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Bologna F.C. 1909

Bologna Football Club 1909, commonly referred to as Bologna (Italian pronunciation: [boˈloɲɲa]), is an Italian professional football club based in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna that plays in Serie A, the top flight of Italian football. The club have won seven top-flight titles, two Coppa Italia titles, and one UEFA Intertoto Cup.

Bologna
Full nameBologna Football Club 1909 S.p.A.
Nickname(s)I Rossoblù (The Red and Blues)
I Veltri (The Greyhounds)
I Felsinei (The Felsinians)
I Petroniani (The Petronians)
Founded3 October 1909; 113 years ago (1909-10-03) (Bologna FC)
GroundStadio Renato Dall'Ara
Capacity38,279
OwnerBFC 1909 Lux SPV S.A. (99.93%)
ChairmanJoey Saputo
Head coachThiago Motta
LeagueSerie A
2021–22Serie A, 13th of 20
WebsiteClub website
Current season

Founded in 1909, Bologna were founding members of Serie A, and won many of their league championships during the late 1930s. The club ceded any league dominance by 1964, when they won their last league title to date. They won their two Coppa Italia titles in the 1970s, before battling relegation throughout the latter part of the 20th century. Bologna changed ownership multiple times during the early 2000s and 2010s, due to financial mismanagement, and later stabilized under the guise of a Canadian consortium led by Joey Saputo.

Bologna have participated in 75 Serie A seasons, which is the ninth-most in Italian football history. The club have played in the Stadio Renato Dall'Ara since 1927, which is the tenth-largest stadium by capacity in Serie A.

History

 
The performance of Bologna in the Italian football league structure since the first season of a unified Serie A (1929/30).

Bologna Football Club's formation was orchestrated by Emilio Arnstein, an Austrian who became interested in football at university in Vienna and Prague. He and his brother had previously founded another football club, Black Star, in Austria.

The club was founded on 3 October 1909, in the Northern Italian city of Bologna. Upon its formation, Carlo Sandoni was the club's sponsor and general manager, Swiss Louis Rauch became president, nobleman Guido Della Valle was the vice-president, Enrico Penaglia secretary, Sergio Lampronti cashier, while Emilio Arnstein and Leone Vincenzi were appointed councilmen.

 
Bologna squad from the 1912 season.

On 20 March 1910, Bologna played their first ever game, against Virtus, who wore white shirts. Bologna outclassed their opponents, winning 9–1. The first football squad featured; Koch, Chiara, Pessarelli, Bragaglia, Guido Della Valle, Nanni, Donati, Rauch, Bernabeu, Mezzano, and Gradi.

Their formative season was spent in the regional league under Arrigo Gradi as captain, Bologna won their league gaining promotion to a league named Group Veneto-Emiliano. They spent four seasons in this league, never finishing lower than fifth. Bologna were entered into the Northern League before all football leagues were postponed for World War I.

Champions: 1920s and 1930s

After the first war, Bologna began to become more successful. First reaching the semi-finals of the Northern Italian competition in 1919–20, they went one better the following season by reaching the Northern League finals, going out 2–1 to Pro Vercelli. They would equal this again in 1923–24, coming runner up to eventual national champions Genoa.

Bologna became Northern and National League champions for the first time during 1924–25, beating Genoa CFC after five hard-fought final matches to take the championship. The finals against the Ligurian giants were marred by heavy crowd troubles. A few seasons later Bologna became champions of Italy for the second time in 1928–29 giving them a foothold in Italian football, building up a legacy, this was the last time the league was competed in the old system, Serie A was instated the following year.

 
1936–37 Italian champion Bologna.

Bologna won the Scudetto three more times before World War II, in 1935–36, 1936–37 and 1938–39, and once during the war (1940–41).

Post-World War II

After World War II, the club was less successful. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, the club generally floated between fourth, fifth and sixth position in the league, until they took the league title back in 1963–64. To date this remains their last Serie A championship, bringing the club's total to seven. This qualified Bologna to the 1964–65 European Cup (today UEFA Champions League), but they were eliminated in the preliminary round against Anderlecht.

 
The last Bologna side to win the scudetto, in the 1963–64 season.

It was not all doom and gloom for the club, however; in the 1970s, they won the Italian Cup twice, the second of which was disputed against Palermo. The game was tense and finished 1–1 before going to a penalty shootout, where Bologna won 4–3.

Climbing down and back up the Leagues

Beginning in the 1981–82 season, the club began to slide. First, they were relegated from Serie A after battling it out for survival with Cagliari and Genoa. They were relegated twice in succession and slid into Serie C1. They won their way out of C1 the next year, and returned to Serie A for the 1988–89 season after four years of fighting it out in Serie B.

They did not remain long, however, being relegated in 1991 and returning to Serie C1 in 1993. The club returned to Serie A for 1996. Two years later, Bologna tasted a slice of success on the European stage, winning the UEFA Intertoto Cup and playing in the UEFA Cup. The club remained in Serie A until the 2004–05 campaign, losing to Parma in the playoffs.

Serie B

Despite losing some key players, Bologna expected to be challenging strongly for promotion from Serie B in the 2005–06 campaign. Despite its ambition, however, Bologna had a poor start to the season, causing the sacking of experienced coach Renzo Ulivieri, replaced by former Internazionale defender Andrea Mandorlini.

During this time, the team was sold by Giuseppe Gazzoni Frascara to Alfredo Cazzola, a local entrepreneur. Mandorlini, however, was not either able to bring Bologna up the Serie B table, and was fired on 5 March 2006; Ulivieri was then appointed back as team coach, after having been sacked a few months before. Bologna ended the 2005–06 Serie B campaign in eighth place. In the 2006–07 season, Bologna ended with the seventh place: there were several clashes between chairman Cazzola and head coach Ulivieri, who was ultimately fired on 14 April 2007 and replaced by caretaker and former assistant coach Luca Cecconi. For the 2007–08 season, Bologna was led by Daniele Arrigoni, who helped the rossoblù achieve automatic promotion back to the top flight after finishing second in Serie B.

