Atalanta B.C.

Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio, often called Atalanta (nicknamed La Dea, the Nerazzurri, or the Orobici) is a professional football club based in Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy. The club plays in Serie A ever since it got promoted from Serie B in 2010–11. They finished 3rd in the 2018–19 Serie A season, meaning they could play in the UEFA Champions League for the first time in the club's history. They play at the Gewiss Stadium, which has a capacity of 21,300. They have a long-standing rivalry with nearby club Brescia.

Atalanta

Full name	Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio S.p.A.
Nickname(s)	La Dea (The Goddess) Gli Orobici I Nerazzurri (The Black and Blues)
Founded	17 October 1907; 117 years ago (1907-10-17)
Ground	Gewiss Stadium
Capacity	21,300
President	Antonio Percassi
Head coach	Gian Piero Gasperini
League	Serie A
2021-22	8th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

Players

Current squad

As of 12 August 2022^[1][2][3]

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  Argentina Juan Musso 2 DF  Italy Rafael Tolói (captain) 3 DF  Denmark Joakim Mæhle 5 DF  Italy Caleb Okoli 6 DF  Argentina José Luis Palomino 7 MF  Netherlands Teun Koopmeiners 9 FW  Colombia Luis Muriel 10 MF  Ivory Coast Jérémie Boga 11 FW  Nigeria Ademola Lookman 13 MF  Brazil Éderson 15 MF  Netherlands Marten de Roon (vice-captain)[4] 18 MF  Ukraine Ruslan Malinovskyi

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 DF  Albania Berat Djimsiti 21 DF  Italy Nadir Zortea 22 DF  Italy Matteo Ruggeri 28 DF  Turkey Merih Demiral 31 GK  Italy Francesco Rossi 33 DF  Netherlands Hans Hateboer 42 DF  Italy Giorgio Scalvini 57 GK  Italy Marco Sportiello 72 FW  Slovenia Josip Iličić 77 DF  Italy Davide Zappacosta 88 MF  Croatia Mario Pašalić 91 FW  Colombia Duván Zapata

Out on loan

As of 5 October 2020.

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  Italy Lorenzo Babbi (at Piacenza until 30 June 2021) — GK  Italy Stefano Mazzini (at Carrarese until 30 June 2021) — GK  Senegal Khadim Ndiaye (at Ascoli until 30 June 2021) — GK  Italy Alessandro Santopadre (at Potenza until 30 June 2021) — DF  Italy Alberto Alari (at Ravenna until 30 June 2021) — DF  Italy Raoul Bellanova (at Pescara until 30 June 2021) — DF  Italy Federico Bergonzi (at Feralpisalò until 30 June 2021) — DF  Italy Davide Bettella (at Monza until 30 June 2022) — DF  Italy Giorgio Brogni (at Feralpisalò until 30 June 2021) — DF  Italy Riccardo Burgio (at Avellino until 30 June 2021) — DF  Italy Nicolò Cambiaghi (at Reggiana until 30 June 2021) — DF  Germany Lennart Czyborra (at Genoa until 30 June 2022) — DF  Italy Alessio Girgi (at Legnago until 30 June 2021) — DF  Brazil Rodrigo Guth (at Pescara until 30 June 2021) — DF  Czech Republic David Heidenreich (at FK Teplice until 30 June 2021) — DF  Brazil Roger Ibañez (at Roma until 30 June 2021) — DF  Croatia Anton Krešić (at Padova until 30 June 2021) — DF  Italy Federico Mattiello (at Spezia until 30 June 2021) — DF  Italy Christian Mora (at Alessandria until 30 June 2022) — DF  Italy Caleb Okoli (at S.P.A.L. until 30 June 2021) — DF  Poland Arkadiusz Reca (at Crotone until 30 June 2021) — DF  Italy Matteo Salvi (at Pistoiese until 30 June 2021) — DF  Italy Marco Varnier (at Pisa until 30 June 2021) — DF  Italy Eyob Zambataro (at Monopoli until 30 June 2021) — DF  Italy Enrico Zanoni (at Ravenna until 30 June 2021) — DF  Italy Nadir Zortea (at Cremonese until 30 June 2021) — MF  Albania Isnik Alimi (at Sibenik until 30 June 2021)

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  Italy Thomas Bolis (at Ravenna until 30 June 2021) — MF  Ecuador Bryan Cabezas (at Emelec until 30 June 2021) — MF  Italy Marco Carraro (at Frosinone until 30 June 2022) — MF  Italy Andrea Colpani (at Monza until 30 June 2022) — MF  Italy Jacopo Da Riva (at Vicenza until 30 June 2021) — MF  Italy Enrico Del Prato (at Reggina until 30 June 2021) — MF  Italy Sebastiano Finardi (at Giana Erminio until 30 June 2021) — MF  Italy Nicolò Ghisleni (at Piacenza until 30 June 2021) — MF  Switzerland Nicolas Haas (at Empoli until 30 June 2021) — MF  Albania Erdis Kraja (at Grosseto until 30 June 2021) — MF  Italy Alessandro Mallamo (at Pordenone until 30 June 2021) — MF  Italy Filippo Melegoni (at Genoa until 30 June 2021) — MF  Italy Simone Muratore (at Reggiana until 30 June 2021) — MF  Italy Lorenzo Peli (at Reggina until 30 June 2021) — MF  Italy Matteo Pedrini (at Grosseto until 30 June 2021) — MF  Italy Samuele Signori (at Lucchese until 30 June 2021) — MF  Italy Luca Valzania (at Cremonese until 30 June 2021) — FW  Gambia Musa Barrow (at Bologna until 30 June 2021) — FW  Italy Christian Capone (at Pescara until 30 June 2021) — MF  Gambia Ebrima Colley (at Hellas Verona until 30 June 2021) — FW  Denmark Andreas Cornelius (at Parma until 30 June 2021) — FW  Italy Salvatore Elia (at Perugia until 30 June 2021) — FW  Italy Niccolò Ghisleni (at Piacenza until 30 June 2021) — FW  Ivory Coast Emmanuel Latte Lath (at Pro Patria until 30 June 2021) — FW  Italy Gabriel Lunetta (at Reggiana until 30 June 2021) — FW  Italy Roberto Piccoli (at Spezia until 30 June 2021) — FW  Italy Luca Vido (at Pisa until 30 June 2021)

