2018–19 Hellas Verona F.C. season
# 2018–19 Hellas Verona F.C. season

The 2018–19 season was Hellas Verona Football Club's first season back in Serie B after being relegated to the second division at the end of the 2017–18 Serie A season. The club finished 5th in the 2018–19 Serie B season and were promoted back to the Serie A via winning the play-offs.

## Season summary

On 21 June 2018, Fabio Grosso was appointed manager of Hellas, signing a two-year deal at the newly relegated Serie B club. Grosso was sacked on 1 May 2019 after a shock 3–2 home loss to relegation-threatened Livorno. He was replaced the next day by Alfredo Aglietti, with the goal to help the club getting into the promotion playoffs. Under Aglietti's short tenure, he managed to guide the club to fifth place in the regular season, and then to the promotion playoff finals, where Verona defeated Cittadella to achieve promotion to Serie A after only a single season in the second division. Despite his successes, however, Aglietti was not confirmed for another season, and Ivan Jurić was named as his replacement in charge of the club a few days later.

## Squad

### First team squad

    As of 31 January 2019

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 | Marco Silvestri |
| 2 | MF | ITA | Gianni Munari (on loan from Parma) |
| 3 | DF | ITA | Luigi Vitale |
| 4 | MF | SCO | Liam Henderson |
| 5 | DF | ITA | Davide Faraoni (on loan from Crotone) |
| 6 | MF | ITA | Luca Marrone (on loan from Juventus) |
| 7 | FW | BRA | Ryder Matos (on loan from Udinese) |
| 8 | MF | SWE | Samuel Gustafson (on loan from Torino) |
| 9 | MF | ITA | Antonino Ragusa (on loan from Sassuolo) |
| 10 | FW | ITA | Samuel Di Carmine (on loan from Perugia) |
| 11 | FW | ITA | Giampaolo Pazzini (Captain) |
| 12 | GK | ITA | Lorenzo Ferrari |
| 13 | FW | CIV | Abdoullaye Traoré |
| 14 | MF | ARG | Santiago Colombatto (on loan from Cagliari) |
| 15 | DF | SVN | Jure Balkovec |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 16 | FW | KOR | Lee Seung-woo |
| 17 | DF | ITA | Alessandro Crescenzi |
| 20 | MF | ITA | Mattia Zaccagni |
| 21 | MF | TUN | Karim Laribi |
| 22 | GK | ITA | Andrea Tozzo (on loan from Sampdoria) |
| 23 | FW | ITA | Antonio Di Gaudio (on loan from Parma) |
| 24 | DF | ALB | Marash Kumbulla |
| 25 | MF | ITA | Andrea Danzi |
| 26 | GK | ITA | Alessandro Berardi |
| 27 | DF | POL | Paweł Dawidowicz |
| 28 | FW | SVK | Ľubomír Tupta |
| 29 | DF | ITA | Alberto Almici (on loan from Atalanta) |
| 30 | DF | ITA | Matteo Bianchetti |
| 33 | DF | BRA | Alan Empereur |

### On loan

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

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| - | - | - | - |
| — | GK | ITA | Nicola Borghetto (at Mantova until 30 June 2019) |
| — | GK | BRA | Nícolas (at Udinese until 30 June 2019) |
| — | GK | ITA | Riccardo Tosi (at Arzignano Valchiampo until 30 June 2019) |
| — | DF | ITA | Andrea Badan (at Alessandria until 30 June 2019) |
| — | DF | ITA | Gianmaria Bagarolo (at Clodiense until 30 June 2019) |
| — | DF | ROU | Deian Boldor (at Foggia until 30 June 2019) |
| — | DF | ITA | Antonio Caracciolo (at Cremonese until 30 June 2019) |
| — | DF | ITA | Nicolò Casale (at Südtirol until 30 June 2019) |
| — | DF | ITA | Matteo Franchetti (at Virtus Verona until 30 June 2019) |
| — | DF | ITA | Jody Maistrello (at Mantova until 30 June 2019) |
| — | DF | ITA | Edoardo Pavan (at Virtus Verona until 30 June 2019) |
| — | DF | ITA | Riccardo Perazzolo (at Torino U-19 until 30 June 2019) |
| — | MF | ITA | Daniel Bessa (at Genoa until 30 June 2019) |
| — | MF | ITA | Simone Calvano (at Padova until 30 June 2019) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | ITA | Luca Checchin (at Alessandria until 30 June 2019) |
| — | MF | ITA | Alessandro Cherubin (at Mantova until 30 June 2019) |
| — | MF | ITA | Lorenzo Dentale (at Arzignano Valchiampo until 30 June 2019) |
| — | MF | ALG | Mohamed Fares (at SPAL until 30 June 2019) |
| — | MF | ITA | Gaetano Navas (at Paganese until 30 June 2019) |
| — | MF | ITA | Matteo Pinton (at Virtus Verona until 30 June 2019) |
| — | MF | SVK | Šimon Štefanec (at Nitra until 30 June 2020) |
| — | MF | ITA | Michele Valente (at Ambrosiana until 30 June 2019) |
| — | MF | ITA | Mattia Valoti (at SPAL until 30 June 2019) |
| — | FW | ITA | Enrico Bearzotti (at Monza until 30 June 2019) |
| — | FW | ITA | Pierluigi Cappelluzzo (at Imolese until 30 June 2019) |
| — | FW | GUI | Karamoko Cissé (at Carpi until 30 June 2019) |
| — | FW | GHA | Joseph Ekuban (at Mantova until 30 June 2019) |

## Competitions

### Serie B

**League table**

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 3 | Benevento | 36 | 17 | 9 | 10 | 61 | 45 | +16 | 60 | Qualification to promotion play-offs semi-finals |
| 4 | Pescara | 36 | 14 | 13 | 9 | 50 | 46 | +4 | 55 | Qualification to promotion play-offs semi-finals |
| 5 | Hellas Verona (O, P) | 36 | 13 | 13 | 10 | 49 | 46 | +3 | 52 | Qualification to promotion play-offs preliminary round |
| 6 | Spezia | 36 | 14 | 9 | 13 | 53 | 46 | +7 | 51 | Qualification to promotion play-offs preliminary round |
| 7 | Cittadella | 36 | 12 | 15 | 9 | 49 | 38 | +11 | 51 | Qualification to promotion play-offs preliminary round |

* 1 2 Spezia finished ahead of Cittadella on head-to-head points: Spezia 1–0 Cittadella, Cittadella 0–1 Spezia.
