2010–11 U.S. Lecce season

U.S. Lecce

2010–11 season
President	Pierandrea Semeraro
Head Coach	Luigi De Canio
← 2009-10 2011-12 →

The 2010–11 season is Lecce's 102nd in existence. Lecce are returning to the top flight of Italian football after completing the 2009–10 Serie B season in first place. Lecce were last in Serie A in the 2005-06 season.

Pre-season and friendlies

Lecce began a pre-season training camp in Tarvisio on July 15.^[1]

Date	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers
24 July 2010	Nazionale Montepaschi	N	8 – 0	Corvia (2) 2', 67', Ferrario 13', Mesbah (2) 19', 68', Munari 26', Falcone 70', Vives 75'
28 July 2010	Rappresentativa Friuli Venezia Giulia	N	9 – 0	Corvia (3) 27', 56', 65', Bergougnoux (2) 37', 45', Munari 44', Giacomazzi 68', Falcone (2) 69', 87'
1 August 2010	Tamai	N	5 – 0	Rubén Olivera 8', Corvia 10', Mesbah 60', Donati 64', Grossmüller 68'
4 August 2010	Triestina	N	3 – 1	Mesbah 12', Corvia 77', Giacomazzi 86'
12 August 2010^1	Pisticci	A	0 – 1	Grossmüller 40'
12 August 2010^1	Salernitana	N	1 – 0	Grossmüller 8'
22 August 2010	Valencia	H	0 – 2

¹ 45 minute matches played during "Memorial Gaetano Michetti".^[2]

Serie A

Lecce will return to Serie A action on August 29. They will start the season away to Milan.

Coppa Italia

Based on their finish in the 2009-10 Serie B season, Lecce will enter the 2010–11 Coppa Italia in the third round. Their first opponent in the competition will be Serie B club Siena.

Squad statistics

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Serie A		Coppa Italia
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
2	DF		Giulio Donati	16	0	14	0	2	0
3	MF		Alberto Giuliatto	13	0	12	0	1	0
4	DF		Gustavo	25	0	24	0	1	0
5	DF		Simone Sini	2	0	2	0	0	0
7	MF		Bryan Bergougnoux	2	0	0	0	2	0
8	MF		Gianni Munari	35	2	34	2	1	0
9	FW		Daniele Corvia	31	7	30	6	1	1
10	MF		Rubén Olivera	32	4	31	4	1	0
11	MF		Djamel Mesbah	34	2	34	2	0	0
13	DF		Stefano Ferrario	20	0	20	0	0	0
14	MF		Fabiano	29	1	29	1	0	0
15	MF		Edward Ofere	12	3	11	3	1	0
17	FW		David Di Michele	23	8	23	8	0	0
18	MF		Guillermo Giacomazzi	32	3	32	3	0	0
19	MF		Ignacio Piatti	26	3	25	3	1	0
20	MF		Giuseppe Vives	33	0	33	0	0	0
21	MF		Carlos Grossmüller	25	1	23	1	2	0
22	GK		Antonio Rosati	38	-64	38	-64	0	0
23	FW		Javier Chevantón	16	4	14	2	2	2
27	FW		Jeda	26	4	25	4	1	0
28	DF		Davide Brivio	24	0	22	0	2	0
30	DF		Souleymane Diamoutene	3	1	2	1	1	0
32	MF		Manuel Coppola	16	1	14	1	2	0
33	DF		Andrea Rispoli	14	0	13	0	1	0
40	DF		Nenad Tomović	16	0	16	0	0	0
50	FW		Luigi Falcone	1	0	0	0	1	0
56	MF		Luca Locci	1	0	0	0	1	0
57	MF		Filippo Falco	1	0	0	0	1	0
81	GK		Massimiliano Benassi	3	-6	1	-2	2	-4
91	MF		Andrea Bertolacci	10	4	9	3	1	1

Transfers

In

Date	Pos.	Name	From	Fee
2 July 2010	MF	Rubén Olivera	Peñarol	Free[3]
22 July 2010	GK	Massimiliano Benassi	Perugia	Free[4]
30 July 2010	MF	Carlos Grossmüller	Schalke	Free[5]
4 August 2010	MF	Ignacio Piatti	Independiente	Undisclosed[6]

References

1. "Il programma delle gare amichevoli di Tarvisio". USLecce.it (in Italian).
2. "Giovedì triangolare a Pisticci". USLecce.it (in Italian).
3. "Perfezionata l'acquisizione di Olivera". USLecce.it (in Italian).
4. "Perfezionato il tesseramento di Benassi". USLecce.it (in Italian).
5. "Preso Grossmuller". USLecce.it (in Italian).
6. "Ufficiale l'acquisizione di Piatti". USLecce.it (in Italian).