U.S. Cremonese
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Unione Sportiva Cremonese is an Italian football
Football in Italy
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 club, based in Cremona
Cremona
Cremona is a city and comune in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po River in the middle of the Pianura Padana . It is the capital of the province of Cremona and the seat of the local City and Province governments...

. The club was founded in 1903. Cremonese played the 2005/2006 season in Serie B
Serie B
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, having won Serie C1/A
Serie C
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 the previous season. However, in the 2005/2006 Serie B campaign, Cremonese came out twenty-first, being therefore relegated to Serie C1
Serie C
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 for the next season. It currently plays in Lega Pro Prima Divisione.

Their last appearance in Serie A
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 was in 1996. The team's colors are red and gray. Cremonese won the Anglo-Italian Cup
Anglo-Italian Cup
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 in 1993. Some of the famous players who played for Cremonese include Gianluca Vialli
Gianluca Vialli
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, Władysław Żmuda, Anders Limpar
Anders Limpar
Anders Erik Limpar is a Swedish former footballer of Hungarian origin, who played as a winger...

, Giuseppe Favalli
Giuseppe Favalli
Giuseppe Favalli is a retired Italian footballer who played as a defender for Serie A clubs Lazio, Internazionale and Milan.-Cremonese:He started his career with then-Serie B squad Cremonese...

, John Aloisi
John Aloisi
John Aloisi is a retired Australian football player who played as a striker, and the current youth team manager at Melbourne Heart....

 and Enrico Chiesa
Enrico Chiesa
Enrico Chiesa is an Italian football coach and former striker.Chiesa performed regularly at Serie A level for over a decade, and was also part of the Italy national football team. He was considered one of the most exciting and dynamic strikers in Italy during the mid 90's.-Club:Chiesa moved his...

. Cremonese acts as a feeder club for Parma
Parma F.C.
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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
Luigi Simoni
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, Cremonese returned to Serie A in 1993. With a side containing quality in the form of defenders Luigi Gualco and Corrado Verdelli
Corrado Verdelli
Corrado Verdelli is an Italian professional football coach and a former player.-Playing career:Verdelli started his senior career with amateur club Oltrepò...

, midfield playmaker Riccardo Maspero
Riccardo Maspero
Riccardo Maspero is an Italian footballer who played as an attacking midfielder, most notably with Cremonese.Maspero came to prominence as a teenager at Cremonese, and played in two one-year spells in Serie A...

 and forwards Andrea Tentoni and Matjaž Florijančič
Matjaž Florijancic
Matjaž Florijančič is a former Slovenian football player.-Career:Florijančič played most of his career in Italy, where he moved in 1991 to sign for Serie A club Cremonese. He then played for several other Serie A and B teams, such as Torino and Empoli...

, 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
Giovanni Dall'Igna
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, another defender from the Serie A years, has since returned to the club. However, Cremonese relegated to Serie C1 in 2005–2006 season. Cremonese struggling for returning Serie B but was beaten by Varese
A.S. Varese 1910
A.S. Varese 1910 is an Italian football club from Varese, founded 22 March 1910. It currently plays in Serie B, ranked one division below Serie A in the Italian football league.-History:...

 with a 2–1 aggregate at promotion play-off final in 2009–10 season.

Current first team squad

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Out on loan

Honours

  • Serie C: 3
1935/36 (Girone B), 1941/42 (Girone B), 1976/77 (Girone A)
  • Serie C1: 1
2004/05 (Girone A)
  • Serie D: 1
1967/68 (Girone B)
  • IV Serie: 1
1953/54 (Girone C)
  • Anglo-Italian Cup
    Anglo-Italian Cup
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1992–93
  • Primavera TIM Cup: 1
1986/87

Notable former players

Gabriele Bongiorni
Gabriele Bongiorni
Gabriele Bongiorni was a left-footed Italian footballer. Originally from the province of Pavia, he made his Serie A debut in the 1988–89 season with Ascoli.-External links:*...

 Antonio Cabrini
Antonio Cabrini
Antonio Cabrini is an Italian football former player. He played left-back, mainly with Juventus. He won the 1982 FIFA World Cup with the Italian national team....

