Benevento

Benevento Calcio

The club was established as Associazione Calcio Benedevento in 1929. Their first home was the Meomartini that was constructed in 1929 by Ciccio Minocchia.

After climbing up the lower divisions of the country during the early times, Benevento reached Prima Divisione which was Italy's third-highest professional league in the season 1934-1935. They finished ahead of teams like Reggina in their debut season in the league. While they didn't win the promotion into Serie B, the team was still in the third level of Italian football during the 1935-36 season. They were reorganized into a smaller 64-team league named Serie C.

Club F.C. Sporting Benevento S.r.l. was dissolved in 2005. The club was also formed at the time Benevento Calcio S.p.A. was formed, with similar stadium facilities and equipment.

The 2007/08 Serie C2 regular season the team was 1st in Girone C, winning direct transfer to the now-called Lega Pro Prima Divisione to play in the season 2008-2009. In the 2008-09 campaign, Benevento's first season as a member of Lega Pro Prima Divisione, they finished 2nd. This meant that Benevento was in a play-off with two legs. They had won their first play-off with two legs and fell to Crotone at 1-0 (2-1) at aggregate at the end of their final.

Gaetano Auteri was named the head coach during the season 2015-16. This season, Benevento won its league and made it to Serie B for the first time in its history. The mathematical certainty came on the 30th April, 2016 after the team beat Lecce 3-1.

On June 8, 2017 Benevento was elevated to Serie A, for the first time in their history after beating Carpi during the Serie B play-offs 1-0 on average, and amazingly securing the promotion after their debut campaign with Serie B. The team struggled during its premier-flight debut during the 2017-18 season, as Benevento established a record for the most disastrous season start in any of the top five leagues in Europe with a loss in the fourteen first Serie A matches. The streak came to an end on December 2017 with an equalizing header in the 95th minute by goalkeeper Alberto Brnoli to earn an 2-2 draw at home with A.C. Milan. Benevento's tenure as a member of Serie A lasted one season and they were eliminated following an unlucky finish. However, there was a noticeable improvement in their form following their poor start to the season. eventually winning six out of their 23 matches.

On June 22, the 22nd of June, Benevento appointed Filippo Inzaghi as the new manager. In June 2020, with seven games remaining for the current league campaign the club was promoted back to the first division of Italian football following a dazzling Serie B campaign.

Benevento's second campaign with Serie A was again unsuccessful and ended with another relegation. However, the club was more successful and performed well in the beginning of this season. At the midway point of the season, Benevento had won six matches and was in 10th place, looking good-placed to finish in the mid-table. But a major decline in performance between January and the end of the season with only scoring 16 goals and only winning one of the last 22 games which meant the club was relegated to Serie B for the 2021-22 season. Benevento ended up finishing in 18th position, having less then Torino in the final position of non-relegation.

The team's colors are red and yellow, and their emblem is stripes of yellow and red, as well as their black logo of the witch riding on a blow broom. Benevento is known as by the Stregoni, Italian for sorcerers and sometimes they are called their nickname is Streghe, Italian for witches in reference to the myths that date back to the 13th century about Witches in Benevento.

Benevento hosts their home games at Stadio Ciro Vigorito. The stadium was built on ground in the year 1976, and was officially opened in 1979. It can accommodate up to 25,000 spectators.

The stadium was initially named Santa Colomba but was renamed in honor of Ciro Vigorito, the brother of the club's the president Oreste Vigorito. Ciro was an entrepreneur who made a name for himself and sports director who was the managing director, and supervised the youth section in Benevento from 2006 until his death in 2010.

Detail of the players as below mentioned.

As of 26 July 2022

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
3	DF	ITA	Gaetano Letizia
4	MF	ITA	Gennaro Acampora
8	MF	COL	Andrés Tello
11	FW	BRA	Diego Farias
12	GK	ITA	Nicolò Manfredini
15	DF	POL	Kamil Glik
16	MF	ITA	Riccardo Improta
18	DF	BEL	Daam Foulon
19	MF	ITA	Roberto Insigne
23	MF	MDA	Artur Ioniță
24	MF	ITA	Mattia Viviani
26	FW	ITA	Bruno Umile
29	GK	ITA	Alberto Paleari
32	DF	ITA	Edoardo Masciangelo
38	MF	ITA	Angelo Talia
58	DF	ITA	Christian Pastina
88	FW	ITA	Francesco Forte
93	DF	ITA	Federico Barba
—	DF	ITA	Riccardo Capellini
—	DF	MAR	Hamza El Kaouakibi
—	MF	CIV	Siriki Sanogo
—	MF	SWE	Nermin Karić
—	MF	GRE	Ilias Koutsoupias (on loan from Virtus Entella)
—	MF	ITA	Dejan Vokić
—	FW	ITA	Antonino La Gumina (on loan from Sampdoria)

•  Giuseppe Zilizzi (1935–36)
•  Giuseppe Viani (1945–46)
•  Francisco Lojacono (1974–75)
•  Gastone Bean (1981–83)
•  Giuseppe Materazzi (1984–85)
•  Adriano Lombardi (1995–96)
•  Massimo Silva (1996–98)
•  Nello Di Costanzo (2002–04)
•  Giovanni Simonelli (2006–08)
•  Antonio Soda (2008–09)
•  Leonardo Acori (2009)
•  Andrea Camplone (2009–10)
•  Leonardo Acori (2010)
•  Giuseppe Galderisi (2010–11)
•  Giovanni Simonelli (2011)
•  Carmelo Imbriani (2011–12)
•  Guido Ugolotti (2012–13)
•  Guido Carboni (2013–14)
•  Gaetano Auteri (2015–16)
•  Marco Baroni (2016–17)
•  Roberto De Zerbi (2017–2018)
•  Cristian Bucchi (2018–2019)
•  Filippo Inzaghi (2019–2021)
•  Fabio Caserta (2021–)

Serie B

• Winners: 2019–20
• Play-off winner: 2016–17

Serie C

• Winners: 2015–16

Serie C2

• Winners: 2007–08 Group C