F.C. Como

F.C. Como
Nickname(s) Lariani
Founded 1907
2005 (refound)
2017 (refound)
Ground Giuseppe Sinigaglia,
Como, Italy
Ground Capacity 13,602
Owner Akosua Puni Essien
Chairman Vacant
Manager Mark Iuliano
League Serie D
2016–17 Lega Pro, 7th (relegated)
Website Club website

F.C. Como is an Italian football club, based in Como. The club was founded in 1907. The team's color is blue.

Como were in Serie A in 2002–03; this was followed by three consecutive relegations that brought the team down in Serie C2 at the end of the 2004–05 season after having lost a playoff (2–1 on aggregate) to Novara Calcio, and being then even cancelled from Italian professional football because of bankruptcy. They were successively admitted to Serie D, the top level of non-professional football in Italy, where they spent three seasons before finally managing to win promotion back to Serie C2 in the 2007–08 season.[1]

History

Como were first promoted to Serie A in 1949 and enjoyed a respectable four-year stay before relegation, the next 20 years were spent moving between Serie B and C but more often the former. A revival in the 1970s saw the club emerge as contenders for promotion to Serie A, this was achieved in 1975 but despite the best efforts of players such as Alessandro Scanziani they would last only a season. They would slump to C1 by 1978, but with a rebuilt team containing stars like Pietro Vierchowod would achieve successive promotions and a two-year stay in Serie A (1980–82).

Como managed another promotion to the top flight in 1984, with a five-year stint in Serie A proving the club's most successful period of recent times. The strikeforce of Dan Corneliusson and Stefano Borgonovo oversaw a 9th-place finish in 1986, which was repeated the following year with far fewer goals scored. The club's defence, led by hard man Pasquale Bruno, proved more than up to the task however. Relegation in 1989 precipitated a rapid decline, with Como spending most of the 1990s in Serie C1 with the exception of 1994–95. Former Chelsea and Tottenham goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini spent a year on loan at Como.

Bankruptcy and brief promotion to Serie B

The 21st century saw Como experience a brief revival. Promotion to Serie B in 2001 was marred by an appallingly violent incident in a game against Modena, resulting in captain Massimiliano Ferrigno being handed a three-year ban. They nonetheless managed promotion to Serie A in 2002, ironically being promoted alongside Modena. However, the return to Serie A proved a major disappointment with the side in the bottom two all season, and a ban on games at the Sinigaglia after crowd violence. Successive relegations have caused financial difficulties; in December 2004 the club was declared bankrupted.[2] No investor was successful to take over the club (as the bid from Preziosi was denied[3]) thus the company "Calcio Como S.p.A." was liquidated. Thanks to FIGC regulation, a new entity Calcio Como S.r.l.[4] was allowed to admit into 2005–06 Serie D. The liquidator also found former chairman Enrico Preziosi had transferred some assets such as the contracts of the players to his new club Genoa, causing the financial failure of Como. They returned to the rebranded Serie C2, Lega Pro Seconda Divisione in 2008, after having won the Girone B of Serie D.[1] Como finally returned to Serie C1 (Lega Pro Prima Divisione) after promotion play-offs after defeating Rodengo Saiano with 1–1 aggregate and Alessandria with 4–1 aggregate. In 2015, Como finished fourth in the third-tier, now called Lega Pro. They qualified for the promotion play-offs and earned promotion to Serie B after beating Bassano Virtus in the two-legged final 2–0 on aggregate. They were relegated back down to Lega Pro the following season.

F.C. Como

New economic problems arisen in season 2016-17 obliging the club to be declared out of business and put in auction. At the fourth auction the assets of the club was acquired by Akosua Puni Essien, wife of the Ghanaian footballer Michael and first foreign businesswoman in Italian football (via a company F.C. Como S.r.l.).[5]

However, Italian Football Federation (FIGC) rejected the application of F.C. Como as the successor in the place of 2017–18 Serie C,[6] as the club did not fulfill all the criteria in the Article 52 of N.O.I.F..[7] At the start of season, F.C. Como was admitted to 2017–18 Serie D instead, excising another sub-clause of the Article 52.[8][9]

Players

As of 11 August 2017

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
Italy GK Matteo Cesaroni
Italy GK Alessandro Gozzi
Italy GK Davide Grossi
Italy GK Matteo Kucich
Italy DF Christian Anelli
Italy DF Dario Bova
Italy DF Simone Morelli
Morocco DF Tarik Ouahdani
Italy DF Davide Sentinelli
Italy DF Francesco Tosoni
No. Position Player
Italy MF Stefano Bonaiti
Italy MF Lorenzo Cassina
Italy MF Manuel Cicconi
Italy MF Pietro Fusi
Italy MF Loris Melesi
Italy MF Riccardo Oggiano
Italy FW Daniela Bradaschia
Italy FW Fabio Oggiano

Notable former players

Internationals

The following is a provisional list of international players of Como sorted by nationality. Players in bold were international while playing for Como :

Most capped players

Total

The following is a list of Como football players with most caps. Count of caps include all the professionistic championships and cups as well as data within the period when official name of the team was A. C. Comense.

