S.S.C. Bari

S.S.C. Bari

The Football Club Bari was established by the town on the 15th of January 1908. Much like the majority of earlier Italian club football teams, foreigners participated in the formation for the team. Some of the most prominent founders were German Floriano Ludwig Swiss Gustavo Kuhn and the native trader from Bari known as Giovanni Tiberini.

The first players were non-Italian nationals and the FBC Bari originals included; the founder, Ludwig and Barther (English), Bach (Swiss), Attoma, Roth (Swiss), Labourdette (Spanish), Jovinet (French), Giordano, Gazagne (French), Randi and Ziegler. The club initially were wearing red shirts with shorts in white, and early they would play English sailors on Bari's San Lorenzo field in the San Pasquale area of Bari.

While the club was established at a young age and was a part of the Mezzogiorno were not popular in the initial Italian football championships , which is why Bari were not a part of the tournament in the first seasons. In reality, only Campania was a regional club within the league that was based in this region up to First World War. The conflict would see the first club disbanded after which it was reorganized in 1924, under similar names.

In the meantime, other clubs in the city were playing as well, such as Foot-Ball Club Liberty who originally had white and blue stripes and was founded as a club that was a rebel group of the first Bari from 1909 and they were a rival to Unione Sportiva Ideale who wore black and green stripes. The club was established in 1908. The club FBC Liberty who became the first ever team from the province of Bari to participate at the Italian Football Championship, this took place during the1921-22 CCI season, which was the time when the major clubs of the country were unable to compete out with FIGC. FIGC.

The next season, Ideale became the first team from Bari to reach the Southern Italian semi-finals round, however they lost to Lazio. Three clubs participated in the tournament for the first time in 1924-25, but FBC Bari were relegated and was disbanded in 1927. Liberty however was able to reach the Southern semi-finals, but lost significantly in the final to Alba Roma.

The 1926-1928 time frame was when the entire field of Italian football was changing. The sport was becoming more organized as well as mergers were being made within Naples, Florence and Rome in the same period. FBC Liberty opted to change their name to Bari FC and first used the name on February 6, 1927 during a match with Audace Taranto, then on 27 February 1928, Bari FC merged with US Ideale to form Unione Sportiva Bari. The initial US Bari shirts incorporated the stripes of Ideale and featured the white and red colors from FBC Bari.

Following following the Italian Championship of 1928-29, the league system was overhauled and Bari was moved to Serie B. Some of the players were picked to the Italy national team in this season to the first time as Raffaele Costantino. This resulted in Bari as the only Serie B side to provide as a player and scorer to the national team.

It was the 30s and 40s that were the Bari's golden years and they spent a lot of their of the time on Serie A with a final score of seventh in 1947 as the top they ever achieved.

In the 1950s, Bari experienced a rapid decline followed by an equally swift revival at the close of the decade. They then played three more seasons playing in Serie A (1958-61). The team's top players during the period comprised Biagio Catalano and Raul Conti. The club was back in Serie A twice more in the same time frame (1963-64 in 1969 and 1970) and both seasons were extremely difficult, with only 11 goals scored, which was the lowest of any club in the top division. In 1974, Bari dropped into Serie C, ending the season with just 12 goals that were scored and 26 conceded in 38 games.

In the latter part of the 1970s, Bari had returned to Serie B and on something of an upward trend and narrowly missed promotions in the year 1982. They were promoted up to Serie A in 1985 and purchased English player Gordon Cowans and Paul Rideout however they could not prevent the quick back into Serie B.

The return back to Serie A in 1989 with players like veteran defenseman Giovanni Loseto, midfielder Pietro Maiellaro and Brazilian striker Joao Paulo was able to secure a respectable 10th place finish in their final season in the Della Vittoria. The subsequent season was a time when Bari relocate towards their new stadium, the San Nicola stadium constructed to host it to host the World Cup in 1990. World Cup, but in 1992, despite their appointment to David Platt, and they were relegated yet again.

