Benevento Calcio

Benevento

File:Benevento Calcio logo.png
Full name	Benevento Calcio SRL
Nickname(s)	Stregoni (Witches)
Founded	1929 2005 (refounded)
Ground	Stadio Ciro Vigorito, Benevento, Italy
Capacity	18,975
Chairman	Fabrizio Pallotta
Manager	Marco Baroni
League	Serie C Group C
2023–24	Serie C Group C, 3rd of 20
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Benevento Calcio is an Italian association football club based in Benevento, Campania. The club was founded in 1929 and refounded in 2005. Currently it plays in Serie B.

History

The club was founded as Associazione Calcio Benevento in 1929, their original home was the Meomartini which was built by Ciccio Minocchia.

After working their way up lower divisions in their earliest years, Benevento reached Prima Divisione, the third highest professional league at that time, in the 1934–35 season. Here it finished above clubs such as Reggina in its first season within the league. Although it did not win promotion to Serie B, the team did qualify to remain in the third tier of Italian football for the 1935–36 season, re-organized to a smaller 64-team league renamed Serie C.

The company F.C. Sporting Benevento S.r.l. folded in 2005. At the same time Benevento Calcio S.p.A. was found.

In the 2007–08 Serie C2 regular season the team finished first in Girone C, winning direct promotion to the now called Lega Pro Prima Divisione for the 2008–09 season. In the 2008–09 season, Benevento's first season in Lega Pro Prima Divisione, they finished in 2nd place. This meant Benevento would be in a 2 leg play-off. They won their first 2 legged play-off, but lost to Crotone 1–0 (2–1) on aggregate in the final.

Gaetano Auteri was appointed as the head manager for the 2015–16 season. In this season, Benevento won its league and reached the Serie B for the first time in its history. The mathematical certainty arrived on April 30, 2016, after defeating Lecce 3–0.

Colors and badge

The team's colors are yellow and red.

Current squad

As of 27 January, 2017.

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	Alessio Cragno (on loan from Cagliari)
2	DF	ITA	Enrico Pezzi
4	MF	ITA	Lorenzo Del Pinto
5	DF	ITA	Fabio Lucioni
6	DF	URU	Wálter López
7	MF	ITA	Fabrizio Melara
9	FW	ITA	Fabio Ceravolo
10	FW	ITA	Amato Ciciretti
11	MF	CRO	Marko Pajač (on loan from Cagliari)
12	GK	ITA	Pier Graziano Gori
13	MF	GHA	Raman Chibsah (on loan from Sassuolo)
14	DF	ITA	Emanuele Padella

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
15	DF	ITA	Michele Camporese
16	DF	CRO	Ricardo Bagadur (on loan from Fiorentina)
18	DF	GHA	Bright Gyamfi (on loan from Inter)
19	FW	GUI	Karamoko Cissé
20	MF	ITA	Filippo Falco (on loan from Bologna)
21	MF	ITA	Andrea De Falco
22	GK	ITA	Riccardo Piscitelli
23	DF	ITA	Lorenzo Venuti (on loan from Fiorentina)
24	FW	ROU	George Pușcaș (on loan from Inter)
27	MF	MKD	Nikola Jakimovski
30	MF	ITA	Daniele Buzzegoli
31	GK	ITA	Fabrizio Alastra (on loan from Palermo)
34	MF	ITA	Mirko Eramo
35	MF	ITA	Nicolas Viola

Notable former players

See also: Category:Benevento Calcio players

Notable former managers

See also: Category:Benevento Calcio managers

• Giuseppe Zilizzi (1935–36)
• Giuseppe Viani (1945–46)
• Francisco Lojacono (1974–75)
• Gastone Bean (1981–83)
• Giuseppe Materazzi (1984–85)
• Adriano Lombardi (1995–96)
• Massimo Silva (1996–98)
• Nello Di Costanzo (2002–04)
• Giovanni Simonelli (2006–08)
• Antonio Soda (2008–09)

• Leonardo Acori (2009)
• Andrea Camplone (2009–10)
• Leonardo Acori (2010)
• Giuseppe Galderisi (2010–11)
• Giovanni Simonelli (2011)
• Carmelo Imbriani (2011–12)
• Guido Ugolotti (2012–13)
• Guido Carboni (2013–14)
• Gaetano Auteri (2015–)

External links

• Template:It icon Benevento Calcio official website