Cosenza Calcio

For the historical club, see Cosenza Calcio 1914.

Cosenza

Full name

Cosenza Calcio Srl

Nickname(s)

Lupi (Wolves)
Rossoblù (Red-blues)
Silani ("silans", for the name of mountain's and wood's land where is the city, "Sila")

Founded

2007 (as Fortitudo Cosenza)
2011 (as Nuova Cosenza Calcio)

Ground

Stadio San Vito,
Cosenza, Italy

Capacity

24,479

Chairman

Eugenio Guarascio^[1]

Manager

Giorgio Roselli

League

Lega Pro/C

2014–15

Lega Pro/C, 10th

Home colours

Away colours

Cosenza Calcio Srl is an Italian football club, based in Cosenza, Calabria. Currently the team plays in Lega Pro, the third tier of Italian football.

Found in 2011 as Nuova Cosenza Calcio as the phoenix club of Cosenza Calcio 1914 Srl by using Article 52 of N.O.I.F., Nuova Cosenza and Cosenza 1914 Srl were spiritual successor of the original Cosenza Calcio 1914 SpA which folded in 2005. However, Cosenza 1914 Srl acquired its sports title from Rende Calcio in 2007, and the sports title of the original club had ceased to be exist in 2005.

History

Cosenza Calcio 1914

Main article: Cosenza Calcio 1914

The club was founded in 1914 as Società Sportiva Fortitudo and renamed as Cosenza Calcio 1914 in 1920^[2] and enjoyed a long time in the professional leagues, spending several years in the Serie B. They also won the Anglo-Italian Cup in 1983. In 2003, Cosenza 1914 was expelled from professional league.^[3]

In 2003 an illegitimate phoenix club was found as A.S. Cosenza F.C.. In 2004, old Cosenza won the appeal and was admitted to 2004–05 Serie D. Thus that season there was a derby. In 2005 new Cosenza switched its denomination into A.S. Cosenza Calcio,^[4] after the fall of old Cosenza.

Cosenza Calcio 1914 Srl

In 2007, A.S. Cosenza Calcio gave up its Serie D membership, but all the team players later joined new club Fortitudo Cosenza, born as relocation of Rende Calcio, a team from the neighbouring city of Rende which was relegated to Serie D in 2006–07 season and moved to Cosenza soon after. The new club quickly managed to win the Serie D/Girone I championship in 2007–08, ensuring a place back into the Lega Pro Seconda Divisione (the renamed Serie C2) for the 2008–09 season.

Cosenza lineup in 2008–09

Tifosi in May 2008

Three seasons in professionalism

Following this, the new club renamed itself, taking the old historical denomination of Cosenza Calcio 1914 Srl with the aim to rise up the Italian football pyramid. In 2008–09, their first season in the Lega Pro, Cosenza showed all of their intentions by winning the Lega Pro Seconda Divisione/Girone C championship. The team played the 2009–10 season in the Lega Pro Prima Divisione/Girone B, finishing 11th in the table.

At the end of the 2010-11 Lega Pro Prima Divisione season the team was relegated after losing the playoff. The team was then excluded from professional Championship by Co.Vi.Soc. and it didn't appeal.

During the professional seasons, former president Damiano Paletta was suspended in June 2009 for 6 months for irregularity in administrations. ^[5] The ban was reduced after an appeal.^[6]

Nuova Cosenza Calcio

In summer 2011 the club was refounded as Nuova Cosenza Calcio and restarted from Serie D^[7]^[8] After a mediocre start, they sacked coach Enzo Patania and hired Tommaso Napoli.^[9] They won 9 and drew 7 without a loss to finish the regular season in second place to A.S.D. HinterReggio in Girone I and entered in the promotion playoffs.^[10] They won 6 in a row to become champions of the playoffs.^[11] The club won the promotion playoffs by beating SandonàJesoloCalcio 3-2 in the final, but not being automatically promoted shall remain still in Serie D.

On Monday, 5 August 2013, the team announced that it was promoted to the professional league, Lega Pro Seconda Divisione.^[12] Circa 2013 the club refer itself simply as Cosenza Calcio,^[13] a name change in Italian Chamber of Commerce was done some time later.

Cosenza was promoted again to the unified 2014–15 Lega Pro after ending the 2013–14 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione season in fourth place.

Colors and badge

The team's official colours are red and dark blue, probably in honor to Genoa C.F.C..^[14] The supporters love see in the shirt also same green details, to remembering the original colours of 1914 (green and blue).

logo of Cosenza Calcio 1914 Srl circa 2010

Players

First team squad

As of 30 January, 2016

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

No.		Position	Player
		GK	Pietro Perina
		GK	Umberto Saracco

		DF	Luca Tedeschi
		DF	Edoardo Blondett
		DF	Francesco Di Nunzio
		DF	Marco Soprano (on loan from Genoa)
		DF	Vincenzo Di Somma
		DF	Paride Pinna
		DF	Simone Ciancio
		DF	Mattia Novello

		MF	Andrea Gaudio
		MF	Antonio Bilotta
		MF	Andrea Arrigoni

No.		Position	Player
		MF	Antonio Fiordilino (on loan from Palermo)
		MF	Cristian Caccetta
		MF	Marco Criaco
		MF	Giuseppe Statella
		MF	Angelo Corsi
		MF	Marco Guerriera
		MF	Antonio Vutov (on loan from Udinese)
		MF	Michael Ventre (on loan from Genoa)

