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{{short description|Italian football club}}
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| clubname = Grosseto
| image = Logo_US_Grosseto_1912_2017.png
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| fullname = SSD Unione Sportiva Grosseto 1912
| founded =  {{Start date and age|df=yes|1912}}
| dissolved = 
| owner = Giovvanni Lamioni
| chairman = Antonio Fiorini 
| manager = Vitaliano Bonuccelli
| nickname = ''Il Grifone'' (The Griffon)<br />''Biancorossi'' (The Red & Whites)<br />''Maremmani'' ([[Maremma|The Maremmians]])<br />''Torelli'' ([[Maremmana|The Little Bulls]])<br />''Unionisti'' (The Unionists) 
| ground = [[Stadio Olimpico Carlo Zecchini]],<br />[[Grosseto]], Italy
| capacity = 10,200
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| league = {{Italian football updater|Grosseto}}
| season = 2022–23
| position = 3rd [[Serie D]] Round Robin E 
| website= {{URL|www.usgrosseto1912.com}}
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'''Unione Sportiva Grosseto 1912''' is an [[Football in Italy|Italian association football]] club, based in the city of [[Grosseto]], Tuscany. The club was founded in 1912 as ''Unione Ginnico Sportiva Grossetana''. The team's most associated nickname is ''grifone'', after its logo, depicting a [[Griffon Vulture|griffon]]. Its colours are red and white, and it currently plays in [[Serie C|Serie D]], the fourth level of Italian football.

The club's most recent success consists of 6 consecutive participations in [[Serie B]] between 2007 and 2013, notably reaching the play-off semifinals in [[2008-09 Serie B|2008-09]]. It was most recently refounded in 2017.

==History==
[[Image:US Grosseto FC logo.png|thumb|upright=0.5|Club logo used from 1995 to 2015]] 
The club was founded in 1912 as ''Football Club Grosseto'', and made its debut in a match played and lost in [[Orbetello]]. The club joined the [[Italian Football Federation]] only nine years later, in 1921, being admitted in the ''[[Promozione]]'' division. In 1927, the club changes its official colours from black/white to the current white/red.
Since its foundation, Grosseto played extensively from [[Serie C]] to the amateur leagues. In 1995 the club was cancelled by the football federation because of financial troubles, thus losing the right to participate in the [[Serie C2]] after having won [[Serie D]] the same year. Following these events, Grosseto joined [[Eccellenza]], ending it in fifteenth place being therefore relegated to Promozione. However, two consecutive promotions from 1997 to 1999 brought Grosseto back to Serie D.

===The Camilli Era (2000-2015)===
In 2000, Piero Camilli purchased the club with the aim to bring Grosseto back into the pros. In the 2001–2002 season, Grosseto ended as Serie D (Round F) runners-up but were later admitted to Serie C2 to fill a league vacancy. The club successively won Serie C2 in 2004, being thus promoted to [[Serie C1]]. In 2005, Grosseto qualified for the promotion playoffs, losing the semifinal to [[A.C. Pavia|Pavia]]; one year later, Grosseto gained again a spot in the playoffs, where they defeated [[Sassari Torres 1903|Sassari Torres]] in the semi-finals, but lost to [[Frosinone Calcio|Frosinone]] in the finals, missing the opportunity to be promoted to [[Serie B]] for its first time in history. However, in the 2006–2007 season, under head coach [[Antonello Cuccureddu]], who replaced [[Massimiliano Allegri]] after the ninth matchday, Grosseto finally managed to win Serie C1/A following a 1–0 away win at [[Calcio Padova|Padova]] in the final matchday with a goal by [[Carl Valeri]], thus gaining a historical spot in the [[Serie B 2007-08]]. Cuccureddu left Grosseto by mutual consent with the club a few days following the triumphal win, and [[Giorgio Roselli]] was appointed to replace him for the 2007–08 Serie B club campaign.

