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Benevento Calcio, commonly referred to as Benevento is an Italian football club that is based within Benevento, Campania. The club was founded in 1929 before being revived in 2005. They currently play within Serie B, having been exiled out of Serie A in the 2020-21 season.

1. History

Benevento Calcio

1.1. Early history

The club was established as Associazione Calcio Benedevento in 1929. Their first home was the Meomartini that was constructed in 1929 by Ciccio Minocchia.

After climbing up the lower divisions of the country during the early times, Benevento reached Prima Divisione which was Italy's third-highest professional league in the season 1934-1935. They finished ahead of teams like Reggina in their debut season in the league. While they didn't win the promotion into Serie B, the team was still in the third level of Italian football during the 1935-36 season. They were reorganized into a smaller 64-team league named Serie C.

1.2. 21st century

Club F.C. Sporting Benevento S.r.l. was dissolved in 2005. The club was also formed at the time Benevento Calcio S.p.A. was formed, with similar stadium facilities and equipment.

The 2007/08 Serie C2 regular season the team was 1st in Girone C, winning direct transfer to the now-called Lega Pro Prima Divisione to play in the season 2008-2009. In the 2008-09 campaign, Benevento's first season as a member of Lega Pro Prima Divisione, they finished 2nd. This meant that Benevento was in a play-off with two legs. They had won their first play-off with two legs and fell to Crotone at 1-0 (2-1) at aggregate at the end of their final.

Gaetano Auteri was named the head coach during the season 2015-16. This season, Benevento won its league and made it to Serie B for the first time in its history. The mathematical certainty came on the 30th April, 2016 after the team beat Lecce 3-1.

On June 8, 2017 Benevento was elevated to Serie A, for the first time in their history after beating Carpi during the Serie B play-offs 1-0 on average, and amazingly securing the promotion after their debut campaign with Serie B. The team struggled during its premier-flight debut during the 2017-18 season, as Benevento established a record for the most disastrous season start in any of the top five leagues in Europe with a loss in the fourteen first Serie A matches. The streak came to an end on December 2017 with an equalizing header in the 95th minute by goalkeeper Alberto Brnoli to earn an 2-2 draw at home with A.C. Milan. Benevento's tenure as a member of Serie A lasted one season and they were eliminated following an unlucky finish. However, there was a noticeable improvement in their form following their poor start to the season. eventually winning six out of their 23 matches.

On June 22, the 22nd of June, Benevento appointed Filippo Inzaghi as the new manager. In June 2020, with seven games remaining for the current league campaign the club was promoted back to the first division of Italian football following a dazzling Serie B campaign.

Benevento's second campaign with Serie A was again unsuccessful and ended with another relegation. However, the club was more successful and performed well in the beginning of this season. At the midway point of the season, Benevento had won six matches and was in 10th place, looking good-placed to finish in the mid-table. But a major decline in performance between January and the end of the season with only scoring 16 goals and only winning one of the last 22 games which meant the club was relegated to Serie B for the 2021-22 season. Benevento ended up finishing in 18th position, having less then Torino in the final position of non-relegation.

2. Colours and badge

The team's colors are red and yellow, and their emblem is stripes of yellow and red, as well as their black logo of the witch riding on a blow broom. Benevento is known as by the Stregoni, Italian for sorcerers and sometimes they are called their nickname is Streghe, Italian for witches in reference to the myths that date back to the 13th century about Witches in Benevento.

 

3. Stadium

Benevento hosts their home games at Stadio Ciro Vigorito. The stadium was built on ground in the year 1976, and was officially opened in 1979. It can accommodate up to 25,000 spectators.

The stadium was initially named Santa Colomba but was renamed in honor of Ciro Vigorito, the brother of the club's the president Oreste Vigorito. Ciro was an entrepreneur who made a name for himself and sports director who was the managing director, and supervised the youth section in Benevento from 2006 until his death in 2010.

4. Players

Detail of the players as below mentioned.

