2017–18 Benevento Calcio season
# 2017–18 Benevento Calcio season

The 2017–18 season was Benevento Calcio's first-ever season in Serie A, the top-flight of Italian football. The club competed in both Serie A and the Coppa Italia.

Following fourteen consecutive defeats to begin the season (an Italian top-flight record), Benevento remained rooted firmly in 20th place during the entirety of the 2017–18 campaign. The club were also eliminated early on in the third round of the Coppa Italia, falling 4–0 to Serie B side Perugia, with Juventus loanee and Italian youth player Alberto Cerri scoring a hat-trick.

Malian footballer and former Bordeaux player Cheick Diabaté, a winter signing, finished as the club's top scorer with eight goals, following an excellent end of season, though this would not be enough to save the club from returning immediately to the second division.

## Players

### Squad information

    As of 9 February 2018

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

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| - | - | - | - |
| 3 | DF | ITA | Gaetano Letizia |
| 4 | MF | ITA | Lorenzo Del Pinto |
| 5 | DF | ITA | Fabio Lucioni (captain) |
| 6 | DF | ALB | Berat Djimsiti (on loan from Atalanta) |
| 7 | MF | ITA | Marco D'Alessandro (on loan from Atalanta) |
| 8 | MF | ITA | Danilo Cataldi (on loan from Lazio) |
| 11 | FW | ITA | Massimo Coda |
| 12 | GK | ITA | Riccardo Piscitelli |
| 14 | MF | ITA | Nicolas Viola |
| 16 | DF | ROU | Alin Toșca (on loan from Real Betis) |
| 18 | DF | GHA | Bright Gyamfi |
| 20 | MF | ALB | Ledian Memushaj (on loan from Pescara) |
| 21 | DF | ITA | Andrea Costa |
| 22 | GK | ITA | Alberto Brignoli (on loan from Juventus) |
| 23 | DF | ITA | Lorenzo Venuti (on loan from Fiorentina) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 25 | FW | MLI | Cheick Diabaté (on loan from Osmanlıspor) |
| 26 | FW | ITA | Vittorio Parigini (on loan from Torino) |
| 29 | DF | FRA | Jean-Claude Billong |
| 30 | MF | BRA | Sandro (on loan from Antalyaspor) |
| 31 | MF | SRB | Filip Đuričić (on loan from Sampdoria) |
| 33 | FW | ITA | Pietro Iemmello (on loan from Sassuolo) |
| 66 | MF | BRA | Guilherme |
| 73 | MF | ITA | Giovanni Volpicelli |
| 77 | MF | MAR | Achraf Lazaar (on loan from Newcastle) |
| 81 | GK | ITA | Christian Puggioni |
| 83 | DF | FRA | Bacary Sagna |
| 87 | FW | ITA | Cristiano Lombardi (on loan from Lazio) |
| 88 | DF | ITA | Luca Antei (on loan from Sassuolo) |
| 99 | FW | ITA | Enrico Brignola |

## Transfers

### In

| Date | Pos. | Player | Age | Moving from | Fee |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 July 2017 | FW | Massimo Coda | 28 | Salernitana | Undisclosed |
| 7 July 2017 | GK | Vid Belec | 27 | Carpi | Undisclosed |
| 7 July 2017 | DF | Gaetano Letizia | 27 | Carpi | Undisclosed |
| 15 July 2017 | DF | Gianluca Di Chiara | 23 | Perugia | Undisclosed |
| 30 August 2017 | FW | Samuel Armenteros | 27 | Heracles Almelo | €2M |

