Atalanta B.C.

Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio, commonly referred to as Atalanta, is a professional football club based in Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy. The club plays in Serie A, having gained promotion from Serie B in 2010–11.

Atalanta

Full name	Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio S.p.A.
Nickname(s)	La Dea (The Goddess) Gli Orobici I Nerazzurri (The Black and Blues)
Founded	17 October 1907 (1907-10-17)
Ground	Gewiss Stadium
Capacity	21,300[1]
President[2]	Antonio Percassi
Head coach	Gian Piero Gasperini
League	Serie A
2019–20	Serie A, 3rd of 20
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours

The club is nicknamed La Dea, the Nerazzurri and the Orobici. Founded in 1907 by Swiss students in the gym of the liceo classico,[3][4][5] Atalanta play in blue-and-black vertically striped shirts, black shorts and black socks. The club stadium is the 21,300 seat Gewiss Stadium. In Italy, Atalanta is sometimes called Regina delle provinciali (queen of the provincial clubs) to mark the fact that the club is by far the most consistent among Italian clubs not based in a regional capital, having played 58 seasons in Serie A, 28 seasons in Serie B and only one in Serie C.

The club won the Coppa Italia in 1963 and reached the Cup Winners' Cup semi-final in 1988, when it was still competing in Serie B. This is still the best ever performance by a non-first division club in a major UEFA competition (together with Cardiff City). Atalanta also participated in four seasons of the UEFA Europa League (previously known as UEFA Cup), reaching the quarter-finals in the 1990–91 season.

The club qualified for the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League, reaching the competition for the first time in their history, as they finished 3rd in the 2018–19 Serie A season. This represented the highest finish in the league in the club's history.[6] They managed to repeat the same feat the following season, also reaching the quarterfinals of the Champions League.

History

The club was founded in 1907 by some Swiss students and their coach of PE in the gym of the Liceo Classico Paolo Sarpi, Bergamo.[5][4][3][7] A football club had existed in Bergamo since 1903. Founded by Swiss immigrants, it was known as Foot Ball Club Bergamo. The rival Atalanta club grew out of a division between different sporting societies in the town. The name is taken from the female athlete of Greek mythology. The FIGC was unimpressed with the new club and did not officially recognize them until 1914. The current club is the result of a merger between Atalanta and a third team called Bergamasca. The first, black and white coloured and the second wearing a blue and white shirt, merged in 1920 as Atalanta Bergamasca di Ginnastica e Scherma 1907. The team moved to the site of the current ground, on the Viale Giulio Cesare, in 1928.

Atalanta joined the Italian league in 1929. The club first reached Serie A in 1937, but was relegated immediately. The club returned in 1940 and remained in Serie A until 1959; after a single season in Serie B, the club was promoted and lasted a further decade in Serie A before relegation in 1973 led to an uncertain period of promotion and relegation between the two levels.

The club achieved its highest position at the time in 1948, finishing in fifth place, a feat only bettered in 2017. In 1981, the club fell into Serie C1, a blow which revitalised the club. The team returned to Serie B the next season and made it back to Serie A in 1984. The club's form in Serie A remained uncertain, as it was relegated in 1987, 1994, 1998, 2003, 2005 and 2010. After a change of ownership,[8] in 2011, Atalanta immediately came back to Serie A, where it has been ever since.

The 1962–63 Coppa Italia

In terms of titles the club has won little; their sole major silverware is the 1963 Coppa Italia. The club has had a few good runs in Europe, on several occasions being eliminated by the eventual winners.

Welsh club Merthyr Tydfil caused an upset in the 1987–88 European Cup Winners' Cup, beating Atalanta 2–1 in the first leg of their first round match at Penydarren Park. After winning the second leg 2–0 in Bergamo, Atalanta went on to reach the semi-finals, losing to eventual winners Mechelen of Belgium, but in the process becoming one of only two teams in the competition's history to reach the penultimate round while playing their football outside of the national top flight league. Oddly enough, the only other team to do so being Merthyr Tydfil's countrymen at Cardiff City.