		FW	Andrea Raimondi
		FW	Giovanni Cavallaro
		FW	Andrea Arrighini (on loan from Avellino)
		FW	Andrea La Mantia

Honours

as Cosenza Calcio 1914 Srl

Lega Pro Seconda Divisione: 1 (2008–09)
Serie D: 1 (2007–08)

as Cosenza Calcio Srl

Coppa Italia Lega Pro

Winners (1): 2014-15,

Shirt sponsors and manufacturers

Period	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
As Cosenza Calcio 1914 Srl
2008–2009	Onze	Simet/Hit Shop
2009–2011	Onze	Aiello
As N. Cosenza Calcio
2011-2012	Onze	La Terra Di Piero
2011-2012	Onze	Obbiettivo Lavoro/Scintille
2011-2012	Onze	G1 Petroli
2012-2013	Macron	Oro Cash/Precenzano Catering
2013-2014	Legea	Wüber

References

↑ http://www.cittasport.it/news.asp?idnews=6111&cat=30&page=L'Imprenditore-Guarascio-Fulcro-del-rilancio-del-calcio-a-Cosenza&categoria=Calcio
↑ "Cosenza" (in Italian). Football.it. Archived from the original on November 21, 2010. Retrieved 2010-08-07.
↑ "Comunicato Ufficiale N°38/A (2003–04)" (PDF) (in Italian). FIGC. 31 July 2003. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
↑ http://www.figc.it/Assets/contentresources_2/ContenutoGenerico/64.$plit/C_2_ContenutoGenerico_6866_lstAllegati_Allegato1_upfAllegato.pdf
↑ "Comunicato Ufficiale (C.U.) N°100/CDN (2008–09)" (PDF). Commissione Disciplinare Nazionale (CDN) (in Italian). FIGC. 12 June 2009. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
↑ "C.U. N°52/CGF (2009–10)" (PDF). Corte di Giustizia Federale (CGF) (in Italian). FIGC. 23 October 2009. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
↑ http://www.nuovacosenza.com/sport/11/calcio/agosto/NcosenzaD.html
↑ http://www.lnd.it/index.php?page=user.news.selectNews&id=128775
↑ http://www.nuovacosenza.com/sport/12/calcio/gen/napoliOK.html
↑ http://www.soccerway.com/national/italy/serie-d/2011-2012/girone-i/
↑ http://www.soccerway.com/national/italy/serie-d/2011-2012/final-stages/
↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20140416181636/http://www.nuovacosenzacalcio.it/v1/index.php/news3/530-il-cosenza-e-in-lega-pro-guarascio-alla-fine-abbiamo-avuto-ragione. Archived from the original on April 16, 2014. Retrieved August 5, 2013. Missing or empty |title= (help)
↑ "Il nuovo marchio: c'è la storia, c'è il lupo, c'è Cosenza" (in Italian). Cosenza Calcio. 30 August 2013. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
↑ http://www.kennedyclub.org/album%20storia/Origini/origini.htm

External links

Official website

Lega Pro 2015–16 clubs

Girone A	AlbinoLeffe Alessandria Pavia Bassano Virtus Cremonese Südtirol FeralpiSalò Renate Mantova Torres Giana Erminio Lumezzane Savona Pordenone Cittadella Padova Virtus Entella Cuneo

Girone B	Ascoli Reggiana SPAL Arezzo Robur Siena Pistoiese Pisa Ancona L'Aquila Prato Tuttocuoio Carrarese Pontedera Santarcangelo Maceratese Pro Piacenza Lucchese Rimini

Girone C	Lecce Benevento Foggia Matera Juve Stabia Cosenza Casertana Catanzaro Ischia Fidelis Andria Akragas Lupa Roma Martina Franca Vigor Lamezia Melfi Paganese Monopoli Lupa Castelli

Lega Pro seasons

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Serie C1	1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08

Lega Pro Prima Divisione	2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14

Lega Pro	2014–15 2015–16

Football in Italy

Overview	National association League system List of clubs List of venues Records Scudetto Capocannoniere

International	Italy Under-21 Under-20 Under-19 Under-18 Under-17 Under-16 Under-15 Italy women

Leagues	Lega Serie A Lega Serie B Lega Pro Lega Nazionale Dilettanti Lega Calcio (defunct)

League competitions	Serie A Serie B Lega Pro Lega Pro Prima Divisione defunct Lega Pro Seconda Divisione defunct Serie D Eccellenza Promozione Prima Categoria Seconda Categoria Terza Categoria

Cup competitions	Coppa Italia Supercoppa Italiana Coppa Italia Lega Pro Supercoppa di Lega di Prima Divisione Supercoppa di Lega di Seconda Divisione Coppa Italia Serie D Coppa Italia Dilettanti

Youth competitions	Campionato Nazionale Primavera Coppa Italia Primavera Supercoppa Primavera Torneo di Viareggio Campionato Nazionale Dante Berretti

Women's competitions	Serie A Coppa Italia

Awards	Gran Galà del Calcio AIC Italian Football Hall of Fame

Miscellaneous	Totonero 1980 Totonero 1986 Italian Law 91/1981, Article 18B financial doping scandals 2006 Italian football scandal 2011–12 Italian football scandal 2015 Italian football scandal Foreign Serie A players Foreign Serie B players

Seasons	1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15

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