This article is about the men ‘s association football club from Genoa, Italy. For the consort women ‘s football clubhouse, see U.C. Sampdoria ( women ) Association football club from Italy

Football club

The progress of Sampdoria in the italian football league structure since the baseball club ‘s foundation in 1946. Unione Calcio Sampdoria, normally referred to as Sampdoria ( italian pronunciation : [ sampˈdɔːrja ] ), is an italian professional football baseball club based in Genoa. The golf club was formed in 1946 from the amalgamation of two existing sports clubs whose roots can be traced rear to the 1940s, Sampierdarenese and Andrea Doria. Both the team name and colours reflect this, the first being a combination of the former names, the second gear incorporating the former teams ‘ colours ( blue-white and white-red-black ) in a single blueprint. The team has a singular established base kit design, which is aristocratic with white, loss and blacken bands across the center of the shirt, hence the nickname blucerchiati ( “ blue-circled ” ). Sampdoria fun at Stadio Luigi Ferraris, capacity 36,536, [ 1 ] which it shares with Genoa ‘s other baseball club, Genoa Cricket and Football Club. The cutthroat competition between the two teams is normally known as the Derby della Lanterna, and has been contested in Serie A for most of its history. Sampdoria have won the Scudetto once in their history, in 1991. The club has besides won the Coppa Italia four times, in 1985, 1988, 1989 and 1994, and the Supercoppa Italiana once, in 1991. Their biggest european success came when they won the Cup Winners ‘ Cup in 1990. They besides reached the european Cup final in 1992, losing the final 1–0 to Barcelona after extra-time .

history [edit ]

Sampierdarenese and Andrea Doria ( 1891–1927 ) [edit ]

Ginnastica Sampierdarenese was founded in 1891, opening its football section in 1899. Named to honour Andrea Doria, a club named Società Andrea Doria was founded in 1895, which increasingly focused itself on football prepare and competition. Andrea Doria did not participate in the beginning italian Football Championship which was organised by the italian Federation of Football ( FIF ) since alternatively they had enrolled themselves into a football tournament which was organised by the italian Federation of Ginnastica. The club finally joined the contest for the 1903 italian Football Championship, but did not win a game in the tournament until 1907, when they beat local rivals Genoa 3–1. It was not until 1910–11 that the club began to show promise. During that temper ‘s tournament, they finished above Juventus, Internazionale and Genoa in the Piedmont-Lombardy-Liguria section .
Andrea Doria players early photograph ofplayers After World War I, Sampierdarenese last began to compete in the italian Championship, after they took the invest of Bolzaneto ‘s Associazione del Calcio Ligure a pre-war club of the state of Genoa ( in turn, Ligure was the heir of Liguria Foot Ball Club, a team founded in 1897 ). therefore, Samp and Doria met in the championship for the first time ; Doria won in first-leg game ( 4–1 and 1–1 ), and they besides finished in second invest after Genoa in the Ligurian Championship, qualifying for the National Round. With the 1921–22 season, the italian top league was split into two competitions ; both of the clubs in Sampdoria ‘s history were in distinguish competitions that year besides. Sampierdarenese played in the FIGC -run competition, whereas Andrea Doria played in the CCI magnetic declination. Sampierdarenese won the Liguria section and then went on to the semi-finals, finishing top out of three clubs ; this led them to the final against Novese. Both legs of the final examination ended in 0–0 draws, therefore a repetition equal was played in Cremona on 21 May 1922. inactive intensely unmanageable to separate, the pit went into extra-time with Novese finally winning the tie ( and the Championship ) 2–1. however, Sampierdarenese recriminated for the referee ‘s lead. After the league system in Italy was brought back into one detail, Sampierdarenese remained stronger than Andrea Doria by qualifying for the league. By 1924–25, the clubs were competing against each other in the Northern League ; Doria who finished one place above their rivals and won one match 2–1, while Sampierdarenese were triumphant 2–0 in the other .

