List of US Catanzaro 1929 players
# List of US Catanzaro 1929 players

This is a list of notable footballers who have played for U.S. Catanzaro 1929. This means players that have played 100 or more official matches for the club in Serie A or Serie B.

For a list of all Catanzaro players, major or minor, with a Wikipedia article, see Category:US Catanzaro 1929 players; for records and statistics see List of US Catanzaro 1929 records and statistics; for a selected list of the best players in Catanzaro's history, see U.S. Catanzaro 1929 Hall of Fame.

Players are listed as of 25 February 2023 and according to the date of their first-team debut for the club. Appearances and goals are for first-team competitive matches in Serie A or Serie B only; wartime matches are excluded. Substitute appearances included.

The player with the most league appearances (Serie A or B) is Adriano Banelli with 334. The player with the most league goals (Serie A or B) is Massimo Palanca with 97.

## Key

* GK – Goalkeeper
* DF – Defender
* MF – Midfielder
* FW – Forward

## Players

Nationality column refers to the country (countries) represented internationally by the player, if any.

| Name | Nationality | Position | Catanzaro career | Appearances | Goals |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dino Bigagnoli | Italy | MF | 1959–1966 | 163 | 1 |
| Flavio Frontali | Italy | MF | 1959–1963 | 102 | 2 |
| Egidio Ghersetich | Italy | FW | 1959–1965 | 148 | 33 |
| Stefano Raise | Italy | DF / FW | 1959–1966 | 185 | 6 |
| Lionello Tulissi | Italy | MF | 1959–1963 | 109 | 3 |
| Cesare Maccacaro | Italy | MF / FW | 1960–1968 | 221 | 7 |
| Osvaldo Bagnoli | Italy | FW | 1961–1964 | 101 | 21 |
| Carlo Vanini | Italy | FW | 1962–1968 | 154 | 17 |
| Alvaro Gasparini | Italy | MF / FW | 1963–1967 | 137 | 8 |
| Luigi Tonani | Italy | DF / MF | 1963–1969 | 224 | 3 |
| Sergio Orlandi | Italy | MF | 1964–1968 | 114 | 7 |
| Franco Marini | Italy | DF | 1965–1971 | 202 | 4 |
| Gianfranco Bertoletti | Italy | DF | 1966–1971 | 150 | 3 |
| Adriano Banelli | Italy | DF / MF | 1967–1979 | 334 | 24 |
| Paolo Braca | Italy | MF / FW | 1967–1977 | 244 | 10 |
| Fausto Silipo | Italy | DF | 1967–1977 | 198 | 2 |
| Pierluigi Busatti | Italy | MF | 1968–1972 | 122 | 8 |
| Roberto Franzon | Italy | MF | 1968–1972 | 119 | 1 |
| Maurizio Gori | Italy | FW | 1969–1974 | 126 | 12 |
| Alberto Spelta | Italy | MF / FW | 1971–1976 | 153 | 29 |
| Luigi Maldera | Italy | DF | 1971–1978 | 206 | 5 |
| Giorgio Pellizzaro | Italy | GK | 1973–1978 | 148 | 0 |
| Pieraldo Nemo | Italy | MF / FW | 1974–1979 | 100 | 4 |
| Massimo Palanca | Italy | FW | 1974–1981 1987–1990 | 302 | 97 |
| Claudio Ranieri | Italy | DF | 1974–1982 | 225 | 6 |
| Giovanni Improta | Italy | MF | 1975–1979 | 125 | 11 |
| Enrico Nicolini | Italy | MF | 1976–1980 1987–1989 | 159 | 7 |
| Giuseppe Sabadini | Italy | DF | 1978–1983 | 111 | 1 |
| Piero Braglia | Italy | MF | 1978–1984 | 142 | 0 |
| Roberto Borrello | Italy | MF / FW | 1980–1990 | 111 | 5 |
| Armando Cascione | Italy | DF | 1981–1989 | 131 | 6 |

Source:calcio-seriea.net

## Captains

This is a list of all club captains from 1957. The captains listed are for the league season not individual matches and appearances and goals are for all competitive league games only. No cup or other official tournament matches are included in the statistics.

