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

Brindisi FC
Founded1912
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

History edit

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 edit

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 edit

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 edit

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 edit

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 edit

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 edit

Its colors are white and blue.

Honours edit

References edit

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

External links edit