Virtus Entella

The club was founded in 1914 as Foot-Ball Club Entella. It took its name from the river Entella, flowing between Chiavari and Lavagna.^[2]

Foot-Ball Club Entella went bankrupt in 2001.

It was refounded in 2002 as Unione Sportiva Valle Sturla Entella. In the summer of 2010 it was renamed Virtus Entella, after it had been admitted in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione. In summer 2012, Virtus Entella was promoted, for the first time, to Lega Pro Prima Divisione by repechage to fill the vacancies created.^[3] They completed the 2012–13 season in style, taking part to the promotion playoff, where they were defeated by Lecce in the semi-finals.

In the 2013–14 season, Virtus Entella took part to the Girone A of the Italian third tier, and topped the league for most of the season. On 4 May 2014, a 2–1 away win at Cremonese in the final day of the season ensured Virtus Entella the league championship title and a spot in the 2014–15 Serie B, in what will be the club's first appearance ever in the Italian second tier.

The team was promoted in Serie B for the first time in history in 2014. In the 2014–15 season they got relegated once again, in the relegation playoffs as they lost to Modena. But after the relegation of Calcio Catania to Lega Pro for sporting fraud it was readmitted to Serie B. Virtus Entella finished 19th at the conclusion of the 2017–18 season and lost a relegation playoff to Ascoli by virtue of being the lower ranked team after the two-legged tie finished 0–0 on aggregate.

The team returned to the Italian third tier, now named Serie C for the 2018-19 season. During the season, they also achieved a surprise qualification to the round of 16 of the 2018–19 Coppa Italia, defeating Genoa on penalties during the process. That season they won the Serie C and thus earned promotion to the Serie B.

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 Andrea Paroni 2 DF   ITA Alessandro Garattoni 6 DF   ITA Andrea Tiritiello 7 MF   ITA Giacomo Tomaselli 8 MF   GRE Antonis Siatounis 9 FW   ITA Davide Castelli 10 FW   ITA Matteo Casarotto 14 MF   ITA Andrea Corbari 15 DF   ITA Ivan Marconi 16 DF   ITA Claudio Manzi 17 FW   LUX Adulai Djabi Embalo 19 MF   ITA Marco Piredda 21 MF   ITA Jacopo Lipani 22 GK   ITA Federico Del Frate

No. Pos. Nation Player 23 DF   ITA Luca Parodi 24 MF   ITA Andrea Franzoni 26 DF   ITA Stefano Di Mario 29 FW   ITA Claudio Santini 32 DF   ITA Davide Zappella 36 FW   SEN Alioune Thioune 40 MF   ITA Gabriele Costa 43 MF   ALB Angelo Ndrecka 47 MF   ITA Giovanni Di Noia 70 FW   ITA Davide Bariti 77 FW   ESP Bernat Guiu 87 DF   ITA Umberto Ghio 90 DF   ITA Denis Portanova 99 GK   LTU Ovidijus Šiaulys

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   ITA Federico Bonini (at Catanzaro until 30 June 2025) — DF   ITA Stefano Roberto Reali (at Pianese until 30 June 2025) — MF   ITA Ernesto Matteazzi (at Empoli U19 until 30 June 2025)

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW   ITA Emanuele Banfi (at Lavagnese until 30 June 2025) — FW   ITA Samuele Vianni (at Mestre until 30 June 2025)

• Serie C1
  • Winner: 2013-14, 2018-19,
• Serie D
  • Winner: 1959-60, 1963-64, 1984-85,

•   Naser Aliji
•   Nicolas Cinalli
•   Cristiano Bacci
•   Manlio Bacigalupo
•   Gianpaolo Castorina
•   Francesco Conti
•   Gino Ferrer Callegari
•   Rosario Di Vincenzo
•   Matteo Matteazzi
•   Simone Pasticcio
•   Silvano Raggio Garibaldi
•   Luciano Spalletti
•   Giuliano Taccola
•   Stefano Vavoli
•   Nicolò Zaniolo

Antonio Gozzi has been the President of the Virtus Entella since 2007. He was arrested and released in March 2015.^[5][6][7][8]