History of US Salernitana 1919

The history of US Salernitana 1919, so renamed since 12 July 2012, officially started in 2011 as Salerno Calcio, following the collapse of Salernitana Calcio 1919 in Lega Pro Prima Divisione, based in Salerno, Campania. The previous incarnation of the club was founded in 1919 as Unione Sportiva Salernitana, changing its name to Salernitana Sport in 1978 and being refounded in 2005 with Salernitana Calcio 1919.

From 1919 to today

Unione Sportiva Salernitana Unione Sportiva Salernitana was founded on 19 June 1919 by Adalgiso Onesti, who initiated the merger of an older club using the same name; which itself was founded in 1911 by a merger of four local clubs; and Foot-Ball Club Salerno.

The club was known as Società Sportiva Salernitanaudax for a time during the 1920s.

Salernitana Sport In 1978 the club was renamed Salernitana Sport. It can be argued that Salernitana's best period as a club was 1997–1999. In the 1997–98 season, Salernitana topped Serie B and gained their second promotion to Serie A (first was in 1947–48). A young Marco Di Vaio led the scoring charts with 21 goals. In the 1998–99 season, their first in Serie A after 50 years, Salernitana fought hard and were led by Cameroonian international Rigobert Song and Salvatore Fresi in defense, a young Gennaro Gattuso in midfield, and Marco Di Vaio and David Di Michele leading the attack. They recorded surprise wins against Inter, Juventus, Roma and Lazio. They finished 1 point shy of salvation and were relegated.

Since then, the club did not manage to return to the top flight, and was excluded from Serie B in 2005.

Salernitana Calcio 1919 In the summer 2005 was established Salernitana Calcio 1919, a new club which started again from Serie C1. In 2008, Salernitana finally returned to Serie B as Serie C1/B champions, after mathematically securing the title on 27 April.

In the season 2009-10 the club was relegated to Lega Pro Prima Divisione with 6-point deduction for economic default.

In the summer 2011, it did not appeal against the exclusion of Covisoc and it is definitely excluded by the Italian football.

From Salerno Calcio to U.S. Salernitana 1919 On 21 July 2011 the new club of Salerno Calcio was founded in the city by the company Morgenstern S.r.l.; however, they were forced to give up their Salernitana Calcio 1919 name for the present one.

The club in the 2011–12 season was immediately promoted to Lega Pro Seconda Divisione winning the Group G of Serie D.

On 12 July 2012 the club was renamed U.S. Salernitana 1919.

Notable players

Presidential history Below is the complete presidential history of Salernitana, from when Adalgiso Onesti was first in place at the club in 1919 to 2011.  NameYearsAdalgiso Onesti1919–20Renato De Crescenzo1920–21Settimio MobilioRaffaele Schiavone1921–22Settimio Mobilio1922–23Adalgiso Onesti1923–24Settimio MobilioCarmine Caiafa1924–25Antonio ConfortiVittorio La Rocca1927–28Pasquale Pinto1928–29Luigi ConfortiEnrico Chiari1929–30Giovanni NegriEnrico Chiari1930–31Enrico Chiari1931–33Riccardo Gambrosie1933–34Enrico Chiari1934–36Savino Mione1936–37Giuseppe Carpinelli1937–40Eugenio Saligeri-Zucchi1940Matteo Scaramella1940–43 NameYearsFelice Del Galdo1944–45Domenico Mattioli1945–48Marcantionio Ferro1948–54Roberto Spirito1954–55Michele ScarmellaAchille Lauro1955–56Carmine De Martino1956–57Giuseppe Tortorella1957–58Matteo Guariglia1958–60Leopoldo Fulgione1960Pasquale Gagliardi1960–63Antonio D'AmicoMichele Scozia1963–64Michele Scozia1964–65Michele Gagliardi1965–67Giuseppe Tedesco1967–72Americo VessaAlfredo Caiafa1972–73Americo VessaGiovanni BenvenutoCesare Trucillo1973–74Americo Vessa1974–75 NameYearsPietro Esposito1975–76Pietro EspositoAldo Matera1976–77Enzo PaolilloGiovanni Benvenuto1977–78Enzo PaolilloVincenzo Grieco1978–79Antonio VenturaFederico De PianoVincenzo Grieco1979–80Filippo Troisi1980–82Antonio Scermino1983Arcangelo Japicca1983–85Augusto Strianese1985–87Giuseppe Soglia1987–91Franco Del Mese1991–94Aniello Aliberti1994–05Antonio Lombardi2005–2011Marco Mezzaroma2011–

Managerial history

Salernitana have had many managers and trainers running the team during their history, here is a chronological list of them from 1919 onwards.