Serie A

During the summer of 2008, a club takeover was agreed between Cazzola and an American-based consortium; this was, however, cancelled in the end, following disagreements between the parties, and the club was successively sold to a local group led by new chairman Francesca Menarini, who thus became the second female chairman in the whole Serie A. Arrigoni was confirmed as head coach by the new group, and the start appeared to be particularly impressive, with a surprising 2–1 win at San Siro against Milan thanks to a winning goal scored by Francesco Valiani. The next weeks saw Bologna struggling in the league, however, with eight losses in nine matches. A disappointing 5–1 loss to Cagliari ultimately led the club management to sack Daniele Arrigoni on 3 November 2008 and appoint Siniša Mihajlović as new rossoblù boss.[1]

On 14 April 2009, Giuseppe Papadopulo was appointed as the new manager, and successfully managed to raise the team spirit avoiding relegation to Serie B only in the last match of the season. In the 2009–10 season, Bologna played in Serie A for the 65th time, and escaped relegation again despite financial issues under new head coach Franco Colomba.

In June 2010, a club takeover was completed, with the club being sold by the Menarini family to Sardinian entrepreneur Sergio Porcedda. Franco Colomba was sacked right before the 2010–11 season opener on 29 August 2010, despite surviving relegation with the team in the 2009–10 season. The president of the club, Sergio Porcedda, said that the decision was made mostly "because he [Colomba] was skeptical of the team."[2]

The consortium "Bologna 2010"

On 23 December 2010, the consortium Bologna 2010 led by banker Giovanni Consorte and coffee businessman Massimo Zanetti acquired the club from Sergio Porcedda, after the latter failed to pay wages for the club during his short-tenured ownership and put Bologna in threat of bankruptcy. The company also owed agent fee to Leonardo Corsi in the Andrea Raggi's transfer.[3] Zanetti also became the new club chairman, with popular Italian musician and long-time Bologna supporter Gianni Morandi appointed as honorary president.[4][5]

On 21 January 2011, chairman Massimo Zanetti and CEO Luca Baraldi, after only 28 days, resigned because of irreconcilable differences with the other personal and financial partners. Stefano Pedrelli became the new director general. For 76 days, the chairman was Marco Pavignani.

From 7 April 2011, after the resignation of Pavignani and having paid €2.5m of capital increase, the new chairman was Albano Guaraldi,[6] the second largest shareholder of the consortium "Bologna 2010" with the 17% of the quotas, behind the outgoing Zanetti.

The 2013–14 season saw Bologna once again relegated to the Serie B, and also gave light to a number of financial problems involving the club and its ownership of Albino Guaraldi, who was considerably criticized by the team supporters also for a number of controversial decisions, including the sale of star player Alessandro Diamanti to Chinese club Guangzhou Evergrande. A new head coach was then found in former Cagliari boss Diego López for the new season, whereas Guaraldi clearly stated his intention to hand over his Bologna stakes to a new owner. A North American group headed by Joe Tacopina and Joey Saputo (owner of CF Montréal, also the team of former Bologna hero Marco Di Vaio) then stated its interest in acquiring the club; this was followed by another offer coming from former chairman Massimo Zanetti. On 15 October 2014, the board of directors ratified the sale of the club to BFC 1909 Lux SPV, and Tacopina became the new club chairman.

The consortium "BFC 1909 Lux Spv"

Under the new ownership of which BFC 1909 Lux Spv S.A.[7] of Luxemburg is an intermediate holding company, Bologna was promoted back to Serie A in 2015. Saputo also succeeded Tacopina as the new chairman of the board of directors of Bologna on 17 November 2014.

In their first season back in Serie A, Bologna finished 14th avoiding relegation. In the following two seasons, Bologna finished in 15th place on the table. In the 2018-19 Serie A season, Bologna finished in a creditable 10th position on the table.[8] Over the next three seasons, Bologna continued to finish mid table in Serie A coming 12th two campaigns in a row followed by a 13th placed finish in the 2021/2022 season.[9]

Stadium

The official stadium of Bologna is the Stadio Renato Dall'Ara. Dall'Ara is the biggest sports building of Bologna and its name is taken from an ex-chairman of the club, Renato Dall'Ara, who died three days before the final for Serie A's Scudetto. Its capacity is 38,500. The curva Bulgarelli (in English, Bulgarelli curve), the curve of Bologna's ultras, is dedicated to player Giacomo Bulgarelli, who died on 21 February 2009. The other curve, part of which is reserved for the away fans, is dedicated to Árpád Weisz, coach of Bologna's winning pre-war team, and killed by the Nazis in a concentration camp during WWII.

Players

Current squad

As of 1 September 2022[10]

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 Francesco Bardi
3 DF   AUT Stefan Posch (on loan from Hoffenheim)
4 DF   URU Joaquín Sosa
5 DF   FRA Adama Soumaoro
6 MF   CRO Nikola Moro (on loan from Dynamo Moscow)
7 FW   ITA Riccardo Orsolini
8 MF   ARG Nicolás Domínguez
9 FW   AUT Marko Arnautović
10 FW   ITA Nicola Sansone
11 FW   NED Joshua Zirkzee
12 GK   ITA Francesco Raffaelli
14 DF   ITA Kevin Bonifazi
17 MF   CHI Gary Medel
18 FW   ITA Antonio Raimondo
19 MF   SCO Lewis Ferguson
20 MF   SUI Michel Aebischer

Other players under contract

As of 6 January 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   CAN Sebastian Breza
DF   ITA Gabriele Corbo
No. Pos. Nation Player
FW   GAM Musa Juwara
FW   NGA Orji Okwonkwo

