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Cagliari Calcio

January 19, 2023

Cagliari Calcio, commonly referred to as Cagliari (Italian: [ˈkaʎʎari] (listen)), is an Italian football club based in Cagliari, Sardinia. In the 2022-23 season, they compete in Serie B. As of 2021–22, the team is temporarily playing their home games at the 16,416-seat Unipol Domus, adjacent to their future new stadium site.

Cagliari
Full nameCagliari Calcio S.p.A.
Nickname(s)Gli Isolani (The Islanders)
Casteddu (Cagliari in Sardinian language)
Rossoblù (Red and Blue)
I Sardi (The Sardinians)
Founded30 May 1920; 102 years ago (1920-05-30)
1935; 88 years ago (1935) (re-founded)
GroundUnipol Domus
Capacity16,416
OwnerFluorsid Group
PresidentTommaso Giulini
Head coachClaudio Ranieri
LeagueSerie B
2021–22Serie A, 18th of 20 (relegated)
WebsiteClub website
Current season

Founded in 1920, they won their only Scudetto in 1969–70, when they were led by the Italian national team's all-time leading scorer, Gigi Riva. The triumph was also the first by a club from south of Rome. The club's best European performance was in the 1993–94 UEFA Cup, losing in the semi-finals to Internazionale.

As with the flag of its city, Cagliari's colours are blue and red. The club badge incorporates the flag of Sardinia.

History

Before Serie A

 
1930–31 Club Sportivo Cagliari

Cagliari became the first ever out-right champions of Serie C during the 1951–52 season; prior to that in the league, the championship was shared amongst more than one team. They spent the 1950s from then on in Serie B, losing a promotion play-off in 1954. After descending to Serie C in the early 1960s, Cagliari's rise would be meteoric, eventually achieving promotion to Serie A in 1964.

First Serie A adventure: 1964–1976

The squad for the Rossoblu's debut season in Serie A featured players like defender Mario Martiradonna, midfielders Pierluigi Cera, Nené and Ricciotti Greatti, and forward Gigi Riva. A poor first half of the season, however, saw Cagliari in last place with nine points at the halfway mark. An astonishing second half of the season saw Cagliari defeat the likes of Juventus and Milan and finish in seventh place with 34 points. Two seasons later, Riva finished as Serie A's top scorer for the first time while Cagliari finished with the league's best defensive record.

 
Forward Gigi Riva led Cagliari to their first Serie A title in 1969–70.

During the summer of 1967, Cagliari played a season in North America as part of a fledgling league called the United Soccer Association. This league included teams from Europe and South America set to play in American and Canadian cities, with each club bearing a local name. Cagliari played as the Chicago Mustangs, and finished joint second in the league's Western Division with 13 points, two behind the division champion and eventual league champion Los Angeles Wolves. The league's leading scorer was Chicago/Cagliari's Roberto Boninsegna, who scored ten goals while playing in 9 of the team's 12 games.

Cagliari first emerged as serious Serie A title contenders in 1968–69 with a three-horse race involving them, Fiorentina and Milan. Fiorentina would win the league, but the following season would bring ultimate glory. With Angelo Domenghini joining the side, Cagliari would win the title in 1970 with only two games lost, 11 goals conceded (the fewest in any major European league to date) and Riva as league top scorer once more. Players like Albertosi, Niccolai, Boninsegna, Gori, Cera, Domenghini and Riva played in Italy's 1970 World Cup final team.

The 1970s would see a gradual decline (though were title contenders two years after their one and only Scudetto win). Cagliari were finally relegated in 1976, with Riva's career having effectively ended during that season.

Up and down again: 1976–87

After relegation, Cagliari lost a play-off for promotion the following season and would return to Serie A in 1979. Players like Franco Selvaggi, Mario Brugnera (a survivor of the 1970 team) and Alberto Marchetti ensured a respectable four-year stay in the top flight before a second relegation in 1983. The 1980s would then prove to be a darker time compared to the previous two decades with relegation to Serie C1 in 1987.

There and back: 1987–2000

Cagliari spent two seasons in Serie C1. In the first one it barely avoided relegation in Serie C2. In 1988, Claudio Ranieri was appointed coach, and led the team to two successive promotions, to Serie B in 1989 and to Serie A in 1990. The first two seasons back in Serie A saw Cagliari fight relegation, with safety being achieved by excellent second half runs. But the 1992–93 season would see Cagliari fight for a European place and succeed under the management of Carlo Mazzone. The following season saw a best-ever run to the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup, taking out Juventus in the quarter-finals before being eliminated 5–3 on aggregate by compatriots Internazionale, having won the first leg 3–2 at home.[1]

The next few years would see Cagliari return to mid-table anonymity, before a struggle in 1996–97 saw Cagliari relegated after losing a play-off to Piacenza. Once more they bounced back after just one year, but their next stay in Serie A lasted just two seasons.