**Loans in**

| Date | Pos. | Player | Age | Moving from | Fee | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 7 July 2017 | FW | George Pușcaș | 21 | Internazionale | Loan | Loan with an option to buy |
| 19 July 2017 | MF | Danilo Cataldi | 22 | Lazio | Loan | On loan until the end of the season |
| 7 August 2017 | GK | Alberto Brignoli | 25 | Juventus | Loan | |
| 31 August 2017 | FW | Vittorio Parigini | 21 | Torino | Loan | |
| 31 August 2017 | DF | Luca Antei | 25 | Sassuolo | Loan | Loan with an option to buy |
| 31 August 2017 | FW | Pietro Iemmello | 25 | Sassuolo | Loan | Loan with an option to buy |
| 31 August 2017 | DF | Achraf Lazaar | 25 | Newcastle United | Loan | Loan with an option to buy for €3.5M |
| 31 August 2017 | FW | Cristiano Lombardi | 22 | Lazio | Loan | |
| 13 January 2018 | FW | Cheick Diabaté | 29 | Osmanlıspor | Loan | |
| 18 January 2018 | MF | Filip Đuričić | 25 | Sampdoria | Loan | |
| 3 February 2018 | DF | Bacary Sagna | 35 | Manchester City | Loan | Option to extend loan for another year |

### Out

| Date | Pos. | Player | Age | Moving to | Fee | Notes | Source |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |

**Loans out**

| Date | Pos. | Player | Age | Moving to | Fee | Notes | Source |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 18 January 2018 | MF | Amato Ciciretti | 24 | Parma | Loan | | |

## Competitions

### Serie A

**League table**

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 16 | Cagliari | 38 | 11 | 6 | 21 | 33 | 61 | −28 | 39 | |
| 17 | SPAL | 38 | 8 | 14 | 16 | 39 | 59 | −20 | 38 | |
| 18 | Crotone (R) | 38 | 9 | 8 | 21 | 40 | 66 | −26 | 35 | Relegation to Serie B |
| 19 | Hellas Verona (R) | 38 | 7 | 4 | 27 | 30 | 78 | −48 | 25 | Relegation to Serie B |
| 20 | Benevento (R) | 38 | 6 | 3 | 29 | 33 | 84 | −51 | 21 | Relegation to Serie B |

**Results summary**

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |

Last updated: 20 May 2018. Source: Competitive matches

**Results by round**

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ground | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | L | L | L | L | L | L | L | L | L | L | L | L | L | L | D | L | L | L | W | W | L | L | L | L | W | L | W | L | L | L | L | D | L | W | D | L | W | L |
| Position | 14 | 17 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 |

## Statistics

### Appearances and goals

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Serie A | Serie A | Coppa Italia | Coppa Italia |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Goalkeepers ||||||||||
| 12 | GK | ITA | Riccardo Piscitelli | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | GK | ITA | Alberto Brignoli | 13 | 1 | 11+2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 81 | GK | ITA | Christian Puggioni | 14 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||
| 2 | DF | ITA | Christian Rutjens Oliva | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | ITA | Gaetano Letizia | 30 | 1 | 25+4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | ITA | Fabio Lucioni | 9 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | ALB | Berat Djimsiti | 30 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | DF | ROU | Alin Toșca | 13 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | DF | GHA | Bright Gyamfi | 9 | 0 | 2+7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | DF | ITA | Andrea Costa | 16 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | DF | ITA | Lorenzo Venuti | 32 | 0 | 25+6 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 29 | DF | FRA | Jean-Claude Billong | 5 | 0 | 3+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 77 | DF | MAR | Achraf Lazaar | 9 | 1 | 6+3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 83 | DF | FRA | Bacary Sagna | 13 | 1 | 10+3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 88 | DF | ITA | Luca Antei | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 91 | DF | ITA | Luca Sparandeo | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||
| 4 | MF | ITA | Lorenzo Del Pinto | 16 | 0 | 7+8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | ITA | Marco D'Alessandro | 17 | 1 | 12+4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | ITA | Danilo Cataldi | 30 | 1 | 25+4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | ITA | Nicolas Viola | 25 | 2 | 20+4 | 2 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | ALB | Ledian Memushaj | 17 | 0 | 15+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | MF | BRA | Sandro | 14 | 1 | 13+1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | MF | SRB | Filip Đuričić | 15 | 0 | 13+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 66 | MF | BRA | Guilherme | 12 | 2 | 11+1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 73 | MF | ITA | Giovanni Volpicelli | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 98 | MF | ITA | Alessio Donnarumma | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Forwards ||||||||||
| 11 | FW | ITA | Massimo Coda | 25 | 4 | 14+10 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| 25 | FW | MLI | Cheick Diabaté | 11 | 8 | 7+4 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | FW | ITA | Vittorio Parigini | 21 | 0 | 10+11 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | FW | ITA | Pietro Iemmello | 16 | 2 | 12+4 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 60 | FW | CIV | Siriki Sanogo | 2 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 87 | FW | ITA | Cristiano Lombardi | 17 | 0 | 13+4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 99 | FW | ITA | Enrico Brignola | 19 | 3 | 16+2 | 3 | 0+1 | 0 |
| Players transferred out during the season ||||||||||
| 1 | GK | SVN | Vid Belec | 14 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | ITA | Fabio Ceravolo | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | ITA | Amato Ciciretti | 13 | 2 | 9+3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 13 | MF | GHA | Raman Chibsah | 14 | 0 | 12+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | ITA | Michele Camporese | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 17 | DF | ITA | Gianluca Di Chiara | 14 | 0 | 11+2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 19 | FW | GUI | Karamoko Cissé | 2 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | FW | SEN | Mamadou Kanoute | 2 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 32 | FW | ROU | George Pușcaș | 12 | 1 | 7+4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 90 | FW | SWE | Samuel Armenteros | 9 | 1 | 5+4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 95 | DF | FRA | Andreaw Gravillon | 2 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