Out on loan

As of 11 January 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 Federico Ravaglia (at Reggina until 30 June 2023)
DF   ITA Matteo Angeli (at Renate until 30 June 2023)
DF   GHA Ebenezer Annan (at Imolese until 30 June 2023)
DF   ENG Luis Binks (at Como until 30 June 2023)
MF   NGA Kingsley Michael (at SV Ried until 30 June 2023)
No. Pos. Nation Player
MF   ISL Andri Baldursson (at NEC Nijmegen until 30 June 2023)
FW   ITA Gianmarco Cangiano (at Fortuna Sittard until 30 June 2023)
FW   ITA Mattia Pagliuca (at Imolese until 30 June 2023)
FW   NED Sydney van Hooijdonk (at Heerenveen until 30 June 2023)

Chairmen history

Bologna have had numerous Chairmen over the course of their history, some of which have been the owners of the club, others have been honorary chairmen. Here is a complete list of Bologna chairmen from 1909 until the present day.[11]

Name Years
Louis Rauch 1909–10
Pio Borghesani 1910
Emilio Arnstein 1910
Domenico Gori 1910–12
Rodolfo Minelli 1912–15
Arturo Gazzoni (Honorary chairman) 1916–18
Rodolfo Minelli 1918–19
Cesare Medica 1919–21
Angelo Sbarberi 1921–22
Antonio Turri 1922
Ruggero Murè (Honorary chairman) 1923
Enrico Masetti 1923–25
Paolo Graziani 1925–28
Gianni Bonaveri 1928–34
Renato Dall'Ara 1934–64
Luigi Goldoni 1964–68
Raimondo Venturi 1968–70
Name Years
Filippo Montanari 1970–72
Luciano Conti 1972–79
Tommaso Fabbretti 1979–83
Giuseppe Brizzi 1983–85
Luigi "Gino" Corioni 1985–91
Piero Gnudi 1991–93
Giuseppe Gazzoni Frascara [it] 1993–2002 (Honorary chairman)[12]
Renato Cipollini 2002–05
Alfredo Cazzola 2005–08
Francesca Menarini 2008–10
Sergio Porcedda 2010
Massimo Zanetti 2010–11
Marco Pavignani 2011
Albano Guaraldi 2011–14
Joe Tacopina 2014-2015
Joey Saputo 2014–Present

Club staff

Position Name
Sporting Director   Marco Di Vaio
Head Coach   Thiago Motta
Assistant Head Coach   Alexandre Hugeux
Goalkeeping Coach   Alfred Dossou-Yovo
Technical Coach   Alessandro Colasante
  Iago Lozano
  Simon Colinet
  Flavio Francisco Garcia
Athletic Coach   Nicolò Prandelli
  Paolo Aiello
Video Analyst   Davide Lamberti
Head of Medical   Gianni Nanni
Team Doctor   Giovanbattista Sisca
  Luca Bini
Physiotherapist   Luca Ghelli
  Luca Govoni
  Simone Spelorzi
  Juan Manuel Parafita
Kit Manager   Matteo Campagna
  Nicola Capelli
  Davide Nicolini
Secretary   Maurizio Rizzi
Academy Manager   Daniele Corazza
Head of Scouting   Marco Zunino
  Dario Rossi
Scout   Pasquale Ussia
Team Manager   Tommaso Fini
Technical Director   Giovanni Sartori

Managerial history

Bologna have had many managers and trainers, some seasons they have had co-managers running the team. Here is a chronological list of them from 1920 onwards.[13]

Name Years
Hermann Felsner 1920–31
Gyula Lelovics 1931–32
József Nagy 1932
Achille Gama 1932–33
Technical Commission
Pietro Genovesi
Bernardo Perin
Angelo Schiavio
1933–34
Lajos Kovács 1934
Árpád Weisz 1934–38
Hermann Felsner 1938–42
Mario Montesanto 1942–43
Alexander Popovic 1945–46
Technical Commission
Pietro Genovesi
Angelo Schiavio
1946
József Viola 1946–47
Gyula Lelovics 1947–48
Tony Cargnelli 1948–49
Edmund Crawford 1950–51
Raffaele Sansone 1951
Giuseppe Galluzzi 1951–52
Gyula Lelovics 1952
Giuseppe Viani 1952–56
Aldo Campatelli 1956–57
Ljubo Benčić 1957
György Sárosi 1957–58
Alfredo Foni 1958–59
Federico Allasio 1959–61
Fulvio Bernardini 1961–65
Name Years
Manlio Scopigno 1965
Luis Carniglia 1965–68
Giuseppe Viani 1968
Cesarino Cervellati 1968–69
Oronzo Pugliese 1969
Edmondo Fabbri 1969–72
Oronzo Pugliese
Cesarino Cervellati
1972
Bruno Pesaola 1972–76
Gustavo Giagnoni 1976–77
Cesarino Cervellati 1977
Bruno Pesaola 1977–79
Marino Perani 1979
Cesarino Cervellati 1979
Marino Perani 1979–80
Luigi Radice 1980–81
Tarcisio Burgnich 1981–82
Francesco Liguori 1982
Alfredo Magni 1982
Paolo Carosi 1982–83
Cesarino Cervellati 1983
Giancarlo Cadé 1983–84
Nello Santin 1984
Bruno Pace 1984–85
Carlo Mazzone 1985–86
Vincenzo Guerini 1 Jul 1986 – 4 May 1987
Giovan Battista Fabbri 1987
Luigi Maifredi 1 Jul 1987 – 30 Jun 1990
Francesco Scoglio 1990
Name Years
Luigi Radice 1990–91
Luigi Maifredi 1991
Nedo Sonetti 1991–92
Eugenio Bersellini 1992–93
Aldo Cerantola 1993
Romano Fogli 1993
Alberto Zaccheroni 1993
Edoardo Reja 8 Dec 1993 – 30 Jun 1994
Renzo Ulivieri 1994–98
Carlo Mazzone 1 Jul 1998 – 30 Jun 1999
Sergio Buso 1999
Francesco Guidolin 1 Jul 1999 – 30 Jun 2003
Carlo Mazzone 1 Jul 2003 – 30 Jun 2005
Renzo Ulivieri 2005
Andrea Mandorlini 9 Nov 2005 – 5 Mar 2006
Renzo Ulivieri 2006–07
Luca Cecconi 2007 – 30 Jun 2007
Daniele Arrigoni 1 Jul 2007 – 3 Nov 2008
Siniša Mihajlović 3 Nov 2008 – 14 Apr 2009
Giuseppe Papadopulo 14 Apr 2009 – 20 Oct 2009
Franco Colomba 21 Oct 2009 – 29 Aug 2010
Paolo Magnani (interim) 29–31 Aug 2010
Alberto Malesani 1 Sep 2010 – 26 May 2011
Pierpaolo Bisoli 26 May 2011 – 4 Oct 2011
Stefano Pioli 4 Oct 2011 – 8 Jan 2014
Davide Ballardini 8 Jan 2014 – 30 Jun 2014
Diego López 1 Jul 2014 – 4 May 2015
Delio Rossi 4 May 2015 – 28 Oct 2015
Roberto Donadoni 28 Oct 2015 – 24 May 2018
Filippo Inzaghi 1 Jul 2018 – 28 January 2019
Siniša Mihajlović 28 January 2019 – 6 September 2022
Luca Vigiani (interim) 6–12 September 2022
Thiago Motta 12 September 2022 –

