HISTORY: Founded in 1884 as 'Leicester Fosse Football Club by a group of old boys of Wyggeston School'. In 1919, after World War I, the club had financial difficulties and thus was reformed and the name changed to the current one - 'Leicester City Football Club'.
NATIONAL HONOURS:English Champions, 1 - 2015/16. FA Cup,1 - 2020/21.
Football League Cup, 3 - 1963/64, 1996/97, 1999/2000. FA Charity / Community Shield, 2 - 1971, 2021.
SCORERS
28 PIOLA Silvio
16 IMMOBILE Ciro
11 CASIRAGHI Pier Luigi
6 SIGNORI Giuseppe
4 CANDREVA Antonio
4 CHINAGLIA Giorgio
2 CORRADI Bernardo
2 VIERI Christian
1 ACERBI Francesco
1 BERNARDINI Fulvio
1 FOGGIA Pasquale
1 GIORDANO Bruno
1 GUARISI Anfilogino
1 ODDO Massimo
1 ZACCAGNI Mattia
CAPTAINS
5 PIOLA Silvio
4 IMMOBILE Ciro
3 FERRARIS Attilio
1 PERUZZI Angelo
UNUSED CALL-UPS
CANCELLIERI Matteo - A
CASALE Nicolo - D
CATALDI Danilo - M
FLOCCARI Sergio - A
GREGUCCI Angelo A. - D
LIVERANI Fabio - M
ODDI Giancarlo - D
PROVEDEL Ivan - G
SERGIO Raffaele - D
ZAURI Luciano - M
FULL NAME: Associazione Liguria Calcio (Liguria is the name of the
region in which the city of Genova is located).
HISTORY:The club was founded in 1930 as 'Foot Ball Club Liguria' by the Fascist leaders of Genova with the aim of creating a second good football club in the city. This was made by the merger of 'Associazione Sportiva Corniglianese' (founded in 1919) with 'Associazione Calcio La Dominante'. Three years earlier the same experiment was done with the 'Associazione Calcio La Dominante', founded through the merger of 'Associazione Calcio Sampierdarenese' (established in 1899) and 'Società Ginnastica Andrea Doria' (established in 1900) but the expected success did not arrive and the club was relegated to the Serie B. However this new experiment failed again and the new club finished last in the Serie B and was relegated to the Serie C. Thus it was decided to disband the club and the three former clubs that were used in these two experiments were re-founded: 'Associazione Calcio Andrea Doria', 'Associazione Calcio Sampierdarenese' and 'Societa Sportiva Corniglianese'. In 1937 the Fascist leaders again ordered the merger of three clubs - 'Associazione Polisportiva Corniglianese', 'Associazione Calcio Sampierdarenese' and 'Associazione Polisportiva Rivarolese Nazionale Liguria' (established in 1919), to recreate the 'Associazione Calcio Liguria'. The results were a bit better this time but not impressive. In 1945, at the end of World War II, the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) annulled the merger and re-established again the three clubs involved, with the 'Associazione Calcio Sampierdarenese' being declared the heir of the 'Associazione Calcio Liguria'. But a year later the club merged yet again, this time with 'Società Ginnastica Andrea Doria' to create 'Unione Calcistica Sampierdarenese-Doria "Sampdoria" Genova' which still exists today as 'Sampdoria'.
HONOURS: Nil.
FULL NAME: Latina Calcio 1932.
NICKNAMES: Nerazzurri (Club Colours - Black-Blues), Leoni Alati (Club
Mascot - Winged Lions), Pontini (The people from Agro Pintino - the marshy
geographical area, drained in the 1930's, on which the city of Latina was built).
