italian affiliation football club based in Sassuolo

football club
Unione Sportiva Sassuolo Calcio, normally referred to as Sassuolo ( italian pronunciation : [ sasˈswɔːlo ] ), is an italian football club based in Sassuolo, Emilia-Romagna. [ 2 ] Their color are black and green, therefore the dub Neroverdi ( literally “ black and green ”, in italian ).

Founded in 1920, [ 3 ] Sassuolo have played in Serie A from the 2013–14 temper, joining a choose group of teams playing in the Serie A but not belonging to a provincial capital city : U.S. Savoia 1908 ( Torre Annunziata ), Empoli, Legnano, Pro Patria ( Busto Arsizio ), Carpi and Casale. [ 4 ] [ 5 ]

history [edit ]

The club was founded in 1920 and played in the Emilian amateurish divisions for most of its history until its first forwarding to Serie D in 1968. In this era, the baseball club merged with other local football teams to finally form the current US Sassuolo Calcio in 1974. In 1984, it first gained promotion to Serie C2, the lowest level of professional football in Italy. however, they were relegated again in 1990 and subsequently spent most of the decade back in Serie D. In 1998, a second-place polish ensured promotion back to Serie C2 .

Serie C1 [edit ]

Sassuolo reached Serie C1 for the foremost time in 2006 after winning the Serie C2 promotion play-offs by beating Sansovino in the final examination. In the pursue years, Sassuolo proved to be a good rival for forwarding to Serie B. With Gian Marco Remondina as fountainhead passenger car, they scantily missed it in 2007, as they lost immediate promotion to Grosseto in the final days of the season, finishing in second-place ; and then were defeated by fifth-placed Monza in the play-off semi-finals. Remondina then left Sassuolo to join Serie B ‘s Piacenza, and early Serie A musician Massimiliano Allegri was then chosen as new head coach. Under Allegri, Sassuolo cursorily revived their hopes to obtain promotion to Serie B ; this ultimately came on 27 April 2008, when they won the Serie C1/A claim, thus ensuring a historical forwarding to Serie B, the foremost in the club ‘s history. [ 6 ]

Serie B [edit ]

Following Sassuolo ‘s forwarding to the italian second tier, Allegri left Sassuolo to fill the head coaching status at Serie A team Cagliari. In July 2008, the club appointed former Atalanta and Siena boss Andrea Mandorlini for the 2008–09 season .
Sassuolo had a surprisingly good originate to the 2008–09 campaign and held a forwarding playoff place for very long time. They lone won two points in their final five matches to finally finish in seventh place. Despite a successful season, Mandorlini left Sassuolo by reciprocal accept in June 2009, whereupon the team then appointed early Piacenza coach Stefano Pioli on 11 June 2009. Sassuolo successively qualified to the Serie B promotion playoffs in 2009–10 by placing fourth, and 2011–12 in third base, being eliminated at the semi-finals in both seasons. In the 2012–13 season, however, under the guidance of new point passenger car Eusebio Di Francesco, Sassuolo played a majority of the season in first space in the table, and finally secured direct promotion with a 1-0 victory over Livorno on 18 May 2013. At the stopping point of the season, Sassuolo had won the Serie B title and had ensured a first top-flight crusade ever for the 2013–14 season. The baseball club had reached the highest level of the italian football league system lone seven years after playing in Serie C2. The key role that was played in this accomplishment by 18-year-old academy product Domenico Berardi saw the player win the league ‘s Player of the Year prize .

Serie A [edit ]

During pre-season train in July 2013, Sassuolo won the TIM Trophy after losing to Juventus on penalties then beating Milan 2–1, marking the first base clock time a team other than Milan, Internazionale or Juventus have won the Cup .
On 25 August 2013, Sassuolo played their first-ever Serie A match, a 2–0 loss off at Torino. [ 7 ] The team ‘s second catch was their first at home, against Livorno, where striker Simone Zaza scored Sassuolo ‘s first top-flight goal as they lost 4–1. [ 8 ] On 22 September 2013, Sassuolo endured a heavy 7–0 kill at home to Internazionale. The team earned their first detail in their fifth couple, on 25 September away to Napoli. Zaza equalised as the game finished 1–1, ending the hosts ‘ perfective startle to the season. [ 9 ] This was followed by a first family target on 29 September, a 2–2 describe with Lazio. [ 10 ] On 20 October 2013, Sassuolo won their first Serie A crippled, defeating Bologna 2–1 at home with goals from Domenico Berardi and Antonio Floro Flores, moving the baseball club off bottom space. [ 11 ] Sassuolo won away for the beginning time in Serie A on 3 November against Sampdoria, with Berardi scoring their first top-flight hat-trick to win 4–3. [ 12 ] Since the watch equal, a 1–1 string at Roma on 10 November, the club has been outside the relegation partition. [ 13 ] On 12 January 2014, Berardi was the only actor in the season to score four goals in a game, as Sassuolo came from 2–0 down to win 4–3 against Milan. [ 14 ] Towards the end of January 2014, Sassuolo were in penetrate place and indeed director Di Francesco was relieved of his duties and Alberto Malesani was brought in. The managerial change did not have the desired effects and so in early March, Sassuolo re-entrusted the slope to the management of Di Francesco. Sassuolo won its away pit against Fiorentina 4–3 on 6 May 2014, and after winning 4–2 against Genoa on 11 May, Sassuolo guaranteed its place in Serie A for the 2014–15 season. Berardi finished in equal seventh plaza in the Serie A top scorers number, with 16 goals for the season. The Neroverdi had a a lot better 2014–15 Serie A season, finishing comfortably beyond delegating in 12th place. Berardi was once more the club ‘s clear goalscorer with 15 league goals. Sassuolo improved again in the 2015–16 Serie A temper, finishing ahead of the likes of Milan and Lazio in one-sixth place. The season included an open day win over Napoli, [ 15 ] a Round 10 1–0 victory over Juventus at Mapei Stadium [ 16 ] and a 1–0 victory over Inter at the San Siro. [ 17 ] On 21 May 2016, Sassuolo achieved their inaugural ever Europa League reservation after finishing sixth in 2015–16 courtesy of a Juventus Coppa Italia win over Milan as Milan would have gone to Europe alternatively if they had won the final. [ 18 ] On 25 August 2016, Sassuolo qualified for the Europa League group stage after beating Red Star Belgrade 4–1 on sum in the playoff round. [ 19 ]