Atalanta reached the UEFA Cup quarter-finals in the 1990–91 season, losing to local rivals Internazionale, who went on to beat another Italian side, Roma, in the final to win the tournament. The club did not participate in any European club competitions between 1991 and 2017, although it turned down the opportunity to play in the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 2001 after finishing in seventh place in Serie A; regional rivals Brescia played the tournament instead, losing only in the final against French side Paris Saint-Germain.

In recent years, the club was relegated after the 2002–03, 2004–05 and 2009–10 seasons, but gained the promotion to Serie A after only one season in Serie B every time.

In 2011–12, Atalanta was docked six points in the league table due to the outcome of an Italian football scandal. Nevertheless, the club managed to secure another year in Serie A by gaining 52 points in 38 games. The following year, for the same reasons, the club was docked two points in the league but avoided relegation reaching the 15th spot in the final table. In the 2013–14, Atalanta enjoyed another strong campaign, finishing in 11th place.

Atalanta struggled during the 2014–15 season despite some impressive results. At the beginning of the season, manager Stefano Colantuono committed his future to the club. On 4 March 2015, however, he was sacked after a poor run of form which left Atalanta only three points above the relegation zone. He was replaced by Edoardo Reja, who secured the club's status in Serie A for 2015–16, where Atalanta finished 13th.

2016–present

In 2016–17, Atalanta stuttered at the beginning of the season and new coach Gian Piero Gasperini was on the verge of dismissal, but with an amazing run of positive results the team secured an impressive 4th-placed finish with 72 points, thus celebrating its return to Europe after 26 years, qualifying for the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League, in which they reached the round of 32, losing 3–4 on aggregate to Borussia Dortmund.

In 2017–18, Atalanta placed 7th in the league, earning them a berth for the chance to qualify for 2018–19 UEFA Europa League group stage. However, they were defeated by Danish side FC København in the final of qualification.

In 2018–19, Atalanta struggled at the beginning of the season, getting only 1 win in their first 8 matches. A strong second half to the season including a 13 match unbeaten run to end the season meant Atalanta finished 3rd in the league, qualifying to the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League group stage for the first time in their history.[9] Atalanta also made the finals of the 2018–19 Coppa Italia, knocking out defending champions Juventus 3–0 in the Quarter Finals.[10] In a tightly contested final, Atalanta lost 2–0 to Lazio.[11]

In 2019–20, Atalanta began their Champions League campaign with a 4–0 loss away to Dinamo Zagreb, followed by a 2–1 loss at home to Shakhtar Donetsk and a 5–1 loss away to Manchester City. Atalanta got their first ever Champions League point with a 1–1 draw at home to Manchester City. After a 3–0 away win against Shakhtar on the final match day, Atalanta qualified for the Champions League round of 16 for the first time in their history, and became the second time a club has advanced to the round of 16 after losing its opening three matches,[12][13] after Newcastle United in 2002–03. Atalanta ended the decade with an 5–0 win against Milan, inflicting their worst loss in 21 years.[14] In the January transfer window, Atalanta sold Dejan Kulusevski to Juventus for a club record €44 million including bonuses after an impressive loan spell at Parma.[15] On 19 February, Atalanta played their first ever Champions League knockout match against Valencia in the round of 16, winning the first leg 4–1.[16] Due to UEFA Champions League regulations and an impending renovation of their home venue, Atalanta had to play their group stage home games at Stadio San Siro, Milan.[17] The team later advanced to the quarter finals after a 4–3 away win against Valencia in the second leg, on 10 March, and were drawn against PSG in the quarter finals.[18][19] Atalanta won 9 Serie A games in a row for the first time in their club's history after a 2–0 win against Sampdoria on 8 July.[20] On 12 July, Zapata scored his 15th goal of the season in a 2–2 draw against Juventus, making it the first time since Juventus in 1952 that a Serie A club had 3 players with 15 or more goals in a season (Muriel, Iličić, Zapata).[21] After a 1–0 win against Bologna on 21 July, Atalanta mathematically secured a top four finish, qualifying for the Champions League for the second consecutive season;[22] they eventually finished the season in third place, as they lost 2–0 against Inter Milan on the last matchday.[23] On 12 August, Atalanta were defeated 2–1 by Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League quarter-finals as PSG scored two late goals in the second half to win the match.[24]