Last updated: 20 May 2018 Source: Competitions

### Goalscorers

| Rank | No. | Pos | Nat | Name | Serie A | Coppa Italia | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 25 | FW | | Cheick Diabaté | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2 | 11 | FW | | Massimo Coda | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 3 | 99 | FW | | Enrico Brignola | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 | 10 | MF | | Amato Ciciretti | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | 14 | MF | | Nicolas Viola | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | 33 | FW | | Pietro Iemmello | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | 66 | MF | | Guilherme | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | 3 | DF | | Gaetano Letizia | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | 7 | MF | | Marco D'Alessandro | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | 8 | MF | | Danilo Cataldi | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | 22 | GK | | Alberto Brignoli | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | 30 | MF | | Sandro | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | 32 | FW | | George Pușcaș | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | 77 | DF | | Achraf Lazaar | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | 83 | DF | | Bacary Sagna | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | 90 | FW | | Samuel Armenteros | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Own goal | Own goal | Own goal | Own goal | Own goal | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 33 | 0 | 33 |

Last updated: 20 May 2018

### Clean sheets

| Rank | No. | Pos | Nat | Name | Serie A | Coppa Italia | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 81 | GK | | Christian Puggioni | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | 1 | GK | | Vid Belec | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | 22 | GK | | Alberto Brignoli | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 4 | 0 | 4 |

Last updated: 20 May 2018

### Disciplinary record

| No. | Pos | Nat | Name | Serie A | Serie A | Serie A | Coppa Italia | Coppa Italia | Coppa Italia | Total | Total | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | GK | | Vid Belec | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 22 | GK | | Alberto Brignoli | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 81 | GK | | Christian Puggioni | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | DF | | Gaetano Letizia | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | | Fabio Lucioni | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | | Berat Djimsiti | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | DF | | Alin Toșca | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | DF | | Gianluca Di Chiara | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | DF | | Bright Gyamfi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | DF | | Andrea Costa | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | DF | | Lorenzo Venuti | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 83 | DF | | Bacary Sagna | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 88 | DF | | Luca Antei | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 91 | DF | | Luca Sparandeo | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | MF | | Lorenzo Del Pinto | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | | Marco D'Alessandro | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | | Danilo Cataldi | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 0 |
| 13 | MF | | Raman Chibsah | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | | Nicolas Viola | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | | Ledian Memushaj | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | MF | | Sandro | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | MF | | Filip Đuričić | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 66 | MF | | Guilherme | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | FW | | Massimo Coda | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | FW | | Cheick Diabaté | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 26 | FW | | Vittorio Parigini | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 87 | FW | | Cristiano Lombardi | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 90 | FW | | Samuel Armenteros | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 99 | FW | | Enrico Brignola | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 69 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 70 | 4 | 3 |

Last updated: 20 May 2018

