U.S. Grosseto F.C.
The Unione Sportiva Grosseto Football Club 1912 is an Italian football club from the Tuscan Grosseto.
The club colors are red and white, its home games wearing the club in 9909 from Stadio Carlo Zecchini seater.
The 2007/08 season we played for the first time in club history in Serie B and reached there with rank 13 in the league. 2008/ 09 we finished sixth and failed in the ascension play-offs. 2012/13 was followed by the re- descent into the Lega Pro Prima Divisione.
History
The club was founded in 1912 as a football club Grosseto. Nine years later joined the Italian Football Federation. 1927 changed the club his club colors of black and white to today's Red-White. Since its inception, the U.S. Grosseto played predominantly in the C series and in the amateur leagues.
In 1995 the club was excluded from the league because of financial difficulties and the allowed after had risen in the previous year from the series D, not competing in the Serie C2.
In 2000, the U.S. Grosseto was acquired by Piero Camilli, who wanted to bring back into professional football the club again. For the 2002/03 season, the club finally rose to the C2 series, which they won in 2004. In the season 2004/ 05 is qualified in Serie C1 for the play-offs for promotion, but lost in the semifinals against Pavia. A year later, Grosseto failed only in the playoff finals at Frosinone Calcio.
In the season 2006/ 07, the U.S. Grosseto rose under coach Antonello Cuccureddu, Massimiliano Allegri had the replaced after the ninth game day, through the first place in the Serie C1 to Serie B on. Just a few days after the ascension, the club parted by mutual consent of Cuccureddu, in its place Giorgio Roselli was committed as a coach.
Grosseto started with three losses disappointing in the 2007/ 08 season and replaced Roselli on 11 September 2007 by the former FC Parma coach Stefano Pioli. At the end of the season they finished 13th in the standings. 2008/ 09 the team sixth in the series B was and was defeated with 0:2 and 1:4 in the semifinal of the Ascension Play-offs in the Serie A AS Livorno.
Coach History
Former coach
- Hungary Imre Payer
Since 2006
Former Players
- Italy Marco Branca
- Italy Carlo Borghi 1975-1979 and 1991-1993, Striker, 77 games - 16 goals
- Chile Nicolás Andrés Córdova 2008/ 09, Midfielder, 32 games - 7 goals
- Lithuania Tomas Danilevičius 2008, Striker, 22 games - 9 goals
- Italy Andrea Parola 2002/ 03, Midfielder, 32 games - 1 goal
- Italy Alessandro Pellicori 2004-2006 and 2009, Striker, 71 games - 26 goals
- Austria Thomas Pichlmann 2008-2010, Striker, 80 games - 25 goals
- Italy Mirko Pieri 1995-2000, Midfielder, 150 games - 3 goals
- Chile Mauricio Pinilla 2009/10, Striker, 24 games - 24 goals
- Italy Anselmo Robbiati 2003/ 04, Striker, 8 games - 2 goals
- San Marino Andy Selva 2002, Striker, 15 games - 2 goals
- Italy Valerio Virga 2007/ 08, Midfielder, 23 games
- Italy Giulio Donati 2012/13, Defense, 27 Games