2005–06 U.S. Città di Palermo season

U.S. Città di Palermo
2005–06 season
Chairman Maurizio Zamparini
Manager Luigi Delneri (Days 1-22)
Giuseppe Papadopulo (Days 23-38)
Serie A 5th (UEFA Cup)[1]
UEFA Cup Round of 16
Coppa Italia Semi-finals
Top goalscorer League: David Di Michele (10)
All: Andrea Caracciolo (11)
Highest home attendance 33,149 (vs Juventus – January 7, 2006)
Lowest home attendance 1,470 (vs Bari – January 10, 2006)

U.S. Città di Palermo played the season 2005-06 in the Serie A league, the second consecutive time since the 2004 promotion. During this season, Palermo also competed in the UEFA Cup, thus making its historical first appearance in a European competition.

Review and events

After having ended the 2004-05 Serie A campaign in sixth place, Palermo automatically qualified to the next UEFA Cup for an historical first time. Meanwhile, Francesco Guidolin resigned following the last matchday and Luigi Delneri was appointed to replace him. The summer market was heavily conditioned by the sale of powerful striker Luca Toni to Fiorentina for €10mln in a highly controversial move. Two young strikers, Andrea Caracciolo from Brescia and Stephen Makinwa from Atalanta, were signed as potential replacements for Toni.

Palermo had a good start in the season, showing a spectacular style of playing with impressive results, with an exciting 3-2 home win against Inter Milan as the highest point of the first half of the season. Palermo also successfully passed to the UEFA Cup group stage, after having defeated Cypriot side Anorthosis Famagusta FC in a 6-1 aggregate win. The club also succeeded to win its UEFA Cup round against the likes of RCD Espanyol, FC Lokomotiv Moscow, Maccabi Petah Tikva F.C. and Brøndby IF.

However, the initial successes were not repeated at the domestic one, as the team gradually lost touch with the top sides of the Serie A table. Despite intensive activity during the January football market, which brought David Di Michele, Federico Agliardi, Cristiano Lupatelli and Denis Godeas to the club, Palermo continued not to win matches, and a 3-1 home loss against Siena convinced Maurizio Zamparini to sack Delneri and replace him with Giuseppe Papadopulo. The new Palermo boss made an astonishing debut in a 3-0 home win to AC Milan in the quarter-finals of Coppa Italia, thus overturning the 1-0 defeat in the first leg and qualifying to the semi-finals of Coppa Italia with AS Roma as its opponent.

In the meanwhile Palermo also qualified to the UEFA Cup round of 16 after having defeated SK Slavia Praha. In the round of 16, Palermo challenged FC Schalke 04: a 1-0 home win in the first leg, with a goal by Franco Brienza, was followed by a 3-0 loss at Gelsenkirchen, with Palermo playing the whole second half in 10 players after team captain Eugenio Corini was sent off. Just six days after the UEFA Cup loss, Palermo won the first leg of the Coppa Italia semifinal over AS Roma by 2-1. The return match, played at the Stadio Olimpico of Rome on April 12, ended in a 1-0 win for AS Roma which eliminated the rosanero.

Palermo ended the season in eighth place, being initially qualified for the UEFA Intertoto Cup 2006. However, following the 2006 Serie A scandal, the team was admitted to play UEFA Cup for the next season.