 Paolo Castellini
Paolo Castellini
Paolo Castellini is an Italian footballer who plays for U.C. Sampdoria as a left defender.-Club career:Born in Brescia, Lombardy, Castellini joined made his professional debuts at U.S. Cremonese at only 17, going on to appear for the club in both the Serie B and Serie C1...

 Enrico Chiesa
Enrico Chiesa
Enrico Chiesa is an Italian football coach and former striker.Chiesa performed regularly at Serie A level for over a decade, and was also part of the Italy national football team. He was considered one of the most exciting and dynamic strikers in Italy during the mid 90's.-Club:Chiesa moved his...

 Francesco Colonnese
Francesco Colonnese
Francesco Colonnese is an Italian former football defender.- Club :He began his career in Potenza - where he played from 1989 to 1991 - before moving first to Giarre Football and then to Cremonese, where he made 66 appearances.In the 1994-1995 season, Colonnese was bought by AS Roma to strengthen...

 Giuseppe Favalli
Giuseppe Favalli
Giuseppe Favalli is a retired Italian footballer who played as a defender for Serie A clubs Lazio, Internazionale and Milan.-Cremonese:He started his career with then-Serie B squad Cremonese...

 Luigi Gualco Attilio Lombardo
Attilio Lombardo
Attilio Lombardo is a retired football player turned manager.-Playing:...


Dario Marcolin
Dario Marcolin
Dario Marcolin is an Italian football coach and former player.-Club career:During his career, Marcolin played for Cremonese, Lazio, Cagliari, Genoa, Blackburn Rovers , Sampdoria, Napoli, Piacenza, and A.C...

 Riccardo Maspero
Riccardo Maspero
Riccardo Maspero is an Italian footballer who played as an attacking midfielder, most notably with Cremonese.Maspero came to prominence as a teenager at Cremonese, and played in two one-year spells in Serie A...

 Cesare Prandelli
Cesare Prandelli
Cesare Claudio Prandelli is an Italian football coach and former player. He is currently the manager of the Italy national football team.-Playing career:...

 Michelangelo Rampulla
Michelangelo Rampulla
Michelangelo Rampulla is a former Italian football goalkeeper.-Playing career:After a short stint with Sicilian amateurs Pattese followed by three seasons at Varese, Rampulla joined Cremonese in 1993 and became a protagonist in the club's rise to the Serie A league.He is best remembered for being...

 Andrea Tentoni Luigi Turci
Luigi Turci
Luigi Turci is a former Italian football goalkeeper. He retired after the 2006–2007 season. His last club was Cesena in Serie B. He is currently active as goalkeeping coach of Padova.-Football career:...

 Corrado Verdelli
Corrado Verdelli
Corrado Verdelli is an Italian professional football coach and a former player.-Playing career:Verdelli started his senior career with amateur club Oltrepò...

 Gianluca Vialli
Gianluca Vialli
Gianluca Vialli is an Italian football manager and former player. Since retiring, he has gone into management and punditry and is a commentator for Sky Sport Italia....


Gustavo Dezotti
Gustavo Dezotti
Gustavo Abel Dezotti is a former football striker from Argentina. He played most of his career for Newell's Old Boys in Argentina, he was part of the team that won the Primera Division Argentina championship of 1987-1988....

 John Aloisi
John Aloisi
John Aloisi is a retired Australian football player who played as a striker, and the current youth team manager at Melbourne Heart....

 Juary
Juary
Juary Jorge dos Santos Filho, simply Juary , is a retired Brazilian footballer who played as a striker, and a current manager.-Club career:...

 John Mensah
John Mensah
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 Gustavo Neffa
Gustavo Neffa
Gustavo Alfredo Neffa Rodríguez is a retired footballer from Paraguay.He started his career on Olimpia Asunción, and at the age of 18, noted by Juventus, Neffa moved on loan to Serie A club U.S. Cremonese, where he failed to make his breakthrough...

 Władysław Żmuda Matjaž Florijančič
Matjaž Florijancic
Matjaž Florijančič is a former Slovenian football player.-Career:Florijančič played most of his career in Italy, where he moved in 1991 to sign for Serie A club Cremonese. He then played for several other Serie A and B teams, such as Torino and Empoli...

 Anders Limpar
Anders Limpar
Anders Erik Limpar is a Swedish former footballer of Hungarian origin, who played as a winger...



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