From La Dominante to Sampdoria ( 1927–1946 ) [edit ]

At the end of the 1926–27 season, Sampierdarenese and Andrea Doria merged for the first meter under the mention La Dominante by fascist authorities .
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Wearing fleeceable and black plunder shirts, La Dominante Genova were admitted to the inaugural ever season of Serie B, where they finished third, good missing out on promotion. The adjacent season, under the name Foot Ball Club Liguria, they had a black year, finishing bed of the table and suffering relegation. Because of this, both Sampierdarenese and Andrea Doria reverted to their previous names as branch clubs. Sampierdarenese were back in Serie B for the 1932–33 season and finished in the upper part. The follow class, they were crowned champions and were promoted into Serie A for the beginning clock. Andrea Doria, on the early hand, battled out the 1930s depressed in Serie C. On 15 July 1937 Sampierdarenese absorbed Corniglianese and Rivarolese, with the clubhouse adopting the name Associazione Calcio Liguria. This saw them reach fifth place in Serie A in 1939. In the early 1940s, the golf club was relegated but bounced straight back up as Serie B champions in 1941 .
Sampdoria in the late 1940s After World War II, both Andrea Doria and Sampierdarenese ( the name Liguria was abolished in 1945 ) were competing in Serie A, but in a reverse of pre-war situations, Andrea Doria were now the top club out of the two. however, on 12 August 1946, a fusion occurred to create Unione Calcio Sampdoria. The inaugural chair of this newly club was Piero Sanguineti, but the ambitious entrepreneur Amedeo Rissotto soon replaced him, while the first team bus during this period was a man from Florence named Giuseppe Galluzzi. To illustrate the clubs would be evenly represented in the new, merged club, a modern kit was designed featuring the blue shirts of Andrea Doria and the white, red and blacken middle of Sampierdarenese. In the same month of the amalgamation, the new club demanded they should share the Stadio Luigi Ferraris ground with Genoa. An agreement was reached, and the stadium began hosting Genoa ‘s and Sampdoria ‘s family matches .

early years and the achievements in the Mantovani earned run average ( 1946–1993 ) [edit ]

For about thirty years the Genoese played constantly in Serie A, with blend results, the best of which was in the 1960–1961 temper, in which they obtained fourthly stead in the championship. In the 1965–1966 season Sampdoria finished sixteenth, relegating to Serie B for the first time in its history ; however, the following class they won the second-tier backing and immediately returned to Serie A .
serbian Vujadin Boškov, pictured as a Sampdoria actor in 1961, managed the team to their only Serie A title in 1991 In 1979, the club, then playing Serie B, was acquired by oil businessman Paolo Mantovani ( 1930–1993 ), who invested in the team to bring Sampdoria to the top flight. In 1982, Sampdoria made their Serie A return and won their first Coppa Italia in 1985. In 1986, Yugoslav Vujadin Boškov was appointed as the fresh head coach. The club won their second Coppa Italia in 1988, being admitted to the 1988–89 UEFA Cup Winners ‘ Cup, where they reached the concluding, losing 2–0 to Barcelona. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] A second back-to-back triumph in the Coppa Italia gave Sampdoria a position in the 1989–90 Cup Winners ‘ Cup, which they won after defeating Anderlecht after excess meter in the concluding. [ 4 ] This was followed merely one year former by their first and only Scudetto, being crowned as Serie A champions with a five-point advantage over second-placed Internazionale. The winning team featured several celebrated players, such as Gianluca Pagliuca, Gianluca Vialli, Roberto Mancini, Toninho Cerezo, Pietro Vierchowod and Attilio Lombardo, with Boškov as capitulum coach. [ 5 ] In the play along temper, Sampdoria reached the european Cup concluding and were defeated once again by Barcelona, at Wembley Stadium. [ 6 ] Vujadin Boškov is recognised as one of Sampdoria ‘s most successful managers winning a record measure of trophies and thus far establishing the clubhouse repute in Europe .

decay and revival ( 1993– ) [edit ]

