A.C. REGGIANA 1919

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:''Not to be confused with Reggina Calcio, a Serie A team.''
'Associazione Calcio Reggiana 1919' is an Italian football club, based in Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna. The club was founded in 1919 as 'A.C. Reggiana' and refounded in July 2005 as 'Reggio Emilia F.C.', but it was renamed A.C. Reggiana 1919 soon after the start of the 2005-06 season. Reggiana currently plays in Serie C2/B, having last been in Serie A in 1997. The team's color is dark red (''Granata'').
Some famous players played for Reggiana, including Felice Romano, Angelo Di Livio, Ruggiero Rizzitelli, Fabrizio Ravanelli, Luca Bucci, Claudio Taffarel, Paulo Futre, Stefano Torrisi, Francesco Antonioli, Igor Simutenkov, Angelo Adamo Gregucci, Sunday Oliseh, Filippo Galli, Alberigo Evani, Luigi Sartor, Marco Ballotta, Massimo Tonetto, Adolfo Valencia, Cristiano Zanetti and Obafemi Martins.
Reggiana played in Italian First Division for many seasons in the 1920's; the club took part in Italian Serie A in 1993/94, 1994/95 and 1996/97. Best result is 13th place in 1993/94 Serie A championship.
Most famous coach has been Carlo Ancelotti, who has been working for AC Milan since 2001.
Reggiana played all matches in ''Mirabello'' Stadium until 1994; then they moved to a new and modern arena, called ''Stadio Giglio''.
Reggiana numbers former EU commissioner and current Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi among its supporters.
Reggiana are famous for taking 5,000 fans to a Morton F.C. game in Greenock, Scotland. Greenock Morton are, of course, one of the largest teams in Scotland and therefore it came as no surprise to their fans that supporters of Italian clubs wanted to to watch one of their games.

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Notable former coaches
Notable former players
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Titles



Serie B Championship Winner: 1

★ Seasons played in Serie A: 3

★ Seasons played in Italian First Division: 5

Notable former coaches



Carlo Ancelotti

Bruno Giordano

Luigi Del Grosso

Mircea Lucescu

Giuseppe Marchioro

Francesco Oddo

Notable former players



Francesco Antonioli
Luigi Apolloni
Massimo Brambilla
Giorgio Bresciani
Luca Bucci
Andrea Carnevale
Francesco Cozza
Luigi De Agostini
Fernando De Napoli
Angelo Di Livio
Massimo Esposito
Alberigo Evani
Filippo Galli
Angelo Gregucci
Nicola Legrottaglie
Stefano Nava
 
Michele Padovano
Igor Protti
Fabrizio Ravanelli
Ruggiero Rizzitelli
Felice Romano
Luigi Sartor
Andrea Silenzi
Andrea Sordo
Massimo Tonetto
Stefano Torrisi
Sandro Tovalieri
Cristiano Zanetti
Georges Grun
Claudio Taffarel
 
Adolfo Valencia
Franz Carr
Catilina Aubameyang (youth player)
Dietmar Beiersdorfer
Anton Powolny
Saidu Adeshina (youth player)
Saidi Adeshokan (youth player)
Isah Eliakwu (youth player)
Stephen Makinwa (youth player)
Obafemi Martins (youth player)
Sunday Oliseh
Adewale Dauda Wahab
Dorin Mateut
Ioan Sabau
Paulo Futre
Igor Simutenkov
Johnny Ekström

External links



Official site

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