 NameNationalityYearsVincenzo Giordano1919Raffaele Schiavone1919–21Toledo1921–22Ciminari1922–23Alfonso Guasco1923–24Willy Kargus1924–25Bellone1925Venturini1927–28Barone1928Finizio1928–29Apicella1929Géza Kertész1929–31Luigi Leone1931–32Mora1932Ivo Fiorentini1932–33Walter Colombati1933–34Imre Schoffer1934–35Buratti1935Armand Halmos1935–36Ferenc Hirzer1936–38Francesco Hansel1938–39Attila Sallustro 1939Béla Karoly1939–40Ferenc Hirzer1940–41Géza Kertész1941Antonio Valese1941Giuseppe Viani1941–43Milite1944Antonio Valese1944–45Vittorio Mosele1945Ferenc Hirzer1945Giuseppe Viani1945–47Pietro Piselli1948–50Arnaldo Sentimenti1950Walter Crociani1950–51Rodolphe Hiden1951–52Carlo Ceresoli1952–53Enrico Carpitelli1953–55Saracino1955Antonio Valese1955–56Saracino1956Paolo Todeschini1956–57Enrico Carpitelli1957Giovanni Varglien1957–58Nicolò Nicolosi1958–59Vittorio Mosele1959István Mike Mayer1959Pietro Piselli1959–60Ettore Puricelli 1960–61Di Gennaro1961–62Gyula Zsengellér1962Piero Pasinati1962–63Giunchi1963–64Rodolphe Hiden1964Riccardo Carapellese1964–65Rodolphe Hiden1965Rosati1965–66Oscar Montez1967Guido Settembrino1967–69Pietro Magni1969Sergio Piacentini1969–70Edi Gratton1970Rosati1970–71Giancarlo Vitali1971–72Nicola Chiricallo1972–73 NameNationalityYearsFranco Viviani1973–74Ettore Recagni1974–75Giacomo Losi1975Guido Settembrino1975Massimo Giacomini1975–76Ottavio Bugatti1976Carlo Regalia1976–77Lucio Muiesan1977Carlo Facchin1977Enea Masiero1977–78Lucio Muiesan1978Rosati1978–79Franco Viviani1979–80Antonio Giammarinaro1980Gigante1980Lamberto Leonardi1980–81Antonio Giammarinaro1981–82Romano Mattè1982Francisco Lojacono1982–83Marino Perani1983Mario Facco1983–84Gian Piero Ghio1984–86Giorgio Sereni1986Carmelo Russo1986–87Claudio Tobia1987–88Roberto Clagluna1988Carlo Soldo1988Giancarlo Pasinato1988–89Lamberto Leonardi1989Giancarlo Ansaloni1989–91Gianni Simonelli1991–92Tarcisio Burgnich1992Giuliano Sonzogni1992–93Delio Rossi1993–95Franco Colomba1995–97Franco Varrella1997Delio Rossi1997–99Francesco Oddo1999Adriano Cadregari1999Luigi Cagni1999–00Adriano Cadregari2000Francesco Oddo2000–01Nedo Sonetti2001Zdeněk Zeman2001–03Franco Varrella2003Stefano Pioli2003–04Aldo Ammazzalorso2004–05Angelo Gregucci2005Maurizio Costantini2005–06Stefano Cuoghi2006Raffaele Novelli2006Gianfranco Bellotto2007Andrea Agostinelli2007–08Fabio Brini2008–Bortolo Mutti2008–Fabrizio Castori2008–09Fabio Brini2009Marco Cari2009Gianluca Grassadonia2009–10Ersilio Cerone2010Roberto Breda2010-11Carlo Perrone2011-2012Giuseppe Galderisi2012Carlo Perrone2012-

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