Como 1907, commonly referred to as Como, is an Italian football club based in Como, Lombardy, Italy. The club currently plays in Serie B, the second tier of Italian football, following promotion from the 2020–21 Serie C season. The club was founded in 1907 and the team's colour is royal blue.[1]
Como were in Serie A in 2002–03; this was followed by three consecutive relegations culminating in demotion to Serie C2 at the end of the 2004–05 following a playoff (2–1 on aggregate) with Novara Calcio. Financially overstretched they were declared bankrupt and excluded from participation in Italian professional football. They were immediately admitted to Serie D, the top level of non-professional football in Italy, where they spent three seasons before earning promotion back to Serie C2 in the 2007–08 season.[2] After a further bankruptcy in 2016, a new company re-founded the club in 2017 and was admitted to Serie D for the 2017–18 season.[3]
Como were first promoted to Serie A in 1949 and enjoyed a respectable four-year stay before relegation, the next 20 years were spent moving between Serie B and C but more often the former. A revival in the 1970s saw the club emerge as contenders for promotion to Serie A, this was achieved in 1975, but despite the best efforts of players such as Alessandro Scanziani they would last only a season. They would slump to C1 by 1978, but with a rebuilt team containing stars like Pietro Vierchowod would achieve successive promotions and a two-year stay in Serie A (1980–82).
Como managed another promotion to the top flight in 1984, with a five-year stint in Serie A proving the club's most successful period of recent times. The strikeforce of Dan Corneliusson and Stefano Borgonovo oversaw a 9th-place finish in 1986, which was repeated the following year with far fewer goals scored. The club's defence, led by hard man Pasquale Bruno, proved more than up to the task however. Relegation in 1989 precipitated a rapid decline, with Como spending most of the 1990s in Serie C1 with the exception of 1994–95. Former Chelsea and Tottenham goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini spent a year on loan at Como.
Bankruptcy and brief promotion to Serie B
The 21st century saw Como experience a brief revival. Promotion to Serie B in 2001 was marred by an appallingly violent incident in a game against Modena, resulting in captain Massimiliano Ferrigno being handed a three-year ban. They nonetheless managed promotion to Serie A in the 2002–03 season. However, the return to Serie A proved a major disappointment with the side in the bottom two all season, and a ban on games at the Sinigaglia after crowd violence. Successive relegations have caused financial difficulties; in December 2004 the club was declared bankrupted.[4] No investor was successful to take over the club (as the bid from Preziosi was denied[5]) thus the company "Calcio Como S.p.A." was liquidated. Thanks to FIGC regulation, a new entity Calcio Como S.r.l.[6] was allowed to admit into 2005–06 Serie D. The liquidator also found former chairman Enrico Preziosi had transferred some assets such as the contracts of the players to his new club Genoa, causing the financial failure of Como. They returned to the rebranded Serie C2, Lega Pro Seconda Divisione in 2008, after having won the Girone B of Serie D.[2] Como finally returned to Serie C1 (Lega Pro Prima Divisione) after promotion play-offs after defeating Rodengo Saiano with 1–1 aggregate and Alessandria with 4–1 aggregate. In 2015, Como finished fourth in the third-tier, now called Lega Pro. They qualified for the promotion play-offs and earned promotion to Serie B after beating Bassano Virtus in the two-legged final 2–0 on aggregate. They were relegated back down to Lega Pro the following season.
F.C. Como / Como 1907
New economic problems arose in the 2016–17 season, forcing the club to be declared out of business and put on auction. At the fourth auction, the assets of the club were acquired by Akosua Puni Essien, wife of the Ghanaian footballer Michael Essien and first foreign businesswoman in Italian football (via her company F.C. Como S.r.l.).[7]
After winning the Round B of Serie D, Como returned to professional football in 2019.
Since 2019, the club has been owned by Indonesian company Djarum Group led by Michael Hartono and Robert Budi Hartono and sponsored by Djarum subsidiary Mola since 2021. A former Chelsea and Millwall player Dennis Wise has been appointed as president.
Since 2012-13 season, an yearly trophy ìs held, at the end of every season, in order to reward Calcio Como best player or employee. The trophy is named after Stefano Borgonovo (former player of the team) and the award is organized and held by both supporters and citizenship. This trophy can be compared to a kind of company hall of fame.
^Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio (2 October 2020). "Elenco delle società C.R. Lombardia" (PDF). (PDF) from the original on 18 June 2021. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
^ ab"Cosenza e Como, promozione in C2" (in Italian). Corriere dello Sport. 27 April 2008. Retrieved 27 April 2008.[permanent dead link]
^ ab"Stagione Sportiva 2017/2018 Comunicato Ufficiale N°14 del 14/8/2017" [Sporting season 2017/2018 Official Statement N°14 of 14/8/2017] (PDF) (in Italian). Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio Lega Nazionale Dilettanti. (PDF) from the original on 25 August 2017. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
^"Ecco come salverò il Como". La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). 29 December 2004. from the original on 12 August 2017. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
^. Camera dei deputati (in Italian). 30 June 2005. Archived from the original on 1 September 2011. Retrieved 20 June 2011.
^ (in Italian). Lega Pro. Archived from the original on 29 July 2010. Retrieved 7 August 2010.
^"Il Como è di Lady Essien "Vi porteremo in serie B"". from the original on 25 April 2017. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
^"LEGA PRO: L'ESITO DEL CONSIGLIO DIRETTIVO" (Press release) (in Italian). Lega Pro. 3 July 2017. from the original on 30 July 2017. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
^"Comunicato Ufficiale N°191/A (2016–17)" [Press Release N°191/A (2016–17)] (PDF) (Press release) (in Italian). FIGC. 30 June 2017. (PDF) from the original on 3 July 2017. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
^"Como 1907 ammesso in sovrannumero alla serie D intanto arriva il nuovo sponsor tecnico" (in Italian). Espansione TV. 2 August 2017. from the original on 5 August 2017. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
^ (Press release) (in Italian). Serie D. 11 August 2017. Archived from the original on 23 June 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
^"Home Page". from the original on 9 October 2017. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
^"Como 1907, Como, football club". from the original on 10 November 2021. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
^"Trofeo Borgonovo: La 10ª edizione è di Facchin". 13 May 2022. from the original on 27 September 2022. Retrieved 19 June 2022.
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Como 1907 commonly referred to as Como is an Italian football club based in Como Lombardy Italy The club currently plays in Serie B the second tier of Italian football following promotion from the 2020 21 Serie C season The club was founded in 1907 and the team s colour is royal blue 1 ComoFull nameComo 1907 S r l Nickname s I LarianiFounded19072005 refounded 2017 refounded GroundStadio Giuseppe SinigagliaCapacity13 602OwnerDjarum GroupPresidentDennis WiseHead coachMoreno LongoLeagueSerie B2021 22Serie B 13th of 20WebsiteClub websiteHome coloursAway coloursThird coloursCurrent seasonComo were in Serie A in 2002 03 this was followed by three consecutive relegations culminating in demotion to Serie C2 at the end of the 2004 05 following a playoff 2 1 on aggregate with Novara Calcio Financially overstretched they were declared bankrupt and excluded from participation in Italian professional football They were immediately admitted to Serie D the top level of non professional football in Italy where they spent three seasons before earning promotion back to Serie C2 in the 2007 08 season 2 After a further bankruptcy in 2016 a new company re founded the club in 2017 and was admitted to Serie D for the 2017 18 season 3 Contents 1 History 1 1 Bankruptcy and brief promotion to Serie B 1 2 F C Como Como 1907 2 Players 2 1 Current squad 2 2 Other players under contract 2 3 Out on loan 2 4 Notable former players 2 4 1 Internationals 2 5 Trofeo Borgonovo 3 Honours 3 1 League 3 2 Cups 4 Divisional movements 5 References 6 External linksHistory EditComo were first promoted to Serie A in 1949 and enjoyed a respectable four year stay before relegation the next 20 years were spent moving between Serie B and C but more often the former A revival in the 1970s saw the club emerge as contenders for promotion to Serie A this was achieved in 1975 but despite the best efforts of players such as Alessandro Scanziani they would last only a season They would slump to C1 by 1978 but with a rebuilt team containing stars like Pietro Vierchowod would achieve successive promotions and a two year stay in Serie A 1980 82 Como managed another promotion to the top flight in 1984 with a five year stint in Serie A proving the