HISTORY: The first football club in Latina was 'Associazione Sportiva Littoria' and was founded in 1932. After World War II, in 1945, the current club was founded as 'Virtus Latina' but changed the name to 'Associazione Sportiva La Pontina Latina' a year later. The name was again changed five more times, in 1950 to 'Associazione Sportiva Latina', in 1960 to 'Associazione Sportiva Kalorgas Latina', in 1963 to 'Unione Calcio Latina', in 1976 to 'Latina Football Club' and in 1979 to 'Latina Football Club Polisportiva'. In 1984 the club was declared bankrupt but was immediately re-founded as 'Unione Sportiva Latina', a name that was changed to 'Associazione Sportiva Latina 1932' in 1986. In 1995 the club was again declared bankrupt but was again immediately refounded as 'Associazione Sportiva Latina 1996', dropping the '1996' from the name in 2004. However in 2006 the club faced again big financial problems, the club stopped all its activities and ceased to exist, leaving the city without a proper football club. Later on in 2006 another football club from the outskirts of Latina, 'Viribus Cisterna Montello' (founded in 1926) started to reorganise itself and thus on the 22 May 2007 it changed its name to 'Football Club Latina' and took over as the main football club of the city. However, a lot of ex players, officials and supporters of the old club were not happy with the situation and organised themselves in the committee 'Latina per il Latina' (Latina for Latina), took over the small football club 'Real Latina' and founded the 'Unione Sportiva Dilettantistica Virtus Latina'. In 2009 the 'Football Club Latina' was taken over by 'Football Club Aprilia Racing Club' (founded in 1971) but all its officials and players joint the 'Unione Sportiva Dilettantistica Virtus Latina' and changed the name of the club to 'Unione Sportiva Latina Calcio Società Sportiva Dilettantistica', a year later changing the name to 'Unione Sportiva Latina Calcio'. In 2017 the club was again declared bankrupt but the club was immediately re-founded as 'Società Sportiva Dilettantistica Latina Calcio 1932', changing the name to the current one in 2021.
HONOURS: Nil.
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Profile lists of all the Clubs starting with the letters K and L that gave players to the Italian National team
PROFILES K-L
Clubs:
LAZIO
FULL NAME: Societa Sportiva Lazio (Lazio is the name of the
region in which the city of Rome is located).
NICKNAMES: Biancocelesti (Club Colours - White-Sky Blues), Le Aquile (Club Mascot - The Eagles), Aquilotti (Club Mascot - Young Eagles), Capitolini (Capitoline, the people from the capital city - Rome).
HISTORY:Founded on the 9 January 1900 as 'Societa Podistica Lazio' comprising a number of different sports disciplines (today it administers 80 different sports disciplines). The football section was introduced in 1901 and in 1926 the name was changed to the current one.
NATIONAL HONOURS:Italian Champions, 2 - 1973/74, 1999/2000. Coppa Italia, 7 - 1958, 1997/98, 1999/2000, 2003/04, 2008/09, 2012/13, 2018/19. Italian Super Cup, 5 - 1998, 2000, 2009, 2017, 2019.
Collare d'Oro al Merito Sportivo, 1 - 2002. Stella d'Oro al Merito Sportivo, 1 - 1967.
INTERNATIONAL HONOURS:UEFA Cup Winners Cup, 1 - 1999. UEFA Super Cup, 1 - 1999.Coppa delle Alpi, 2 - 1971, 1994.
