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The advance of Sampdoria in the italian football league structure since the golf club ‘s foundation garment in 1946. Unione Calcio Sampdoria, normally referred to as Sampdoria ( italian pronunciation : [ sampˈdɔːrja ] ), is an italian professional football club based in Genoa. The baseball club was formed in 1946 from the fusion of two existing sports clubs whose roots can be traced second to the 1940s, Sampierdarenese and Andrea Doria. Both the team name and colours reflect this, the first being a combination of the early names, the second gear incorporating the former teams ‘ colours ( blue-white and white-red-black ) in a one design. The team has a singular established home kit out design, which is blue with white, bolshevik and black bands across the center of the shirt, hence the dub blucerchiati ( “ blue-circled ” ). Sampdoria play at Stadio Luigi Ferraris, capacity 36,536, [ 1 ] which it shares with Genoa ‘s other club, Genoa Cricket and Football Club. The ferocious 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 achiever came when they won the Cup Winners ‘ Cup in 1990. They besides reached the european Cup final examination in 1992, losing the concluding 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 coach and contest. Andrea Doria did not participate in the first 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 competition 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 predict. During that season ‘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 finally began to compete in the italian Championship, after they took the place of Bolzaneto ‘s Associazione del Calcio Ligure a pre-war clubhouse of the province of Genoa ( in turn, Ligure was the heir of Liguria Foot Ball Club, a team founded in 1897 ). frankincense, Samp and Doria met in the championship for the inaugural meter ; Doria won in first-leg bet on ( 4–1 and 1–1 ), and they besides finished in second place 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 separate competitions that class excessively. Sampierdarenese played in the FIGC -run rival, whereas Andrea Doria played in the CCI variation. Sampierdarenese won the Liguria section and then went on to the semi-finals, finishing peak out of three clubs ; this led them to the final against Novese. Both legs of the final ended in 0–0 draws, frankincense a repeat match was played in Cremona on 21 May 1922. even intensely difficult to separate, the match went into extra-time with Novese finally winning the tie ( and the Championship ) 2–1. however, Sampierdarenese recriminated for the referee ‘s impart. 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 identify above their rivals and won one match 2–1, while Sampierdarenese were victorious 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 time under the list La Dominante by fascist authorities .
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Wearing green and black denude shirts, La Dominante Genova were admitted to the first ever season of Serie B, where they finished third base, barely missing out on promotion. The future temper, under the name Foot Ball Club Liguria, they had a black year, finishing bottom of the board and suffering relegation. Because of this, both Sampierdarenese and Andrea Doria reverted to their previous names as separate clubs. Sampierdarenese were back in Serie B for the 1932–33 season and finished in the upper berth contribution. The following year, they were crowned champions and were promoted into Serie A for the first base time. Andrea Doria, on the other bridge player, battled out the 1930s down in Serie C. On 15 July 1937 Sampierdarenese absorbed Corniglianese and Rivarolese, with the cabaret 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 former 1940s After World War II, both Andrea Doria and Sampierdarenese ( the identify Liguria was abolished in 1945 ) were competing in Serie A, but in a reverse of pre-war situations, Andrea Doria were now the lead club out of the two. however, on 12 August 1946, a amalgamation occurred to create Unione Calcio Sampdoria. The first president of this new cabaret was Piero Sanguineti, but the ambitious entrepreneur Amedeo Rissotto soon replaced him, while the beginning team coach during this time period was a valet from Florence named Giuseppe Galluzzi. To illustrate the clubs would be evenly represented in the fresh, merged club, a newly kit out was designed featuring the blue shirts of Andrea Doria and the white, crimson and black middle of Sampierdarenese. In the same calendar month of the amalgamation, the new club demanded they should plowshare the Stadio Luigi Ferraris ground with Genoa. An agreement was reached, and the stadium began hosting Genoa ‘s and Sampdoria ‘s home matches .