club s most successful period of recent times The strikeforce of Dan Corneliusson and Stefano Borgonovo oversaw a 9th place finish in 1986 which was repeated the following year with far fewer goals scored The club s defence led by hard man Pasquale Bruno proved more than up to the task however Relegation in 1989 precipitated a rapid decline with Como spending most of the 1990s in Serie C1 with the exception of 1994 95 Former Chelsea and Tottenham goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini spent a year on loan at Como Bankruptcy and brief promotion to Serie B Edit The 21st century saw Como experience a brief revival Promotion to Serie B in 2001 was marred by an appallingly violent incident in a game against Modena resulting in captain Massimiliano Ferrigno being handed a three year ban They nonetheless managed promotion to Serie A in the 2002 03 season However the return to Serie A proved a major disappointment with the side in the bottom two all season and a ban on games at the Sinigaglia after crowd violence Successive relegations have caused financial difficulties in December 2004 the club was declared bankrupted 4 No investor was successful to take over the club as the bid from Preziosi was denied 5 thus the company Calcio Como S p A was liquidated Thanks to FIGC regulation a new entity Calcio Como S r l 6 was allowed to admit into 2005 06 Serie D The liquidator also found former chairman Enrico Preziosi had transferred some assets such as the contracts of the players to his new club Genoa causing the financial failure of Como They returned to the rebranded Serie C2 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione in 2008 after having won the Girone B of Serie D 2 Como finally returned to Serie C1 Lega Pro Prima Divisione after promotion play offs after defeating Rodengo Saiano with 1 1 aggregate and Alessandria with 4 1 aggregate In 2015 Como finished fourth in the third tier now called Lega Pro They qualified for the promotion play offs and earned promotion to Serie B after beating Bassano Virtus in the two legged final 2 0 on aggregate They were relegated back down to Lega Pro the following season F C Como Como 1907 Edit New economic problems arose in the 2016 17 season forcing the club to be declared out of business and put on auction At the fourth auction the assets of the club were acquired by Akosua Puni Essien wife of the Ghanaian footballer Michael Essien and first foreign businesswoman in Italian football via her company F C Como S r l 7 However Italian Football Federation FIGC rejected the application of F C Como as Como s successor in 2017 18 Serie C 8 as the club did not fulfill all the criteria in the Article 52 of N O I F 9 At the start of season another company Como 1907 S r l 3 was admitted to 2017 18 Serie D instead excising another sub clause of the Article 52 10 11 After winning the Round B of Serie D Como returned to professional football in 2019 Since 2019 the club has been owned by Indonesian company Djarum Group led by Michael Hartono and Robert Budi Hartono and sponsored by Djarum subsidiary Mola since 2021 A former Chelsea and Millwall player Dennis Wise has been appointed as president Players EditCurrent squad Edit As of 18 January 2023 12 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 Simone Ghidotti2 DF ENG Luis Binks on loan from Bologna 3 DF ITA Andrea Cagnano4 MF ESP Cesc Fabregas5 MF ITA Jacopo Da Riva on loan from Atalanta 6 MF ITA Alessio Iovine7 MF BEL Moutir Chajia8 MF ITA Paolo Farago9 FW ITA Alessandro Gabrielloni10 MF ITA Daniele Baselli11 FW ITA Vittorio Parigini on loan from Genoa 12 GK ITA Pierre Bolchini14 MF ITA Alessandro Bellemo16 DF ITA Matteo Solini19 MF ESP Alex Blanco No Pos Nation Player20 FW IRL Liam Kerrigan21 MF ITA Tommaso Arrigoni22 GK ITA Luca Zanotti23 DF ITA Filippo Scaglia25 MF SEN Racine Ba26 DF NED Cas Odenthal27 FW ITA Alberto Cerri on loan from Cagliari 28 DF ITA Luca Vignali30 DF ITA Elia Di Giuliomaria44 DF CYP Nicholas Ioannou45 DF ITA Edoardo Pierozzi on loan from Fiorentina 63 FW ITA Patrick Cutrone77 FW ITA Leonardo Mancuso on loan from Monza 99 GK ITA Mauro Vigorito on loan from Cosenza MF FRA Lucas Da CunhaOther players under contract Edit 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 MAR Ismail H Maidat No Pos Nation Player FW ITA Massimiliano GattoOut on loan Edit As of 18 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 DF ITA Paolo Chierichetti on loan to Alcione until 30 June 2023 DF ITA Filippo Delli Carri on loan to Padova until 30 June 2023 No Pos Nation Player MF ITA Enrico Celeghin on loan to Triestina until 30 June 2023 Notable former players Edit Further