The 1994 promotion saw another two-year stint in Serie A with Igor Protti scoring the league's top goalscorer during the 1995-96, and a second promotion in 1997 saw the rise of promising youngsters such as Nicola Ventola, Gianluca Zambrotta, Antonio Cassano and Diego De Ascentis. The team was able to complete to stay for four years in Serie A under the guidance of Eugenio Fascetti despite his tense relationship with a lot of the support for the club. The club went on to have an indifferent time during its time in Serie B. Although, they were close to on the front in the Serie B table for much of the 2008-09 campaign, they received promotion into Serie A on 8 May 2009 under the direction under the direction of Antonio Conte.

A takeover offer was turned down. An Texas-based firm JMJ Holdings also gave an intention to acquire the company in August of 2009.

The team was comprised of Leonardo Bonucci and Andrea Ranocchia as centre-backs as well as Barreto for striker Bari had a good performance in the beginning of this season. In the end, Bari was ranked 10th. But, Bari lost EUR19 million during the 2009 financial year which means that Bari was not as active in the summer 2010 window (only Almiron and Ghezzal were new major signings, as was the acquisition Barreto Barreto following the expiration of his loan who injured his leg the middle of the season) and during the transfer window in January they were unable to find a replacement for Bonucci or Ranocchia. Bari was able to recover from a negative equity situation due to the growth in television revenue and also the selling to Bonucci (a loss in the amount of EUR6.45 millions). Bari has positive equity of EUR870.653 at the time of its 31st December 2010 closing and a net profit of 14 million for the year of 2010 due to the huge profits from the sale of the Bonucci brand.

Bari were dropped in Serie B after the season of 2010-11, which ended 17 points behind 17th-placed Lecce. In the course of the season that was under the management of Giampiero Ventura was replaced by Bortolo Mutti in a failed effort to keep Bari from being relegated. On the 4th of March, the 4th of March in 2011, Bari had its 1000th match on the field in Serie A.

On the 13th of June, 2011, the president Vincenzo Matarrese and the rest of the board of directors quit after more than 28 years in charge of the club. Vincenzo Torrente was appointed to run the club at the end of the season, and most of the roster was dismissed due to financial problems at the club. They were then replaced by youngsters. Despite a series of seven and six-point penalties the following 2 seasons Bari in the era of Torrente were capable of achieving the mid-table Serie B finishes however, in a shocking way, attendances continued decrease. The summer of 2013 saw Torrente quit and was replaced with Carmine Gautieri, who was also dismissed after two weeks. The top position was given by Roberto Alberti Mazzaferro.

The financial situation of the club deteriorated The Mattarese family slashed the amount they poured into the club. The club's debt peaked at EUR30m during February of 2014. The club declared bankrupt on the 10th of March 2014. Auction one of bankruptcy, held on 18 , April 2014, had to be declared abandoned because of the absence of a bid that satisfied all the criteria. Another auction that took place held on 12 May 2014, was unsuccessful in finding a bidder. The club was in serious risk of losing its identity.

A third auction for bankruptcy took place on May 20th, 2014 with a bid at the time of the auction of EUR2m. A consortium F.C. Bari 1908 S.p.A. headed by the former Serie A referee Gianluca Paparesta has successfully acquired the club's assets as well as the sports name. A great run of form at the end of the campaign, when the club only lost two of its fifteen Serie B matches, meant that Bari were able to qualify for this year's 2013-14 Serie B play-offs. Bari played Crotone in the quarterfinals and prevailed 3-0. This set the stage for a game against Latina the team that placed third on the table in regular-season. The initial leg of the play-off semifinals was a huge sell-out with more than 50,000 fans taking part in the match, which is an amazing feat considering that the attendance of less than 1000 only a few months prior. Bari were eliminated because of two draw (2-2 or 2-2).

In 2014-15 , the team finished the season 10th. In 2015-16, Bari was able to secure 5th place in the league. This was followed by participation in the play-off's preliminary fixture in the play-off final against Novara However, the team fell 4-4 in additional time during extra time at Stadio San Nicola.

