SS Monopoli 1966

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Monopoli 1966

Full name	Società Sportiva Monopoli 1966
Nickname(s)	Il Gabbiano (The Seagull) I Biancoverdi (The White and Greens)
Founded	1966; 58 years ago (1966)
Ground	Stadio Vito Simone Veneziani, Monopoli, Italy
Capacity	6,880
Chairman	Francesco Rossiello
Manager	Alberto Colombo
League	Serie C Group C
2023–24	Serie C Group C, 17th of 20
Website	http://www.monopolicalcio.it/1966/
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Società Sportiva Monopoli 1966 is an Italian association football club located in Monopoli, Apulia. They currently play in Serie C, the third tier of Italian football.

The origins of football in Monopoli go back to 1958 when was founded A.C. Monopoli. After winning Eccellenza Apulia in the 2004–05 season^{[note 1]} it has played in Serie D/H for the 2005–06 season obtaining the promotion to Serie C2^{[note 2]} where it played the 4 seasons following. The team did not enter Lega Pro Seconda Divisione in June 2010 and restarted^{[citation needed]} from Terza Categoria, the lowest level of the Italian football.

A new club was founded in the summer 2010 as A.S. Liberty Monopoli, after the relocation of Eccellenza club A.S.D. Liberty Bari 1909 from Bari to Monopoli.

In the 2011–12 season the team was promoted from Eccellenza Apulia to Serie D.

In the summer 2012 the club was renamed S.S. MonosPolis, then in 2014 Società Sportiva Monopoli 1966^[1][2][3]

In the 2014–15 season won the Coppa Italia Serie D and was the finalist of the nation play off of Serie D; in the summer 2015 it was admitted to Lega Pro for involvement in the sporting fraud of several teams that were, as a consequence, relegated. Since then, Monopoli has played in what is now known as Serie C.

Its colors are white and green.

As of 30 August 2024.^[4]

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 Samuele Vitale 3 DF  ITA Federico Pace 4 DF  ITA Nicola Bizzotto 5 DF  ITA Antony Angileri 6 DF  ITA Mirko Miceli 7 FW  ITA Carmine De Sena 8 MF  ITA Cristian Battocchio 9 FW  ITA Francesco Grandolfo 10 MF  ITA Danilo Bulevardi 11 FW  ARG Federico Vázquez 12 GK  ITA Giovanni Garofani (on loan from Juventus) 13 DF  ITA Pasquale Fazio 16 DF  ARG Bruno Valenti 17 MF  ITA Claudio Cristallo

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 MF  ITA Paolo Virgilio 19 MF  ITA Carlo De Risio 20 DF  ITA Renato Cascella 21 FW  ITA Emanuele Scipioni 23 MF  ITA Simone Calvano 24 DF  ITA Mirco De Santis 25 DF  ITA Manuel Ferrini 28 FW  CRO Marin Čubretović 30 MF  ITA Matteo Mazzotta 33 DF  ITA Moustapha Yabre 45 FW  GHA Philip Yeboah 71 DF  ITA Claudio Cellamare 77 MF  ITA Orlando Viteritti 98 FW  ITA Nicolò Bruschi

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  ARG Tamir Berman (at Latina until 30 June 2025)

• Coppa Italia Serie D
  • Champions: 2014–15

• (in Italian) Official website
• (in Italian) Bad Boys'87 Official website (archived 26 February 2009)