Monopoli 1966
Full nameSocietà Sportiva Monopoli 1966
Nickname(s)Il Gabbiano (The Seagull)
I Biancoverdi (The White and Greens)
Founded
  • 1966 
GroundStadio Vito Simone Veneziani,
Monopoli, Italy
Capacity6,880
ChairmanFrancesco Rossiello
ManagerFrancesco Tomei
LeagueSerie C Group C
2022–23Serie C Group C, 7th of 20
WebsiteClub website

Società Sportiva Monopoli 1966 is an Italian association football club located in Monopoli, Apulia. They currently play in Serie C, the third tier of Italian football.

Predecessor

A.C. Monopoli

The origins of football in Monopoli go back to 1958 when was founded A.C. Monopoli. After winning Eccellenza Apulia in the 2004–05 season[note 1] it has played in Serie D/H for the 2005–06 season obtaining the promotion to Serie C2[note 2] where it played the 4 seasons following. The team did not enter Lega Pro Seconda Divisione in June 2010 and restarted from Terza Categoria, the lowest level of the Italian football.

History

A.S. Liberty Monopoli

Former Liberty Monopoli logo

A new club was founded in the summer 2010 as A.S. Liberty Monopoli, after the relocation of Eccellenza club A.S.D. Liberty Bari 1909 from Bari to Monopoli.

In the 2011–12 season the team was promoted from Eccellenza Apulia to Serie D.

S.S. MonosPolis and S.S. Monopoli 1966

In the summer 2012 the club was renamed S.S. MonosPolis, then in 2014 Società Sportiva Monopoli 1966[1][2][3]

In the 2014–15 season won the Coppa Italia Serie D and was the finalist of the nation play off of Serie D; in the summer 2015 it was admitted to Lega Pro for involvement in the sporting fraud of several teams that were, as a consequence, relegated. Since then, Monopoli has played in what is now known as Serie C.


Colors and badge

former logos

Its colors are white and green.

Current squad

As of 12 January 2024.[4]

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 Samuele Vitale
2 DF Italy ITA Luigi Sorgente
3 DF Italy ITA Vito Dibenedetto
4 DF Italy ITA Antony Angileri
5 DF Italy ITA Riccardo Cargnelutti
6 DF Italy ITA Michele Fornasier
7 MF Italy ITA Ernesto Starita
8 FW Italy ITA Andrea De Paoli
9 FW Italy ITA Emanuele Santaniello
10 FW Italy ITA Giuseppe Borello
11 FW Italy ITA Giuseppe D'Agostino (on loan from Napoli)
12 GK Romania ROU Edoardo Alloj
13 DF Italy ITA Pasquale Fazio
14 MF Italy ITA Orlando Viteritti
16 DF Italy ITA Manuel Ferrini
17 MF Italy ITA Claudio Cristallo
19 MF Italy ITA Carlo De Risio
No. Pos. Nation Player
20 DF Italy ITA Nicola Bizzotto
23 FW Italy ITA Giuseppe Simone
24 DF Italy ITA Mirco De Santis
25 MF Italy ITA Francesco Vassallo
27 MF Italy ITA Zaccaria Hamlili
28 FW Croatia CRO Marin Čubretović
30 MF Italy ITA Matteo Mazzotta
31 GK Greece GRE Nikolaos Botis (on loan from Inter)
33 GK Italy ITA Pietro Perina
55 GK Italy ITA Ludovico Gelmi (on loan from Atalanta)
77 MF Italy ITA Lorenzo Peschetola
78 MF Italy ITA Gennaro Iaccarino (on loan from Napoli)
95 DF Italy ITA Luca Barlocco
99 FW Italy ITA Samuele Spalluto
— DF Italy ITA Salvatore Dario La Vardera (on loan from Cosenza)
— MF Italy ITA Mattia Vitale (on loan from Sampdoria)
— FW Italy ITA Alessandro Arioli (on loan from Cosenza)

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF Italy ITA Gaetano Vitale (at Sorrento until 30 June 2024)

Honors

References

  1. ↑ "REDUSLIM - IncHealth GMBH".
  2. ↑ "S. S. Monopoli 1966 | U mnapl!".
  3. ↑ "Gomonopoli.it - This domain was registered with Match.it".
  4. ↑ "Monopoli squad". Soccerway. Retrieved 23 September 2022.

Notes

  1. ↑ with a claimed world record of 102 points, surpassed only in 2008 by Championnat de France amateur semi-professional team Croix-de-Savoie – now named Evian Thonon Gaillard F.C. – that scored 108 points
  2. ↑ defeating Celano in the playoff finals after the second place in the league
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