CITY: Rome
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 52 GAMES: 511 SCORERS: 15 GOALS: 80
CAPTAINS: 4 CAPTAINED GAMES: 13
PLAYERS
47 NESTA Alessandro - D, 1996(d)
42 IMMOBILE Ciro - A, 2016
38 CANDREVA Antonio - M, 2012
34 CASIRAGHI Pier Luigi - A, 1993
30 PAROLO Marco - M, 2014
30 PIOLA Silvio - A, 1935(d)
25 ODDO Massimo - D, 2002(d)
25 SIGNORI Giuseppe - A, 1992
23 ACERBI Francesco - D, 2018
17 FIORE Stefano - M, 2001
15 DI MATTEO Roberto - M, 1994(d)
14 CHINAGLIA Giorgio - A, 1972(d)
14 FUSER Diego - M, 1993
13 PANCARO Giuseppe - D, 1999(d)
12 CORRADI Bernardo - A, 2003(d)
12 GIORDANO Bruno - A, 1978(d)
10 ZACCAGNI Mattia - A, 2022(d)
9 BERNARDINI Fulvio - M, 1925(d)
9 MAURI Stefano - M, 2006
8 NEGRO Paolo - D, 1994(d)
6 FAVALLI Giuseppe - D, 1994(d)
6 GUARISI Anfilogino - M, 1932(d)(o)
5 MARCHEGIANI Luca - G, 1994
5 PERUZZI Angelo - G, 2004
4 BALDO Giuseppe - M, 1936(d)
4 MANFREDONIA Lionello - D, 1977(d)
4 MUCCINELLI Ermes - M, 1956
4 SENTIMENTI Lucidio - G, 1950
4 VIERI Christian - A, 1998
3 FERRARIS Attilio - M, 1934
3 INZAGHI Simone - A, 2000(d)
3 MARCHETTI Federico - G, 2013
3 ROCCHI Tommaso - A, 2006(d)
3 ROVELLA Nicolo - M, 2024(d)
3 SCLAVI Ezio - G, 1931(d)
3 WILSON Giuseppe - D, 1974(d)
2 FURIASSI Zeffiro - D, 1950(d)
2 LAZZARI Manuel - M, 2020
2 LOVATI Roberto - G, 1957(d)
2 RAMBAUDI Roberto - M, 1994(d)
2 RE CECCONI Luciano - M, 1974(d)
1 BURINI Renzo - M, 1955
1 FANTONI Ottavio - M, 1934(d)(o)
1 FOGGIA Pasquale - M, 2009
1 GABRIOTTI Francesco - A, 1936(d)
1 LEDESMA Cristian Daniel - M, 2010(d)(n)
1 LUIZ FELIPE Ramos - D, 2022(d)(o)
1 MARIANI Amos - M, 1959
1 MARTINI Luigi - D, 1974(d)
1 REMONDINI Leandro - M, 1950(d)
1 ROMAGNOLI Alessio - D, 2023
1 VIVOLO Pasquale - A, 1953
Fulvio BERNARDINI
First player in Azzurro
First goal in Azzurro
LECCE
FULL NAME: Unione Sportiva Lecce
NICKNAMES:Giallorossi (Club Colours - Yellow-Reds), Lupi (Club Mascot - Wolves), Salentini (People from the Salento, the peninsola that form the 'heel' in the shoe-shape map of Italy in which the city of Lecce is located).
HISTORY: Founded on the 15 March 1908 as 'Sporting Club Lecce' but the club ceased to function after 1924 and its place was taken by five small local clubs, namely 'Lecce Foot Ball Club', 'Juventus', 'Gladiator', 'Avanguardia Giovanile Fascista' and 'La Veloce'. On the 16 September 1927 the 'Unione Sportiva Lecce' was founded with the merger of two of these local clubs - the 'Gladiator' and 'Juventus'. In six years the name was changed six times: 1934 'Unione Sportiva Pro Lecce', 1935 'Dopolavoro Lecce', 1936 'Associazione Sportiva Lecce', 1938 'Associazione Calcistica Lecce', 1939 'Unione Sportiva Pro Lecce' after merging with 'Associazione Calcistica Salento', and in 1940 it returned to its original name 'Unione Sportiva Lecce', which is still the current name of the club.
NATIONAL HONOURS:Collare d'oro al merito sportivo, 1 - 2021. Stella d'Oro al Merito Sportivo, 1 - 1987. Stella d'Argento al Merito Sportivo, 1 - 1982..
