Club Overview

Salernitana Calcio 1919, commonly referred to as simply Salernitana, is an Italian professional football club from Salerno, Campania. Founded in 1919, Salernitana have spent the vast majority of their history bouncing between the Serie B and Serie C levels of Italian football. Currently the club are competing in Serie C1 for the 2007–08 season; on April 27, 2008 they mathematically won the league title, thus ensuring a place back in Serie B for the 2008–09 season.

Club History

Unione Sportiva Salernitana was founded on 19 June 1919 by Adalgiso Onesti, 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.

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

Club Rivalries

Napoli, Cavese, Avellino, Perugia

Stars of the Current Squad

Arturo Di Napoli, Luca Fusco

Club Legends

Rigobert Song, Marco Di Vaio, David Di Michele, Giacomo Tedesco, Walter Zenga, Giuseppe Papadopulo, Roberto Breda, Antonio Chimenti

Most Appearances

Most Goals

Player Recognition & Awards

Team Honours

Serie B: Winners (2): 1947–48; 1997–98

Serie C / Serie C1: Winners (2): 1937–38; 1965–66; 2007–08 Runners-up (2): 1989–90; 1993–94

Coppa Italia Serie C: Runners-up (1): 1980

Club Management

1919–1920 Adalgiso Onesti 1920–1921 Renato De Crescenzo 1921–1922 Settimio Mobilio, Raffaele Schiavone 1922–1923 Settimio Mobilio 1923–1924 Adalgiso Onesti 1924–1925 Settimio Mobilio, Carmine Caiafa 1927–1928 Antonio Conforti, Vittorio La Rocca 1928–1929 Pasquale Pinto 1929–1930 Luigi Conforti, Enrico Chiari 1930–1931 Giovanni Negri, Enrico Chiari 1931–1933 Enrico Chiari 1933–1934 Riccardo Gambrosie 1934–1936 Enrico Chiari 1936–1937 Savino Mione 1937–1940 Giuseppe Carpinelli 1940 Eugenio Saligeri-Zucchi 1940–1943 Matteo Scaramella 1944–1945 Felice Del Galdo 1945–1948 Domenico Mattioli 1948–1954 Marcantonio Ferro 1954–1955 Roberto Spirito 1955–1956 Michele Scaramella, Achille Lauro 1956–1957 Carmine De Martino 1957–1958 Giuseppe Tortorella 1958–1960 Matteo Guariglia 1960 Leopoldo Fulgione 1960–1963 Pasquale Gagliardi 1963–1964 Antonio D'Amico, Michele Scozia 1964–1965 Michele Scozia 1965–1967 Michele Gagliardi 1967–1972 Giuseppe Tedesco 1972–1973 Americo Vessa, Alfredo Caiafa 1973–1974 Americo Vessa, Giovanni Benvenuto, Cesare Trucillo 1974–1975 Americo Vessa 1975–1976 Pietro Esposito 1976–1977 Pietro Esposito, Aldo Matera 1977–1978 Enzo Paolillo, Giovanni Benvenuto 1978–1979 Enzo Paolillo, Vincenzo Grieco 1979–1980 Antonio Ventura, Federico De Piano, Vincenzo Grieco 1980–1982 Filippo Troisi 1983 Antonio Scermino 1983–1985 Arcangelo Japicca 1985–1987 Augusto Strianese 1987–1991 Giuseppe Soglia 1991–1994 Franco Del Mese 1994–2005 Aniello Aliberti 2005-att. Antonio Lombardi

Uniforms

Stadium

The stadium holds 37,245 and was built in 1991.

The stadium was built to replace the former structure that wasn't fit to host the growing audience of the team any more. The first match hosted in the new venue was Salernitana-Padova. In this game the home team was held to a draw by the visitors. Three times the "Arechi" was honoured by the visit of the national team. Many parkings available outside the structure.

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