Como 1907

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Como
Logo Como 1907 2019.png
Full nameComo 1907 S.r.l.
Nickname(s)I Lariani
Founded1907
2005 (refounded)
2017 (refounded)
GroundStadio Giuseppe Sinigaglia
Capacity13,602
OwnerDjarum Group
Head coachGiacomo Gattuso
LeagueSerie B
2020–21Serie C Group A, 1st of 20 (promoted)
WebsiteClub website
Away colours
Third colours

Como 1907, commonly referred to as Como, is an Italian football club based in Como, Lombardy, Italy. The club currently plays in Serie B, the second tier of Italian football, following promotion from the 2020–21 Serie C season. The club was founded in 1907, and the team's colour is royal blue.[1]

Como were in Serie A in 2002–03; this was followed by three consecutive relegations that brought the team down in Serie C2 at the end of the 2004–05 season after having lost a playoff (2–1 on aggregate) to Novara Calcio, and being then even cancelled from Italian professional football because of bankruptcy. They were successively admitted to Serie D, the top level of non-professional football in Italy, where they spent three seasons before finally managing to win promotion back to Serie C2 in the 2007–08 season.[2] After a further bankruptcy in 2016, a new company re-founded the club in 2017 and was admitted to Serie D from 2017 to 2018 season.[3]

History[]

Como were first promoted to Serie A in 1949 and enjoyed a respectable four-year stay before relegation, the next 20 years were spent moving between Serie B and C but more often the former. A revival in the 1970s saw the club emerge as contenders for promotion to Serie A, this was achieved in 1975, but despite the best efforts of players such as Alessandro Scanziani they would last only a season. They would slump to C1 by 1978, but with a rebuilt team containing stars like Pietro Vierchowod would achieve successive promotions and a two-year stay in Serie A (1980���82).

Como managed another promotion to the top flight in 1984, with a five-year stint in Serie A proving the club's most successful period of recent times. The strikeforce of Dan Corneliusson and Stefano Borgonovo oversaw a 9th-place finish in 1986, which was repeated the following year with far fewer goals scored. The club's defence, led by hard man Pasquale Bruno, proved more than up to the task however. Relegation in 1989 precipitated a rapid decline, with Como spending most of the 1990s in Serie C1 with the exception of 1994–95. Former Chelsea and Tottenham goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini spent a year on loan at Como.

Bankruptcy and brief promotion to Serie B[]

The 21st century saw Como experience a brief revival. Promotion to Serie B in 2001 was marred by an appallingly violent incident in a game against Modena, resulting in captain being handed a three-year ban. They nonetheless managed promotion to Serie A in the 2002–03 season. However, the return to Serie A proved a major disappointment with the side in the bottom two all season, and a ban on games at the Sinigaglia after crowd violence. Successive relegations have caused financial difficulties; in December 2004 the club was declared bankrupted.[4] No investor was successful to take over the club (as the bid from Preziosi was denied[5]) thus the company "Calcio Como S.p.A." was liquidated. Thanks to FIGC regulation, a new entity Calcio Como S.r.l.[6] was allowed to admit into 2005–06 Serie D. The liquidator also found former chairman Enrico Preziosi had transferred some assets such as the contracts of the players to his new club Genoa, causing the financial failure of Como. They returned to the rebranded Serie C2, Lega Pro Seconda Divisione in 2008, after having won the Girone B of Serie D.[2] Como finally returned to Serie C1 (Lega Pro Prima Divisione) after promotion play-offs after defeating Rodengo Saiano with 1–1 aggregate and Alessandria with 4–1 aggregate. In 2015, Como finished fourth in the third-tier, now called Lega Pro. They qualified for the promotion play-offs and earned promotion to Serie B after beating Bassano Virtus in the two-legged final 2–0 on aggregate. They were relegated back down to Lega Pro the following season.

F.C. Como / Como 1907[]

New economic problems arisen in season 2016–17 obliging the club to be declared out of business and put in auction. At the fourth auction the assets of the club was acquired by Akosua Puni Essien, wife of the Ghanaian footballer Michael and first foreign businesswoman in Italian football (via a company F.C. Como S.r.l.).[7]

However, Italian Football Federation (FIGC) rejected the application of F.C. Como as the successor in the place of 2017–18 Serie C,[8] as the club did not fulfil all the criteria in the Article 52 of N.O.I.F.[9] At the start of season, another company Como 1907 S.r.l.[3] was admitted to 2017–18 Serie D instead, excising another sub-clause of the Article 52.[10][11]

After winning the Round B of Serie D, Como returned to professional football in 2019.