Once and again: 2000 onwards

Cagliari spent the next four seasons in Serie B, until in 2003–04 with Sardinian-born veteran striker Gianfranco Zola, the team won promotion.[2] In 2005–06, the first season without Zola, the team changed their manager three times before Nedo Sonetti, appointed in November, was able to save the team from relegation, especially thanks to the excellent goal contribution from Honduran striker David Suazo.

Apart from finishing 9th in 2008–09 season, Cagliari regularly finished in the bottom half of Serie A under a sequence of managers, before being relegated in 2014–15.[3] They gained promotion back the following season as champions of Serie B.[4]

In 2014 the company passed, after 22 years of Massimo Cellino's presidency, into the hands of Tommaso Giulini, president and owner of Fluorsid, a multinational in the chemical sector. Relegation took place in the first season but the team won the Serie B championship in 2016, returning permanently to the top division albeit always finishing in the second half of the table.

Stadium

 
Cagliari played at the Stadio Sant'Elia from 1970 to 2017

Cagliari moved from the Stadio Amsicora to the Stadio Sant'Elia in 1970, after winning their only league title. It was renovated for Italy's hosting of the 1990 FIFA World Cup where it hosted all of England's group games, ostensibly to confine the team's notorious hooligans to an island.[5]

Disputes with the city council over renovation of the publicly owned stadium meant that Cagliari played their final home games of 2011–12 at the Stadio Nereo Rocco in Trieste on the Italian mainland.[6] For most of the following season, the club played at the Stadio Is Arenas in the neighbouring municipality of Quartu Sant'Elena. It was deemed unsafe by the league, forcing them to play behind closed doors before leaving the ground in April 2013.[7] The Sant'Elia was demolished for a new stadium in 2017, and the club moved to the temporary Sardegna Arena next to it.[8]

Colours, badge and nicknames

 
Cagliari's badge incorporates the flag of Sardinia

The official red and blue colours of Cagliari mirror those featured on the stemma of Cagliari.[9] The red parts of the stemma are a reference to the coat of arms of the House of Savoy, a family which was previously the monarchy of Italy and more relevantly to Cagliari in particular, the Kingdom of Sardinia.[9] The blue part of the stemma features the sky and the sea, also a castle; this is because the old historic centre of Cagliari is walled and called the Castello.[9] Due to the use of these colours on their shirt in halves, the club is commonly nicknamed rossoblu.[10]

Cagliari have had several different logo designs during their history, all of which feature the flag of Sardinia.[11] Usually the badge also features the club colours; if there is a change, the main difference has been the colour of the border or the shape.[11] Since June 2015, the badge features an "Old French"-shaped escutcheon with red and blue halves, with the club's name written in white just above the flag of Sardinia. The Moors' heads have, for the first time, been turned to the right as of 2015 so as to match the Sardinian flag after it was updated in 1992.[12]

Due to the fact that Cagliari are the main club from the island of Sardinia, they are nicknamed the "Isolani" ("Islanders").[13]

    Honours

    Divisional movements

    Series Years Last Promotions Relegations
    A 42 2021–22 -   6 (1976, 1983, 1997, 2000, 2015, 2022)
    B 30 2022–23   6 (1964, 1979, 1990, 1998, 2004, 2016)   4 (1935✟, 1948, 1960, 1987)
    C 13 1988–89   4 (1931, 1952, 1962, 1989)   1 (1940)
    85 out of 91 years of professional football in Italy since 1929
    Sardinia 6 1946–47   2 (1937, 1947√) never

    Players

    Current squad

    As of 17 January 2023[24]

