List of US Catanzaro 1929 players

This is a list of notable footballers who have played for U.S. Catanzaro 1929. This means players that have played 100 or more official matches for the club in Serie A or Serie B.

For a list of all Catanzaro players, major or minor, with a Wikipedia article, see Category:US Catanzaro 1929 players; for records and statistics see List of US Catanzaro 1929 records and statistics; for a selected list of the best players in Catanzaro's history, see U.S. Catanzaro 1929 Hall of Fame.

Players are listed as of 25 February 2023 and according to the date of their first-team debut for the club. Appearances and goals are for first-team competitive matches in Serie A or Serie B only; wartime matches are excluded. Substitute appearances included.

The player with the most league appearances (Serie A or B) is Adriano Banelli with 334. The player with the most league goals (Serie A or B) is Massimo Palanca with 97.

Players

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Nationality column refers to the country (countries) represented internationally by the player, if any.

Name Nationality Position Catanzaro career Appearances Goals
Dino Bigagnoli   Italy MF 1959–1966 163 1
Flavio Frontali   Italy MF 1959–1963 102 2
Egidio Ghersetich   Italy FW 1959–1965 148 33
Stefano Raise   Italy DF / FW 1959–1966 185 6
Lionello Tulissi   Italy MF 1959–1963 109 3
Cesare Maccacaro   Italy MF / FW 1960–1968 221 7
Osvaldo Bagnoli   Italy FW 1961–1964 101 21
Carlo Vanini   Italy FW 1962–1968 154 17
Alvaro Gasparini   Italy MF / FW 1963–1967 137 8
Luigi Tonani   Italy DF / MF 1963–1969 224 3
Sergio Orlandi   Italy MF 1964–1968 114 7
Franco Marini   Italy DF 1965–1971 202 4
Gianfranco Bertoletti   Italy DF 1966–1971 150 3
Adriano Banelli   Italy DF / MF 1967–1979 334 24
Paolo Braca   Italy MF / FW 1967–1977 244 10
Fausto Silipo   Italy DF 1967–1977 198 2
Pierluigi Busatti   Italy MF 1968–1972 122 8
Roberto Franzon   Italy MF 1968–1972 119 1
Maurizio Gori   Italy FW 1969–1974 126 12
Alberto Spelta   Italy MF / FW 1971–1976 153 29
Luigi Maldera   Italy DF 1971–1978 206 5
Giorgio Pellizzaro   Italy GK 1973–1978 148 0
Pieraldo Nemo   Italy MF / FW 1974–1979 100 4
Massimo Palanca   Italy FW 1974–1981
1987–1990
302 97
Claudio Ranieri   Italy DF 1974–1982 225 6
Giovanni Improta   Italy MF 1975–1979 125 11
Enrico Nicolini   Italy MF 1976–1980
1987–1989
159 7
Giuseppe Sabadini   Italy DF 1978–1983 111 1
Piero Braglia   Italy MF 1978–1984 142 0
Roberto Borrello   Italy MF / FW 1980–1990 111 5
Armando Cascione   Italy DF 1981–1989 131 6

Source:calcio-seriea.net

Captains

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This is a list of all club captains from 1957. The captains listed are for the league season not individual matches and appearances and goals are for all competitive league games only. No cup or other official tournament matches are included in the statistics.

Name (number of appointments) Position Catanzaro Career Seasons as Captain Appearances Goals
  Vittorio Masci GK 1946–1947
1953–1962
5 (1957–1962) 184 -176
  Stefano Raise MF 1955–1966 4 (1962–1966) 312 26
  Luigi Sardei MF 1963–1968 2 (1966–1968) 93 3
  Luigi Tonani DF 1963–1969 1 (1968–1969) 223 3
  Franco Marini DF 1965–1971 2 (1969–1971) 202 4
  Roberto Franzon MF 1968–1972 1 (1971–1972) 119 1
  Francesco Rizzo MF 1972–1974 2 (1972–1974) 63 13
  Adriano Banelli MF 1967–1979 5 (1974–1979) 336 24
  Claudio Ranieri DF 1974–1982 3 (1979–1982) 225 6
  Sergio Santarini DF 1981–1983 1 (1982–1983) 48 1
  Gregorio Mauro MF 1976–1977
1979–1980
1981, 1984–1985
1989–1990
1 (1984–1985) 64 8
  Carmelo Bagnato MF 1984–1987 2 (1985–1987) 94 6
  Agostino Iacobelli MF 1984–1988 1 (1987–1988) 124 2
  Massimo Palanca FW 1974–1981
1986–1990
2 (1988–1990) 331 115
  Luciano Orati MF 1983–1985 3 (1990–1993) 74 6
  Umberto Brutto DF 1989–1996 3 (1993–1996) 140 3
  Mauro Picasso MF 1996–1998 2 (1996–1998) 51 3
  Antongiulio Bonacci MF 1998–2001 1 (1998–1999) 66 2
  Giuseppe Tortora FW 1999–2000 1 (1999–2000) 32 15
  Pasquale Logiudice DF 2000–2001
2002–2003
1 (2000–2001) 64 2
  Giovanni Delle Vedove MF 2000–2002 1 (2001–2002) 52 4
  Marco Ciardello MF 1998–1999
2002–2004
1 (2002–2003) 66 6
  Fabrizio Ferrigno MF 2002–2005
2006, 2007–2008
1 (2003–2004) 87 14
  Giorgio Corona FW 2003–2006 2 (2004–2006) 109 46
  Danilo Coppola FW 2006–2008 1 (2006–2007) 48 0
  Fabrizio Ferrigno (2) MF 2002–2005
2006, 2007–2008
1 (2007–2008) 87 14
  Roberto Gimmelli DF 2006–2010 2 (2008–2010) 123 4
  Francesco Corapi MF 2002–2005
2008–2011
2020
0.5 (2010–2011) 56 5
  Giuseppe Benincasa MF 1998–2002
2009–2011
0.5 (2011) 123 4
  Salvatore Accursi DF 2011–2012 1 (2011–2012) 22 2
  Salvatore Carboni FW 2011–2013 1 (2012–2013) 47 15
  Salvatore Ferraro DF 2013–2015 1.5 (2013–2015) 48 0
  Domenico Giampà MF 1994–1996
2012, 2015–16
1.5 (2015–2016)[a] 47 15
  Vito Di Bari DF 2016 0.5 (2016) 14 2
  Matthew Patti DF 2016–2017 0.5 (2016–2017) 34 2
  Emmanuel Nordi GK 2017–2018 1 (2017–2018) 32 0
  Matthais Malta MF 2011–2012
2015–2020
1.5 (2018–2020) 48 0
  Francesco Corapi MF 2002–2005
2008–2011
2020–2021
1.5 (2020–2021) 56 5
  Luca Martinelli MF 2019– 2 (2021–) 101 6
Notes
  1. ^ From February 2016, Tommaso Squilace took the captaincy following Giampà's six month football ban for his involvement in the 2015 Italian football match-fixing scandal[1]

References

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  1. ^ "Squillace: Contro il Catania dovremo disputare una partita molto attenta". catanzarosport24.it. Archived from the original on 14 April 2016. Retrieved 25 February 2023.