The club started their historical first Serie B campaign with three disappointing consecutive defeats which led, on 11 September 2007, to the dismissal of Roselli and his replacement with former [[Parma F.C.|Parma]] boss [[Stefano Pioli]],<ref name="pioli_grosseto">{{cite news|title=Calcio: il Grosseto esonera Roselli|url=http://www.toscanatv.com/leggi_news?idnews=NL074138|publisher=Toscana TV|date=11 September 2007|access-date=11 September 2007|language=Italian|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090202181007/http://www.toscanatv.com/leggi_news?idnews=NL074138|archive-date=2 February 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> who led the team to a mid-table finish.

The [[Serie B 2008-09|2008–09]] season started with higher expectations under new head coach [[Elio Gustinetti]]; the team started its season showing a very impressive form, but then a result crisis led Grosseto out of the promotion playoff zone, causing the dismissal of Gustinetti and his replacement with Ezio Rossi. The subsequent return of Gustinetti led the team to finish in 6th place and Grosseto acceded to the [[2008-09 Serie B#Play-off|play-off]]. The ''maremmani'' won the first match against [[A.S. Livorno Calcio|Livorno]] (2–0), but they lost the second match being surpassed by the rivals (1–4), in a scandal game where Grosseto finished with 7 players and failed the promotion to [[2010-11 Serie A|Serie A]].

The [[Serie B 2009-10|2009–10]] season was a relatively good season for the club, which finished in 7th place only a few points off the play-off zone. It was still a memorable season for Grosseto, thanks to their top striker [[Mauricio Pinilla]] who scored 24 goals in 24 matches and was transferred to [[US Palermo]], in the [[Serie A]], during the 2010 summer transfer market.

On 10 August 2012, Grosseto was provisionally, not yet enforceable, relegated, by the Disciplinary Commission set up for Scommessopoli scandal investigations, to Lega Pro Prima Divisione because of their involvement in the Scommessopoli scandal. Furthermore, the president of Grosseto has been suspended from all football activities for five years. But on 22 August 2012, Grosseto and its president are absolved by the Court of justice, eliminating the verdict of the first instance and so readmitted to Serie B.<ref>[http://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/Calcio-Infetto/21-08-2012/sentenze-sconto-conte-lecce-non-ha-scampo-912330326630.shtml Conte, confermati 10 mesi, Grosseto salvo, Lecce giù&nbsp;– La Gazzetta dello Sport]</ref>

The club suffered relegation at the end of the [[2012-13 Serie B|2012-13]] season, bringing 6 consecutive years in Serie B to an end. This was followed by two years of competing in the third division of Italian football. In the summer of 2015, owner Piero Camilli ended his 15-year tenure at the club.

===FC Grosseto (2015-2017)===
[[Image:F.C._Grosseto_S.S.D._logo.png|thumb|upright=0.5|Club logo of successor club used from 2015 to 2017]] 
A new club, ''F.C. Grosseto S.S.D.'' successfully applied as a successor on 6 August 2015.<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.figc.it/it/204/2529099/2015/08/News.shtml|title=Fc Grosseto Ssd, Venezia Fc Srld ammesse in soprannumero in Serie D. La Asd Barletta 1922 in Eccellenza|date=6 August 2015|access-date=20 July 2017|publisher=FIGC|language=Italian}}</ref> However, the club folded after a relegation to [[Eccellenza Tuscany]] in 2017.

===Ceri ownership: the return of US Grosseto 1912===
On 18 July 2017, local entrepreneurs Mario and Simone Ceri, owners of ''Associazione Calcio Roselle'' (a local football club from the city suburb of [[Roselle, Italy|Roselle]]) competing in Eccellenza Toscana, came on the scene. Following an agreement with former owner Piero Camilli and leveraging the league status, Ceri renamed the club to ''Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Unione Sportiva Grosseto 1912'', thus inheriting the sporting tradition of the city.

The 2017–18 season ended with a third place in Eccellenza Tuscany, followed by a first place and promotion to [[Serie D]] the following season. The 2019–20 season marked the return of the club to the fourth level of Italian football and a second consecutive promotion to the [[Serie C]] for the 2020–2021 season.