early years and the achievements in the Mantovani era ( 1946–1993 ) [edit ]
For about thirty years the Genoese played constantly in Serie A, with mix results, the best of which was in the 1960–1961 season, in which they obtained fourthly place in the championship. In the 1965–1966 season Sampdoria finished one-sixteenth, relegating to Serie B for the beginning time in its history ; however, the following year they won the second-tier backing and immediately returned to Serie A .
serbian Vujadin Boškov, pictured as a Sampdoria player in 1961, managed the team to their only Serie A claim 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 gear Coppa Italia in 1985. In 1986, Yugoslav Vujadin Boškov was appointed as the new steer coach. The cabaret won their second Coppa Italia in 1988, being admitted to the 1988–89 UEFA Cup Winners ‘ Cup, where they reached the final, losing 2–0 to Barcelona. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] A second consecutive triumph in the Coppa Italia gave Sampdoria a spot in the 1989–90 Cup Winners ‘ Cup, which they won after defeating Anderlecht after extra time in the final. [ 4 ] This was followed only one year by and by by their first base and only Scudetto, being crowned as Serie A champions with a five-point advantage over second-placed Internazionale. The winning team featured several noteworthy players, such as Gianluca Pagliuca, Gianluca Vialli, Roberto Mancini, Toninho Cerezo, Pietro Vierchowod and Attilio Lombardo, with Boškov as head coach. [ 5 ] In the be season, Sampdoria reached the european Cup final 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 amount of trophies and therefore far establishing the cabaret reputation in Europe .
decline and revival ( 1993– ) [edit ]
On 14 October 1993, Paolo Mantovani died abruptly and was replaced by his son Enrico. During his first season ( 1993–94 ), Sampdoria won one more Coppa Italia and placed third gear in Serie A. During the follow four seasons, many players from his beget ‘s tenure left the club 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 international 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 flight 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 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 one-sixth situation and qualified for the 2008–09 UEFA Cup. [ 9 ] The follow season, they came fourthly and qualified for the UEFA Champions League play-offs under director Luigi Delneri, who left for Juventus. [ 10 ] With the departures besides of CEO Giuseppe Marotta, and both Cassano and Pazzini, and the team being stretched by Champions League football, Sampdoria were relegated to Serie B after loss 2–1 at home to Palermo in May 2011. [ 11 ] In the following temper, Sampdoria won the playoffs after defeating varese 4–2 on aggregate in the play-off final 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 spot. [ 13 ] Sampdoria has been owned since June 2014 by the film producer Massimo Ferrero.
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Players [edit ]
current team [edit ]
- As of 21 November 2021.[14]
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Out on loanword [edit ]
- As of 10 September 2021
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early players under narrow [edit ]
- As of 20 September 2021
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managerial history [edit ]
Colours, badge and nicknames [edit ]
The club crest features a sailor in profile known by the old genoese name of Baciccia, which translates to Giovanni Battista in italian or John-Baptist in English. The picture of a boater is appropriate due to Sampdoria being based in the port city of Genoa. The precise design of the Baciccia came from a Disney -licensed and Panini -published amusing, Topolino, in 1980. Since 1980, the Baciccia has appeared on the shirts of Sampdoria, by and large on the chest of drawers but occasionally on the sleeve. [ 15 ] The white, amobarbital sodium, bolshevik and bootleg color represent the golf club ‘s origins with a fusion between two teams, Sampierdarenese and Andrea Doria, who wore respectively red/black and white/blue jerseys with a carapace with Saint-George intersect. [ 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 left 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 chief confirm with flags and flares comes from the southern 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 bluing. [ 18 ]
holocene seasons [edit ]
The recent season-by-season operation of the 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
–
6 (1929, 1940, 1966, 1977, 1999, 2011)
B
16
2011–12
6 (1934, 1941, 1967, 1982, 2003, 2012)
1 (1931)
C
1
1931–32
1 (1932)
never
90 years of professional football in Italy since 1929