Brindisi Football Club is an Italian association football club located in Brindisi, in the region of Apulia in southern Italy.
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| Founded | 1912 | ||
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| Ground | Stadio Franco Fanuzzi, Brindisi, Italy | ||
| Capacity | 7,600 | ||
| Chairman | Daniele Arigliano | ||
| Manager | Nicola Losacco | ||
| League | Serie C Group C | ||
| 2023–24 | Serie C Group C, 20th of 20 (relegated) | ||
| Website | Club website | ||
History
Brindisi was founded in 1912 as F.B. Brindisi 1912 and refounded in 1990 and then refounded in 2004 and then refounded in 2011 and then refounded in 2015 with the current name.
Brindisi Calcio
The team played in Serie C2 in the 2003–04 season. At the end of the year, the team went bankrupt and the new club was placed in Eccellenza.
F.B. Brindisi 1912
In the 2004–05 season of Eccellenza Apulia, Brindisi placed second, qualifying for the national playoffs. The team won its two rounds in the playoffs, thus winning promotion to Serie D.
For the next 4 season, the team played in Serie D. In the 2008–09 season, Brindisi clinched first place in Girone H, thus gaining direct promotion to Lega Pro Seconda Divisione.
In summer 2011, it did not appeal against the exclusion of Covisoc.
S.S.D. Città di Brindisi
The club is restarted in Serie D with the new denomination of Società Sportiva Dilettantistica Città di Brindisi.[1] It went bankrupt in only four years.
New Brindisi
Real Paradiso Brindisi in Prima Categoria created the new Brindisi in 2015.Following the club promotion in Serie C at the end of the 2022/2023 season, they reached professional football again and dropped the "SSD" ("Società Sportiva Dilettantistica", which means "Amateur Sports Club" in italian) in their name, being for the first time in 33 years a fully professional football club again.
Current squad
- As of 7 February 2024
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | GK |  ITA | Ivan Saio (on loan from Sampdoria) |
| 23 | MF | ITA | Vincenzo Spingola (on loan from Cosenza) |
| 26 | DF | ITA | Tommaso Merletti |
| 27 | DF | ITA | Marco Calderoni |
| 29 | FW | ITA | Marcello Trotta |
| 30 | FW | ITA | Gianmarco De Feo |
| 33 | DF | ITA | Luca Falbo (on loan from Avellino) |
| 34 | DF | ITA | Davide Galazzini |
| 36 | MF | ITA | Carlo Martorelli |
| 44 | FW | ITA | Mattia Pagliuca (on loan from Bologna) |
| 55 | DF | ITA | Ciro Cipolletta |
| 70 | FW |  NGA | Malik Olalekan Opoola (on loan from Carrarese) |
| 73 | MF | ITA | Niccolò Bagatti (on loan from Novara) |
| 77 | FW | ITA | Patrizio Zerbo |
| 90 | FW | ITA | Lorenzo Grassi (on loan from Fermana) |
Colors and badge
Its colors are white and blue.
Honours
- Coppa Italia Serie C
- Winners (1): 2002–03
References
External links
- Official website (in Italian)