Sponsors

Kit sponsors

  • 1978–1979: Admiral
  • 1980–1982: Tepa Sport
  • 1982–1988: Ennere
  • 1988–1993: Uhlsport
  • 1993–1996: Errea
  • 1996–2000: Diadora
  • 2000–2001: Umbro
  • 2001–present: Macron

Official sponsors

  • 1981–1982: Febal
  • 1982–1983: Pasta Bertagni
  • 1983–1984: Pasta Corticella
  • 1984–1985: Ebano
  • 1985–1986: Idrolitina
  • 1986–1989: Segafredo
  • 1989–1992: Mercatone Uno
  • 1992–1993: Sinudyne
  • 1993–1994: Buona Natura
  • 1994–1997: Carisbo
  • 1997–2001: Granarolo
  • 2001–2004: Area Banca
  • 2004–2005: Amica Chips
  • 2005–2006: Europonteggi
  • December 2006: Motor Show
  • January–March 2007: Woolrich
  • March–June 2007: Volvo
  • December 2007 – March 2008: Joe Marmellata
  • April–June 2008: Carisbo
  • September 2008 – June 2009: Unipol
  • August–September 2009: Cogei
  • October–November 2009: Cerasarda
  • November 2009 – June 2010: BIGPoker.it
  • October 2010 – Cerasarda
  • October 2009 – Ceramica Serenissima
  • August 2014 – June 2015: +energia
  • August 2011 – June 2015: NGM
  • September 2015 – June 2018: FAAC – Illumia
  • June 2018–June 2020: Liu·Jo
  • September 2020–June 2022: Facile Ristrutturare – Selenella – Illumia
  • June 2022–Present: Cazoo – Lavoropiù

Statistics

Honours

Domestic

 
President Renato Dall'Ara (left) and captain Mirko Pavinato (right) with the trophy of the 1961 Mitropa Cup.

League

Serie A

Serie B

Serie C1

  • Winners : 1994–95

Cups

Coppa Italia

International

Mitropa Cup

UEFA Intertoto Cup

Anglo-Italian League Cup

  • Winners (1): 1970

Divisional movements

Series Years Last Promotions Relegations
A 75 2021–22   4 (1982, 1991, 2005, 2014)
B 12 2014–15   4 (1988, 1996, 2008, 2015)   2 (1983, 1993)
C 3 1994–95   2 (1984, 1995) never
90 years of professional football in Italy since 1929

References

  1. ^ "Il Bologna a Mihajlovic" (in Italian). Bologna FC 1909. 3 November 2008. Archived from the original on 19 September 2009. Retrieved 3 November 2008.
  2. ^ "Bologna sack Colomba ahead of Inter game". ESPN Soccernet. 29 August 2010. Retrieved 3 November 2008.
  3. ^ (PDF). CONI (in Italian). 27 April 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 September 2011. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
  4. ^ "Bologna bailed out". ESPN Soccernet. 20 December 2010. Retrieved 24 December 2010.
  5. ^ "Coffee king Zanetti explains Bologna buyout". Tribalfootball.com. 20 December 2010.
  6. ^ "Official: Bologna appoint Albano Guaraldi as new president | Goal.com". www.goal.com.
  7. ^ "Bologna FC team suffered a €28.4 mn loss in June 2015, before climbing back to the top league". Bologna FC team suffered a €28.4 mn loss in June 2015, before climbing back to the top league.
  8. ^ "Bologna - Mihajlovic Diagnosed With Leukaemia". Mount Royal Soccer.
  9. ^ "2017-18 Serie A Season Review". Get football news Italy.
  10. ^ "Prima squadra" [First team] (in Italian). Bologna F.C. 1909.
  11. ^ "Tutti I Presidenti del Bologna". FedeRossoblu.net. 13 October 2007.
  12. ^ From 2014 to 2020
  13. ^ "Tutti Gli Allenatori del Bologna". FedeRossoblu.net. 13 October 2007.