On 14 October 1993, Paolo Mantovani died abruptly and was replaced by his son Enrico. During his first temper ( 1993–94 ), Sampdoria won one more Coppa Italia and placed third in Serie A. During the come four seasons, many players from his forefather ‘s tenure left the clubhouse but many important acquisitions were made which kept Sampdoria in the top tier Serie A. This included the likes of Argentine internationals Juan Sebastián Verón and Ariel Ortega, and external midfielders Clarence Seedorf and Christian Karembeu. [ 4 ] In April 1995 Sampdoria reached the semi-final stage of the Cup Winners ‘ Cup, losing out to Arsenal on penalties after two legs .
Luigi Delneri managed Sampdoria to fourth place and Champions League qualification in 2010 In May 1999 Sampdoria were relegated from Serie A and did not return to the top trajectory until 2003. During this time, Sampdoria was acquired by Riccardo Garrone, an italian oil businessman. Sampdoria returned to Serie A in 2003 led by amulet Francesco Flachi, and ended their first season in one-eighth place. After several more top-half finishes, director Walter Novellino gave way to Walter Mazzarri in 2007. [ 7 ] With the signings of forwards Antonio Cassano from Real Madrid, [ 8 ] and Giampaolo Pazzini in January 2008, Sampdoria ended the 2007–08 season in sixth position and qualified for the 2008–09 UEFA Cup. [ 9 ] The surveil season, they came fourth and qualified for the UEFA Champions League play-offs under coach Luigi Delneri, who left for Juventus. [ 10 ] With the departures besides of CEO Giuseppe Marotta, and both Cassano and Pazzini, and the police squad being stretched by Champions League football, Sampdoria were relegated to Serie B after loss 2–1 at base to Palermo in May 2011. [ 11 ] In the pursuit season, Sampdoria won the playoffs after defeating varese 4–2 on aggregate in the play-off concluding in June 2012. [ 12 ] After sixth-placed rivals Genoa in the 2014–15 temper failed to obtain a UEFA license for the 2015–16 UEFA Europa League, seventh-placed Sampdoria took their spotlight. [ 13 ] Sampdoria has been owned since June 2014 by the film producer Massimo Ferrero .

Players [edit ]

current squad [edit ]

As of 13 December 2021.[14]

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Out on loanword [edit ]

As of 10 September 2021

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other players under contract [edit ]

As of 20 September 2021

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managerial history [edit ]

Colours, badge and nicknames [edit ]

The baseball club crest features a boater in profile known by the old genoese name of Baciccia, which translates to Giovanni Battista in italian or John-Baptist in English. The visualize of a sailor is appropriate due to Sampdoria being based in the port city of Genoa. The accurate design of the Baciccia came from a Disney -licensed and Panini -published comedian, Topolino, in 1980. Since 1980, the Baciccia has appeared on the shirts of Sampdoria, by and large on the thorax but occasionally on the sleeve. [ 15 ] The white, blue, loss and black coloring material represent the club ‘s origins with a fusion between two teams, Sampierdarenese and Andrea Doria, who wore respectively red/black and white/blue jerseys with a harbor with Saint-George cross. [ 16 ]

Supporters and rivalries [edit ]

Sampdoria fans in the Gradinata Sud of the Stadio Luigi Ferraris Sampdoria supporters come chiefly from the city of Genoa. The biggest group are Ultras Tito Cucchiaroni, named after an argentine bequeath winger who played for Sampdoria. The group were founded in 1969, making it one of the oldest extremist groups in Italy. They are apolitical, although there are smaller groups like Rude Boys Sampdoria, who are leftist. The main support with flags and flares comes from the southerly Curva, Gradinata Sud. Sampdoria ‘s biggest rivals are Genoa, against whom they play the Derby della Lanterna. [ 17 ] When Sampdoria were relegated from Serie A in 2011, more than 30,000 Genoa supporters staged a mock funeral procession through the streets of the city carrying a coffin draped in blue. [ 18 ]

late seasons [edit ]

The recent season-by-season performance of the baseball club :

Key

Honours [edit ]

domestic [edit ]

Serie A
Coppa Italia
Supercoppa Italiana

  • Winners (1): 1991
  • Runners-up (3): 1988, 1989, 1994

Serie B

european [edit ]

European Cup
European Cup Winners’ Cup
European Super Cup

friendly [edit ]

Wembley International Tournament

  • Winners (3): 1990, 1991, 1992

Amsterdam Tournament

  • Winners (1): 1988

Joan Gamper Trophy

  • Winners (1): 2012

divisional movements [edit ]

Series Years Last Promotions Relegations
A 73 2021–22 Decrease 6 (1929, 1940, 1966, 1977, 1999, 2011)
B 16 2011–12 Increase 6 (1934, 1941, 1967, 1982, 2003, 2012) Decrease 1 (1931)
C 1 1931–32 Increase 1 (1932) never
90 years of professional football in Italy since 1929

World Cup winners [edit ]

References [edit ]

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