Como 1907

Como 1907, commonly referred to as Como, is an Italian football club based in Como, Lombardy, currently playing in Serie C. The club was founded in 1907, and the team's colour is royal blue.[1]

Como
Full nameComo 1907 S.r.l.
Nickname(s)I Lariani
Founded1907
2005 (refound)
2017 (refound)
GroundGiuseppe Sinigaglia,
Como, Italy
Capacity13,602
OwnerDjarum Group
Head coachGiacomo Gattuso
LeagueSerie C Group A
2019–20Serie C Group A, 13th of 20
WebsiteClub website

Como were in Serie A in 2002–03; this was followed by three consecutive relegations that brought the team down in Serie C2 at the end of the 2004–05 season after having lost a playoff (2–1 on aggregate) to Novara Calcio, and being then even cancelled from Italian professional football because of bankruptcy. They were successively admitted to Serie D, the top level of non-professional football in Italy, where they spent three seasons before finally managing to win 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 from 2017 to 2018 season.[3]

History

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 arisen in season 2016–17 obliging the club to be declared out of business and put in auction. At the fourth auction the assets of the club was acquired by Akosua Puni Essien, wife of the Ghanaian footballer Michael and first foreign businesswoman in Italian football (via a company F.C. Como S.r.l.).[7]

However, Italian Football Federation (FIGC) rejected the application of F.C. Como as the successor in the place of 2017–18 Serie C,[8] as the club did not fulfil 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 professionalism in 2019.

Players

Current squad
As of 7 February 2021.[12]

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 Davide Facchin
2 DF  ITA Dario Toninelli
3 MF  ITA Gabriele De Nuzzo
4 DF  ITA Matteo Solini
5 MF  ITA Edoardo Bovolon
6 MF  ITA Alessio Iovine
7 MF  ITA Giovanni Terrani (on loan from Bari)
8 MF  ITA Enrico Celeghin
9 FW  ITA Alessandro Gabrielloni
10 FW  ITA Massimiliano Gatto
11 MF  ITA Manuel Cicconi (on loan from Virtus Entella)
12 GK  ITA Pierre Bolchini
13 DF  ITA Luca Crescenzi
14 MF  ITA Alessandro Bellemo
15 MF  ITA Gabriele Soldi
No. Pos. Nation Player
16 DF  ITA Nicholas Allievi
18 MF  MAR Ismail H'Maidat
19 FW  ENG Lewis Walker
20 MF  ITA Lorenzo Peli (on loan from Atalanta)
21 FW  ITA Tommaso Arrigoni
22 GK  ITA Luca Zanotti
24 FW  NED Alvin Daniels
27 DF  ITA Davide Bertoncini
28 FW  FRA Christian Koffi (on loan from Fiorentina)
30 FW  NED Geoffrey Castillion (on loan from Persib Bandung)
31 FW  ITA Lorenzo Rosseti
32 FW  ARG Franco Ferrari (on loan from Napoli)
34 MF  MAR Azzedine Dkidak
36 MF  ITA Umberto Pelà
— DF  ITA Luca Germoni (on loan from Reggiana)

Out on loan
As of 5 October 2020

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  ITA Cristian Bettoni (at Scandicci until 30 June 2021)[13]
No. Pos. Nation Player
— FW  CIV Jean Kouadio (at NibionnOggiono until 30 June 2021)[14]

Internationals

The following is a list of Como players that were international while playing for the team:

Honours
Winners: 1948–49, 1979–80, 2001–02
Winners: 1996–97
Winners: 2007–08

Divisional movements
SeriesYearsFirstLastBest resultPromotionsRelegations
A 131949-502002–036th (1950) 5 (1953, 1976, 1982, 1989, 2003)
B 341931-322015–16Winner (1949, 1980, 2002) 5 (1949, 1975, 1980, 1984, 2002) 7 (1935, 1963, 1978, 1990, 1995, 2004, 2016)
C
+C2		 34
+1		1929-302020–21Winner (1931, 1968, 1979)
3rd (2009 C2)		 7 (1931, 1946, 1968, 1979, 1994, 2001, 2015)
1 (2009 C2)		 3 (1936, 2005✟, 2017✟)
82 out of 89 years of professional football in Italy since 1929
D
+R		 5
+2		2018–19Winner (2008, 2019) 3 (1938, 2008, 2019)never

References
  1. Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio (2 October 2020). "Elenco delle società C.R. Lombardia" (PDF).
  2. "Cosenza e Como, promozione in C2" (in Italian). Corriere dello Sport. 27 April 2008. Retrieved 27 April 2008.
  3. http://seried.lnd.it/download/serieD/comunicati/2017-18/cu_014.pdf
  4. "Ecco come salverò il Como". La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). 29 December 2004. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
  5. "(Questioni relative al fallimento della società 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.
  6. "Como" (in Italian). Lega Pro. Archived from the original on 29 July 2010. Retrieved 7 August 2010.
  7. http://www.laprovinciadicomo.it/stories/como-citta/ufficiale-il-calcio-como-e-della-moglie-di-essien-vi-porteremo-in-serie-b_1229046_11/
  8. "LEGA PRO: L'ESITO DEL CONSIGLIO DIRETTIVO" (Press release) (in Italian). Lega Pro. 3 July 2017. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  9. "Comunicato Ufficiale N°191/A (2016–17)" [Press Release N°191/A (2016–17)] (PDF) (Press release) (in Italian). FIGC. 30 June 2017. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  10. "Como 1907 ammesso in sovrannumero alla serie D intanto arriva il nuovo sponsor tecnico" (in Italian). Espansione TV. 2 August 2017.
  11. "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.
  12. http://www.como1907.net/team/como/
  13. https://www.toscanagol.it/2020/09/25/serie-d-gir-e-due-rinforzi-per-lo-scandicci-in-vista-del-debutto-021453/
  14. https://www.laprovinciadicomo.it/stories/como-calcio/un-motore-ferrari-per-il-comoecco-il-bomber-che-voleva-banchini_1372560_11/
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