Retired numbers

12 – Dedication to fans, the 12th man
14 – Federico Pisani, Forward (1991–97) – posthumous honour.
80 – Elio Corbani, radio journalist.

Managerial history

Atalanta have had many managers and head coaches throughout their history. Below is a chronological list of them from when Serie A was changed into a league format, from 1929–30 onwards.

Name Nationality Years Cesare Lovati 1923–27 Imre Payer 1927–29 Enrico Tirabassi 1928–29 Luigi Cevenini 1929–30 József Viola 1930–33 Imre Payer 1933 Angelo Mattea 1933–35 Imre Payer 1935–36 Ottavio Barbieri 1936–38 Géza Kertész 1938–39 Ivo Fiorentini 1939–41 János Nehadoma 1941–46 Giuseppe Meazza 1946 Luis Monti 1946 Ivo Fiorentini 1946–49 Alberto Citterio Carlo Carcano 1949 Giovanni Varglien 1949–51 Denis Charles Neville 1951–52 Carlo Ceresoli 1952 Luigi Ferrero 1952–54 Francesco Simonetti Luigi Tentorio 1954 Luigi Bonizzoni 1954–57

Name Nationality Years Carlo Rigotti 1957–58 Giuseppe Bonomi 1958 Karl Adamek 1958–59 Ferruccio Valcareggi 1959–62 Paolo Tabanelli 1962–63 Carlo Alberto Quario 1963–64 Carlo Ceresoli 1964 Héctor Puricelli 1965–66 Stefano Angeleri 1966–67 Paolo Tabanelli 1967–68 Stefano Angeleri 1968–69 Silvano Moro 1969 Carlo Ceresoli 1969 Corrado Viciani 1969–70 Renato Gei 1970 Giovan Battista Rota 1970 Giulio Corsini 1970–74 Heriberto Herrera Udrizar 1974–75 Angelo Piccioli 1975 Giancarlo Cadé 1975–76 Gianfranco Leoncini 1976 Giovan Battista Rota 1976–80 Bruno Bolchi 1980–81 Giulio Corsini 1981

Name Nationality Years Ottavio Bianchi 1981 – 30 June 1983 Nedo Sonetti 1 July 1983 – 30 June 1987 Emiliano Mondonico 1 July 1987 – 30 June 1990 Pierluigi Frosio 1990–91 Bruno Giorgi 1991–92 Marcello Lippi 1 July 1992 – 30 June 1993 Francesco Guidolin 1 July 1993 – 30 September 1993 Andrea Valdinoci Cesare Prandelli 1 November 1993 – 30 June 1994 Emiliano Mondonico 1 July 1994 – 30 June 1998 Bortolo Mutti 1 July 1998 – 30 June 1999 Giovanni Vavassori 1 July 1999 – 30 November 2002 Giancarlo Finardi 1 December 2002 – 30 June 2003 Andrea Mandorlini 1 July 2003–05 Delio Rossi 6 December 2004 – 30 June 2005 Stefano Colantuono 1 July 2005 – 30 June 2007 Luigi Delneri 1 July 2007 – 30 June 2009 Angelo Gregucci 1 July 2009 – 21 September 2009 Antonio Conte 21 September 2009 – 7 January 2010 Valter Bonacina (interim) 7 January 2010 – 10 January 2010 Bortolo Mutti 11 January 2010 – 10 June 2010 Stefano Colantuono 14 June 2010 – 4 March 2015 Edoardo Reja 4 March 2015 – 14 June 2016 Gian Piero Gasperini 14 June 2016 –

Honours

Domestic

• Coppa Italia

Winners: 1962–63

Runners-up (3): 1986–87, 1995–96, 2018–19

• Serie B

Winners (6):^[5] 1927–28, 1939–40, 1958–59, 1983–84, 2005–06, 2010–11

Runners-up (4): 1936–37, 1970–71, 1976–77, 1999–2000

• Serie C1 North

Winners: 1981–82

References

1. "Rosa". atalanta.it. Atalanta B.C. Archived from the original on 10 February 2023. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
2. "Squad - ATALANTA". legaseriea.it. Lega Serie A. Archived from the original on 20 March 2022. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
3. "Amichevole al Centro Bortolotti, la partita integrale | Atalanta–Como 4–0". YouTube.com. Atalanta B.C. 24 July 2022. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
4. "Gasperini: 'Atalanta have many captains'". Football Italia. 19 December 2020. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
5. (Italian record shared with Genoa C.F.C.)

Other websites

• Official website (in Italian)
• Official fans site (in Italian)
• Tutto Atalanta: Atalanta News & Gossip (in Italian)
• Russian fans site (in Russian)