    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   SRB Boris Radunović
    2 DF   ITA Luigi Palomba
    3 DF   ITA Edoardo Goldaniga
    4 DF   ITA Alberto Dossena
    5 MF   ITA Marco Mancosu
    6 MF   CRO Marko Rog
    8 MF   URU Nahitan Nández
    9 FW   PER Gianluca Lapadula
    10 MF   ITA Nicolas Viola
    12 GK   BIH Eldin Lolić
    14 MF   ITA Alessandro Deiola
    15 DF   ITA Giorgio Altare
    16 DF   ARG Franco Carboni (on loan from Inter Milan)
    18 GK   ITA Simone Aresti
    19 FW   ITA Vincenzo Millico
    No. Pos. Nation Player
    21 MF   ITA Nicolò Cavuoti
    22 GK   ITA Giuseppe Ciocci
    23 MF   ITA Nunzio Lella
    24 DF   ITA Elio Capradossi
    25 FW   ITA Filippo Falco (on loan from Red Star Belgrade)
    27 DF   ITA Antonio Barreca
    28 DF   ITA Gabriele Zappa
    29 MF   CGO Antoine Makoumbou
    30 FW   ITA Leonardo Pavoletti
    33 DF   SVK Adam Obert
    37 DF   BRA Paulo Azzi
    39 MF   GRE Christos Kourfalidis
    77 FW   ANG Zito Luvumbo
    80 MF   ARG Isaías Delpupo
    99 DF   ITA Alessandro Di Pardo (on loan from Juventus)

    Out on loan

    As of 17 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 Alessio Cragno (at Monza until 30 June 2023)
    — DF   ITA Raoul Bellanova (at Inter Milan until 30 June 2023)
    — DF   POL Sebastian Walukiewicz (at Empoli until 30 June 2023)
    — MF   ROU Răzvan Marin (at Empoli until 30 June 2023)
    — MF   URU Gastón Pereiro (at Nacional until 30 June 2023)
    No. Pos. Nation Player
    — FW   ITA Alberto Cerri (at Como until 30 June 2023)
    — FW   ITA Gianluca Contini (at Olbia until 30 June 2023)
    — DF   ITA Salvatore Boccia (at Turris until 30 June 2023)
    — FW   ITA Jacopo Desogus (at Pescara until 30 June 2023)

    Retired numbers

    Main article: Retired numbers in football

    11 –   Gigi Riva, Forward (1963–78)
    13 –   Davide Astori, Defender (2008–14) – posthumous honour[25]

    Notable former players

    See also: Category:Cagliari Calcio players

    This shortlist only includes players with at least 100 appearances for the club and/or an appearance in an edition of the FIFA World Cup.


    Cagliari have a long history of Uruguayan players,[26][27] numbering 16 as of 2014; the most used of them was Diego López with 314 games, while others include Enzo Francescoli, José Herrera, Fabián O'Neill, Darío Silva, Nahitan Nandez and Diego Godin.[28] In addition, Uruguayan Óscar Tabárez managed the team from 1994 to 1995.[29]

    Presidential history

    Cagliari have had numerous presidents over the course of their history, some of which have been the owners of the club, others have been honorary presidents, here is a complete list of them:[30]

    • Antonio Zedda (1921)
    • Gaetano Fichera (1920–21)
    • Giorgio Mereu (1921–22)
    • Angelo Prunas (1922–24)
    • Agostino Cugusi (1924–26)
    • Vittorio Tredici (1926–28)
    • Carlo Costa Marras (1928–29)
    • Enzo Comi (1929–30)
    • Giovan Battista Bosazza (1930–31)
    • Guido Boero (1931–32)
    • Vitale Cao (1932–33)
    • Enrico Endrich (1933)
    • Pietro Faggioli (1933–34)
    • Aldo Vacca (1934–35)
    • Mario Banditelli (1935–40)
    • Giuseppe Depperu (1940–43)
    • Eugenio Camboni (1944–46)
    • Umberto Ceccarelli (1946–47)
    • Emilio Zunino (1947–49)
    • Domenico Loi (1949–53)
    • Pietro Leo (1953–54)
    • Efisio Corrias (1954–55)
    • Ennio Dalmasso (1955–57)
    • Giuseppe Meloni (1958–60)
    • Enrico Rocca (1960–68)
    • Efisio Corrias (1968–71)
    • Paolo Marras (1971–73)
    • Andrea Arrica (1973–76)
    • Mariano Delogu (1976–81)
    • Alvaro Amarugi (1981–84)
    • Fausto Moi (1984–86)
    • Gigi Riva (1986–87)
    • Lucio Cordeddu (1987)
    • Antonio Orrù (1987–91)
    • Massimo Cellino (1991–05)
    • Bruno Ghirardi (2005–06)
    • Massimo Cellino (2006–14)
    • Tommaso Giulini (2014–present)

    Coaching staff

    Position Staff
    Head Coach   Claudio Ranieri
    Vice Coach   Paolo Benetti
    Assistant Head Coach   Roberto Muzzi
    First-Team Coach   Danny Pugh
    First-Team Coach   Dean Whitehead
    Goalkeeper Coach   Walter Bressan
    Technical Coach   Fabio Pisacane
    Athletic Coach   Mauro Baldus
    Athletic Coach   Francesco Fois
    Health Manager   Marco Scorcu
    First-Team Doctor   Roberto Mura
    Physiotherapist   Salvatore Congiu
    Physiotherapist   Stefano Frau
    Physiotherapist   Simone Ruggiu

