FC Lugano

Lugano

Full name	Football Club Lugano
Founded	1908; 111 years ago (1908)
Ground	Cornaredo Stadium, Lugano, Switzerland
Capacity	6,330
Chairman	Angelo Renzetti
Manager	Fabio Celestini
League	Swiss Super League
2017–18	Swiss Super League, 8th
Home colours Away colours Third colours

FC Lugano is a Swiss football club based in Lugano. The club was refounded as AC Lugano in 2004 as a result of relegation and the financial situation of FC Lugano, which was founded in 1908. In 2008, the club reverted to its original name, FC Lugano. They play at the Stadio Cornaredo. They have played in what is now the Swiss Super League during the periods of 1922–53, 1954–60, 1961–63, 1964–76, 1979–80, 1988–97, 1998–02, and from 2015.

Contents

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  1 History
  


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  2 European Record
  


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  3 Players
  
  
  
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    3.1 Current squad
    
  
  
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    3.2 Reserve squad
    
  
  
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    3.3 Out on loan
    
  
  
  
  


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  4 Honours
  


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  5 Notable former coaches
  


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  6 References
  


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  7 External links
  

History

Former logo.

Chart of FC Lugano table positions in the Swiss football league system

Football Club Lugano was formed on 28 July 1908 under the leadership of the then President Ernesto Corsini. Promotion to the highest Swiss Super League came for the first time in 1922, and after several years of going up and down, the team won its first Swiss Cup in 1931. The following decade, FC Lugano was able to win 3 national titles (1938, 1941 and 1949).

During the first fifty years, Lugano played on the ground at the Campo Marzio – which opened on 13 September 1908 – but its success prompted the city to build a new stadium, and so on 26 August 1951, the Cornaredo Stadium was inaugurated, which has a capacity of 15,000.

In 1968, Lugano won the Swiss Cup and hence the team participated in the Cup Winners' Cups. Two years later the team took part in the UEFA Cup.

In 1993, Lugano won its third Cup against the Grasshoppers, later participating in the Cup Winners' Cup, which took it to the second qualifying round. In the 1995–96 season, Lugano participated in the UEFA Cup eliminating Jeunesse Hautcharage in the first round and in the second, Inter Milan.

After the declaration of bankruptcy in 2003, on 30 June 2004, Lugano merged with Malcantone Agno, and it was decided that Lugano would re-enter the Swiss Football scene in the Swiss Challenge League, as AC Lugano. Morotti Joseph, the president of Malcantone Agno, was entrusted with the leadership of the new club.

In 2007, the company was bought by a group led by Giambattista Pastorello. Luido Bernasconi became the new president.
On 4 June 2008 the general meeting of shareholders voted on changing the name of the club – which returned to the historical name of Football Club Lugano, in its centenary year.
In 2015 FC Lugano was promoted into Swiss Super League anew.

European Record

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1968–69	European Cup Winners' Cup	First Round	FC Barcelona	0–1	0–3	0–4
1971–72	UEFA Cup	First Round	Legia Warszawa	1–3	0–0	1–3
1993–94	European Cup Winners' Cup	Qualifying Round	FC Neman Grodno	5–0	1–2	6–2
		First Round	Real Madrid C.F.	1–3	0–3	1–6
1995–96	UEFA Cup	Preliminary Round	Jeunesse Esch	4–0	0–0	4–0
		First Round	Inter Milan	1–1	1–0	2–1
		Second Round	SK Slavia Prague	1–2	0–1	1–3
2001–02	UEFA Champions League	Second Qualifying Round	FC Shakhtar Donetsk	2–1	0–3	2–4
2002–03	UEFA Cup	Qualifying Round	FK Ventspils	1–0	0–3	1–3
2017–18	UEFA Europa League	Group stage (G)	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	1-0	1–2	3rd
			Steaua București	1–2	2-1
			Viktoria Plzeň	3–2	1-4

Players

Current squad

As of 22 September 2018^[1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK David Da Costa 3 DF Mijat Marić 4 DF Ákos Kecskés 6 MF Miroslav Covilo 7 DF Edoardo Masciangelo 8 MF Valon Fazliu 10 MF Mattia Bottani 11 FW Carlinhos 14 MF Jonathan Sabbatini (captain) 15 DF Yao Eloge Koffi 17 MF Bálint Vécsei 18 MF Mario Piccinocchi 19 FW Alexander Gerndt

No. Position Player 20 MF Petar Brlek (on loan from Genoa) 21 FW Marc Janko 27 DF Jetmir Krasniqi 28 DF Fulvio Sulmoni 29 FW Aziz Binous 30 DF Fabio Daprelà 33 MF Domen Črnigoj 34 MF Eris Abedini 35 DF Stanley Amuzie 46 GK Noam Baumann 77 MF Roman Macek (on loan from Juventus) 81 GK Francesco Russo 91 MF Dragan Mihajlović

Reserve squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 13 GK Alexander Muci 22 MF Emerson Crepaldi

No. Position Player 95 FW Carlo Manicone 99 FW Leotrim Kryeziu

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player — MF Stefano Guidotti (at Chiasso until 30 June 2019) — FW Younes Bnou Marzouk (at Sliema Wanderers until 30 June 2019)

Honours

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  Swiss Super League: 1937–38, 1940–41, 1948–49
  


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  Swiss Cup: 1930–31, 1967–68, 1992–93


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  Swiss Challenge League Champions 2014–15
  

Notable former coaches

Béla Volentik (1947–50) Tullio Grassi (1951–52) Béla Volentik (1952–53) Béla Sárosi (1953–55) Ragnar Larsen (1957–58) Tullio Grassi (1959–60) György Sárosi (1962–63) Albert Sing (1970–71) Otto Luttrop (1971–73), (1973–74) Alfredo Foni (1974–75), (1976–77) Oscar Massei (1977–79) Istvan Szabo (1979–80) Antun Rudinski (1980–81) Otto Luttrop (1983–85) Karl Engel (1992–94), (1997–98)

Enzo Trossero (1999) Giuliano Sonzogni (1999–00) Pierluigi Tami (2002–03) Vladimir Petković (2004–05) Simone Boldini (2007–10) Marco Schällibaum (2010–11) Francesco Moriero (2011–12) Raimondo Ponte (2012–13) Sandro Salvioni (2013) Livio Bordoli (2013–2015) Zdeněk Zeman (2015–16) Andrea Manzo (2016) Paolo Tramezzani (2016–2017) Pierluigi Tami (2017–2018) Guillermo Abascal (2018–present)

References

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External links

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  Official website (in Italian)
  

v t e Swiss Super League
2018–19 teams	Basel Grasshopper Lugano Luzern Neuchâtel Xamax Sion St. Gallen Thun Young Boys Zürich
Former teams	Aarau Bellinzona Lausanne-Sport Schaffhausen Servette Vaduz Wil Yverdon-Sport
Associated competitions	Swiss Cup Swiss Challenge League
Seasons	2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19

v t e Seasons of the Swiss Football League
Serie A era, 1897–1931 Seasons 1897–98 1898–99 1899–1900 1900–01 1901–02 1902–03 1903–04 1904–05 1905–06 1906–07 1907–08 1908–09 1909–10 1910–11 1911–12 1912–13 1913–14 1914–15 1915–16 1916–17 1917–18 1918–19 1919–20 1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31
Nationalliga era, 1931–1944 Seasons 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44
Nationalliga A era, 1944–2003 Seasons 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03
Super League era, 2003–present Seasons 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19

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