 

4.1. Current squad

As of 26 July 2022

No. Pos. Nation Player
3 DF Italy ITA Gaetano Letizia
4 MF Italy ITA Gennaro Acampora
8 MF Colombia COL Andrés Tello
11 FW Brazil BRA Diego Farias
12 GK Italy ITA Nicolò Manfredini
15 DF Poland POL Kamil Glik
16 MF Italy ITA Riccardo Improta
18 DF Belgium BEL Daam Foulon
19 MF Italy ITA Roberto Insigne
23 MF Moldova MDA Artur Ioniță
24 MF Italy ITA Mattia Viviani
26 FW Italy ITA Bruno Umile
29 GK Italy ITA Alberto Paleari
32 DF Italy ITA Edoardo Masciangelo
38 MF Italy ITA Angelo Talia
58 DF Italy ITA Christian Pastina
88 FW Italy ITA Francesco Forte
93 DF Italy ITA Federico Barba
DF Italy ITA Riccardo Capellini
DF Morocco MAR Hamza El Kaouakibi
MF Ivory Coast CIV Siriki Sanogo
MF Sweden SWE Nermin Karić
MF Greece GRE Ilias Koutsoupias (on loan from Virtus Entella)
MF Italy ITA Dejan Vokić
FW Italy ITA Antonino La Gumina (on loan from Sampdoria)

4.2. Out on loan

No. Pos. Nation Player
DF Italy ITA Francesco Rillo (at Potenza until 30 June 2023)
MF Italy ITA Vincenzo Alfieri (at Recanatese until 30 June 2023)
FW Italy ITA Enrico Brignola (at Cosenza until 30 June 2023)
FW Italy ITA Gabriele Moncini (at SPAL until 30 June 2023, obligation to buy)

5. Coaching staff

Position Name
Head Coach Italy Fabio Caserta
Assistant Coach Italy Maurizio D'Angelo
Goalkeeper Coach Italy Gaetano Petrelli
Fitness Coach Italy Luca Alimonta
Fitness Coach Italy Daniele Cenci
Physiotherapist Italy Ernesto Galliano
Physiotherapist Italy Luca Lepore
Physiotherapist Italy Simone Sigillo
Physiotherapist Italy Claudio Patti
Chief Doctor Italy Franco De Cicco
Club Doctor Italy Stefano Salvatori
Club Doctor Italy Rafaele Fuiano
Osteopath Italy Giuseppe Nota
Technical Collaborator Italy Simone Baggio
Video Analyst Italy Simone Bonomi

6. Notable former managers

  • Italy Giuseppe Zilizzi (1935–36)
  • Italy Giuseppe Viani (1945–46)
  • Argentina Francisco Lojacono (1974–75)
  • Italy Gastone Bean (1981–83)
  • Italy Giuseppe Materazzi (1984–85)
  • Italy Adriano Lombardi (1995–96)
  • Italy Massimo Silva (1996–98)
  • Italy Nello Di Costanzo (2002–04)
  • Italy Giovanni Simonelli (2006–08)
  • Italy Antonio Soda (2008–09)
  • Italy Leonardo Acori (2009)
  • Italy Andrea Camplone (2009–10)
  • Italy Leonardo Acori (2010)
  • Italy Giuseppe Galderisi (2010–11)
  • Italy Giovanni Simonelli (2011)
  • Italy Carmelo Imbriani (2011–12)
  • Italy Guido Ugolotti (2012–13)
  • Italy Guido Carboni (2013–14)
  • Italy Gaetano Auteri (2015–16)
  • Italy Marco Baroni (2016–17)
  • Italy Roberto De Zerbi (2017–2018)
  • Italy Cristian Bucchi (2018–2019)
  • Italy Filippo Inzaghi (2019–2021)
  • Italy Fabio Caserta (2021–)

7. Honours

Serie B

  • Winners: 2019–20
  • Play-off winner: 2016–17

Serie C

  • Winners: 2015–16

Serie C2

  • Winners: 2007–08 Group C

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