CITY: Lecce
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 1GAMES: 2SCORERS: 0GOALS: 0
CAPTAINS: 0CAPTAINED GAMES: 0
Marco CASSETTI
Only player in Azzurro
Alessandro NESTA
Most games in Azzurro
Attilio FERRARIS
First captain in Azzurro
Silvio
PIOLA
Most goals in Azzurro
Most captain in Azzurro
Pier Luigi CASIRAGHI
Giorgio CHINAGLIA
PLAYERS
2 CASSETTI Marco - D, 2005(d)
SCORERS
No Lecce player ever
scored in Azzurro
Giuseppe SIGNORI
Angelo PERUZZI
Massimo ODDO
Stefano
FIORE
CAPTAINS
No Lecce player ever led the Azzurri as Captain
UNUSED CALL-UPS
BASCHIROTTO Federico - D
COLOMBO Lorenzo - A
ESPOSITO Andrea - D
FALCONE Wladimiro - G
GALLO Antonino - D
PLIZZARI Alessandro - G
SICIGNANO Vincenzo - G
LEICESTER CITY
CITY: Leicester
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 0 GAMES: 0 SCORERS: 0 GOALS: 0
CAPTAINS: 0 CAPTAINED GAMES: 0
Caleb
OKOLI
PLAYERS
No Leicester City player
ever played in Azzurro
SCORERS
No Leicester City player
ever scored in Azzurro
CAPTAINS
No Leicester City player ever led the Azzurri as Captain
UNUSED CALL-UPS
OKOLI Caleb - D
CITY: Genova
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 1GAMES: 1SCORERS: 0GOALS: 0
CAPTAINS: 0CAPTAINED GAMES: 0
Giovanni BATTISTONI
Only player in Azzurro
PLAYERS
1 BATTISTONI Giovanni - M, 1939(d)
SCORERS
No Liguria player ever scored in Azzurro
CAPTAINS
No Liguria player ever led the Azzurri as Captain
LIVORNO
FULL NAME: Unione Sportiva Livorno 1915 Societa Sportiva
Dilettantistica.
NICKNAMES: Amaranto (Club Colours - Dark Reds), Labronici (People from Livorno, from Labrone - The name of Livorno in the Etruscan times), Triglie (Red Mullet - Livorno has been famous since Roman times for its Red Mullet dish with tomatoes and garlic called 'Triglie alla Livornese').
HISTORY:Founded on the 17 February 1915 as 'Unione Sportiva Livorno' after the merger of 'SPES Livorno' (Società Per Esercizi Sportivi Livorno, founded in 1906) and 'Virtus Juventusque' (founded in 1905). In 1922 it absorbed 'Societa Sportiva Pro Livorno' (founded in 1919). In 1944, in the last stages of WW II, the club was re-founded as 'Unione Sportiva Livorno 1944' but a year later it merged with the re-founded (in 1944) 'Societa Sportiva Pro Livorno' with their name - 'Società Sportiva Pro Livorno'. However in 1946 the name was changed back to 'Unione Sportiva Livorno'. In 1988 the name was changed to 'Pro Livorno Calcio' and again in 1990 to 'Unione Calcio Livorno'. But in 1991 the club was declared bankrupt and was immediately re-founded with the name 'Associazione Sportiva Livorno Calcio'. In 2021 the club again had financial and administrative problems and thus was re-founded with the current name.
HISTORY: Founded on the 25 May 1905 as 'Lucca Football Club' by members who had returned from working in Brazil where they played football. After WWI, in 1919, it was re-founded as 'Unione Sportiva Lucchese' with the merger between 'Societa Ginnastica Lucchese' and 'Sportiva Libertas'. In 1924 the club merged with 'Societa Sportiva Ginnastica Lucchese Sportiva Libertas' and the name was changed to 'Unione Sportiva Libertas'. In 1929 the name was changed to 'Unione Sportiva Lucchese Libertas', in the 1982 to 'Nuova Unione Sportiva Lucchese Libertas' and in 1984 to 'Associazione Sportiva Lucchese Libertas'. In 2008 the club was declared bankrupt but was immediately re-founded as 'Sporting Lucchese', but changed the name to 'Associazione Sportiva Lucchese Libertas 1905' a year later. However in 2011 it was again declared bankrupt, but was again re-founded as 'Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Football Club Lucca 2011'. Again the name was changed twice in two years: 'Lucchese Football Club 1905' in 2012 and 'Associazione Sportiva Lucchese Libertas 1905' in 2013. In 2019 the club again had financial and administrative problems and thus was re-founded as 'Lucchese 1905 Società Sportiva Dilettantistica', changing the name to the current one a year later.
