Brindisi FC
Founded1912
1990 (refounded)
2004 (refounded)
2011 (refounded)
2015 (refounded)
GroundStadio Franco Fanuzzi,
Brindisi, Italy
Capacity7,600
ChairmanDaniele Arigliano
ManagerCiro Danucci
LeagueSerie C Group C
2022–23Serie D Group H, 1st of 18 (promoted)
WebsiteClub website

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 16 January 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 Italy ITA Mirko Albertazzi
2 DF Italy ITA Antonello Vona (on loan from Parma)
3 DF Italy ITA Niccolò Monti
4 DF Argentina ARG Franco Gorzelewski
6 MF Sierra Leone SLE Winston Ceesay
9 FW Italy ITA Cristian Bunino (on loan from Lecco)
10 MF Italy ITA Davide Petrucci
11 FW Italy ITA Luca Lombardi (on loan from Ancona)
12 GK Italy ITA Cristiano Auro
14 FW Italy ITA Andrea Mazia (on loan from Bologna)
15 DF Italy ITA Niccolò Bellucci
16 DF Argentina ARG Bruno Valenti
19 MF Italy ITA Nicola Malaccari
No. Pos. Nation Player
20 FW Italy ITA Daniele Vantaggiato
21 DF Italy ITA Daniel Cappelletti
22 GK Italy ITA Ivan Saio (on loan from Sampdoria)
23 MF Italy ITA Paolo De Angelis
26 DF Italy ITA Tommaso Merletti
30 FW Italy ITA Gianmarco De Feo
55 DF Italy ITA Ciro Cipolletta
63 DF Italy ITA Riccardo Costa
99 FW Italy ITA Simone Andrea Ganz
— DF Italy ITA Marco Calderoni
— DF Italy ITA Luca Falbo (on loan from Avellino)
— MF Italy ITA Niccolò Bagatti (on loan from Novara)
— FW Italy ITA Marcello Trotta

Colors and badge

Its colors are white and blue.

Honours

References

  1. ↑ "La SSD Città di Brindisi è in serie D".
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