All the curiosities about Bologna Calcio

The first part of the season should be remembered, hopefully the second half of the season will bring the same satisfaction as well. In the 2023/2024 tournament, Bologna excites its fans by swinging between sixth and eighth places, just a few points away from the positions that allow it to qualify for the European Cups. This is thanks to sophisticated tactical schemes and players who surprise football fans. One of the names above all is that of Joshua Zirkzee, and he is definitely not one of the favourites Odds on the next top scorer in the Italian League But thanks to his seven goals in his first 15 matches, he has proven to be an excellent striker. Let us now recall the stories and curiosities about Bologna, which has an important history for Italian football, champion of many championships.

Numbers in the Italian League

Bologna, over its 114 years of history, played in 77 Serie A championships from one group out of 93, as well as 16 Serie A championships before the Italian system was established in 1929. Thus, there are 93 entries in the National Super League . The division that makes the Rossoblu Club, according to the Italian Football Federation, the ninth best sporting tradition in our country. 2,577 Serie A matches have been played, with 912 victories, 806 defeats and 860 matches ending in draws. Instead, goals were 3,365 compared to 3,166 goals conceded.

Scudetti

Bologna ranks fifth among the most successful teams in Italy, after Juventus, Inter, Milan and Genoa, with seven championships. Fifth place, shared between Torino and Pro Vercelli. The first victory in the Italian Championship dates back to the 1924-1925 season and the second in the 1928-1929 season. The double in the 1935-1936 and 1936-1937 seasons was the dream he had to wait for. Two years to celebrate his fifth Scudetto in the 1938-1939 season and two more years to achieve a sixth success in the 1940-1941 championship. The last greatest joy of the Rossoblu dates back to 1963-64, under the management of the glorious president Renato Dallara, when the Italian League title was decided for the first and only time in the history of the Italian League thanks to a play-off. That season, in fact, Helenio Herrera’s Inter and Fulvio Bernardini’s Bologna finished tied on 54 points, so it was necessary to decide the winner through another challenge, on a neutral field in Rome’s Stadio Olimpico. The match ended 2-0 in favor of Bologna, of course, thanks to Facchetti’s own goal and Nielsen’s second goal.

Avatar players

It goes without saying that the player who holds the absolute record for appearances for Bologna is Giacomo Bulgarelli, the emblematic man in the history of the Rossoblu and the starting midfielder in the last league year. However, he wore the Bologna shirt, and also won two Italian Cups, in 1970 and 1974, and at the end of his career he amassed 486 appearances, including 391 in the Italian League. He was succeeded by Tazio Roversi (459 matches), and on an equal footing by Carlo. Rigozoni and Carlo Nervo, with a total of 417 matches.

In the ranking of Bologna’s all-time top scorers, Angelo Schiavio, a Bologna native and winner of four of Bologna’s seven league titles, in 1925, 1929, 1936 and 1937, dominates. With the Bologna shirt, he scored 251 goals in 362 matches, in addition to that. He scored 15 goals for the national team that was champion of the first World Cup, which the Azzurri won in 1934. Among Schiavo’s many records, it is also worth noting that he was the top scorer in the Italian League in the 1931-1932 season, with 25 goals. Objectives. Carlo Rigozoni comes in second place with 143 goals in 377 matches. Finally, Ezio Pascotti comes in third on the podium, with 130 goals in 296 matches.

Foreigners were central to Bologna’s history. For example, Harald Nielsen, hero of the last league year with 22 goals, is unforgettable, but also, more recently, the formidable Swedes Klaes Ingesson and Kennet Andersson, who led Bologna to victory in the Intertoto Cup in 1999 and to the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup. Finally, in Bologna’s history, only three foreign players have worn the captain’s armband. The first, from 1957 to 1959, was the Dane Axel Bielmark, then it took another 57 years before a foreigner wore the armband and the honor went to the Uruguayan Diego Perez. And finally for two seasons, from 2018 to 2020, the Albanian was Blerim Dzemeli, among others He only retired in June 2023 at the age of 37To be the last foreign leader of the Rossoblu club.