HONOURS: Nil.
CITY: Lucca
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 6GAMES: 30SCORERS: 1GOALS: 5
CAPTAINS: 0CAPTAINED GAMES: 0
Ernesto BONINO
First player in Azzurro
PLAYERS
12 OLIVIERI Aldo - G, 1936(d)
8 MOSCARDINI Giovanni - A, 1921(d)(o)
5 MARCHINI Libero - M, 1936(d)
2 BONINO Ernesto - A, 1921(d)
2 NERI Bruno - M, 1936(d)
1 BERTUCCELLI Alberto - D, 1949(d)
SCORERS
5 MOSCARDINI Giovanni
CAPTAINS
No Lucchese player ever led the Azzurri as Captain
Giovanni MOSCARDINI
First player in Azzurro
Only scorer in Azzurro
Aldo OLIVIERI
Most games in Azzurro
Mario
NICOLINI
Anfilogino
GUARISI
Luca
MARCHEGIANI
Lionello
MANFREDONIA
Francesco
GABRIOTTI
Giuseppe
BALDO
Paolo
NEGRO
Ezio
SCLAVI
Leandro
REMONDINI
Roberto
DI MATTEO
Cristian D.
LEDESMA
Antonio
CANDREVA
Federico
MARCHETTI
AZZURRO RECORDS: Marco AMELIA formed part of the Azzurri squad that won the 2006 World Cup. Although he never played in Azzurro, Mario NICOLINI won the Olympics Gold Medal when he formed part of the Azzurri squad that won the football tournament of the 1936 Olympic Games. Mario MAGNOZZI won the Olympic Bronze Medal when he formed part of the Azzurri squad that finished third in the football tournament of the 1928 Olympic Games and won the 1930 Coppa Internazionale with the Azzurri.
Marco
AMELIA
AZZURRO RECORDS: Aldo OLIVIERI formed part of the Azzurri squad that won the 1938 World Cup, whilst Libero MARCHINI won the Olympics Gold Medal when he formed part of the Azzurri squad that won the football tournament of the 1936 Olympic Games.
Libero
MARCHINI
LIVERPOOL
FULL NAME: Liverpool Football Club
NICKNAMES: The Reds (Club Colours).
HISTORY:Founded on the 15 March 1892 as 'Liverpool
Association Football' by the owner of 'Anfield Stadium' John
Houlding to play in his vacated ground instead of 'Everton Football Club' after a dispute with them over the rent of the stadium. Eventually the name was changed to the current one. However the original name selected by the founder was 'Everton F.C. and Athlethic Grounds Ltd.', but this was not accepted by the English Football Association.
FA Cup, 8 - 1964/65, 1973/74, 1985/86, 1988/89, 1991/92, 2000/01, 2005/06, 2021/22. League Cup, 10 - 1980/81, 1981/82, 1982/83, 1983/84, 1994/95, 2000/01, 2002/03, 2011/12, 2021/22, 2023/24. FA Charity / Community Shield, 16 - 1964, 1965, 1966, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 2001, 2006, 2022. Football League Super Cup, 1 - 1985/86.
INTERNATIONAL HONOURS:UEFA Champions League, 6 - 1977, 1978, 1981, 1984, 2005, 2019.
UEFA (Europa) Cup, 3 - 1973, 1976, 2001. Intercontinental Cup (FIFA Club World Championship), 1 - 2019. UEFA Super Cup, 4 - 1977, 2001, 2005, 2019.