    Managerial history

    Cagliari have had many managers and trainers, some seasons they have had co-managers running the team, here is a chronological list of them from when they founded in 1920 onwards.[31]

    In Europe

    Champions League

    Season Round Club Home Away Aggregate Reference
    1970–71 First Round   Saint-Étienne 3–0 0–1 3–1 [33]
    Second Round   Atlético Madrid 2–1 0–3 2–4

    UEFA Cup

    Season Round Club Home Away Aggregate Reference
    1972–73 First Round   Olympiacos 0–1 1–2 1–3 [34]
    1993–94 First Round   Dinamo București 2–0 2–3 4–3 [35]
    Second Round   Trabzonspor 0–0 1–1 1–1 (a)
    Third Round   Mechelen 2–0 3–1 5–1
    Quarter-Final   Juventus 1–0 2–1 3–1
    Semi-Final   Internazionale 3–2 0–3 3–5

    Inter-Cities Fairs Cup

    Season Round Club Home Away Aggregate Reference
    1969–70 First Round   Aris Thessaloniki 3–0 1–1 4–1 [36]
    Second Round   Carl Zeiss Jena 0–1 0–2 0–3

    References

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    cagliari, calcio, commonly, referred, cagliari, italian, ˈkaʎʎari, listen, italian, football, club, based, cagliari, sardinia, 2022, season, they, compete, serie, 2021, team, temporarily, playing, their, home, games, seat, unipol, domus, adjacent, their, futur. Cagliari Calcio commonly referred to as Cagliari Italian ˈkaʎʎari listen is an Italian football club based in Cagliari Sardinia In the 2022 23 season they compete in Serie B As of 2021 22 the team is temporarily playing their home games at the 16 416 seat Unipol Domus adjacent to their future new stadium site CagliariFull nameCagliari Calcio S p A Nickname s Gli Isolani The Islanders Casteddu Cagliari in Sardinian language Rossoblu Red and Blue I Sardi The Sardinians Founded30 May 1920 102 years ago 1920 05 30 1935 88 years ago 1935 re founded GroundUnipol DomusCapacity16 416OwnerFluorsid GroupPresidentTommaso GiuliniHead coachClaudio RanieriLeagueSerie B2021 22Serie A 18th of 20 relegated WebsiteClub websiteHome coloursAway coloursThird coloursCurrent seasonFounded in 1920 they won their only Scudetto in 1969 70 when they were led by the Italian national team s all time leading scorer Gigi Riva The triumph was also the first by a club from south of Rome The club s best European performance was in the 1993 94 UEFA Cup losing in the semi finals to Internazionale As with the flag of its city Cagliari s colours are blue and red The club badge incorporates the flag of Sardinia Contents 1 History 1 1 Before Serie A 1 2 First Serie A adventure 1964 1976 1 3 Up and down again 1976 87 1 4 There and back 1987 2000 1 5 Once and again 2000 onwards 2 Stadium 3 Colours badge and nicknames 4 Honours 4 1 European 4 2 National titles 4 3 Sardinian titles 4 4 Friendlies trophies 4 5 Individual Player amp Coach awards 5 Divisional movements 6 Players 6 1 Current squad 6 2 Out on loan 6 3 Retired numbers 7 Notable former players 8 Presidential history 9 Coaching staff 10 Managerial history 11 In Europe 11 1 Champions League 11 2 UEFA Cup 11 3 Inter Cities Fairs Cup 12 References 13 External linksHistory EditBefore Serie A Edit 1930 31 Club Sportivo Cagliari Cagliari became the first ever out right champions of Serie C during the 1951 52 season prior to that in the league the championship was shared amongst more than one team They spent the 1950s from then on in Serie B losing a promotion play off in 1954 After descending to Serie C in the early 1960s Cagliari s rise would be meteoric eventually achieving promotion to Serie A in 1964 First Serie A adventure 1964 1976 Edit The squad for the Rossoblu s debut season in Serie A featured players like defender Mario Martiradonna midfielders Pierluigi Cera Nene and Ricciotti Greatti and forward Gigi Riva A poor first half of the season however saw Cagliari in last place with nine points at the halfway mark An astonishing second half of the season saw Cagliari defeat the likes of Juventus and Milan and finish in seventh place with 34 points Two seasons later Riva