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Imolese Calcio 1919

Imolese

Full name	Imolese Calcio 1919
Founded	1919; 105 years ago (1919)
Ground	Romeo Galli, Imola, Italy
Capacity	4,000
Manager	Gianni D'Amore
League	Serie D Group D
2023–24	Serie D Group D, 12th of 18
Home colours Away colours

Imolese Calcio 1919 is a professional football club based in Imola, Emilia-Romagna, that currently plays in Serie D. Their home pitch, Romeo Galli Stadium, is located inside the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari to the left of the curving frontstretch before the Variante Tamburello.

The club was founded in 1919 would join the Italian Football Federation six years later. In 1929, it achieved promotion to the second division. In 1934, the club achieved promotion to the top flight. In 1936, just one year after promotion to the top division, the club refounded and begins participation in Serie D.

For the next 40 or so years the club yoyoed between the third and fifth divisions. In the 1989–90 season, they achieved promotion to Serie C2 (fourth division), but they were unable to promote due to financial difficulties.

In 2005, A.C. Imolese S.r.l. was expelled from 2005–06 Serie C2 due to financial irregularities.^[1] The club was refounded under the name Imolese Calcio 1919 S.s.d a r.l and was admitted to Eccellenza Emilia-Romagna (fifth tier). In the 2005–06 season Imolese was relegated to Promozione after finishing sixteenth in Emilia–Romagna Group B. The following season Imolese won the Promozione, and then returned to Eccellenza.

In the 2012–13 season, it won promotion to Serie D, winning against Giulianova in the play-off semi-final and San Colombano in the final. In the 2017–18 season the club achieved promotion to Serie C. That season they shortened their name to just Imolese Calcio 1919. In the 2018–19 season the club finished third in Serie C and qualified to the promotion playoffs but lost the playoff semi-final. However less than five years later the club was relegated back to Serie D.

The team's colors are red and blue, copied from those of the Imola commune.

As of 19 December 2023^[2]

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 Federico Adorni 2 DF  URU Agustín Ale 4 DF  ITA Sebastian Elefante (on loan from Juventus) 5 MF  ITA Nunzio Brandi 6 DF  ITA Lorenzo Dall'Osso 7 FW  ITA Gabriel Mattiolo 9 FW  ITA Matteo Rizzi 11 MF  ITA Luigi Poerio 14 MF  ITA Alessio Gulinatti 17 FW  ITA Alessio Spatari 19 FW  ESP Amadou Konate 21 MF  ITA Matteo Capozzi 22 GK  LTU Klaidas Laukžemis

No. Pos. Nation Player 23 MF  ITA Manuel Garavini 26 DF  ITA Mattia Ciucci (on loan from Lecce) 27 DF  ESP Yaya Daffe 30 MF  ITA Luka Vlahovic 32 MF  BUL Teodor Georgiev 55 DF  BUL Petar Gospodinov 77 MF  ESP Mamadou Diawara 80 MF  ITA Aleandro Manes 90 FW  ITA Simone Raffini 99 FW  ARG Ariel Reinero — GK  ITA Daniele Comi — FW  ITA Lorenzo Bertini — FW  ITA Daniel D'Angelo

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 Tommaso Nannetti (atAglianese until 30 June 2024) — DF  ITA Michele Ballanti (at Progresso until 30 June 2024)

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  ITA Nicolò Dalmonte (at Progresso until 30 June 2024)

• Official website (in Italian)