US Salernitana 1919

The Salerno-based club was originally founded in 1919 as the Unione Sportiva Salernitana. The club was known as Società Sportiva Salernitanaudax for a time during the 1920s following a merger with Audax Salerno. In 1978, the club was renamed Salernitana Sport. The club has spent the majority of their history at the Serie B and Serie C levels of Italian football.

Salernitana play their home matches at Stadio Arechi. In their early years, Salernitana competed in the regional Italian Football Championship. They played at this level for four seasons during the 1920s. Since that time the club returned to the top level of Italian football twice; they played in Serie A during 1947–48 and 1998–99.

In 2005, the club went bankrupt but was restarted by Antonio Lombardi, changing the name from Salernitana Sport to Salernitana Calcio 1919.

In 2011, the club did not appeal against a decision by Commissione di Vigilanza sulle Società di Calcio Professionistiche (Co.Vi.So.C) and was excluded from Italian football.[7]

Salernitana-Cosenza 2014–15

On 21 July 2011, following the exclusion of the original Salernitana club, Salerno mayor Vincenzo De Luca, in compliance with Article 52 of N.O.I.F., assigned the new title to Marco Mezzaroma, brother-in-law of Lazio owner and chairman Claudio Lotito. The new club was admitted to Serie D under the denomination of Salerno Calcio.[1][8][9]

In the 2011–12 season, Salernitana was immediately promoted to Lega Pro Seconda Divisione after winning Group G of Serie D.

On 12 July 2012, the club was renamed US Salernitana 1919.[4] In the 2012–13 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione season, Salernitana finished first in Girone B, and was promoted to Lega Pro Prima Divisione. This was the second consecutive promotion for the team. Finally Salernitana won Group C of Lega Pro and returned Serie B in 2014–15 season.

After several seasons at Serie B level, Salernitana won promotion to Serie A at the end of the 2020–21 Serie B season under the tenure of head coach Fabrizio Castori, finishing in 2nd place behind champions Empoli. Promotion was secured with a 3–0 victory over Pescara on the final matchday. Salernitana's return to Serie A however required Lotito and Mezzaroma to sell the club, due to Italian football laws not allowing two clubs from the same owner to play in the same league.[10] On 7 July 2021, the FIGC Federal Council approved the trust of Salernitana to take control of the club, meaning it was officially enrolled in Serie A for the first time in 23 years.[11]

Salernitana's first match in its return to the top flight was a 3–2 defeat against Bologna on 22 August 2021.[12] After a poor start to the season, earning only one point from the first six matches, the club picked up its first Serie A victory against Genoa on matchday seven, winning 1–0 due to a goal from Milan Đurić.[13] In October, the Salernitana board fired Castori after a 2–1 loss to Spezia had left the club at the bottom of the table, with four points from their opening eight league games. Stefano Colantuono was named as his replacement, returning for a second spell as head coach having previously led Salernitana from December 2017 to December 2018.[14] On 22 May 2022, Salernitana avoided relegation by finishing with the lowest points tally in Serie A history with just 31 points. Salernitana managed to pull off the great escape by securing 18 points from their last 15 matches.[15]

• Serie B:

Winners: 1946–47 (Group C), 1997–98

• Serie C / Serie C1:

Winners: 1937–38, 1965–66, 2007–08, 2014–15

• Lega Pro Seconda Divisione: / Serie C2:

Winners: 2012–13

• Serie D:

Winners: 2011–12 (as Salerno Calcio)

• Coppa Italia Serie C:

Winners: 2013–14

• Supercoppa di Lega di Seconda Divisione:

Winners: 2012–13

• ’’’Anglo-Italian Cup’’’:

’’’Quarter Finalist’’’: 1994-1995

As of 9 September 2023

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 Vincenzo Fiorillo 3 DF  CRO Domagoj Bradarić 5 DF  AUT Flavius Daniliuc 6 MF  FRA Junior Sambia 7 FW  ARG Agustín Martegani (on loan from San Lorenzo) 8 MF  NOR Emil Bohinen 10 FW  SEN Boulaye Dia 11 FW  NOR Erik Botheim 13 GK  MEX Guillermo Ochoa 17 DF  ARG Federico Fazio (captain) 18 MF  MLI Lassana Coulibaly 19 FW  JAM Trivante Stewart 20 MF  CYP Grigoris Kastanos

No. Pos. Nation Player 21 FW  CPV Jovane Cabral (on loan from Sporting CP) 22 FW  NGA Chukwubuikem Ikwuemesi 23 DF  SVK Norbert Gyömbér 25 MF  ITA Giulio Maggiore 28 DF  TUN Dylan Bronn 30 MF  ITA Pasquale Mazzocchi 33 FW  FRA Loum Tchaouna 56 GK  FRA Benoît Costil 66 DF  ITA Matteo Lovato 87 MF  ITA Antonio Candreva 98 DF  ITA Lorenzo Pirola 99 MF  POL Mateusz Łęgowski

As of 9 September 2023

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW  NGA Simy

As of 9 September 2023

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  ITA Luigi Sepe (at Lazio until 30 June 2024) — DF  MDA Andrei Moțoc (at Legnago Salus until 30 June 2024) — MF  ESP Kaleb Jiménez Castillo (at Vicenza until 30 June 2024) — MF  SEN Mamadou Coulibaly (at Palermo until 30 June 2024) — MF  ITA Edoardo Iannoni (at Perugia until 30 June 2024)

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  ITA Antonio Pio Iervolino (at Vis Pesaro until 30 June 2024) — FW  ITA Federico Bonazzoli (at Hellas Verona until 30 June 2024) — FW  BRA Mikael (at América Mineiro until 31 December 2023) — FW  CHI Diego Valencia (at Atromitos until 30 June 2024)

The following players have been selected by their country in a World Cup Final Squad, while playing for Salernitana.

• Dylan Bronn (2022)