Match results

Legend

Win Draw Loss

Serie A

Date and timeOpponentVenueResultScorersAttendance
August 28, 2005 – 15.00 Parma Away Drew 1-1 Terlizzi 12,733
September 10, 2005 – 18.00 Inter Home Won 3-2 Corini, Terlizzi, Makinwa 31,309
September 18, 2005 – 15.00 Siena Away Won 2-1 Terlizzi, Makinwa 7,492
September 21, 2005 – 20.30 Reggina Home Won 1-0 Terlizzi 28,145
September 25, 2005 – 15.00 Lazio Away Lost 2-4 Caracciolo, González 23,935
October 2, 2005 – 15.00 Empoli Home Drew 2-2 Caracciolo, Makinwa 26,642
October 16, 2005 – 15.00 Chievo Home Drew 2-2 Corini, Caracciolo 27,092
October 23, 2005 – 15.00 AC Milan Away Lost 1-2 Caracciolo 63,115
October 26, 2005 – 20.30 Lecce Home Won 3-0 Bonanni, Mutarelli, Ferri 27,084
October 30, 2005 – 20.30 Udinese Away Drew 0-0 16,561
November 6, 2005 – 20.30 Sampdoria Home Lost 0-2 29,087
November 20, 2005 – 15.00 Treviso Away Drew 2-2 Ferri, Brienza 5,540
November 27, 2005 – 15.00 Ascoli Away Drew 1-1 Bonanni 9,790
December 4, 2005 – 15.00 Cagliari Home Drew 2-2 Caracciolo, Makinwa 26,209
December 11, 2005 – 15.00 AS Roma Away Won 2-1 Biava, Caracciolo 35,316
December 18, 2005 – 15.00 Livorno Home Lost 0-2 26,151
December 21, 2005 – 20.30 Fiorentina Away Lost 0-1 29,487
January 7, 2006 – 20.30 Juventus Home Lost 1-2 Terlizzi 33,149
January 14, 2006 – 20.30 Messina Away Drew 0-0 20,233
January 18, 2006 – 20.30 Parma Home Won 4-2 Corini, Barzagli, Di Michele (2) 26,990
January 21, 2006 – 20.30 Inter Away Lost 0-3 48,942
January 28, 2006 – 18.00 Siena Home Lost 1-3 Godeas 26,428
February 5, 2006 – 15.00 Reggina Away Drew 2-2 Barone, Caracciolo 13,683
February 8, 2006 – 20.30 Lazio Home Won 3-1 González, Tedesco, Caracciolo 27,074
February 12, 2006 – 15.00 Empoli Away Won 1-0 Barzagli 5,379
February 19, 2006 – 15.00 Chievo Away Drew 0-0 5,580
February 26, 2006 – 15.00 AC Milan Home Lost 0-2 31,868
March 5, 2006 – 15.00 Lecce Away Lost 0-2 10,890
March 12, 2006 – 15.00 Udinese Home Won 2-0 Di Michele, Tedesco 25,792
March 19, 2006 – 15.00 Sampdoria Away Won 2-0 Mutarelli, Di Michele 21,073
March 26, 2006 – 15.00 Treviso Home Won 1-0 Makinwa 26,025
April 2, 2006 – 15.00 Ascoli Home Drew 1-1 Caracciolo 26,440
April 9, 2006 – 15.00 Cagliari Away Drew 1-1 Di Michele 10,000
April 15, 2006 – 15.00 AS Roma Home Drew 3-3 Di Michele, Barone (2) 27,855
April 22, 2006 – 15.00 Livorno Away Lost 1-3 Tedesco 10,635
April 30, 2006 – 15.00 Fiorentina Home Won 1-0 Di Michele 30,056
May 7, 2006 – 15.00 Juventus Away Lost 1-2 Godeas 56,488
May 14, 2006 – 15.00 Messina Home Won 1-0 Godeas 26,558

UEFA Cup

Date and timeRoundOpponentVenueResultScorersAttendance
September 15, 2005 – 20.30 1st Round – 1st Leg Cyprus Anorthosis Famagusta Home Won 2-1 Corini, Brienza 13,047
September 29, 2005 – 17.00 1st Round – 2nd Leg Cyprus Anorthosis Famagusta Away Won 4-0 Caracciolo, Makinwa (2), Santana 12,000
October 20, 2005 – 17.00 Group Stage – Group B Israel Maccabi Petah Tikva Away Won 2-1 Brienza, Terlizzi 2,000
November 3, 2005 – 21.00 Group Stage – Group B Russia Lokomotiv Moscow Home Drew 0-0 15,823
November 24, 2005 – 21.15 Group Stage – Group B Spain Espanyol Away Drew 1-1 González 22,000
December 15, 2005 – 20.45 Group Stage – Group B Denmark Brøndby Home Won 3-0 Makinwa, Rinaudo (2) 4,521
February 16, 2006 – 20.45 Round of 32 – 1st Leg Czech Republic Slavia Praha Away Lost 1-2 Tedesco 6,706
February 23, 2006 – 16.00 Round of 32 – 2nd Leg Czech Republic Slavia Praha Home Won 1-0 Godeas 8,063
March 9, 2006 – 18.00 Round of 16 – 1st Leg Germany Schalke 04 Home Won 1-0 Brienza 10,581
March 16, 2006 – 20.30 Round of 16 – 2nd Leg Germany Schalke 04 Away Lost 0-3 52,151