CITY: Liverpool
(England)
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 2GAMES: 10SCORERS: 1GOALS: 1
CAPTAINS: 0CAPTAINED GAMES: 0
Andrea
DOSSENA
First Player in Azzurro
Most Games in Azzurro
PLAYERS
9 DOSSENA Andrea - D, 2008
1 AQUILANI Alberto - M, 2011
SCORERS
1 AQUILANI Alberto
CAPTAINS
No Liverpool player ever led the Azzurri as Captain
UNUSED CALL-UPS
BALOTELLI Mario B. - A
BORINI Fabio - A
Andrea
ESPOSITO
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Vincenzo
SICIGNANO
Alberto
AQUILANI
Only Scorer in Azzurro
Cristiano LUCARELLI
LATINA
CITY: Latina
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 0GAMES: 0SCORERS: 0GOALS: 0
CAPTAINS: 0CAPTAINED GAMES: 0
PLAYERS
No Latina player ever
played in Azzurro
SCORERS
No Latina player ever
scored in Azzurro
Federico
VIVIANI
CAPTAINS
No Latina player ever led the Azzurri as Captain
UNUSED CALL-UPS
VIVIANI Federico - M
LEGEND OF LISTS: Number of Games / Goals / Captained Games, Surname, Name, Position, Year of first game in Azzurro from the Club.
POSITIONS: G - Goalkeeper, D - Defender, M - Midfielder, A - Attacker.
ABBREVIATIONS: (d) - Debut - Played his first game in Azzurro in that year and with that club.
(o) - Oriundo
UNUSED CALL-UPS: Statistics covered only from Azzurro Game 299 (25 September 1971) till TODAY. It includes also the Squads for the World Cups: 1970, 1966, 1962, 1954, 1950, 1938, 1934; European Nations Cup: 1968; Olympic Games Football Tournaments: 1952, 1948, 1936, 1928, 1924, 1920, 1912.
The Players displayed for each club are not necessary the best or most memorable players from the club, but statistically they are the main players. Displayed are mainly, the first players to play in Azzurro, score in Azzurro and Captain the Azzurri from the club and the players who played the most in Azzurro, scored the most in Azzurro and Captained the most the Azzurri from the Club. Where space permitted other significant statistical players from the club were displayed.
Francesco
ACERBI
Ciro
IMMOBILE
AZZURRO RECORDS: Four Lazio players won the World Cup: 1934 - Anfilogino GUARISI; 1938 - Silvio PIOLA, 2006 - Massimo ODDO, Angelo PERUZZI; whilst three others formed part of the Azzurri squad that finished Runner-up in the 1994 World Cup: Pier Luigi CASIRAGHI,
Luca MARCHEGIANI and Giuseppe SIGNORI. Lionello MANFREDONIA formed part of the Azzurri squad that finished fourth in the 1978 World Cup. Two Lazio players became European Champions when they won the European Nations Championships in 2020: Francesco ACERBI and Ciro IMMOBILE, two other Lazio players formed part of the Azzurri squad that finished Runner-Up European Champions in the 2000 European Nations Championships: Paolo NEGRO and Alessandro NESTA. Two other Lazio players formed part of the Azzurri squad that finished Third in the FIFA Confederations Cup 2013: Antonio CANDREVA and Federico MARCHETTI,
two others won the Olympic Gold Medal when the Azzurri won the Football Tournament of the 1936 Olympic Games:
Giuseppe BALDO and Francesco GABRIOTTI. Two Lazio players won the 1935 Coppa Internazionale:
Anfilogino GUARISI and Silvio PIOLA, whilst Anfilogino GUARISI and Ezio SCLAVI formed part of the Azzurri Squad that finished second in the 1932 Coppa Internazionale. Two Lazio players formed part of the Azzurro squads that finished third in the UEFA Nations League: 2020/21 - Francesco ACERBI; 2022/23 - Ciro IMMOBILE. Silvio PIOLA is one of only twelve players to score in the first minute of an Azzurro match but he was the first Azzuro to do so. He finished third in the 1938 World Cup Top Scorer List, was the first Italian Player to score more goals than matches played in the World Cup (5 goals in 4 matches) and is the most Azzurro Player to score a bis (two goals in the same match) - 7. The Italo- Brazilian
Anfilogino GUARISI scored the first Italian Goal in a World Cup match and was the first Brazilian Oriundo to play with the National Team of both Brazil and Italy. Alessandro NESTA was the fastest player to be Substituted (after only 4 minutes) in World Cup History and Leandro REMONDINI
is the fourth Oldest Azzurro to make his Debut with the Italian National team (32 yrs, 7 mts, 15 dys). Cristian Daniel LEDESMA was the first Italo-Argentine Naturalized player to play in Azzurro.