Players

Current squad

As of 4 August 2020.[25]

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 Rafael Tolói (vice-captain) 3 DF  ITA Mattia Caldara (on loan from Milan) 4 DF  CRO Boško Šutalo 6 DF  ARG José Luis Palomino 7 DF  GER Lennart Czyborra 8 DF  GER Robin Gosens 9 FW  COL Luis Muriel 10 FW  ARG Papu Gómez (captain) 11 MF   SUI Remo Freuler 15 MF  NED Marten de Roon 17 FW  ITA Roberto Piccoli 18 MF  UKR Ruslan Malinovskyi

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 DF  ALB Berat Djimsiti 20 MF  ITA Jacopo Da Riva 21 DF  BEL Timothy Castagne 31 GK  ITA Francesco Rossi 33 DF  NED Hans Hateboer 57 GK  ITA Marco Sportiello 72 FW  SVN Josip Iličić 79 FW  CIV Amad Traoré 88 MF  CRO Mario Pašalić 90 MF  GAM Ebrima Colley 91 FW  COL Duván Zapata 95 GK  ITA Pierluigi Gollini

Other players under contract

As of 9 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  ALB Etrit Berisha — GK  ITA Marco Carnesecchi — GK  ITA Stefano Mazzini — GK  ITA Alessandro Pavan — GK  ITA Sergey Piccirillo — GK  SRB Boris Radunović — GK  ITA Alessandro Santopadre — GK  ITA Roberto Taliento — DF  ITA Alberto Alari — DF  ITA Davide Bettella — DF  ITA Alberto Dossena — DF  ITA Fabio Eguelfi — DF  ITA Alessandro Eleuteri — DF  ITA Riccardo Gatti — DF  CRO Anton Krešić — DF  ITA Federico Mattiello — DF  ITA Lorenzo Migliorelli — MF  POL Arkadiusz Reca — DF  ITA Matteo Salvi — DF  SEN Mbaye Seck — DF  ITA Marco Varnier — DF  ITA Eyob Zambataro — DF  ITA Enrico Zanoni — MF  ITA Thomas Bolis — MF  CIV Willy Braciano Ta Bi

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  ITA Marco Carraro — MF  ITA Andrea Colpani — MF  ITA Marco D'Alessandro — MF  ITA Enrico Del Prato — MF  ITA Davide Ghidini — MF   SUI Nicolas Haas — MF  ALB Erdis Kraja — MF  ITA Alessandro Mallamo — MF  ITA Andrea Mallamo — MF  ITA Filippo Melegoni — MF  ITA Lorenzo Peli — MF  ITA Matteo Pessina — MF  ITA Luca Valzania — FW  GAM Musa Barrow — FW  ITA Christian Capone — FW  ITA Salvatore Elia — FW  GAM Francis Gomez — FW  CIV Emmanuel Latte Lath — FW  ITA Gabriel Lunetta — FW  ITA Gaetano Monachello — FW  ITA Rilind Nivokazi — FW  ITA Marco Tumminello — FW  ITA Tiziano Tulissi — FW  ITA Luca Vido

Out on loan

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 — DF  CZE David Heidenreich (at FK Teplice until 30 June 2021) [26] — DF  BRA Roger Ibañez (at Roma until 30 June 2021) [27] — DF  ITA Nadir Zortea (at Cremonese until 30 June 2021) [28]

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  ECU Bryan Cabezas (at Emelec until 30 June 2021) [29] — FW  DEN Andreas Cornelius (at Parma until 30 June 2021) [30]

Youth team

Main article: Atalanta B.C. Youth Sector

Retired numbers

12 – Dedication to fans, in particularly for Pisani Curve ones
14 – Federico Pisani, Forward (1991–97) – posthumous honour.
80 – Elio Corbani, radio journalist.[31]

Noted players

• See also: Category:Atalanta B.C. players

Youth system

A young Gaetano Scirea, one of the most famous footballers produced by the Atalanta youth system, during the 1972–73 season

The Atalanta youth system consists of four men's teams that participate in separate national leagues (Primavera, Allievi Nazionali A and B, and Giovanissimi Nazionali) and two that participate at a regional level (Giovanissimi Regionali A and B).[32]

The first person who was committed to set up the Atalanta youth teams was Giuseppe Ciatto. Every organisational aspect was dealt with and resolved by him, and he also took care to train the various teams. In 1949 Atalanta won the Campionato Ragazzi.