finished as Serie A s top scorer for the first time while Cagliari finished with the league s best defensive record Forward Gigi Riva led Cagliari to their first Serie A title in 1969 70 During the summer of 1967 Cagliari played a season in North America as part of a fledgling league called the United Soccer Association This league included teams from Europe and South America set to play in American and Canadian cities with each club bearing a local name Cagliari played as the Chicago Mustangs and finished joint second in the league s Western Division with 13 points two behind the division champion and eventual league champion Los Angeles Wolves The league s leading scorer was Chicago Cagliari s Roberto Boninsegna who scored ten goals while playing in 9 of the team s 12 games Cagliari first emerged as serious Serie A title contenders in 1968 69 with a three horse race involving them Fiorentina and Milan Fiorentina would win the league but the following season would bring ultimate glory With Angelo Domenghini joining the side Cagliari would win the title in 1970 with only two games lost 11 goals conceded the fewest in any major European league to date and Riva as league top scorer once more Players like Albertosi Niccolai Boninsegna Gori Cera Domenghini and Riva played in Italy s 1970 World Cup final team The 1970s would see a gradual decline though were title contenders two years after their one and only Scudetto win Cagliari were finally relegated in 1976 with Riva s career having effectively ended during that season Up and down again 1976 87 Edit After relegation Cagliari lost a play off for promotion the following season and would return to Serie A in 1979 Players like Franco Selvaggi Mario Brugnera a survivor of the 1970 team and Alberto Marchetti ensured a respectable four year stay in the top flight before a second relegation in 1983 The 1980s would then prove to be a darker time compared to the previous two decades with relegation to Serie C1 in 1987 There and back 1987 2000 Edit Cagliari spent two seasons in Serie C1 In the first one it barely avoided relegation in Serie C2 In 1988 Claudio Ranieri was appointed coach and led the team to two successive promotions to Serie B in 1989 and to Serie A in 1990 The first two seasons back in Serie A saw Cagliari fight relegation with safety being achieved by excellent second half runs But the 1992 93 season would see Cagliari fight for a European place and succeed under the management of Carlo Mazzone The following season saw a best ever run to the semi finals of the UEFA Cup taking out Juventus in the quarter finals before being eliminated 5 3 on aggregate by compatriots Internazionale having won the first leg 3 2 at home 1 The next few years would see Cagliari return to mid table anonymity before a struggle in 1996 97 saw Cagliari relegated after losing a play off to Piacenza Once more they bounced back after just one year but their next stay in Serie A lasted just two seasons Once and again 2000 onwards Edit Cagliari spent the next four seasons in Serie B until in 2003 04 with Sardinian born veteran striker Gianfranco Zola the team won promotion 2 In 2005 06 the first season without Zola the team changed their manager three times before Nedo Sonetti appointed in November was able to save the team from relegation especially thanks to the excellent goal contribution from Honduran striker David Suazo Apart from finishing 9th in 2008 09 season Cagliari regularly finished in the bottom half of Serie A under a sequence of managers before being relegated in 2014 15 3 They gained promotion back the following season as champions of Serie B 4 In 2014 the company passed after 22 years of Massimo Cellino s presidency into the hands of Tommaso Giulini president and owner of Fluorsid a multinational in the chemical sector Relegation took place in the first season but the team won the Serie B championship in 2016 returning permanently to the top division albeit always finishing in the second half of the table Stadium