information Category Como 1907 players Internationals Edit The following is a list of Como players that were internationals whilst playing for the team 13 Migjen Basha Zito Luvumbo Joshua Brillante Olympics Dieter Mirnegg Dirceu Milton Olympics Kristiyan Trenchev U18 U19 Vedin Music Doris Fuakumputu Stjepan Tomas Nicholas Ioannou Massimo Albiero U21 Giuseppe Ambrosino U20 Enrico Annoni U21 Nicolo Barella U19 Candido Beretta U21 Stefano Borgonovo U21 Nicola Corrent U21 Davide Dionigi U21 Roberto Galia U21 Vittorio Ghiandi U21 Salvatore Giunta U21 Renzo Gobbo U21 Aristide Guarneri U21 Roberto Lorenzini U21 Gianfranco Matteoli U21 Marco Nicoletti U21 Egidio Notaristefano U21 Franco Pedroni U21 Matteo Pessina U19 Felice Piccolo U21 Umberto Pinardi U21 Simone Scuffet U21 Marco Simone U21 Angelo Turconi U21 Pietro Vierchowod Amrit Bansal McNulty U21 Nikola Lazetic Dan Corneliusson Nelson Abeijon Trofeo Borgonovo Edit Since 2012 13 season an yearly trophy is held at the end of every season in order to reward Calcio Como best player or employee The trophy is named after Stefano Borgonovo former player of the team and the award is organized and held by both supporters and citizenship This trophy can be compared to a kind of company hall of fame Up to 2021 22 season following were awarded 14 2012 13 Alfredo Donnarumma 2013 14 Giuseppe Le Noci 2014 15 Simone Andrea Ganz 2015 16 Daniel Bessa 2017 17 Luca Zanotti 2017 18 Matteo Kucich 2018 19 Alessandro Gabrielloni 2019 20 Alberto Giughello team doctor 2020 21 Massimiliano Gatto 2021 22 Davide FacchinHonours EditLeague Edit Serie B Winners 1948 49 1979 80 2001 02 Serie C Winners 1930 31 1967 68 1978 79 2020 21 Serie D Winners 2007 08 2018 19Cups Edit Coppa Italia Serie C Winners 1996 97 Coppa Italia Serie D Winners 2007 08Divisional movements EditSeries Years First Last Best result Promotions RelegationsA 13 1949 50 2002 03 6th 1950 5 1953 1976 1982 1989 2003 B 35 1931 32 2021 22 Winner 1949 1980 2002 5 1949 1975 1980 1984 2002 7 1935 1963 1978 1990 1995 2004 2016 C C2 34 1 1929 30 2020 21 Winner 1931 1968 1979 2021 3rd 2009 C2 8 1931 1946 1968 1979 1994 2001 2015 2021 1 2009 C2 3 1936 2005 2017 83 out of 90 years of professional football in Italy since 1929D R 5 2 1936 37 2018 19 Winner 2008 2019 3 1938 2008 2019 neverReferences Edit Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio 2 October 2020 Elenco delle societa C R Lombardia PDF Archived PDF from the original on 18 June 2021 Retrieved 11 October 2020 a b Cosenza e Como promozione in C2 in Italian Corriere dello Sport 27 April 2008 Retrieved 27 April 2008 permanent dead link a b Stagione Sportiva 2017 2018 Comunicato Ufficiale N 14 del 14 8 2017 Sporting season 2017 2018 Official Statement N 14 of 14 8 2017 PDF in Italian Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio Lega Nazionale Dilettanti Archived PDF from the original on 25 August 2017 Retrieved 25 August 2017 Ecco come salvero il Como La Gazzetta dello Sport in Italian 29 December 2004 Archived from the original on 12 August 2017 Retrieved 4 June 2014 Questioni relative al fallimento della societa di calcio Como n 2 01566 Camera dei deputati in Italian 30 June 2005 Archived from the original on 1 September 2011 Retrieved 20 June 2011 Como in Italian Lega Pro Archived from the original on 29 July 2010 Retrieved 7 August 2010 Il Como e di Lady Essien Vi porteremo in serie B Archived from the original on 25 April 2017 Retrieved 16 April 2017 LEGA PRO L ESITO DEL CONSIGLIO DIRETTIVO Press release in Italian Lega Pro 3 July 2017 Archived from the original on 30 July 2017 Retrieved 4 July 2017 Comunicato Ufficiale N 191 A 2016 17 Press Release N 191 A 2016 17 PDF Press release in Italian FIGC 30 June 2017 Archived PDF from the original on 3 July 2017 Retrieved 4 July 2017 Como 1907 ammesso in sovrannumero alla serie D intanto arriva il nuovo sponsor tecnico in Italian Espansione TV 2 August 2017 Archived from the original on 5 August 2017 Retrieved 10 August 2017 Serie D 2017 2018 I gironi Press release in Italian Serie D 11 August 2017 Archived from the original on 23 June 2018 Retrieved 12 August 2017 Home Page Archived from the original on 9 October 2017 Retrieved 8 October 2017 Como 1907 Como football club Archived from the original on 10 November 2021 Retrieved 10 November 2021 Trofeo Borgonovo La 10ª edizione e di Facchin 13 May 2022 Archived from the original on 27 September 2022 Retrieved 19 June 2022 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Como 1907 Official website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Como 1907 amp oldid 1134423854, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
