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| Full name | Unione Sportiva Cremonese | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Grigiorossi (Gray-reds); Tigri (Tigers) |
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| Founded | March 24, 1903 | ||
| Ground | Stadio Giovanni Zini, Cremona, Italy (Capacity: 22,000) |
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| Chairman | Giovanni Arvedi | ||
| Head Coach | Emiliano Mondonico | ||
| League | Lega Pro Prima Divisione A | ||
| 2008-09 | Lega Pro Prima Divisione A, 9th | ||
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Unione Sportiva Cremonese is an Italian football club, based in Cremona. The club was founded in 1903. Cremonese played the 2005/2006 season in Serie B, having won Serie C1/A the previous season. However, in the 2005/2006 Serie B campaign, Cremonese came out twenty-first, being therefore relegated to Serie C1 for the next season. It currently plays in Lega Pro Prima Divisione.
Their last appearance in Serie A was in 1996. The team's colors are red and gray. Cremonese won the Anglo-Italian Cup in 1993. Some of the famous players who played for Cremonese include Gianluca Vialli, Anders Limpar, Giuseppe Favalli, John Aloisi and Enrico Chiesa.
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History
Cremonese was in Serie A in its first season (1929-30) but entered a long period of decline, languishing in the lower leagues before the late 1970s. By 1984 they had achieved promotion to Serie A, with one-year spells in 1984-85, 1989-90 and 1991-92.
Under Luigi Simoni, Cremonese returned to Serie A in 1993. With a side containing quality in the form of defenders Luigi Gualco and Corrado Verdelli, midfield playmaker Riccardo Maspero and forwards Andrea Tentoni and Matjaž Florijančič, Cremonese held their own in Serie A with a highly respectable 10th place finish in 1993-94 but would be relegated in 1996.
Relegation resulted in the decline of the club, plummeting to Serie C2 by 2000 before achieving successive promotions back to Serie B by 2005. Giovanni Dall'Igna, another defender from the Serie A years, has since returned to the club.
Current first team squad
As of 12 February 2009[1]
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Honours
- Serie C: 3
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- 1935/36 (Girone B), 1941/42 (Girone B), 1976/77 (Girone A)
- Serie C1: 1
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- 2004/05 (Girone A)
- Serie D: 1
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- 1967/68 (Girone B)
- IV Serie: 1
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- 1953/54 (Girone C)
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- 1992-93
- Primavera TIM Cup: 1
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- 1986/87
Notable former players
- Italians
- Gabriele Bongiorni
- Antonio Cabrini
- Paolo Castellini
- Enrico Chiesa
- Francesco Colonnese
- Giuseppe Favalli
- Marco Giandebiaggi
- Luigi Gualco
- Attilio Lombardo
- Dario Marcolin
- Riccardo Maspero
- Mauro Milanese
- Cesare Prandelli
- Michelangelo Rampulla
- Corrado Verdelli
- Gianluca Vialli
- Andrea Tentoni
- Luigi Turci
- Foreigners
John Mensah
John Aloisi
Rubén Da Silva
Gustavo Dezotti
Matjaž Florijančič
Anders Limpar
Marko Perović- Sergio Zanetti
Władysław Żmuda
References
- ^ "US Cremonese - Campionato C1-A 2008-2009" (in Italian). US Cremonese. http://www.uscremonese.it/squadra.html. Retrieved 2009-02-12.
External links
- (Italian) Official site
- (Italian) An unofficial site
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