External links

  • Official website (in Italian)

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Bologna Football Club 1909 commonly referred to as Bologna Italian pronunciation boˈloɲɲa is an Italian professional football club based in Bologna Emilia Romagna that plays in Serie A the top flight of Italian football The club have won seven top flight titles two Coppa Italia titles and one UEFA Intertoto Cup BolognaFull nameBologna Football Club 1909 S p A Nickname s I Rossoblu The Red and Blues I Veltri The Greyhounds I Felsinei The Felsinians I Petroniani The Petronians Founded3 October 1909 113 years ago 1909 10 03 Bologna FC GroundStadio Renato Dall AraCapacity38 279OwnerBFC 1909 Lux SPV S A 99 93 ChairmanJoey SaputoHead coachThiago MottaLeagueSerie A2021 22Serie A 13th of 20WebsiteClub websiteHome coloursAway coloursThird coloursCurrent seasonFounded in 1909 Bologna were founding members of Serie A and won many of their league championships during the late 1930s The club ceded any league dominance by 1964 when they won their last league title to date They won their two Coppa Italia titles in the 1970s before battling relegation throughout the latter part of the 20th century Bologna changed ownership multiple times during the early 2000s and 2010s due to financial mismanagement and later stabilized under the guise of a Canadian consortium led by Joey Saputo Bologna have participated in 75 Serie A seasons which is the ninth most in Italian football history The club have played in the Stadio Renato Dall Ara since 1927 which is the tenth largest stadium by capacity in Serie A Contents 1 History 1 1 Champions 1920s and 1930s 1 2 Post World War II 1 3 Climbing down and back up the Leagues 1 3 1 Serie B 1 3 2 Serie A 1 4 The consortium Bologna 2010 1 5 The consortium BFC 1909 Lux Spv 2 Stadium 3 Players 3 1 Current squad 3 2 Other players under contract 3 3 Out on loan 4 Chairmen history 5 Club staff 6 Managerial history 7 Sponsors 7 1 Kit sponsors 7 2 Official sponsors 8 Statistics 9 Honours 9 1 Domestic 9 2 League 9 3 Cups 9 4 International 10 Divisional movements 11 References 12 External linksHistory Edit The performance of Bologna in the Italian football league structure since the first season of a unified Serie A 1929 30 Bologna Football Club s formation was orchestrated by Emilio Arnstein an Austrian who became interested in football at university in Vienna and Prague He and his brother had previously founded another football club Black Star in Austria The club was founded on 3 October 1909 in the Northern Italian city of Bologna Upon its formation Carlo Sandoni was the club s sponsor and general manager Swiss Louis Rauch became president nobleman Guido Della Valle was the vice president Enrico Penaglia secretary Sergio Lampronti cashier while Emilio Arnstein and Leone Vincenzi were appointed councilmen Bologna squad from the 1912 season On 20 March 1910 Bologna played their first ever game against Virtus who wore white shirts Bologna outclassed their opponents winning 9 1 The first football squad featured Koch Chiara Pessarelli Bragaglia Guido Della Valle Nanni Donati Rauch Bernabeu Mezzano and Gradi Their formative season was spent in the regional league under Arrigo Gradi as captain Bologna won their league gaining promotion to a league named Group Veneto Emiliano They spent four seasons in this league never finishing lower than fifth Bologna were entered into the Northern League before all football leagues were postponed for World War I Champions 1920s and 1930s Edit After the first war Bologna began to become more successful First reaching the semi finals of the Northern Italian competition in 1919 20 they went one better the following season by reaching the Northern League finals going out 2 1 to Pro Vercelli They would equal this again in 1923 24 coming runner up to eventual national champions Genoa Bologna became Northern and National League champions for the first time during 1924 25 beating Genoa CFC after five hard fought final matches to take the championship The finals against the Ligurian giants were marred by heavy crowd troubles A few seasons later Bologna became champions of Italy for the second time in 1928 29 giving them a foothold in Italian football building up a legacy this was the last time the league was competed in the old system Serie A was instated the following year 1936 37 Italian champion Bologna Bologna won the Scudetto three more times before World War II in 1935 36 1936 37 and 1938 39 and once during the war 1940 41 Post World War II Edit After World War II the club was less successful Throughout the 1950s and 1960s the club generally floated between fourth fifth and sixth position in the league until they took the league title back in 1963 64 To date this remains their last Serie A championship bringing the club s total to seven This qualified Bologna to the 1964 65 European Cup today UEFA Champions League but they were eliminated in the preliminary round against Anderlecht The last Bologna side to win the scudetto in the 1963 64 season It was not all doom and gloom for the club however in the 1970s they won the Italian Cup twice the second of which was disputed against Palermo The game was tense and finished 1 1 before going to a penalty shootout where Bologna won 4 3 Climbing down and back up the Leagues Edit Beginning in the 1981 82 season the club began to slide First they were relegated from Serie A after battling it out for survival with