| Full name | Salerno Calcio | ||
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| Founded | 1919 (as Salernitana Sport) 2005 (as Salernitana Calcio 1919) 2011 (as Salerno Calcio) |
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| Ground | Stadio Arechi, Salerno, Italy (Capacity: 37,245[1]) |
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| Chairman | Marco Mezzaroma | ||
| Manager | Carlo Perrone | ||
| League | Serie D/G | ||
| 2010–11 | Lega Pro Prima Divisione, 4th (as Salernitana) | ||
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Salerno Calcio[2], or simply Salerno is an Italian association football club from Salerno, Campania.
The club is not the legitimate heir of the former Salernitana Calcio 1919, but there is however a sports continuity between the two companies thanks to Article 52 NOIF of FIGC[3], and the fact that they restarted from Serie D[4] instead of Terza Categoria.
In the 2011-12 season Salerno plays in Serie D.[5]
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The origins of the team go back to 1919 when in Salerno was founded the former Salernitana Sport which spent the vast majority of their history at the Serie B and Serie C levels of Italian football.
In their earliest years, Salernitana competed in the Italian Football Championship on a regional basis. They played at this level for four seasons during the 1920s. Since that time the club returned to the top level of Italian football twice; they played in Serie A during 1947–48 and 1998–99.
Salernitana, who wear an all-maroon kit, have had several name changes since they first appeared in 1919; one was after a merger with Audax Salerno.
In 2005 the club went bankrupt but were refounded by Antonio Lombardi, changing the name from Salernitana Sport to Salernitana Calcio 1919.
The most recent change was in 2011, when the club was refounded by the company Morgenstern S.r.l.; However, they were forced to give up their Salernitana Calcio 1919 name for the present one.
Unione Sportiva Salernitana was founded on 19 June 1919 by Adalgiso Onesti,[6] 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.[7]
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.
Since then, the club did not manage to return to the top flight, and was excluded from Serie B in 2005. A new club, which started again from Serie C1, was then established. In 2008, Salernitana finally returned to Serie B as Serie C1/B champions, after mathematically securing the title on 27 April.[8]
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.
On july 21, 2011 the mayor of Salerno Vincenzo De Luca chooses the proposal of the company Morgenstern S.r.l. administered by Gianni Mezzaroma making so born the new team Salerno Calcio, thus representing the city in Serie D. Member of society and the great protagonist of the project is Claudio Lotito[9], president of Lazio. His brother in law and Gianni's son, Marco Mezzaroma is the president of team:[10] he is the husband of the minister Mara Carfagna, born in the town.[11]
Below is the complete presidential history of Salernitana, from when Adalgiso Onesti was first in place at the club in 1919 and of Salerno Calcio, from 2011 until the present day.[12]
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Salernitana and Salerno Calcio (from 2011) have had many managers and trainers running the team during their history, here is a chronological list of them from 1919 onwards.[12]
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Salernitana originally wore light blue and white striped shirts, known in Italy as biancocelesti.[6] The blue on the shirt was chosen to represent the sea, Salerno the city lies right next to the Gulf of Salerno and has a long tradition as a porting city. During the 1940s the club changed to maroon coloured shirts, which has gained them the nickname granata in their homeland.
Since the summer 2011 the first shirt is striped blue and deep red, with the symbol of St. Matthew, patron of the city, similar to that of Barcelona.[13]
` Media related to [//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Salernitana_Calcio_1919 Salernitana] at Wikimedia Commons
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