| Name (number of appointments) | Position | Catanzaro Career | Seasons as Captain | Appearances | Goals |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Vittorio Masci | GK | 1946–1947 1953–1962 | 5 (1957–1962) | 184 | -176 |
| Stefano Raise | MF | 1955–1966 | 4 (1962–1966) | 312 | 26 |
| Luigi Sardei | MF | 1963–1968 | 2 (1966–1968) | 93 | 3 |
| Luigi Tonani | DF | 1963–1969 | 1 (1968–1969) | 223 | 3 |
| Franco Marini | DF | 1965–1971 | 2 (1969–1971) | 202 | 4 |
| Roberto Franzon | MF | 1968–1972 | 1 (1971–1972) | 119 | 1 |
| Francesco Rizzo | MF | 1972–1974 | 2 (1972–1974) | 63 | 13 |
| Adriano Banelli | MF | 1967–1979 | 5 (1974–1979) | 336 | 24 |
| Claudio Ranieri | DF | 1974–1982 | 3 (1979–1982) | 225 | 6 |
| Sergio Santarini | DF | 1981–1983 | 1 (1982–1983) | 48 | 1 |
| Gregorio Mauro | MF | 1976–1977 1979–1980 1981, 1984–1985 1989–1990 | 1 (1984–1985) | 64 | 8 |
| Carmelo Bagnato | MF | 1984–1987 | 2 (1985–1987) | 94 | 6 |
| Agostino Iacobelli | MF | 1984–1988 | 1 (1987–1988) | 124 | 2 |
| Massimo Palanca | FW | 1974–1981 1986–1990 | 2 (1988–1990) | 331 | 115 |
| Luciano Orati | MF | 1983–1985 | 3 (1990–1993) | 74 | 6 |
| Umberto Brutto | DF | 1989–1996 | 3 (1993–1996) | 140 | 3 |
| Mauro Picasso | MF | 1996–1998 | 2 (1996–1998) | 51 | 3 |
| Antongiulio Bonacci | MF | 1998–2001 | 1 (1998–1999) | 66 | 2 |
| Giuseppe Tortora | FW | 1999–2000 | 1 (1999–2000) | 32 | 15 |
| Pasquale Logiudice | DF | 2000–2001 2002–2003 | 1 (2000–2001) | 64 | 2 |
| Giovanni Delle Vedove | MF | 2000–2002 | 1 (2001–2002) | 52 | 4 |
| Marco Ciardello | MF | 1998–1999 2002–2004 | 1 (2002–2003) | 66 | 6 |
| Fabrizio Ferrigno | MF | 2002–2005 2006, 2007–2008 | 1 (2003–2004) | 87 | 14 |
| Giorgio Corona | FW | 2003–2006 | 2 (2004–2006) | 109 | 46 |
| Danilo Coppola | FW | 2006–2008 | 1 (2006–2007) | 48 | 0 |
| Fabrizio Ferrigno (2) | MF | 2002–2005 2006, 2007–2008 | 1 (2007–2008) | 87 | 14 |
| Roberto Gimmelli | DF | 2006–2010 | 2 (2008–2010) | 123 | 4 |
| Francesco Corapi | MF | 2002–2005 2008–2011 2020 | 0.5 (2010–2011) | 56 | 5 |
| Giuseppe Benincasa | MF | 1998–2002 2009–2011 | 0.5 (2011) | 123 | 4 |
| Salvatore Accursi | DF | 2011–2012 | 1 (2011–2012) | 22 | 2 |
| Salvatore Carboni | FW | 2011–2013 | 1 (2012–2013) | 47 | 15 |
| Salvatore Ferraro | DF | 2013–2015 | 1.5 (2013–2015) | 48 | 0 |
| Domenico Giampà | MF | 1994–1996 2012, 2015–16 | 1.5 (2015–2016) | 47 | 15 |
| Vito Di Bari | DF | 2016 | 0.5 (2016) | 14 | 2 |
| Matthew Patti | DF | 2016–2017 | 0.5 (2016–2017) | 34 | 2 |
| Emmanuel Nordi | GK | 2017–2018 | 1 (2017–2018) | 32 | 0 |
| Matthais Malta | MF | 2011–2012 2015–2020 | 1.5 (2018–2020) | 48 | 0 |
| Francesco Corapi | MF | 2002–2005 2008–2011 2020–2021 | 1.5 (2020–2021) | 56 | 5 |
| Luca Martinelli | MF | 2019– | 2 (2021–) | 101 | 6 |

### Notes

* ↑ From February 2016, Tommaso Squilace took the captaincy following Giampà's six month football ban for his involvement in the 2015 Italian football match-fixing scandal