Cagliari and Genoa They were relegated twice in succession and slid into Serie C1 They won their way out of C1 the next year and returned to Serie A for the 1988 89 season after four years of fighting it out in Serie B They did not remain long however being relegated in 1991 and returning to Serie C1 in 1993 The club returned to Serie A for 1996 Two years later Bologna tasted a slice of success on the European stage winning the UEFA Intertoto Cup and playing in the UEFA Cup The club remained in Serie A until the 2004 05 campaign losing to Parma in the playoffs Serie B Edit Despite losing some key players Bologna expected to be challenging strongly for promotion from Serie B in the 2005 06 campaign Despite its ambition however Bologna had a poor start to the season causing the sacking of experienced coach Renzo Ulivieri replaced by former Internazionale defender Andrea Mandorlini During this time the team was sold by Giuseppe Gazzoni Frascara to Alfredo Cazzola a local entrepreneur Mandorlini however was not either able to bring Bologna up the Serie B table and was fired on 5 March 2006 Ulivieri was then appointed back as team coach after having been sacked a few months before Bologna ended the 2005 06 Serie B campaign in eighth place In the 2006 07 season Bologna ended with the seventh place there were several clashes between chairman Cazzola and head coach Ulivieri who was ultimately fired on 14 April 2007 and replaced by caretaker and former assistant coach Luca Cecconi For the 2007 08 season Bologna was led by Daniele Arrigoni who helped the rossoblu achieve automatic promotion back to the top flight after finishing second in Serie B Serie A Edit During the summer of 2008 a club takeover was agreed between Cazzola and an American based consortium this was however cancelled in the end following disagreements between the parties and the club was successively sold to a local group led by new chairman Francesca Menarini who thus became the second female chairman in the whole Serie A Arrigoni was confirmed as head coach by the new group and the start appeared to be particularly impressive with a surprising 2 1 win at San Siro against Milan thanks to a winning goal scored by Francesco Valiani The next weeks saw Bologna struggling in the league however with eight losses in nine matches A disappointing 5 1 loss to Cagliari ultimately led the club management to sack Daniele Arrigoni on 3 November 2008 and appoint Sinisa Mihajlovic as new rossoblu boss 1 On 14 April 2009 Giuseppe Papadopulo was appointed as the new manager and successfully managed to raise the team spirit avoiding relegation to Serie B only in the last match of the season In the 2009 10 season Bologna played in Serie A for the 65th time and escaped relegation again despite financial issues under new head coach Franco Colomba In June 2010 a club takeover was completed with the club being sold by the Menarini family to Sardinian entrepreneur Sergio Porcedda Franco Colomba was sacked right before the 2010 11 season opener on 29 August 2010 despite surviving relegation with the team in the 2009 10 season The president of the club Sergio Porcedda said that the decision was made mostly because he Colomba was skeptical of the team 2 The consortium Bologna 2010 Edit On 23 December 2010 the consortium Bologna 2010 led by banker Giovanni Consorte and coffee businessman Massimo Zanetti acquired the club from Sergio Porcedda after the latter failed to pay wages for the club during his short tenured ownership and put Bologna in threat of bankruptcy The company also owed agent fee to Leonardo Corsi in the Andrea Raggi s transfer 3 Zanetti also became the new club chairman with popular Italian musician and long time Bologna supporter Gianni Morandi appointed as honorary president 4 5 On 21 January 2011 chairman Massimo Zanetti and CEO Luca Baraldi after only 28 days resigned because of irreconcilable differences with the other personal and financial partners Stefano Pedrelli became the new director general For 76 days the chairman was Marco Pavignani From 7 April 2011 after the resignation of Pavignani and having paid 2 5m of capital increase the new chairman was Albano Guaraldi 6 the second largest shareholder of the consortium Bologna 2010 with the 17 of the quotas behind the outgoing Zanetti The 2013 14 season saw Bologna once again relegated to the Serie B and also gave light to a number of financial problems involving the club and its ownership of Albino Guaraldi who was considerably criticized by the team supporters also for a number of controversial decisions including the sale of star player Alessandro Diamanti to Chinese club Guangzhou Evergrande A new head coach was then found in former Cagliari boss Diego Lopez for the new season whereas Guaraldi clearly stated his intention to hand over his Bologna stakes to a new owner A North American group headed by Joe Tacopina and Joey Saputo owner of CF Montreal also the team of former Bologna hero Marco Di Vaio then stated its interest in acquiring the club this was followed by another offer coming from former chairman Massimo Zanetti On 15 October 2014 the board of directors ratified the sale of the club to BFC 1909 Lux SPV and Tacopina became the new club chairman The consortium BFC 1909 Lux Spv Edit Under the new ownership of which BFC 1909 Lux Spv S A 7 of Luxemburg is an intermediate holding company Bologna was promoted back to Serie A in 2015 Saputo also succeeded Tacopina as the new chairman