Marco
PAROLO
Diego
FUSER
Alessandro
PLIZZARI
LEEDS UNITED
FULL NAME: Leeds United Football Club.
NICKNAMES: The Whites (Club Colours), The Peacocks (When the club
was founded, their Stadium, 'Elland Road' was owned by Bentley’s Brewery, who had a
pub very near to the stadium known as 'The Old Peacock'. Thus people started calling 'Elland Road' as 'The Old Peacock Ground' and by extension, also the team).
HISTORY: Leeds United were founded in 1919 at the Salem Congregational Chapel as a replacement to 'Leeds City Football Club' (founded in 1904) after they were forcibly disbanded and forced to sell off all their players by 'The English Football League' in response to allegations of illegal payments to players during WWI, taking over also their stadium which in the meantime had passed to 'Yorkshire Amateur Association Football Club' (founded in 1918).
NATIONAL HONOURS:English Champions, 3 - 1968/69, 1973/74, 1991/92. FA Cup, 1 - 1971/72.
Football League Cup, 1 - 1967/68. FA Charity / Community Shield, 2 - 1969, 1992.
INTERNATIONAL HONOURS:UEFA (Europa) Cup, 2 - 1968, 1971.
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 1 GAMES: 9 SCORERS: 0 GOALS: 0
CAPTAINS: 0 CAPTAINED GAMES: 0
Wilfried
GNONTO
Only player in Azzurro
PLAYERS
9 GNONTO Wilfied - A, 2022
SCORERS
No Leeds United player
ever scored in Azzurro
CAPTAINS
No Leeds United player ever led the Azzurri as Captain
CITY: Leeds
(England)
Antonio
CANDREVA
AZZURRO RECORDS: LEEDS UNITED are the only foreign club to give a player to the Italian National Team from a low division. Wilfried GNONTO formed part of the Azzurro squad that finished third in the UEFA Nations League: 2022/23. He is the only Azzurro to play with the Italian National Team from a foreign low division club.
LEGNANO
FULL NAME: Associazione Calcio Legnano Società Sportiva
Dilettantistica
NICKNAMES: Lilla (Club Colours - Light Violets or Lilacs).
HISTORY: Founded in 1913 as 'Football Club Legnano'. In 1921 it merged with 'Giovani Calciatori Legnanesi' (founded in 1919) but kept its name. In view of the new laws of the Fascist Government to remove all non Italian titles, in 1936 the name was changed to 'Associazione Calcio Legnano'. In 2010 it was declared bankrupt but a new club was re founded a year later under the name 'Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Legnano 1913 Calcio'. In 2015 the name was changed to 'Associazione Calcio Dilettantistica Legnano' and in 2017 the name was changed again, this time to the current one.
NATIONAL HONOURS:Stella d'Oro al Merito Sportivo, 1 - 1989.
CITY: Legnano
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 2 GAMES: 3 SCORERS: 1 GOALS: 2
CAPTAINS: 0 CAPTAINED GAMES: 0
Angelo A. CAMERONI
First player in Azzurro
PLAYERS
2 CAPRILE Emilio - A, 1948(d)
1 CAMERONI Angelo A. - G, 1920(d)
SCORERS
2 CAPRILE Emilio
CAPTAINS
No Legnano player ever led the Azzurri as Captain
UNUSED CALL-UPS
ROSSI Italo - A
AZZURRO RECORDS: Emilio CAPRILE is one of only seven players to play in Azzurro only from the Serie B.
GAMES: 2
