U.S. Cremonese

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Cremonese

Full name

Unione Sportiva Cremonese

Nickname(s)

Grigiorossi (Gray-reds);
Tigri (Tigers)

Founded

March 24, 1903

Ground

Stadio Giovanni Zini,
Cremona, Italy

Capacity

22,000

Chairman

Luigi Gualco





Home colours





Away colours

Unione Sportiva Cremonese is an Italian football club, based in Cremona. The club was founded in 1903. Cremonese played the 2005/2006 season in Serie B, having won Serie C1/A the previous season. However, in the 2005/2006 Serie B campaign, Cremonese came out twenty-first, being therefore relegated to Serie C1 for the next season.

Their last appearance in Serie A was in 1996. The team's colors are red and gray. Cremonese won the Anglo-Italian Cup in 1993. Some of the famous players who played for Cremonese include Gianluca Vialli, Anders Limpar, Giuseppe Favalli, John Aloisi and Enrico Chiesa.

1 History
2 Current first team squad
3 Honours
4 Notable former players
5 External links

[edit] History

Cremonese was in Serie A in its first season (1929-30) but entered a long period of decline, languishing in the lower leagues before the late 1970s. By 1984 they had achieved promotion to Serie A, with one-year spells in 1984-85, 1989-90 and 1991-92.

Under Luigi Simoni, Cremonese returned to Serie A in 1993. With a side containing quality in the form of defenders Luigi Gualco and Corrado Verdelli, midfield playmaker Riccardo Maspero and forwards Andrea Tentoni and Matjaž Florijančič, Cremonese held their own in Serie A with a highly respectable 10th place finish in 1993-94 but would be relegated in 1996.

Relegation resulted in the decline of the club, plummeting to Serie C2 by 2000 before achieving successive promotions back to Serie B by 2005. Giovanni Dall'Igna, another defender from the Serie A years, has since returned to the club.

[edit] Current first team squad

As of September 6, 2006

No.		Position	Player
		GK	Giorgio Bianchi
		GK	Luca Mondini
		DF	Michele Cremonesi
		DF	Michele Franco
		DF	Filippo Mattiuzzo
		DF	Giordano Paganotto
		DF	Fabio Pisacane
		DF	Mariano Stendardo
		DF	Luca Tedeschi
		MF	Lorenzo Carotti

No.		Position	Player
		MF	Luca Conean (on loan from Palermo)
		MF	Cataldo Graziano
		MF	Nicola Napolitano
		MF	Federico Piazza
		MF	Federico Smanio
		FW	Pietro Balistreri (on loan from Palermo)
		FW	Roberto Orlandi
		FW	Vincenzo Pepe
		FW	Diego Silva Reis (on loan from Chievo Verona)
		FW	Riccardo Taddei

[edit] Honours

Serie C: 3

1935/36 (Girone B), 1941/42 (Girone B), 1976/77 (Girone A)

Serie C1: 1

2004/05 (Girone A)

Serie D: 1

1967/68 (Girone B)

IV Serie: 1

1953/54 (Girone C)

Anglo-Italian Cup

1992-93

Primavera TIM Cup: 1

1986/87

[edit] Notable former players

Italians

Antonio Cabrini
Paolo Castellini
Enrico Chiesa
Francesco Colonnese
Giuseppe Favalli
Marco Giandebiaggi
Luigi Gualco
Attilio Lombardo
Dario Marcolin
Riccardo Maspero
Mauro Milanese
Cesare Prandelli
Michelangelo Rampulla
Corrado Verdelli
Gianluca Vialli
Andrea Tentoni
Luigi Turci

Foreigners

[edit] External links

(Italian) Official site
(Italian) An unofficial site

Serie C1/A
Cittadella \| Cremonese \| Grosseto \| Ivrea \| Lucchese \| Massese \| Monza \| Novara \| Padova Pavia \| Pisa \| Pistoiese \| Pizzighettone \| Pro Patria \| Pro Sesto \| Sangiovannese \| Sassuolo \| Venezia

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