U.S. Salernitana 1919

The Salerno-based club was originally founded in 1919 as the Unione Sportiva Salernitana. The club was known as Società Sportiva Salernitanaudax for a time during the 1920s following a merger with Audax Salerno. In 1978, the club was renamed Salernitana Sport. The club has spent the majority of their history at the Serie B and Serie C levels of Italian football.

Salernitana play their home matches at Stadio Arechi. In their early years, Salernitana competed in the regional Italian Football Championship. They played at this level for four seasons during the 1920s. Since that time the club returned to the top level of Italian football twice; they played in Serie A during 1947–48 and 1998–99.

In 2005, the club went bankrupt but was restarted by Antonio Lombardi, changing the name from Salernitana Sport to Salernitana Calcio 1919.

In 2011, the club did not appeal against a decision by Commissione di Vigilanza sulle Società di Calcio Professionistiche (Co.Vi.So.C) and was excluded from Italian football.

Salernitana-Cosenza 2014–15

On 21 July 2011, following the exclusion of the original Salernitana club, Salerno mayor Vincenzo De Luca, in compliance with Article 52 of N.O.I.F., assigned the new title to Marco Mezzaroma, brother-in-law of Lazio owner and chairman Claudio Lotito. The new club was admitted to Serie D under the denomination of Salerno Calcio.[1][7][8]

In the 2011–12 season, Salernitana was immediately promoted to Lega Pro Seconda Divisione after winning Group G of Serie D.

On 12 July 2012, the club was renamed US Salernitana 1919.[4] In the 2012–13 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione season, Salernitana finished first in Girone B, and was promoted to Lega Pro Prima Divisione. This was the second consecutive promotion for the team. Finally Salernitana won Group C of Lega Pro and returned Serie B in 2014–15 season.

After several seasons at Serie B level, Salernitana won promotion to Serie A at the end of the 2020–21 Serie B season under the tenure of head coach Fabrizio Castori, finishing in 2nd place behind champions Empoli. Promotion was secured with a 3–0 victory over Pescara on the final matchday. Salernitana's return to Serie A however required Lotito and Mezzaroma to sell the club, due to Italian football laws not allowing two clubs from the same owner to play in the same league.[9] On 7 July 2021, the FIGC Federal Council approved the trust of Salernitana to take control of the club, meaning it was officially enrolled in Serie A for the first time in 23 years.[10]

Salernitana's first match in its return to the top flight was a 3–2 defeat against Bologna on 22 August 2021.[11] After a poor start to the season, earning only one point from the first six matches, the club picked up its first Serie A victory against Genoa on matchday seven, winning 1–0 due to a goal from Milan Đurić.[12] In October, the Salernitana board fired Castori after a 2–1 loss to Spezia had left the club at the bottom of the table, with four points from their opening eight league games. Stefano Colantuono was named as his replacement, returning for a second spell as head coach having previously led Salernitana from December 2017 to December 2018.[13]

As of 18 February 2022

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 Vincenzo Fiorillo 2 MF  SEN Mamadou Coulibaly (on loan from Udinese) 3 DF  ITA Matteo Ruggeri (on loan from Atalanta) 4 DF  POL Paweł Jaroszyński (on loan from Genoa) 5 DF  ALB Frédéric Veseli 6 DF  NOR Stefan Strandberg 7 MF  FRA Franck Ribéry (captain) 8 MF  ITA Andrea Schiavone 9 FW  ITA Federico Bonazzoli (on loan from Sampdoria) 10 FW  ITA Simone Verdi (on loan from Torino) 11 FW  BIH Milan Đurić 12 GK  ITA Antonio Russo 13 MF  BRA Éderson 14 MF  ITA Francesco Di Tacchio (vice-captain) 15 MF  NOR Emil Bohinen (on loan from CSKA Moscow) 16 MF  SRB Ivan Radovanović 17 DF  ARG Federico Fazio 18 MF  MLI Lassana Coulibaly

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 DF  ITA Luca Ranieri (on loan from Fiorentina) 20 MF  CYP Grigoris Kastanos (on loan from Juventus) 21 DF  ITA Nadir Zortea (on loan from Atalanta) 22 MF  NGA Joel Obi 23 DF  SVK Norbert Gyömbér 24 DF  TUN Wajdi Kechrida 25 DF  ROU Radu Drăgușin (on loan from Juventus) 28 MF  ITA Leonardo Capezzi 30 MF  ITA Pasquale Mazzocchi (on loan from Venezia) 31 DF  SWE Riccardo Gagliolo 33 DF  ITA Filippo Delli Carri (on loan from Juventus) 55 GK  ITA Luigi Sepe (on loan from Parma) 63 FW  ITA Edoardo Vergani 72 GK  SVN Vid Belec 87 FW  BRA Mikael (on loan from Sport Recife) 88 FW  ARG Diego Perotti 99 FW  FRA Lys Mousset (on loan from Sheffield United)

As of 2 February 2022

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 Alessandro Micai (at Reggina until 30 June 2022) — DF  CRO Luka Bogdan (at Ternana until 30 June 2022) — DF  ITA Valerio Mantovani (at Alessandria until 30 June 2022) — DF  ITA Mirko Esposito (at Mantova until 30 June 2022) — DF  ITA Gioacchino Galeotafiore (at Seregno until 30 June 2022) — DF  FRA Sanasi Sy (at Cosenza until 30 June 2022) — MF  NED Reda Boultam (at Cosenza until 30 June 2022) — MF  ESP Kaleb Jimenez Castillo (at Seregno until 30 June 2022) — MF  ITA Michele Cavion (at Vicenza until 30 June 2022)

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  ITA Agostino Del Regno (at Paganese until 30 June 2022) — MF  ITA Carmine Iannone (at Paganese until 30 June 2022) — MF  ITA Edoardo Iannoni (at Ancona-Matelica until 30 June 2022) — MF  ITA Francesco Orlando (at Alessandria until 30 June 2022) — MF  ITA Gaetano Vitale (at Seregno until 30 June 2022) — FW  ITA Filippo D'Andrea (at Teramo until 30 June 2022) — FW  ITA Giuseppe Fella (at Palermo until 30 June 2022) — FW  NOR Julian Kristoffersen (at Cosenza until 30 June 2022) — FW  NGA Simy (at Parma until 30 June 2022)