Players[]

Current squad[]

As of 31 January 2022.[12]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Italy ITA Davide Facchin
4 DF Italy ITA Matteo Solini
5 DF Italy ITA Davide Bertoncini
6 MF Italy ITA Alessio Iovine
7 MF Belgium BEL Moutir Chajia
8 MF Albania ALB Elvis Kabashi
9 FW Italy ITA Alessandro Gabrielloni
10 FW Italy ITA Massimiliano Gatto
11 MF Italy ITA Vittorio Parigini (on loan from Genoa)
12 GK Italy ITA
14 MF Italy ITA Alessandro Bellemo
17 MF Italy ITA Amato Ciciretti (on loan from Pordenone)
19 MF Spain ESP Álex Blanco
20 MF Italy ITA Antonino La Gumina (on loan from Sampdoria)
No. Pos. Nation Player
21 MF Italy ITA Tommaso Arrigoni
22 GK Italy ITA Luca Zanotti
23 DF Italy ITA Filippo Scaglia
24 DF Italy ITA Marco Varnier (on loan from Atalanta)
25 MF Italy ITA Filippo Nardi (on loan from Cremonese)
27 FW Italy ITA Alberto Cerri (on loan from Cagliari)
28 DF Italy ITA Luca Vignali (on loan from Spezia)
33 DF Italy ITA Andrea Cagnano
44 DF Cyprus CYP Nicholas Ioannou (on loan from Nottingham Forest)
55 MF Italy ITA Lorenzo Peli (on loan from Atalanta)
66 GK Italy ITA Stefano Gori (on loan from Juventus)
72 FW Italy ITA Ettore Gliozzi
98 MF Italy ITA Edoardo Bovolon

Out on loan[]

As of 31 January 2022

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
— DF Italy ITA (at until 30 June 2022)[13]
— DF Italy ITA (at Varese until 30 June 2022)[14]
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF Italy ITA Enrico Celeghin (at Renate until 30 June 2022)
— MF Morocco MAR Ismail H'Maidat (at Südtirol until 30 June 2022)

Notable former players[]

Further information: Category:Como 1907 players

Internationals[]

The following is a list of Como players that were international while playing for the team:[15]

Honours[]

Divisional movements[]

Series Years First Last Best result Promotions Relegations
A 13 1949-50 2002–03 6th (1950) Decrease 5 (1953, 1976, 1982, 1989, 2003)
B 35 1931-32 2021–22 Winner (1949, 1980, 2002) Increase 5 (1949, 1975, 1980, 1984, 2002) Decrease 7 (1935, 1963, 1978, 1990, 1995, 2004, 2016)
C
+C2 		34
+1		 2020–21 Winner (1931, 1968, , 2021)
3rd (2009 C2)		 Increase 8 (1931, , 1968, , 1994, , 2015, 2021)
Increase 1 (2009 C2)		 Decrease 3 (1936, 2005✟, 2017✟)
83 out of 90 years of professional football in Italy since 1929
D
+R 		5
+2		 2018–19 Winner (2008, 2019) Increase 3 (, 2008, 2019) never

References[]

  1. ^ Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio (2 October 2020). "Elenco delle società C.R. Lombardia" (PDF).
  2. ^ a b "Cosenza e Como, promozione in C2" (in Italian). Corriere dello Sport. 27 April 2008. Retrieved 27 April 2008.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ a b http://seried.lnd.it/download/serieD/comunicati/2017-18/cu_014.pdf[bare URL PDF]
  4. ^ "Ecco come salverò il Como". La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). 29 December 2004. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
  5. ^ "(Questioni relative al fallimento della società di calcio Como – n. 2-01566)". Camera dei deputati (in Italian). 30 June 2005. Archived from the original on 1 September 2011. Retrieved 20 June 2011.
  6. ^ "Como" (in Italian). Lega Pro. Archived from the original on 29 July 2010. Retrieved 7 August 2010.
  7. ^ "Il Como è di Lady Essien "Vi porteremo in serie B"".
  8. ^ "LEGA PRO: L'ESITO DEL CONSIGLIO DIRETTIVO" (Press release) (in Italian). Lega Pro. 3 July 2017. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  9. ^ "Comunicato Ufficiale N°191/A (2016–17)" [Press Release N°191/A (2016–17)] (PDF) (Press release) (in Italian). FIGC. 30 June 2017. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  10. ^ "Como 1907 ammesso in sovrannumero alla serie D intanto arriva il nuovo sponsor tecnico" (in Italian). Espansione TV. 2 August 2017.
  11. ^ "Serie D 2017/2018: I gironi" (Press release) (in Italian). Serie D. 11 August 2017. Archived from the original on 23 June 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
  12. ^ "Home Page".
  13. ^ "Alcione Serie D, dal Como arriva Chierichetti in prestito". 21 January 2022.
  14. ^ "Un under per la difesa: Benvenuto a Yuri Mendolia | Città di Varese".
  15. ^ "Como 1907, Como, football club".
  16. ^ "Primavera 3: Kristiyan Trenchev convocato dalla Nazionale Under-18 della Bulgaria". 19 March 2021.

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