Edit Cagliari played at the Stadio Sant Elia from 1970 to 2017 Cagliari moved from the Stadio Amsicora to the Stadio Sant Elia in 1970 after winning their only league title It was renovated for Italy s hosting of the 1990 FIFA World Cup where it hosted all of England s group games ostensibly to confine the team s notorious hooligans to an island 5 Disputes with the city council over renovation of the publicly owned stadium meant that Cagliari played their final home games of 2011 12 at the Stadio Nereo Rocco in Trieste on the Italian mainland 6 For most of the following season the club played at the Stadio Is Arenas in the neighbouring municipality of Quartu Sant Elena It was deemed unsafe by the league forcing them to play behind closed doors before leaving the ground in April 2013 7 The Sant Elia was demolished for a new stadium in 2017 and the club moved to the temporary Sardegna Arena next to it 8 Colours badge and nicknames Edit Cagliari s badge incorporates the flag of Sardinia The official red and blue colours of Cagliari mirror those featured on the stemma of Cagliari 9 The red parts of the stemma are a reference to the coat of arms of the House of Savoy a family which was previously the monarchy of Italy and more relevantly to Cagliari in particular the Kingdom of Sardinia 9 The blue part of the stemma features the sky and the sea also a castle this is because the old historic centre of Cagliari is walled and called the Castello 9 Due to the use of these colours on their shirt in halves the club is commonly nicknamed rossoblu 10 Cagliari have had several different logo designs during their history all of which feature the flag of Sardinia 11 Usually the badge also features the club colours if there is a change the main difference has been the colour of the border or the shape 11 Since June 2015 the badge features an Old French shaped escutcheon with red and blue halves with the club s name written in white just above the flag of Sardinia The Moors heads have for the first time been turned to the right as of 2015 so as to match the Sardinian flag after it was updated in 1992 12 Due to the fact that Cagliari are the main club from the island of Sardinia they are nicknamed the Isolani Islanders 13 Honours EditEuropean Edit UEFA Cup Semi finalists 1 1993 94National titles Edit Serie A Tier 1 Winners 1 1969 70 Runners up 1 1968 69Serie B Tier 2 Winners 1 2015 16 Runners up 4 1953 54 1963 64 1978 79 2003 04 Third place 2 1989 90 1997 98Serie C Serie C1 Tier 3 Winners 4 1930 31 Group South 1951 52 1961 62 1988 89 Runners up 1 1960 61 Group BCoppa Italia Runners up 1 1968 69 Semi finalists 1 1999 2000Coppa Italia Serie C Winners 1 1988 89Sardinian titles Edit Terza Divisione Prima Divisione Tier 1 Winners 6 1922 23 1923 24 1924 25 1927 28 1936 37 1945 46 Third place 1 1946 47Friendlies trophies Edit Torneo Campana Mutilati Winners 1 1926 27 Trofeo Sardegna Winners 5 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 Trofeo Goleador Winners 1 2016 Individual Player amp Coach awards Edit Top Scorer Roberto Boninsegna United Soccer Association 1967 14 Gigi Riva Serie A 1966 67 18 gol Gigi Riva Serie A 1968 69 21 gol Gigi Riva Serie A 1969 70 21 gol 15 Patrick M Boma Coppa Italia 1999 2000 6 gol 16 Panchina d Oro Massimiliano Allegri 2008 09 17 UEFA European Championship Gigi Riva 1968 18 Enrico Albertosi 1968African Footballer of the Year Patrick M Boma 2000Estonian Footballer of the Year Ragnar Klavan 2018 2019 19 Moldovan Footballer of the Year Artur Ioniță 2019 20 Serie A Foreign Footballer of the Year David Suazo 2006 21 BBC African Footballer of the Year Patrick M Boma 2000 22 African Nations Cup Patrick M Boma 2000 2002CONCACAF Men s Olympic Qualifying Tournament David Suazo 2000Copa America Jose Herrera 1995Copa America Centenario Mauricio Isla 2016 23 Summer Olympics Patrick M Boma 2000Divisional movements EditSeries Years Last Promotions RelegationsA 42 2021 22 6 1976 1983 1997 2000 2015 2022 B 30 2022 23 6 1964 1979 1990 1998 2004 2016 