In the late 1950s former Atalanta player Luigi Tentorio (then Special Commissioner of the club) felt the need to start investing more systematically in youth: he decided to create a real youth sector, with its own independent structure from the first team. The youth sector was entrusted to Giuseppe Brolis, who created a partnership with various clubs in the Veneto and Friuli regions, building a network of scouts and young coaches.

A crucial step in the history of the Bergamo youth sector took place in the early 1990s when the president Antonio Percassi implemented a new investment policy, especially at the youth level. He managed to convince Fermo Favini to leave Como and entrusted him with the responsibility of the youth sector.

The Atalanta youth system not only continued to increase the production of players for the first team, but began to win several honours in the most important national leagues. From 1991 to 2014, the various youth teams have won 17 national titles.

Apart from successes at youth level, the Atalanta youth system is also one of the most highly regarded in Europe: according to a ranking by the study centre in Coverciano, Atalanta have the top youth system in Italy and the sixth in Europe, behind Real Madrid, Barcelona and three French teams. The parameters used were the amount of first division players produced by the club.[33] In the 2007–08 season, 22 players from Atalanta's youth played in Serie A, 32 in Serie B and 3 abroad.[33]

In 2014, a global study of the "CIES Football Observatory", placed the Atalanta youth system eighth place in the world, with 25 former youth players who play in the top 5 European leagues.[34]

Presidential history

Atalanta have had several presidents (chairmen) (Italian: presidenti, lit. 'presidents' or Italian: presidenti del consiglio di amministrazione, lit. 'chairmen of the board of directors') over the course of their history. Some of them have been the main shareholder of the club. The longest-serving chairman is Ivan Ruggeri, who was relieved of his duties after he suffered a stroke in January 2008, being replaced by his son Alessandro[35] who was named chairman of Atalanta in September 2008. Alessandro's father was unable to manage the team due to the consequences of the stroke.[36] In June 2010, after another relegation to Serie B, Alessandro Ruggeri sold his share of the club to Antonio Percassi, who became the new chairman of Atalanta.[8]

Name Years Enrico Luchsinger 1920–1921 Antonio Gambirasi 1926–1928 Pietro Capoferri 1928–1930 Antonio Pesenti 1930–1932 Emilio Santi 1932–1935 Lamberto Sala 1935–1938 Nardo Bertoncini 1938–1944 Guerino Oprandi 1944–1945 Daniele Turani 1945–1964 Attilio Vicentini 1964–1969

Name Years Giacomo "Mino" Baracchi 1969–1970 Achille Bortolotti 1970–1974 Enzo Sensi 1974–1975 Achille Bortolotti 1975–1980 Cesare Bortolotti 1980–1990 Achille Bortolotti 1990 Antonio Percassi 1990–1994 Ivan Ruggeri 1994–2008 Alessandro Ruggeri 2008–2010 Antonio Percassi 2010–

Managerial history

Atalanta have had many managers and head coaches throughout their history, below is a chronological list of them from when Serie A was changed into a league format, from 1929–30 onwards.