# Player Period Caps Goals
1 Bruno Ballarini 1958 - 1970 350 21
2 Giancarlo Centi 1977 - 1991 333 3
3 Claudio Correnti 1969 - 1978 286 8
4 Antonio Cetti 1920 - 1941 278 91
5 Luigi Paleari 1965 - 1973 277 0
6 Roberto Melgrati 1970 - 1980 251 2
7 Silvano Fontolan 1974 - 1983 250 7
8 Doriano Pozzato 1969 - 1981 249 21
9 Cesare Butti 1925 - 1938 247 5
10 Piero Maronati 1951 - 1938 210 7

Serie A

The following is a list of Como football players with most caps in Serie A only.

# Player Period Caps
1 Giancarlo Centi 1980 - 1989 168
2 Massimo Albiero 1981 - 1989 136
3 Enrico Todesco 1984 - 1989 120
4 Stefano Maccoppi 1985 - 1989 116
Mario Paradisi 1985 - 1989 116
6 Sweden Dan Corneliusson 1984 - 1989 111
7 Giovanni Invernizzi 1981 - 1989 107
8 Franco Pedroni 1949 - 1952 106
9 Antonio Tempestilli 1981 - 1987 100
10 Franco Cardani 1949 - 1952 97

Top Goalscorers

Total

The following is a list of Como football players with most goals. Count of goals include all the professionistic championships and cups as well as data within the period when official name of the team was A. C. Comense.

# Player Period Goals Caps
1 Antonio Cetti 1920 - 1941 91 278
2 Marco Romano 1928 - 1942 71 100
3 Giuseppe Baldini 1951 - 1960 57 165
4 Renato Preziati 1923 - 1933 48 154
5 Luca Cecconi 1995 - 1998 41 86
Vittorio Ghiandi 1949 - 1954 41 114
7 Carlo Maesani 1946 - 1950 38 88
Benito Meroni 1948 - 1951 38 102
9 Ercole Rabitti 1948 - 1952 36 116
10 Giuseppe Le Noci 2013 - 2017 35 106
Marco Nicoletti 1977 - 1983 35 151

Players in bold are still active in the team.

Serie A

The following is a list of Como football players with most goals in Serie A only.

# Player Period Goals
1 Vittorio Ghiandi 1949 - 1953 32
2 Ercole Rabitti 1949 - 1952 19
Giuseppe Baldini 1951 - 1953 19
4 Sweden Dan Corneliusson 1984 - 1989 18
5 Benito Meroni 1949 - 1951 17
6 Angelo Turconi 1950 - 1953 16
Renato Cattaneo 1951 - 1953 16
8 Alceo Lipizier 1948 - 1952 14
9 Stefano Borgonovo 1981 - 1988 13
10 Salvatore Giunta 1986 - 1989 12

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Cosenza e Como, promozione in C2" (in Italian). Corriere dello Sport. 27 April 2008. Retrieved 27 April 2008.
  2. ↑ "Ecco come salverò il Como". La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). 29 December 2004. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
  3. ↑ "(Questioni relative al fallimento della società di calcio Como - n. 2-01566)". Camera dei deputati (in Italian). 30 June 2005. Archived from the original on 1 September 2011. Retrieved 20 June 2011.
  4. ↑ "Como" (in Italian). Lega Pro. Archived from the original on 29 July 2010. Retrieved 7 August 2010.
  5. ↑ http://www.laprovinciadicomo.it/stories/como-citta/ufficiale-il-calcio-como-e-della-moglie-di-essien-vi-porteremo-in-serie-b_1229046_11/
  6. ↑ "LEGA PRO: L’ESITO DEL CONSIGLIO DIRETTIVO" (Press release) (in Italian). Lega Pro. 3 July 2017. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  7. ↑ "Comunicato Ufficiale N°191/A (2016–17)" [Press Release N°191/A (2016–17)] (PDF) (Press release) (in Italian). FIGC. 30 June 2017. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  8. ↑ "Como 1907 ammesso in sovrannumero alla serie D intanto arriva il nuovo sponsor tecnico" (in Italian). Espansione TV. 2 August 2017.
  9. ↑ "Serie D 2017/2018: I gironi" (Press release) (in Italian). Serie D. 11 August 2017. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
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