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Time of India
14-05-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Sampdoria relegated to Serie C for first time in club history
Sampdoria relegated to Serie C for first time in club history (Image Source: Getty) Sampdoria has fallen to the third level of Italian football for the first time in its 78-year existence. The club, based in Genoa, came 18th in Serie B after being held goalless by Juve Stabia on Tuesday. This catastrophic result happened only 34 years after their best accomplishment—winning Serie A in 1991. The club gathered 41 points from the 38 games in a chaotic season. With only one victory of their last five games, Sampdoria couldn't avoid the direct relegation zone. Salernitana moved over them into the play-off for relegation position with a 2-0 win against Cittadella. Managerial merry-go-round The club's coaches were changed four times in the season. Andrea Pirlo had kicked off the campaign but was axed already after three games with two losses and a draw. Andrea Sottil followed, and Leonardo Semplici followed after. The last desperate measure to prevent the club from dropping into the second tier was made in April, with the club legend Alberico Evani being placed in charge. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like The Most Remarkable Oscar Outfits Ever Interesticle Undo Evani had one win against other strugglers, which were Cittadella. In spite of the presence of another club icon Attilio Lombardo as assistant, they could not rescue the sinking ship. The constant changes in the coaching were merely representative of the bigger problems at the club. Financial crisis behind relegation The propensity of Sampdoria to money problems has haunted the club in years. The 2024 accounts of the club recorded a loss of 40.7 million euros. They almost went bankrupt after they were relegated to Serie B in 2023. The club was rescued in 2023 by the current president, Matteo Manfredi and the former Leeds United owner Andrea Radrizzani. Radrizzani has since left and is, since, owned by a majority Singaporean businessman named Joseph Tey. Even after a huge amount of transfer activity last summer and January, the team had difficulties in scoring goals throughout the season. A fall from the European glory of Sampdoria This relegation is a huge come down from a club that once sat at the very top of Italian and European football. Sampdoria only had its solitary Serie A triumph in 1991. They got into the final of the European Cup the following year but were beaten by Barcelona. They also scooped the UEFA Cup Winners Cup in 1990 and they also won the Coppa Italia four times. The club had only spent five seasons out of four decades in Serie B until the month of August 2023. Now they are dealing with the brutal reality of third-tier football for the very first time in their lives. For the fans, the sinking of the club into the Serie C from European bliss is a new chapter in their proud history that hurts. Also Read: 'Time to bounce back' – Fans react as Claudio Ranieri's Roma suffer first Serie A defeat of the year Get IPL 2025 match schedules , squads , points table , and live scores for CSK , MI , RCB , KKR , SRH , LSG , DC , GT , PBKS , and RR . Check the latest IPL Orange Cap and Purple Cap standings.
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Sampdoria relegated to Serie C for first time
Sampdoria have been relegated to Serie C for the first time in their 78-year history after a season dogged by managerial upheaval. The Genoa-based club were held to a goalless draw at Juve Stabia in their final Serie B match. That ensured they finished in 18th place, a point behind Salernitana who secured a relegation play-off place with a 2-0 victory over Cittadella. Sampdoria, who won their only Serie A title in 1991 with a star-studded team, had been playing in Italian football's second tier since they were relegated at the end of the 2022–23 season. Italian World Cup winner Andrea Pirlo was hired as coach in June 2023 but was unable to secure an immediate return to the top flight after they lost in the play-offs. Rangers approach Ancelotti but other names in mix Inter win rain-delayed match to close gap on Napoli Listen to the latest Football Daily podcast The month before Sampdoria's play-off exit Pirlo was called "a key part of the project" by the club's owners, but three games into the current campaign he was dismissed following two defeats and a draw. Andrea Sottil replaced him and oversaw a Coppa Italia penalty-shootout victory against Genoa in the first Derby della Lanterna in two years. However, he too was jettisoned in October 2024 after just four wins in 14 games and replaced by Leonardo Semplici. With the club in the drop zone, a 3-0 home defeat by Frosinone at the end of March was the tipping point for the fans as patience with Semplici ran out. The team bus carrying Semplici and his Sampdoria players was pelted by stones and flares by angry supporters after the match at the Luigi Ferraris Stadium. Semplici was relieved of his duties in April with Alberico Evani - the club's fourth coach of the season - tasked with keeping them up. Things began promisingly for Evani with club legend Attilio Lombardo in as assistant and another Sampdoria icon in Roberto Mancini helping in an unofficial capacity. Evani began with a 1-0 win over fellow strugglers Cittadella, but three draws, a defeat and just one win since then have not been enough to keep them up.
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
🚨 Drama in Genoa: Sampdoria relegated to third tier for the first time
This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇪🇸 here. The heart of Genoa's blucerchiato stopped tonight with Sampdoria's relegation to Serie C in the unified Serie B matchday. The Genoese club, one of the most successful in Italian football during the 1990s, will play in the Third Division for the first time in its couldn't win away against Juve Stabia and, due to other results, is in Serie C along with Cittadella and Cosenza. Another historic club, Salernitana, earned another chance to fight for survival (as did Frosinone) in the playoff. In the playoff zone, Cesena outperformed Palermo and secured the seventh place. La #Sampdoria retrocede in #SerieC — Nicolò Schira (@NicoSchira) May 13, 2025 Promoted to Serie A: Sassuolo and Pisa. Promotion playoff: Spezia (3rd), Cremonese (4th), Juve Stabia (5th), Catanzaro (6th), Cesena (7th), and Palermo (8th). Relegation playoff: Frosinone and Salernitana. Relegation: Sampdoria, Cittadella, Cosenza. 📸 Simone Arveda - 2023 Getty Images
Yahoo
08-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Mancini to help former club Sampdoria avoid drop to Italy's third tier
Mancini to help former club Sampdoria avoid drop to Italy's third tier Former Italy coach Roberto Mancini (ANDREAS SOLARO) Former Italy coach Roberto Mancini will participate in the effort to rescue Sampdoria, who are languishing 18th in Italian Serie B, club president Matteo Manfredi said on Tuesday. Mancini spent most of his playing career at the club. On Monday, two of Mancini's close associates, Alberico Evani and Attilio Lombardo, who were part of the coaching staff when Italy won the European Championship in 2021, were appointed as Sampdoria's coach and assistant coach. Advertisement "Roberto is by our side and will certainly help us get back on track. His role isn't formal; friends shouldn't always be present, but his presence will certainly be constant and will be felt," Manfredi told Sky Sport. Relegated to Serie B in 2023, the Genoa-based club have not won a game since February 8. With six matches left, they are three points behind Cittadella in 15th, the first non-relegation place. The club have had four coaches since last August. Sampdoria's all-time top scorer, Mancini, 60, has been a free agent since leaving his post as Saudi Arabia coach last October after just over a year. Advertisement He was part of the Sampdoria team that won the now-defunct Cup Winners' Cup (C2) in 1990 and the Italian title in 1991, the only Scudetto in the club's history, and reached the European Cup final the following season. Along with his close friend Gianluca Vialli, who died suddenly in 2023, he formed one of the most prolific scoring duos in Serie A. jr/hpa/ea/pb