Name Nationality Years Cesare Lovati 1923–27 Imre Payer 1927–29 Enrico Tirabassi 1928–29 Luigi Cevenini 1929–30 József Viola 1930–33 Imre Payer 1933 Angelo Mattea 1933–35 Imre Payer 1935–36 Ottavio Barbieri 1936–38 Géza Kertész 1938–39 Ivo Fiorentini 1939–41 János Nehadoma 1941–46 Giuseppe Meazza 1946 Luis Monti 1946 Ivo Fiorentini 1946–49 Alberto Citterio Carlo Carcano 1949 Giovanni Varglien 1949–51 Denis Charles Neville[37] 1951–52 Carlo Ceresoli 1952 Luigi Ferrero 1952–54 Francesco Simonetti Luigi Tentorio 1954 Luigi Bonizzoni 1954–57

Name Nationality Years Carlo Rigotti 1957–58 Giuseppe Bonomi 1958 Karl Adamek 1958–59 Ferruccio Valcareggi 1959–62 Paolo Tabanelli 1962–63 Carlo Alberto Quario 1963–64 Carlo Ceresoli 1964 Héctor Puricelli 1965–66 Stefano Angeleri 1966–67 Paolo Tabanelli 1967–68 Stefano Angeleri 1968–69 Silvano Moro 1969 Carlo Ceresoli 1969 Corrado Viciani 1969–70 Renato Gei 1970 Giovan Battista Rota 1970 Giulio Corsini 1970–74 Heriberto Herrera Udrizar 1974–75 Angelo Piccioli 1975 Giancarlo Cadè 1975–76 Gianfranco Leoncini 1976 Giovan Battista Rota 1976–80 Bruno Bolchi 1980–81 Giulio Corsini 1981

Name Nationality Years Ottavio Bianchi 1981 – 30 June 1983 Nedo Sonetti 1 July 1983 – 30 June 1987 Emiliano Mondonico 1 July 1987 – 30 June 1990 Pierluigi Frosio 1990–91 Bruno Giorgi 1991–92 Marcello Lippi 1 July 1992 – 30 June 1993 Francesco Guidolin 1 July 1993 – 30 September 1993 Andrea Valdinoci Cesare Prandelli 1 November 1993 – 30 June 1994 Emiliano Mondonico 1 July 1994 – 30 June 1998 Bortolo Mutti 1 July 1998 – 30 June 1999 Giovanni Vavassori 1 July 1999 – 30 November 2002 Giancarlo Finardi 1 December 2002 – 30 June 2003 Andrea Mandorlini 1 July 2003–05 Delio Rossi 6 December 2004 – 30 June 2005 Stefano Colantuono 1 July 2005 – 30 June 2007 Luigi Delneri 1 July 2007 – 30 June 2009 Angelo Gregucci 1 July 2009 – 21 September 2009 Antonio Conte 21 September 2009 – 7 January 2010 Valter Bonacina (interim) 7 January 2010 – 10 January 2010 Bortolo Mutti 11 January 2010 – 10 June 2010 Stefano Colantuono 14 June 2010 – 4 March 2015 Edoardo Reja 4 March 2015 – 14 June 2016 Gian Piero Gasperini 14 June 2016 –

Supporters

The biggest rivalry is with the neighbouring supporters of Brescia,[38] and there are strong rivalries also with supporters of Verona, Genoa, Fiorentina, Roma,[39] Lazio, Napoli, Milan, Internazionale, Torino; while there has been a long-standing friendship with Ternana, fans of the German Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt and fans of the Austrian club Wacker Innsbruck.[40]

Honours

Domestic

• Coppa Italia

Winners: 1962–63

Runners-up (3): 1986–87, 1995–96, 2018–19

• Serie B

Winners (6):[41] 1927–28, 1939–40, 1958–59, 1983–84, 2005–06, 2010–11

Runners-up (4): 1936–37, 1970–71, 1976–77, 1999–2000

• Serie C1 North

Winners: 1981–82

Europe

Main article: Atalanta B.C. in European football

Divisional movements

Series	Years	Last	Promotions	Relegations
A	60	2020–21	-	12 (1929, 1938, 1958, 1969, 1973, 1979, 1987, 1994, 1998, 2003, 2005, 2010)
B	28	2010–11	13 (1928, 1937, 1940, 1959, 1971, 1977, 1984, 1988, 1995, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2011)	1 (1981)
C	1	1981–82	1 (1982)	never
89 years of professional football in Italy since 1929

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External links

• Official website (in Italian)
• Official fans site (in Italian)
• Tutto Atalanta: Atalanta News & Gossip (in Italian)
• Russian fans site (in Russian)