4 1935 1948 1960 1987 C 13 1988 89 4 1931 1952 1962 1989 1 1940 85 out of 91 years of professional football in Italy since 1929Sardinia 6 1946 47 2 1937 1947 neverPlayers EditCurrent squad Edit As of 17 January 2023 24 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 SRB Boris Radunovic2 DF ITA Luigi Palomba3 DF ITA Edoardo Goldaniga4 DF ITA Alberto Dossena5 MF ITA Marco Mancosu6 MF CRO Marko Rog8 MF URU Nahitan Nandez9 FW PER Gianluca Lapadula10 MF ITA Nicolas Viola12 GK BIH Eldin Lolic14 MF ITA Alessandro Deiola15 DF ITA Giorgio Altare16 DF ARG Franco Carboni on loan from Inter Milan 18 GK ITA Simone Aresti19 FW ITA Vincenzo Millico No Pos Nation Player21 MF ITA Nicolo Cavuoti22 GK ITA Giuseppe Ciocci23 MF ITA Nunzio Lella24 DF ITA Elio Capradossi25 FW ITA Filippo Falco on loan from Red Star Belgrade 27 DF ITA Antonio Barreca28 DF ITA Gabriele Zappa29 MF CGO Antoine Makoumbou30 FW ITA Leonardo Pavoletti33 DF SVK Adam Obert37 DF BRA Paulo Azzi39 MF GRE Christos Kourfalidis77 FW ANG Zito Luvumbo80 MF ARG Isaias Delpupo99 DF ITA Alessandro Di Pardo on loan from Juventus Out on loan Edit As of 17 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 Alessio Cragno at Monza until 30 June 2023 DF ITA Raoul Bellanova at Inter Milan until 30 June 2023 DF POL Sebastian Walukiewicz at Empoli until 30 June 2023 MF ROU Răzvan Marin at Empoli until 30 June 2023 MF URU Gaston Pereiro at Nacional until 30 June 2023 No Pos Nation Player FW ITA Alberto Cerri at Como until 30 June 2023 FW ITA Gianluca Contini at Olbia until 30 June 2023 DF ITA Salvatore Boccia at Turris until 30 June 2023 FW ITA Jacopo Desogus at Pescara until 30 June 2023 Retired numbers Edit Main article Retired numbers in football 11 Gigi Riva Forward 1963 78 13 Davide Astori Defender 2008 14 posthumous honour 25 Notable former players EditSee also Category Cagliari Calcio players This shortlist only includes players with at least 100 appearances for the club and or an appearance in an edition of the FIFA World Cup Robert Acquafresca Mauricio Isla Nelson Abeijon Enrico Albertosi Davide Astori Nicolo Barella Davide Biondini Roberto Boninsegna Massimiliano Cappioli Pierluigi Cera Daniele Conti Andrea Cossu Angelo Domenghini Mauro Esposito Daniel Fonseca Enzo Francescoli Alberto Gallardo Diego Godin Jose Herrera Gerry Hitchens Victor Ibarbo Fanis Katergiannakis Antonio Langella Diego Lopez Alberto Marchetti Federico Marchetti Alessandro Matri Gianfranco Matteoli Patrick Mboma Francois Modesto Francesco Moriero Roberto Muzzi Radja Nainggolan Nene Comunardo Niccolai David Nyathi Luis Oliveira Fabian O Neill Giuseppe Pancaro Marco Pascolo Luigi Piras Gigi Riva Marco Sau Franco Selvaggi Dario Silva David Suazo Eric Tinkler Julio Dely Valdes Julio Cesar Uribe Ramon Vega Waldemar Victorino Pietro Paolo Virdis Cristiano Zanetti Jonathan Zebina Gianfranco Zola Cagliari have a long history of Uruguayan players 26 27 numbering 16 as of 2014 the most used of them was Diego Lopez with 314 games while others include Enzo Francescoli Jose Herrera Fabian O Neill Dario Silva Nahitan Nandez and Diego Godin 28 In addition Uruguayan oscar Tabarez managed the team from 1994 to 1995 29 Presidential history EditCagliari have had numerous presidents over the course of their history some of which have been the owners of the club others have been honorary presidents here is a complete list of them 30 Antonio Zedda 1921 Gaetano Fichera 1920 21 Giorgio Mereu 1921 22 Angelo Prunas 1922 24 Agostino Cugusi 1924 26 Vittorio Tredici 1926 28 Carlo Costa Marras 1928 29 Enzo Comi 1929 30 Giovan Battista Bosazza 1930 31 Guido Boero 1931 32 Vitale Cao 1932 33 Enrico Endrich 1933 Pietro Faggioli 1933 34 Aldo Vacca 1934 35 Mario Banditelli 1935 40 Giuseppe Depperu 1940 43 Eugenio Camboni 1944 46 Umberto Ceccarelli 1946 47 Emilio Zunino 1947 49 Domenico Loi 1949 53 Pietro Leo 1953 54 Efisio Corrias 1954 55 Ennio Dalmasso 1955 57 Giuseppe Meloni 1958 60 Enrico Rocca 1960 68 Efisio Corrias 1968 71 Paolo Marras 1971 73 Andrea Arrica 