Then, in December of 2015 Cosmo Giancaspro acquired 5 percent of Bari. In April 2016, Noordin Ahmad had signed a preliminari agreement to purchase 50 percent of the club, but the deal was canceled; in June of 2016 Cosmo Giancaspro took over as Director-only ( Italian: Amministratore Unico) of the club after the entire capital of shares were taken over by an Italian company called Kreare Impresa S.r.l. In the words of La Repubblica, Kreare Impresa was controlled by Giancaspro however both Giancaspro and the company were involved in an investigation into money laundering.

On 16 July 2018, Bari were excluded by Co.Vi.Soc. from participating in 2018–19 Serie B due to financial reasons. The shareholders also tried to recapitalize the club and appeal the exclusion to Collegio di Garanzia of Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI), however, it was rejected.

Thanks to the Article 52 of N.O.I.F., it was reported that Aurelio De Laurentiis, the owner of football club Napoli and film company Filmauro, had won the rights to establish a phoenix club of Bari and restart in 2018–19 Serie D. He also re-established the current Napoli in 2004. The new club will be named S.S.C. Bari, with De Laurentiis stating his intention to bring it back to Serie A as fast as possible. The club was subsequently assigned to Group I of 2018–19 Serie D, traditionally destined to teams from Sicily and Calabria.

On 23 August 2018, as part of a press conference, Aurelio De Laurentiis announced his eldest son, film producer Luigi De Laurentiis Jr., as the new Bari chairman.

Bari was promoted to Serie C at the end of the 2018–19 season. In the following seasons, the club was always touted as a major contender for promotion to Serie B.

In the 2019–20 campaign, Bari ended the season in second place behind Reggina, and then making all the way to the playoff final where they were defeated by Reggiana after extra time, thus missing on immediate promotion to the Italian second division. Following a fourth place finish in the next season, the club hired Michele Mignani as head coach and strengthened the squad even further: this proved to be successful, as Bari won the Group C and gained promotion to Serie B on 3 April 2022, with four games yet to go.

As of 22 July 2022

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	ITA	Pierluigi Frattali
3	DF	FRA	Guillaume Gigliotti
4	MF	ITA	Mattia Maita
5	DF	ITA	Daniele Celiento
6	DF	ITA	Valerio Di Cesare (Captain)
7	FW	ITA	Mirco Antenucci
8	MF	ITA	Raffaele Bianco
9	FW	ITA	Simone Simeri
10	MF	ARG	Rubén Botta
11	FW	ITA	Walid Cheddira
13	GK	ITA	Emanuele Polverino
14	MF	ITA	Andrea D'Errico
17	MF	ITA	Raffaele Maiello
19	FW	ITA	Cristian Galano
23	DF	ITA	Antonio Mazzotta
24	DF	ITA	Francesco Belli
25	DF	ITA	Raffaele Pucino
26	DF	ITA	Emanuele Terranova
29	MF	ITA	Manuel Scavone
31	DF	ITA	Giacomo Ricci
—	GK	ITA	Elia Caprile
—	DF	ITA	Leonardo Benedetti (on loan from Sampdoria)
—	DF	ITA	Marco Perrotta
—	DF	ITA	Moussa Manè
—	DF	ITA	Marco Bosisio
—	DF	FRA	Mehdi Dorval
—	DF	ITA	Francesco Vicari
—	MF	ITA	Carlo De Risio
—	MF	ITA	Lorenzo Lollo
—	MF	ITA	Manuel Marras
—	FW	ITA	Gianmarco Cangiano (on loan from Bologna)

The official history of the president of Bari from 1929 to today.

Bari have had numerous trainers and managers, in during certain seasons, they've been coached by co-managers Here is a list of those from 1928 to the present:

Serie B

• Champions: 1941–42, 2008–09

Serie C

• Champions: 1954–55, 1966–67, 1976–77, 1983–84, 2021–22

Serie D

• Champions: 1953–54, 2018–19

Mitropa Cup: 1

• Winners: 1990