Brindisi FC

Founded	1912
Ground	Stadio Franco Fanuzzi, Brindisi, Italy
Capacity	7,600
Chairman	Daniele Arigliano
Manager	Ciro Danucci
League	Serie C Group C
2022–23	Serie D Group H, 1st of 18 (promoted)
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

Brindisi Football Club is an Italian association football club located in Brindisi, in the region of Apulia in southern Italy.

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 1 GK   ITA Vittorio Antonino 2 DF   ITA Antonello Vona (on loan from Parma) 3 DF   ITA Niccolò Monti 4 DF   ARG Franco Gorzelewski 6 MF   SLE Winston Ceesay 7 FW   ITA Daniele Vantaggiato 8 MF   ITA Mattia Speranza (on loan from Novara) 9 FW   ITA Cristian Bunino (on loan from Lecco) 10 MF   ITA Davide Petrucci 12 GK   ITA Cristiano Auro 13 DF   DOM Tano Bonnín 15 DF   ITA Niccolò Bellucci 16 DF   ARG Bruno Valenti 17 MF   ITA Giovanni Pinto 19 FW   ITA Angelo Guida 20 MF   ITA Valerio Labriola (on loan from Giugliano)

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 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) — MF   ITA Paolo De Angelis

Colors and badge

Its colors are white and blue.

Honours

• Coppa Italia Serie C
  • Winners (1): 2002–03

References

External links

• (in Italian) Official homepage

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