History of U.S. Salernitana 1919

The history of U.S. Salernitana 1919, so renamed since 12 July 2012,^[1] officially started in 2011 as Salerno Calcio, following the collapse of Salernitana Calcio 1919 in Lega Pro Prima Divisione, based in Salerno, Campania. The previous incarnation of the club was founded in 1919 as Unione Sportiva Salernitana, changing its name to Salernitana Sport in 1978 and being refounded in 2005 with Salernitana Calcio 1919.

From 1919 to today

Unione Sportiva Salernitana

Unione Sportiva Salernitana was founded on 19 June 1919 by Adalgiso Onesti,^[2] who initiated the merger of an older club using the same name; which itself was founded in 1911 by a merger of four local clubs; and Foot-Ball Club Salerno.^[3]

The club was known as Società Sportiva Salernitanaudax for a time during the 1920s.

Salernitana Sport

In 1978 the club was renamed Salernitana Sport. It can be argued that Salernitana's best period as a club was 1997–1999. In the 1997–98 season, Salernitana topped Serie B and gained their second promotion to Serie A (first was in 1947–48). A young Marco Di Vaio led the scoring charts with 21 goals. In the 1998–99 season, their first in Serie A after 50 years, Salernitana fought hard and were led by Cameroonian international Rigobert Song and Salvatore Fresi in defense, a young Gennaro Gattuso in midfield, and Marco Di Vaio and David Di Michele leading the attack. They recorded surprise wins against Inter, Juventus, Roma and Lazio. Unfortunately, they finished 1 point shy of salvation and were relegated.

Since then, the club did not manage to return to the top flight, and was excluded from Serie B in 2005.

Salernitana Calcio 1919

In the summer 2005 was established Salernitana Calcio 1919, a new club which started again from Serie C1. In 2008, Salernitana finally returned to Serie B as Serie C1/B champions, after mathematically securing the title on 27 April.^[4]

In the season 2009-10 the club was relegated to Lega Pro Prima Divisione with 6 point deduction for match fixing.

In the summer 2011, it did not appeal against the exclusion of Covisoc and it is definitely excluded by the Italian football.

From Salerno Calcio to U.S. Salernitana 1919

On 21 July 2011 the new club of Salerno Calcio was founded in the city by the company Morgenstern S.r.l.; however, they were forced to give up their Salernitana Calcio 1919 name for the present one.

The club in the 2011-12 season was immediately promoted to Lega Pro Seconda Divisione winning the Group G of Serie D.

On 12 July 2012 the club was renamed U.S. Salernitana 1919.^[1]

Notable players

Presidential history

Below is the complete presidential history of Salernitana, from when Adalgiso Onesti was first in place at the club in 1919 to 2011.^[5]

Managerial history

Salernitana have had many managers and trainers running the team during their history, here is a chronological list of them from 1919 onwards.^[5]

Name Nationality Years Vincenzo Giordano 1919 Raffaele Schiavone 1919–21 Toledo 1921–22 Ciminari 1922–23 Alfonso Guasco 1923–24 Willy Kargus 1924–25 Bellone 1925 Venturini 1927–28 Barone 1928 Finizio 1928–29 Apicella 1929 Géza Kertész 1929–31 Luigi Leone 1931–32 Mora 1932 Ivo Fiorentini 1932–33 Walter Colombati 1933–34 Imre Schoffer 1934–35 Buratti 1935 Armand Halmos 1935–36 Ferenc Hirzer 1936–38 Francesco Hansel 1938–39 Attila Sallustro 1939 Béla Karoly 1939–40 Ferenc Hirzer 1940–41 Géza Kertész 1941 Antonio Valese 1941 Giuseppe Viani 1941–43 Milite 1944 Antonio Valese 1944–45 Vittorio Mosele 1945 Ferenc Hirzer 1945 Giuseppe Viani 1945–47 Pietro Piselli 1948–50 Arnaldo Sentimenti 1950 Walter Crociani 1950–51 Rodolphe Hiden 1951–52 Carlo Ceresoli 1952–53 Enrico Carpitelli 1953–55 Saracino 1955 Antonio Valese 1955–56 Saracino 1956 Paolo Todeschini 1956–57 Enrico Carpitelli 1957 Giovanni Varglien 1957–58 Nicolò Nicolosi 1958–59 Vittorio Mosele 1959 István Mike Mayer 1959 Pietro Piselli 1959–60 Ettore Puricelli 1960–61 Di Gennaro 1961–62 Gyula Zsengellér 1962 Piero Pasinati 1962–63 Giunchi 1963–64 Rodolphe Hiden 1964 Riccardo Carapellese 1964–65 Rodolphe Hiden 1965 Rosati 1965–66 Oscar Montez 1967 Guido Settembrino 1967–69 Pietro Magni 1969 Sergio Piacentini 1969–70 Edi Gratton 1970 Rosati 1970–71 Giancarlo Vitali 1971–72 Nicola Chiricallo 1972–73

Name Nationality Years Franco Viviani 1973–74 Ettore Recagni 1974–75 Giacomo Losi 1975 Guido Settembrino 1975 Massimo Giacomini 1975–76 Ottavio Bugatti 1976 Carlo Regalia 1976–77 Lucio Muiesan 1977 Carlo Facchin 1977 Enea Masiero 1977–78 Lucio Muiesan 1978 Rosati 1978–79 Franco Viviani 1979–80 Antonio Giammarinaro 1980 Gigante 1980 Lamberto Leonardi 1980–81 Antonio Giammarinaro 1981–82 Romano Mattè 1982 Francisco Lojacono 1982–83 Marino Perani 1983 Mario Facco 1983–84 Gian Piero Ghio 1984–86 Giorgio Sereni 1986 Carmelo Russo 1986–87 Claudio Tobia 1987–88 Roberto Clagluna 1988 Carlo Soldo 1988 Giancarlo Pasinato 1988–89 Lamberto Leonardi 1989 Giancarlo Ansaloni 1989–91 Gianni Simonelli 1991–92 Tarcisio Burgnich 1992 Giuliano Sonzogni 1992–93 Delio Rossi 1993–95 Franco Colomba 1995–97 Franco Varrella 1997 Delio Rossi 1997–99 Francesco Oddo 1999 Adriano Cadregari 1999 Luigi Cagni 1999–00 Adriano Cadregari 2000 Francesco Oddo 2000–01 Nedo Sonetti 2001 Zdeněk Zeman 2001–03 Franco Varrella 2003 Stefano Pioli 2003–04 Aldo Ammazzalorso 2004–05 Angelo Gregucci 2005 Maurizio Costantini 2005–06 Stefano Cuoghi 2006 Raffaele Novelli 2006 Gianfranco Bellotto 2007 Andrea Agostinelli 2007–08 Fabio Brini 2008– Bortolo Mutti 2008– Fabrizio Castori 2008–09 Fabio Brini 2009 Marco Cari 2009 Gianluca Grassadonia 2009–10 Ersilio Cerone 2010 Roberto Breda 2010-11 Carlo Perrone 2011-2012 Giuseppe Galderisi 2012 Carlo Perrone 2012-

References

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