Coppa Italia

Date and timeRoundOpponentVenueResultScorersAttendance
December 7, 2005 – 18.00 Round of 16 – 1st Leg Bari Away Drew 0-0 2,969
January 10, 2006 – 15.00 Round of 16 – 2nd Leg Bari Home Won 5-4 González (2), Corini, Biava, Terlizzi 1,470
January 25, 2006 – 21.00 Quarter-finals – 1st Leg AC Milan Away Lost 0-1 2,105
January 31, 2006 – 21.00 Quarter-finals – 2nd Leg AC Milan Home Won 3-0 González (2), Caracciolo 10,739
March 22, 2006 – 18.15 Semi-finals – 1st Leg AS Roma Home Won 2-1 Brienza, Mutarelli 12,847
April 12, 2006 – 21.00 Semi-finals – 2nd Leg AS Roma Away Lost 0-1 49,790

Player details

No. Pos Nat Player TotalSerie A UEFA Cup Coppa Italia
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
1 GK Italy Federico Agliardi 17 -21 10 -10 0 0 7 -11
13 GK Italy Cristiano Lupatelli 16 -26 13 -25 0 0 3 -1
24 GK Argentina Mariano Gonzalo Andújar 21 -21 11 -10 7 -6 3 -5
2 DF Italy Cristian Zaccardo 44 0 36 0 4 0 4 0
11 DF Italy Fabio Grosso 47 0 33 0 8 0 6 0
21 DF Italy Giuseppe Biava 22 2 17 1 1 0 4 1
23 DF Italy Christian Terlizzi 33 7 21 5 8 1 4 1
25 DF Sierra Leone Kewullay Conteh 11 0 6 0 4 0 1 0
32 DF Italy Pietro Accardi 12 0 6 0 3 0 3 0
43 DF Italy Andrea Barzagli 47 2 35 2 8 0 4 0
77 DF Italy Leandro Rinaudo 17 2 10 0 5 2 2 0
4 MF Italy Giovanni Tedesco 19 4 14 3 4 1 1 0
5 MF Italy Eugenio Corini 37 5 27 3 6 1 4 1
8 MF Italy Simone Barone 48 3 36 3 7 0 5 0
18 MF Argentina Mario Santana 40 1 28 0 9 1 3 0
19 MF Argentina Mariano González 44 7 30 2 9 1 5 4
20 MF Romania Paul Costantin Codrea 22 0 12 0 6 0 4 0
22 MF Italy Massimo Mutarelli 33 3 23 2 8 0 2 1
10 FW Italy Franco Brienza 39 5 27 1 9 3 3 1
17 FW Italy David Di Michele 40 10 35 10 0 0 5 0
26 FW Nigeria Stephen Makinwa 33 8 23 5 8 3 2 0
29 FW Italy Andrea Caracciolo 46 11 35 9 6 1 5 1
59 FW Italy Gianluca Palmiteri 3 0 1 0 0 0 2 0
99 FW Italy Denis Godeas 23 4 15 3 3 1 5 0
Players sold or loaned out during the January transfer market:
1 GK Italy Nicola Santoni 11 -15 8 -14 2 -1 1 0
99 GK Italy Matteo Guardalben 7 -9 6 -8 1 -1 0 0
81 DF Italy Michele Ferri 14 2 8 2 4 0 2 0
6 MF Italy Massimo Bonanni 25 2 18 2 4 0 3 0
9 FW Italy Simone Pepe 6 0 3 0 3 0 0 0

January transfer market bids

In
1 Italy GK Federico Agliardi (from Brescia)
13 Italy GK Cristiano Lupatelli (on loan from Fiorentina)
4 Italy MF Giovanni Tedesco (from Genoa)
17 Italy FW David Di Michele (from Udinese)
99 Italy FW Denis Godeas (from Triestina)
Out
1 Italy GK Nicola Santoni (co-ownership deal with Udinese, loaned to Brescia)
99 Italy GK Matteo Guardalben (loaned to Parma)
81 Italy DF Michele Ferri (co-ownership deal with Cagliari)
6 Italy MF Massimo Bonanni (loaned to Lazio)
9 Italy FW Simone Pepe (co-ownership deal with Udinese)

References

  1. ↑ originally 8th, elevated to 5th following the 2006 Serie A scandal
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