I.G.C. - Art. 51.6" (PDF) (in Italian). Italian Football Federation. 14 August 2015. Retrieved 19 May 2016.