Over the follow three seasons, the Neroverdi returned to mid-table, ending the 2016–17 season in 12th military position, and then the club followed this up with back-to-back eleventh seat finishes in 2018 and 2019, arsenic well being knocked out in the round of 16 in three consecutive Coppa Italia campaigns. In the home match against Lazio on 25 February 2018, club captain Francesco Magnanelli made his four-hundredth appearance for Sassuolo since joining the club ‘s in its most holocene enchantment in Serie C2 in 2005, having led the Neroverdi through three promotions and besides playing in european competition in that time. [ 20 ] On 13 June 2018, Roberto De Zerbi was appointed as coach, after impressing with his possession-based tactics at relegated Benevento in the previous season. [ 21 ] The 2019–20 season oversaw an improvement in Sassuolo ‘s fortunes. The clubhouse concluded the season in 8th status, merely outside the final stipulate stead for the UEFA Europa League, marking only the second top-half Serie A finish in its history. A primary reason for Sassuolo ‘s growth was due to De Zerbi ‘s innovative, attack-minded style of bring, which began to flourish and led to a record-breaking Serie A goal return of 69, the most fecund the club has been since promotion in 2013. [ 22 ] The transmit of Francesco Caputo from Empoli in the preceding off-season was peculiarly crucial to this, as the striker ended the campaign with 21 league goals, and wingers Jérémie Boga and Domenico Berardi besides achieved double-figure goal tallies. [ 23 ] The cabaret continued its development as a circus tent 10 team in Serie A in the be season, in which the record of 61 points in 2015–16 was broken with another eighth place finish on 62 points. After eight matches, Sassuolo was placed second in the postpone, which in part was the solution of the excellent form of the likes of Berardi, Manuel Locatelli, Filip Đuričić, amongst others. An impressive 2-0 away win against Napoli on matchday six was possibly the best observation of this impressive early-season shape. [ 24 ] Although the club ‘s shape declined slightly in the mid-stage of the season, a 2-0 victory over Lazio on the final examination matchday meant that Sassuolo reached the same points total as Roma in 7th place, but narrowly missed out on european qualification on goal difference. [ 25 ] Berardi, in his eighth professional season with the cabaret, enjoyed the best class of his career with 17 league goals and his doubly in a 3-1 against Fiorentina on 17 April 2021 mean that he had reached 100 goals in all competitions for the Neroverdi. [ 26 ] De Zerbi announced he would leave the clubhouse at the end of the season to take up the vacant head coach side at Shakhtar Donetsk. [ 27 ] On 11 July 2021, Sassuolo ’ s Manuel Locatelli, Domenico Berardi and Giacomo Raspadori were region of the Italy national police squad that defeated England in the UEFA Euro 2020 final examination. [ 28 ]

Stadium & Kit [edit ]

Sassuolo ‘s home stadium is the Stadio Enzo Ricci in Sassuolo, still used by the golf club for discipline, but due to its bantam capacity ( 4,000 ) the club played Serie B seasons in Modena ‘s Stadio Alberto Braglia. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] Starting from the 2013–14 season, the first Serie A crusade for the club, Sassuolo plays in Reggio Emilia at the refurbish Mapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore ( once Stadio Giglio ) in a venue-sharing agreement with Lega Pro Prima Divisione baseball club Reggiana. [ 31 ] The stadium was besides bought by the rear company of Sassuolo, Mapei. [ 32 ] Sassuolo ‘s celebrated green kit out originates from a contribution from English side Lancaster Rovers FC. During a tour of Italy in 1921, the Rover ‘s side were unable to fulfil a fastness with Sassuolo and as a way of apology, donated their fleeceable shirts for Sassuolo to keep. [ 33 ]

Players [edit ]

current police squad [edit ]

As of 13 December 2021 [34]

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other players under condense [edit ]

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Out on lend [edit ]

As of 3 September 2021

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youth sector [edit ]

Managers [edit ]

recent seasons [edit ]

Honours [edit ]

Winners: 2008

In Europe [edit ]

References [edit ]