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Benevento

Full name	Benevento Calcio S.R.L
Nickname(s)	I Stregoni (The Sorcerers)
Founded	1929; 89 years ago (1929) 2005; 13 years ago (2005) (re-founded)
Ground	Stadio Ciro Vigorito, Benevento, Italy
Capacity	17,554[citation needed]
President	Oreste Vigorito
Manager	Cristian Bucchi
League	Serie B
2017–18	Serie A, 20th (relegated)
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

Benevento Calcio is an Italian association football club based in Benevento, Campania. The club was originally founded in 1929 and then re-founded in 2005. They currently compete in Serie B. Benevento has played in the Serie A, the top flight of Italian football, only once in its history, in the 2017-18 season.

History

Early history

The club was founded as Associazione Calcio Benevento in 1929,^[1] their original home was the Meomartini which was built by Ciccio Minocchia.^[2]

After working their way up the country's lower divisions during their early years, Benevento reached Prima Divisione, Italy's third highest professional league at the time, in the 1934–35 season. They finished above clubs such as Reggina during the club's first season within the league. Although they did not win promotion to Serie B, the team did remain in the third tier of Italian football for the 1935–36 season, re-organized to a smaller 64-team league renamed Serie C.

21st century

The club F.C. Sporting Benevento S.r.l. folded in 2005. At the same time Benevento Calcio S.p.A. was founded.

In the 2007–08 Serie C2 regular season the team finished first in Girone C, winning direct promotion to the now called Lega Pro Prima Divisione for the 2008–09 season. In the 2008–09 season, Benevento's first season in Lega Pro Prima Divisione, they finished in 2nd place. This meant Benevento would be in a two-legged play-off. They won their first two-legged play-off, but lost to Crotone 1–0 (2–1) on aggregate in the final.

Gaetano Auteri was appointed as the head manager for the 2015–16 season. In this season, Benevento won its league and reached Serie B for the first time in its history. The mathematical certainty arrived on 30 April 2016, after defeating Lecce 3–0.^[3]

On 8 June 2017, they were promoted to Serie A, for the first time in their history, after defeating Carpi in the Serie B play-offs 1–0 on aggregate.^[4] They set a record for the worst start to a season in any of Europe's top five leagues by losing their first 14 Serie A matches.^[5] This streak ended on 3 December 2017, with a 95th minute equalising header from goalkeeper Alberto Brignoli for a 2–2 home draw against A.C. Milan.^[6][7] Benevento's time in Serie A lasted one season and were relegated after a last-place finish in Serie A.

Colours and badge

The team's colors are yellow and red, and their badge features red and yellow stripes and the black image of a witch riding a broom. Benevento are nicknamed the Stregoni, Italian for sorcerers, or occasionally, the Streghe, Italian for witches, a reference to the legends dating to the 13th century of the witches of Benevento.

Current squad

As of 6 August 2018^[8]

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Christian Puggioni 2 DF Luca Sparandeo 3 DF Gaetano Letizia 4 MF Lorenzo Del Pinto 5 DF Luca Antei 6 DF Jean-Claude Billong 7 DF Gianluca Di Chiara 8 MF Andrés Tello 9 FW Massimo Coda 10 MF Nicolas Viola 11 DF Christian Maggio (captain) 12 GK Lorenzo Montipò (on loan from Novara) 13 DF Alessandro Tuia 14 DF Massimo Volta (on loan from Perugia) 15 DF Andrea Costa 16 FW Riccardo Improta 17 FW Cristian Buonaiuto (on loan from Perugia)

No. Position Player 18 DF Bright Gyamfi 19 FW Roberto Insigne (on loan from Napoli) 20 MF Martin Bukata 21 MF Cy Goddard 22 GK Pier Graziano Gori 23 MF Antonio Nocerino 25 MF Filippo Bandinelli (on loan from Sassuolo) 26 FW Antonio Santarpia 27 FW Federico Ricci (on loan from Sassuolo) 28 MF Giovanni Volpicelli 29 FW Raúl Asencio (on loan from Genoa) 30 FW Biagio Filogamo

Out on loan

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

No. Position Player 17 FW Pietro Iemmello (at Foggia) — MF Guilherme (at Yeni Malatyaspor) — FW Samuel Armenteros (at Portland Timbers)

Notable former players

Notable former managers

References

External links

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  (in Italian) Benevento Calcio official website