1973 76 Mariano Delogu 1976 81 Alvaro Amarugi 1981 84 Fausto Moi 1984 86 Gigi Riva 1986 87 Lucio Cordeddu 1987 Antonio Orru 1987 91 Massimo Cellino 1991 05 Bruno Ghirardi 2005 06 Massimo Cellino 2006 14 Tommaso Giulini 2014 present Coaching staff EditPosition StaffHead Coach Claudio RanieriVice Coach Paolo BenettiAssistant Head Coach Roberto MuzziFirst Team Coach Danny PughFirst Team Coach Dean WhiteheadGoalkeeper Coach Walter BressanTechnical Coach Fabio PisacaneAthletic Coach Mauro BaldusAthletic Coach Francesco FoisHealth Manager Marco ScorcuFirst Team Doctor Roberto MuraPhysiotherapist Salvatore CongiuPhysiotherapist Stefano FrauPhysiotherapist Simone RuggiuManagerial history EditCagliari have had many managers and trainers some seasons they have had co managers running the team here is a chronological list of them from when they founded in 1920 onwards 31 Gaetano Fichera 1920 21 Giorgio Mereu 1921 23 Angelo Colombo 1923 26 Natale Archibusacci 1926 27 Robert Winkler 1927 30 Egri Erbstein 1930 32 Andras Kuttik 1932 34 Enrico Crotti 1934 35 Ferenc Molnar 1935 Roberto Orani 1935 36 Renato Bonello 1936 38 Robert Winkler 1938 39 Mariolino Congiu 1939 41 32 Mariolino Congiu Enrico Corrias 1941 42 Mariolino Congiu 1942 46 Raffaele D Aquino 1946 48 Robert Winkler 1948 49 Armando Latella 1949 50 Mariolino Congiu 1950 Enrico Carpitelli 1950 51 Mariolino Congiu 1951 Federico Allasio 1951 54 Ottavio Morgia 1954 Vincenzo Soro 1954 Carlo Alberto Quario 1954 55 Silvio Piola 1955 56 Carlo Rigotti 1956 57 Silvio Piola 1957 Mariolino Congiu 1957 58 Piero Andreoli 1958 Stefano Perati 1958 60 Carlo Rigotti 1960 61 Arturo Silvestri 1961 66 Ettore Puricelli 1967 68 Manlio Scopigno 1968 72 Edmondo Fabbri 1972 73 Giuseppe Chiappella 1973 75 Luigi Radice 1975 Luis Suarez 1975 76 Mario Tiddia 1976 Lauro Toneatto 1976 78 Mario Tiddia 1978 81 Paolo Carosi 1981 82 Gustavo Giagnoni 1982 83 Mario Tiddia 1983 84 Fernando Veneranda 1984 85 Renzo Ulivieri 1985 86 Gustavo Giagnoni 1986 87 Enzo Robotti 1987 88 Mario Tiddia 1988 Claudio Ranieri 1 July 1988 30 June 1991 Massimo Giacomini 1991 Carlo Mazzone 1991 93 Luigi Radice 1993 94 Bruno Giorgi 1994 oscar Tabarez 1 July 1994 30 June 1995 Giovanni Trapattoni 1 July 1995 13 February 1996 Bruno Giorgi 1996 Gregorio Perez 1 July 1996 1 January 1997 Carlo Mazzone 23 October 1996 30 June 1997 Giampiero Ventura 1 July 1997 30 June 1999 oscar Tabarez 1 July 1999 15 September 1999 Renzo Ulivieri 1999 00 Gianfranco Bellotto 2000 01 Giuseppe Materazzi 2001 Antonio Sala 2001 02 Giulio Nuciari 28 October 2001 23 December 2001 Nedo Sonetti 2002 Giampiero Ventura 1 July 2002 1 December 2003 Edoardo Reja 1 July 2003 30 June 2004 Daniele Arrigoni 2004 30 June 2005 Attilio Tesser 1 July 2005 29 August 2005 Daniele Arrigoni 29 August 2005 16 September 2005 Davide Ballardini 15 September 2005 8 November 2005 Nedo Sonetti 12 November 2005 30 June 2006 Franco Colomba 17 December 2006 26 February 2007 Marco Giampaolo 26 February 2007 13 November 2007 Nedo Sonetti 2007 Davide Ballardini 28 December 2007 30 June 2008 Massimiliano Allegri 29 May 2008 13 April 2010 Giorgio Melis 13 April 2010 30 June 2010 Pierpaolo Bisoli 23 June 2010 15 November 2010 Roberto Donadoni 16 November 2010 12 August 2011 Massimo Ficcadenti 16 August 2011 8 November 2011 Davide Ballardini 9 November 2011 11 March 2012 Massimo Ficcadenti 11 March 2012 3 October 2012 Ivo Pulga 3 October 2012 30 June 2013 Diego Lopez 1 July 2013 6 April 2014 Ivo Pulga 6 April 2014 20 June 2014 Zdenek Zeman 20 June 2014 23 December 2014 Gianfranco Zola 24 December 2014 9 March 2015 Zdenek Zeman 9 March 2015 21 April 2015 Gianluca Festa 22 April 2015 12 June 2015 Massimo Rastelli 12 June 2015 17 October 2017 Diego Lopez 18 October 2017 30 May 2018 Rolando Maran 7 June 2018 3 March 2020 Walter Zenga 3 March 2020 2 August 2020 Eusebio Di Francesco 3 August 2020 22 February 2021 Leonardo Semplici 22 February 2021 14 September 2021 Walter Mazzarri 16 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