===Lamioni ownership: 2022...===
In November 2022, famous local entrepreneur [[Giovanni Lamioni]] bought the franchise from previous owner Salvatore Guida. Lamioni gave the presidency role to Antonio Fiorini and called back Filippo Vetrini for the general sporting director place. The city welcomed the negotiation very positively and regained a vanished enthusiasm for the disappointing results of the previous season. Lamioni has announced that he will set up a team that will compete to return to [[Serie C]] in 2023–24.

==Squad==
===Current squad===
{{updated|15 December 2022}}
{{Fs start}}
{{Fs player|no=|pos=GK|nat=BRA|name=Diogo Gil De Oliveira}}
{{Fs player|no=|pos=GK|nat=ITA|name=Francesco Di Bonito}}
{{Fs player|no=|pos=GK|nat=ITA|name=[[Daniele Lazzari]]}}
{{Fs player|no=|pos=GK|nat=RUS|name=Denis Plitko}}
{{Fs player|no=|pos=DF|nat=MNE|name=[[Stefan Bajic (footballer, born 1997)|Stefan Bajic]]}}
{{Fs player|no=|pos=DF|nat=ITA|name=[[Luca Bruno]]}}
{{Fs player|no=|pos=DF|nat=ITA|name=Piero Cauterucci}}
{{Fs player|no=|pos=DF|nat=ITA|name=[[Andrea Ciolli]]|other=[[Captain (association football)|captain]]}}
{{Fs player|no=|pos=DF|nat=ITA|name=Ciro Cipolletta}}
{{Fs player|no=|pos=DF|nat=ITA|name=Stefano Crivellaro}}
{{Fs player|no=|pos=DF|nat=ITA|name=Matteo Luzzetti}}
{{Fs player|no=|pos=DF|nat=ITA|name=Federico Panza}}
{{Fs player|no=|pos=DF|nat=ITA|name=Mattia Scognamiglio}}
{{Fs player|no=|pos=DF|nat=ITA|name=Jacopo Veronesi}}
{{Fs player|no=|pos=MF|nat=ITA|name=Jacopo Battistoni}}
{{Fs mid}}
{{Fs player|no=|pos=MF|nat=ITA|name=[[Fabrizio Bramati]]}}
{{Fs player|no=|pos=MF|nat=ITA|name=[[Gabriele Carannante]]}}
{{Fs player|no=|pos=MF|nat=ITA|name=Nicolò Cesaroni}}
{{Fs player|no=|pos=MF|nat=ITA|name=Francesco Fabri}}
{{Fs player|no=|pos=MF|nat=ITA|name=Manuel Fioravanti}}
{{Fs player|no=|pos=MF|nat=ITA|name=[[Lorenzo Pasciuti]] }}
{{Fs player|no=|pos=MF|nat=ITA|name=Gianvincenzo Martino}}
{{Fs player|no=|pos=MF|nat=ITA|name=Simone Morelli}}
{{Fs player|no=|pos=MF|nat=ITA|name=Manuel Tiberi}}
{{Fs player|no=|pos=FW|nat=ITA|name=Andrea Columbu}}
{{Fs player|no=|pos=FW|nat=SER|name=Bojan Aleksić}}
{{Fs player|no=|pos=FW|nat=ARM|name=David Mirzoyan}}
{{Fs player|no=|pos=FW|nat=ITA|name=Niccolò Rotondo}}
{{Fs player|no=|pos=FW|nat=ITA|name=Federico Scaffidi}}
{{Fs player|no=|pos=FW|nat=ITA|name=[[Andrea Tripicchio]]}}
{{Fs end}}

==Achievements==

*'''[[Serie C1]]'''
**'''Winners (1)''': 2006–07
*'''[[Supercoppa di Lega Serie C1]]'''
**'''Winners (1)''': 2007
*'''[[Serie C2]]'''
**'''Winners (1)''': 2003–04
*'''[[Serie D]]'''
**'''Winners (4)''': 1960–61, 1972–73, 1994–95, 2019-20
**'''Runners-up (1)''': 2001–02
*'''[[Eccellenza]] Tuscany'''
**'''Runners-up (1)''': 1997–98
**'''Winners (1)''': 2018-2019
*'''[[Promozione]] Tuscany'''
**'''Winners (1)''': 1996–97

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{official website|http://www.usgrosseto1912.it/}}

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