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Foggia

Full name	Unione Sportiva Foggia SRL
Nickname(s)	Satanelli (little Satans)
Founded	1920
Ground	Stadio Pino Zaccheria, Foggia, Italy (Capacity: 25,000)
Chairman	Tullio Capobianco
Manager	Raffaele Novelli
League	Lega Pro Prima Divisione - B
2008-09	Serie C1/B, 4th
Home colours Away colours

Unione Sportiva Foggia is an Italian football club, based in Foggia, Apulia. The club was founded in 1920. Foggia currently plays in Lega Pro Prima Divisione, having last been in Serie A in 1995. The team gained some popularity in the 1990s when coached by Zdenek Zeman, because of its attacking, spectacular style of play, which brought Foggia continuously on the verge of UEFA Cup qualification.

Notable former players include Pasquale Padalino, Giuseppe Signori, Francesco Baiano, Brian Roy, Igor Kolyvanov, Igor Shalimov, Roberto Rambaudi and Dan Petrescu.

History

Foggia spent most of its history up to 1964 moving between the lower divisions. Promotion to Serie A in 1964 saw its first three-year spell in the top flight in what would be a decade and a half of continuous movement between Serie A and B. In their first season, a solid defence and excellent home record saw them into a credible 9th place. The following year a good defence was maintained but they slipped in the standings, and relegation came after three years.

A second promotion was achieved in 1970, and Foggia would be extremely unlucky to be relegated after one season. A return to Serie A in 1973 would see the team start well only for form to slip alarmingly in the second half of the season, with a corruption scandal adding insult to injury. Nevertheless, the club proved resilient enough to win another promotion in 1976 with a two-year spell. One of the club's more notable players in this period was midfielder Luigi Del Neri.

The 1980s saw Foggia fall into the lower leagues before a revival at the end of the decade. After promotion back to Serie B in 1989, Zdenek Zeman set the club up for another golden period. With Signori headlining the attack, Foggia secured the Serie B title in 1991. Season 1991-92 saw Foggia's all-attack philosophy make a major impression on Serie A, ending the season in 9th place although they suffered an 8-2 home defeat to champions Milan (after leading 2-1) on the final day. Despite the loss of Signori and others making team rebuilding necessary, the following two seasons saw Foggia maintain a mid-table position under Zeman, who would leave for Lazio in 1994.

The departure of Zeman was a huge blow, but in the first half of 1994-95 the team seemed to be doing well. An inexplicable collapse in form, however, saw the club's stay in Serie A come to an end after four years, and relegation to Serie C1 in 1998 and C2 in 1999 followed, making Foggia's decline one of the most rapid in recent times. After four years in Italy's fourth division, promotion to Serie C1 came in 2003 and has been followed by two mid-table seasons, whether a return to the upper levels of Italian football can be achieved remains to be seen.

In 2007 Foggia won the Serie C Italian Cup, and lost promotion to Serie B losing the playoff finals to Avellino after ending the regular season in fourth place.

Current first team squad

As of 2008-05-10¹

No. Position Player GK Michael Agazzi GK Antonio Castelli GK Gioacchino Cavaliere DF Marco Arno DF Giovanni Ignoffo DF Andrea Lisuzzo DF Nicola Mora DF Ivan Pedrelli DF Giuseppe Rinaldi DF Massimiliano Russo DF Gianluca Zanetti MF Tommaso Coletti MF Tommaso Colombaretti MF Tony D'Amico

No. Position Player MF Fabio Giordano MF Simone Groppi MF Fabio Roselli MF Ivan Tisci FW Giuseppe Agostinone FW Cristian Biancone FW Antonio Compierchio FW Marcos Ariel de Paula FW Umberto Del Core FW Nunzio Di Roberto FW Antonio Esposito FW Nicola Mancino FW David Mounard

Managerial history

Foggia have had many managers and trainers throughout the history of a club, in some seasons more than one manager was in charge. Here is a chronological list of them from 1923 onwards.²

Name Nationality Years Roberto Fini 1923–1928 Severino Rosso 1928–1929 Béla Karoly 1929–1932 Tony Cargnelli 1932–1933 Engelbert König 1933–1934 Silvio Stritzel 1934–1935 Giobatta Rebuffo 1935 Wilmas Wilhelm 1935–1936 Béla Karoly 1936–1937 Angelo Benincasa 1937–1939 István Fögl 1939–1940 Rudolf Plemich 1940 István Fögl 1940–1941 Rudolf Plemich 1941 Angelo Benincasa 1941–1946 Piero Andreoli 1946–1947 Lajos Politzer 1947–1948 Angelo Benincasa 1948–1949 András Kuttik 1949 Vincenzo Marsico 1949–1950 András Kuttik 1950 Vincenzo Marsico 1950–1951 Tony Cargnelli 1951–1952 Cesare Migliorini 1952 Vincenzo Marsico 1952–1953 Cesare Migliorini 1953–1954 Lajos Kovács 1954–1955 Leandro Remondini 1955 Vincenzo Marsico 1955–1959 Leonardo Costagliola 1959–1960 Paolo Tabanelli 1960–1961 Leonardo Costagliola 1961 Oronzo Pugliese 1961–1965 Egizio Rubino 1965–1966 Luigi Bonizzoni 1966–1968 Serafino Montanari 1968 Tommaso Maestrelli 1968–1971 Ettore Puricelli 1971–1972 Lauro Toneatto 1972–1974 Cesare Maldini 1974–1976 Roberto Balestri 1976 Ettore Puricelli 1976–1978

Name Nationality Years Cinesinho 1978–1979 Giorgio Sereni 1979–1980 Ettore Puricelli 1980–1981 Vasco Tagliavini 1981–1982 Fernando Veneranda 1982 Lamberto Leonardi 1982–1983 Lamberto Giorgis 1983 Romano Fogli 1983–1984 Ettore Puricelli 1984 Lamberto Giorgis 1984–1985 Graziano Landoni 1985 G.B. Fabbri 1985 Corrado Viciani 1985–1986 G.B. Fabbri 1986 Zdeněk Zeman 1986–1987 Roberto Balestri 1987 Pippo Marchioro 1987–1988 Roberto Balestri 1988 Giuseppe Caramanno 1988–1989 Zdeněk Zeman 1989–1994 Enrico Catuzzi 1994–1995 Delio Rossi 1995–1996 Tarcisio Burgnich 1996–1997 Domenico Caso 1997 Beniamino Cancian 1997–1998 Domenico Caso 1998 Lorenzo Mancano 1998–1999 Fabio Brini 1999 Piero Braglia 1999–2000 Lorenzo Mancano 2000 Ignazio Arcoleo 2000–2001 Bruno Pace 2001–2002 Carlo Florimbi 2002 Pasquale Marino 2002–2004 Giuseppe Giannini 2004–2005 Massimo Morgia 2005–2006 Giorgio Rumignani 2006 Silvano Fiorucci 2006 Stefano Cuoghi 2006–2007 Fulvio D'Adderio 2007 Salvatore Campilongo 2007–2008 Giuseppe Galderisi 2008 Raffaele Novelli 2008–current

Famous players

References

External links

• Official site

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