of the board of directors of Bologna on 17 November 2014 In their first season back in Serie A Bologna finished 14th avoiding relegation In the following two seasons Bologna finished in 15th place on the table In the 2018 19 Serie A season Bologna finished in a creditable 10th position on the table 8 Over the next three seasons Bologna continued to finish mid table in Serie A coming 12th two campaigns in a row followed by a 13th placed finish in the 2021 2022 season 9 Stadium EditMain article Stadio Renato Dall Ara Stadio Renato Dall Ara The official stadium of Bologna is the Stadio Renato Dall Ara Dall Ara is the biggest sports building of Bologna and its name is taken from an ex chairman of the club Renato Dall Ara who died three days before the final for Serie A s Scudetto Its capacity is 38 500 The curva Bulgarelli in English Bulgarelli curve the curve of Bologna s ultras is dedicated to player Giacomo Bulgarelli who died on 21 February 2009 The other curve part of which is reserved for the away fans is dedicated to Arpad Weisz coach of Bologna s winning pre war team and killed by the Nazis in a concentration camp during WWII Players EditCurrent squad Edit As of 1 September 2022 10 Note Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules Players may hold more than one non FIFA nationality No Pos Nation Player1 GK ITA Francesco Bardi3 DF AUT Stefan Posch on loan from Hoffenheim 4 DF URU Joaquin Sosa5 DF FRA Adama Soumaoro6 MF CRO Nikola Moro on loan from Dynamo Moscow 7 FW ITA Riccardo Orsolini8 MF ARG Nicolas Dominguez9 FW AUT Marko Arnautovic10 FW ITA Nicola Sansone11 FW NED Joshua Zirkzee12 GK ITA Francesco Raffaelli14 DF ITA Kevin Bonifazi17 MF CHI Gary Medel18 FW ITA Antonio Raimondo19 MF SCO Lewis Ferguson20 MF SUI Michel Aebischer No Pos Nation Player21 MF ITA Roberto Soriano captain 22 DF GRE Charalampos Lykogiannis23 GK ITA Nicola Bagnolini24 DF ITA Riccardo Stivanello26 DF COL Jhon Lucumi28 GK POL Lukasz Skorupski29 DF ITA Lorenzo De Silvestri vice captain 30 MF NED Jerdy Schouten33 DF NED Denso Kasius34 MF FIN Niklas Pyyhtia39 DF ITA Mattia Motolese50 DF ITA Andrea Cambiaso on loan from Juventus 55 FW ITA Emanuel Vignato66 DF ITA Wisdom Amey82 MF POL Kacper Urbanski99 FW GAM Musa BarrowOther players under contract Edit As of 6 January 2023Note Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules Players may hold more than one non FIFA nationality No Pos Nation Player GK CAN Sebastian Breza DF ITA Gabriele Corbo No Pos Nation Player FW GAM Musa Juwara FW NGA Orji OkwonkwoOut on loan Edit As of 11 January 2023Note 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 Federico Ravaglia at Reggina until 30 June 2023 DF ITA Matteo Angeli at Renate until 30 June 2023 DF GHA Ebenezer Annan at Imolese until 30 June 2023 DF ENG Luis Binks at Como until 30 June 2023 MF NGA Kingsley Michael at SV Ried until 30 June 2023 No Pos Nation Player MF ISL Andri Baldursson at NEC Nijmegen until 30 June 2023 FW ITA Gianmarco Cangiano at Fortuna Sittard until 30 June 2023 FW ITA Mattia Pagliuca at Imolese until 30 June 2023 FW NED Sydney van Hooijdonk at Heerenveen until 30 June 2023 Chairmen history EditBologna have had numerous Chairmen over the course of their history some of which have been the owners of the club others have been honorary chairmen Here is a complete list of Bologna chairmen from 1909 until the present day 11 Name YearsLouis Rauch 1909 10Pio Borghesani 1910Emilio Arnstein 1910Domenico Gori 1910 12Rodolfo Minelli 1912 15Arturo Gazzoni Honorary chairman 1916 18Rodolfo Minelli 1918 19Cesare Medica 1919 21Angelo Sbarberi 1921 22Antonio Turri 1922Ruggero Mure Honorary chairman 1923Enrico Masetti 1923 25Paolo Graziani 1925 28Gianni Bonaveri 1928 34Renato Dall Ara 1934 64Luigi Goldoni 1964 68Raimondo Venturi 1968 70Name YearsFilippo Montanari 1970 72Luciano Conti 1972 79Tommaso Fabbretti 1979 83Giuseppe Brizzi 1983 85Luigi Gino Corioni 1985 91Piero Gnudi 1991 93Giuseppe Gazzoni Frascara it 1993 2002 Honorary chairman 12 Renato Cipollini 2002 05Alfredo Cazzola 2005 08Francesca Menarini 2008 10Sergio Porcedda 2010Massimo Zanetti 2010 11Marco Pavignani 2011Albano Guaraldi 2011 14Joe Tacopina 2014 2015Joey Saputo 2014 PresentClub staff EditPosition NameSporting Director Marco Di VaioHead Coach Thiago MottaAssistant Head Coach Alexandre HugeuxGoalkeeping Coach Alfred Dossou YovoTechnical Coach Alessandro Colasante Iago Lozano Simon Colinet Flavio Francisco GarciaAthletic Coach Nicolo Prandelli Paolo AielloVideo Analyst Davide LambertiHead of Medical Gianni NanniTeam Doctor Giovanbattista Sisca Luca BiniPhysiotherapist Luca Ghelli Luca Govoni Simone Spelorzi Juan Manuel ParafitaKit Manager Matteo Campagna Nicola Capelli Davide NicoliniSecretary Maurizio RizziAcademy Manager Daniele CorazzaHead of Scouting Marco Zunino Dario RossiScout Pasquale UssiaTeam Manager Tommaso FiniTechnical Director Giovanni SartoriManagerial history EditBologna have had many managers and trainers some seasons they have had co managers running the team Here is a chronological list of them from 1920 onwards 13 Name YearsHermann Felsner 1920 31Gyula Lelovics 1931 32Jozsef Nagy 1932Achille Gama 1932 33Technical CommissionPietro GenovesiBernardo PerinAngelo Schiavio 1933 34Lajos Kovacs 1934Arpad Weisz 1934 38Hermann Felsner 1938 42Mario Montesanto 1942 43Alexander Popovic 1945 46Technical CommissionPietro GenovesiAngelo Schiavio 1946Jozsef Viola 1946 47Gyula Lelovics 1947 48Tony Cargnelli 1948 49Edmund Crawford 