U.S. Cremonese

Cremonese

Full name	Unione Sportiva Cremonese S.p.A.
Nickname(s)	I Grigiorossi (The Gray and Reds) Le Tigri (The Tigers)
Founded	24 March 1903; 118 years ago (1903-03-24)
Ground	Stadio Giovanni Zini
Capacity	20,641
Owner	Giovanni Arvedi
President	Paolo Rossi
Coach	Fabio Pecchia
League	Serie B
2020–21	Serie B, 13th of 20
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Unione Sportiva Cremonese, commonly referred to as Cremonese, is an Italian football club based in Cremona, Lombardy. It currently plays in Serie B.

Some of the famous players who played for Cremonese include Pasquale Vivolo, Antonio Cabrini, Gustavo Dezotti, Anders Limpar, Enrico Chiesa, Gianluca Vialli, Michelangelo Rampulla, Giuseppe Favalli, John Aloisi and Władysław Żmuda.

History[]

The performance of Cremonese in the Italian football league structure since the first season of a unified Serie A (1929/30).

Cremonese was in Serie A in its first season (1929–30) but entered a long period of decline, languishing in the lower leagues before the late 1970s. By 1984 they had achieved promotion to Serie A, with one-year spells in 1984–85, 1989–90 and 1991–92.

Cremonese had a successful run in the 1992/93 Anglo-Italian Cup, beating Bari 4–1 in the semi-final, and Derby County 3–1 in the final at the old Wembley Stadium: Cremonese's scorers were Corrado Verdelli, Riccardo Maspero and Andrea Tentoni, with Derby's goal scored by Marco Gabbiadini.

Under Luigi Simoni, Cremonese returned to Serie A in 1993. With a side containing quality in the form of defenders Luigi Gualco and Corrado Verdelli, midfield playmaker Riccardo Maspero and forwards Andrea Tentoni and Matjaž Florijančič, Cremonese held their own in Serie A with a 10th-place finish in 1993–94, but would be relegated in 1996.

Relegation resulted in the decline of the club, plummeting to Serie C2 by 2000 before achieving successive promotions back to Serie B by 2005. Giovanni Dall'Igna, another defender from the Serie A years, has since returned to the club. However, Cremonese were relegated to Serie C1 in the 2005/2006 season. Cremonese have tried to return to Serie B since: they had a good attempt in the 2009/10 season, when they were beaten by Varese in the promotion play-off final (2–1 on aggregate). Eventually they succeeded in 2017.

Honours[]

Divisional movements[]

Series	Years	Last	Promotions	Relegations
A	7	1995–96	-	5 (1930, 1985, 1990, 1992, 1996)
B	31	2021–22	4 (1984, 1989, 1991, 1993)	7 (1935, 1938, 1951, 1978, 1997, 1999, 2006)
C C2	43 4	2016–17	7 (1936, 1942, 1977, , , 2005, 2017) 1 ()	1 () 3 (1952, 1967, 1969)
85 out of 90 years of professional football in Italy since 1929
D	5		3 (, , )	Never

Players[]

Current squad[]

As of 11 September 2021

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 2 DF  ITA Alessandro Fiordaliso 3 DF  ITA Emanuele Valeri 4 GK  ITA Enrico Alfonso 5 MF  ITA Riccardo Collodel 6 DF  ITA Luca Ravanelli 7 FW  URU Jaime Báez 8 MF  ITA Filippo Nardi 9 FW  ITA Daniel Ciofani 10 FW  ITA Cristian Buonaiuto 11 FW  ITA Luca Strizzolo 12 GK  ITA Marco Carnesecchi (on loan from Atalanta) 13 DF  ITA Andrea Meroni (on loan from Sassuolo) 14 MF  ITA Luca Valzania (on loan from Atalanta) 15 DF  ITA Matteo Bianchetti 16 MF  ITA Paolo Bartolomei

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 MF  ITA Leonardo Sernicola (on loan from Sassuolo) 18 FW  ITA Luca Vido (on loan from Atalanta) 19 MF  ITA Michele Castagnetti 21 MF  ITA Nicolò Fagioli (on loan from Juventus) 22 GK  POL Dorian Ciezkowski 23 DF  ITA Alessandro Crescenzi 27 DF  FRA Daniel Frey 29 FW  ITA Samuel Di Carmine 32 DF  ITA Christian Dalle Mura (on loan from Fiorentina) 45 GK  SEN Mouhamadou Sarr 55 DF  ITA Caleb Okoli (on loan from Atalanta) 70 MF  ITA Gianluca Gaetano (on loan from Napoli) 94 MF  ITA Francesco Deli 98 FW  ITA Luca Zanimacchia (on loan from Juventus) 99 FW  ITA Marco Zunno

Out on loan[]

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  ITA Luca Munaretti (at Virtus Verona until 30 June 2022) — DF  ITA Emanuele Terranova (at Bari until 30 June 2022) — MF  ITA Christian Acella (at Giana Erminio until 30 June 2022) — MF  ITA Stefano Cella (at Virtus Verona until 30 June 2022)

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  ITA Francesco Cerretelli (at Pro Sesto until 30 June 2022) — MF  ITA Fausto Perseu (at Pergolettese until 30 June 2022) — FW  ITA Matteo Ghisolfi (at Grosseto until 30 June 2022) — FW  ITA Blue Mamona (at Fiorenzuola until 30 June 2022)

Coaching staff[]

Position	Name
Head Coach	Fabio Pecchia
Assistant Coach	Antonio Porta
Goalkeeper Coach	Ferdinando Coppola
Fitness Coach	Marco Antonio Ferrone
Physiotherapist	Andrea Gualteri Carlo Bentivoglio Alessandro Rivetti
Kinetotherapist	Cristian Freghieri
Chief Doctor	Diego Giuliani
Club Doctor	Fabrizio Frittoli
Video Analyst	Igor Quaia

External links[]

• Official website (in Italian)
• Profile at Serie B (in Italian)