1950 51Raffaele Sansone 1951Giuseppe Galluzzi 1951 52Gyula Lelovics 1952Giuseppe Viani 1952 56Aldo Campatelli 1956 57Ljubo Bencic 1957Gyorgy Sarosi 1957 58Alfredo Foni 1958 59Federico Allasio 1959 61Fulvio Bernardini 1961 65Name YearsManlio Scopigno 1965Luis Carniglia 1965 68Giuseppe Viani 1968Cesarino Cervellati 1968 69Oronzo Pugliese 1969Edmondo Fabbri 1969 72Oronzo PuglieseCesarino Cervellati 1972Bruno Pesaola 1972 76Gustavo Giagnoni 1976 77Cesarino Cervellati 1977Bruno Pesaola 1977 79Marino Perani 1979Cesarino Cervellati 1979Marino Perani 1979 80Luigi Radice 1980 81Tarcisio Burgnich 1981 82Francesco Liguori 1982Alfredo Magni 1982Paolo Carosi 1982 83Cesarino Cervellati 1983Giancarlo Cade 1983 84Nello Santin 1984Bruno Pace 1984 85Carlo Mazzone 1985 86Vincenzo Guerini 1 Jul 1986 4 May 1987Giovan Battista Fabbri 1987Luigi Maifredi 1 Jul 1987 30 Jun 1990Francesco Scoglio 1990Name YearsLuigi Radice 1990 91Luigi Maifredi 1991Nedo Sonetti 1991 92Eugenio Bersellini 1992 93Aldo Cerantola 1993Romano Fogli 1993Alberto Zaccheroni 1993Edoardo Reja 8 Dec 1993 30 Jun 1994Renzo Ulivieri 1994 98Carlo Mazzone 1 Jul 1998 30 Jun 1999Sergio Buso 1999Francesco Guidolin 1 Jul 1999 30 Jun 2003Carlo Mazzone 1 Jul 2003 30 Jun 2005Renzo Ulivieri 2005Andrea Mandorlini 9 Nov 2005 5 Mar 2006Renzo Ulivieri 2006 07Luca Cecconi 2007 30 Jun 2007Daniele Arrigoni 1 Jul 2007 3 Nov 2008Sinisa Mihajlovic 3 Nov 2008 14 Apr 2009Giuseppe Papadopulo 14 Apr 2009 20 Oct 2009Franco Colomba 21 Oct 2009 29 Aug 2010Paolo Magnani interim 29 31 Aug 2010Alberto Malesani 1 Sep 2010 26 May 2011Pierpaolo Bisoli 26 May 2011 4 Oct 2011Stefano Pioli 4 Oct 2011 8 Jan 2014Davide Ballardini 8 Jan 2014 30 Jun 2014Diego Lopez 1 Jul 2014 4 May 2015Delio Rossi 4 May 2015 28 Oct 2015Roberto Donadoni 28 Oct 2015 24 May 2018Filippo Inzaghi 1 Jul 2018 28 January 2019Sinisa Mihajlovic 28 January 2019 6 September 2022Luca Vigiani interim 6 12 September 2022Thiago Motta 12 September 2022 Sponsors EditKit sponsors Edit 1978 1979 Admiral 1980 1982 Tepa Sport 1982 1988 Ennere 1988 1993 Uhlsport 1993 1996 Errea 1996 2000 Diadora 2000 2001 Umbro 2001 present MacronOfficial sponsors Edit 1981 1982 Febal 1982 1983 Pasta Bertagni 1983 1984 Pasta Corticella 1984 1985 Ebano 1985 1986 Idrolitina 1986 1989 Segafredo 1989 1992 Mercatone Uno 1992 1993 Sinudyne 1993 1994 Buona Natura 1994 1997 Carisbo 1997 2001 Granarolo 2001 2004 Area Banca 2004 2005 Amica Chips 2005 2006 Europonteggi December 2006 Motor Show January March 2007 Woolrich March June 2007 Volvo December 2007 March 2008 Joe Marmellata April June 2008 Carisbo September 2008 June 2009 Unipol August September 2009 Cogei October November 2009 Cerasarda November 2009 June 2010 BIGPoker it October 2010 Cerasarda October 2009 Ceramica Serenissima August 2014 June 2015 energia August 2011 June 2015 NGM September 2015 June 2018 FAAC Illumia June 2018 June 2020 Liu Jo September 2020 June 2022 Facile Ristrutturare Selenella Illumia June 2022 Present Cazoo LavoropiuStatistics EditMost appearances No Name Apps1 Giacomo Bulgarelli 4882 Tazio Roversi 4593 Carlo Reguzzoni 417Carlo Nervo 4175 Marino Perani 4156 Felice Gasperi 4057 Franco Cresci 4048 Franco Janich 3769 Angelo Schiavio 36410 Mario Gianni 363 Most goals No Name Goals1 Angelo Schiavio 2512 Carlo Reguzzoni 1683 Ezio Pascutti 1424 Giuseppe Savoldi 1405 Gino Cappello 1226 Gino Pivatelli 1097 Giuseppe Della Valle 104Harald Nielsen 1049 Bruno Maini 10110 Ettore Puricelli 96Honours EditDomestic Edit President Renato Dall Ara left and captain Mirko Pavinato right with the trophy of the 1961 Mitropa Cup League Edit Serie A Winners 7 1924 25 1928 29 1935 36 1936 37 1938 39 1940 41 1963 64Serie B Winners 2 1987 88 1995 96Serie C1 Winners 1994 95Cups Edit Coppa Italia Winners 2 1969 70 1973 74International Edit Mitropa Cup Winners 3 1932 1934 1961UEFA Intertoto Cup Winners 1 1998Anglo Italian League Cup Winners 1 1970Divisional movements EditSeries Years Last Promotions RelegationsA 75 2021 22 4 1982 1991 2005 2014 B 12 2014 15 4 1988 1996 2008 2015 2 1983 1993 C 3 1994 95 2 1984 1995 never90 years of professional football in Italy since 1929References Edit Il Bologna a Mihajlovic in Italian Bologna FC 1909 3 November 2008 Archived from the original on 19 September 2009 Retrieved 3 November 2008 Bologna sack Colomba ahead of Inter game ESPN Soccernet 29 August 2010 Retrieved 3 November 2008 Dott Leonardo Corsi Bologna F C 1909 SpA PDF CONI in Italian 27 April 2011 Archived from the original PDF on 30 September 2011 Retrieved 29 July 2011 Bologna bailed out ESPN Soccernet 20 December 2010 Retrieved 24 December 2010 Coffee king Zanetti explains Bologna buyout Tribalfootball com 20 December 2010 Official Bologna appoint Albano Guaraldi as new president Goal com www goal com Bologna FC team suffered a 28 4 mn loss in June 2015 before climbing back to the top league Bologna FC team suffered a 28 4 mn loss in June 2015 before climbing back to the top league Bologna Mihajlovic Diagnosed With Leukaemia Mount Royal Soccer 2017 18 Serie A Season Review Get football news Italy Prima squadra First team in Italian Bologna F C 1909 Tutti I Presidenti del Bologna FedeRossoblu net 13 October 2007 From 2014 to 2020 Tutti Gli Allenatori del Bologna FedeRossoblu net 13 October 2007 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bologna FC 1909 Official website in Italian Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Bologna F C 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