U.S. Città di Pontedera

Founded in 1912, Pontedera, a team from a city in the Pisa neighbourhood, played Serie C for several years without never gaining a single promotion to Serie B. In 1993/1994, a second place in Serie C2/B allowed Pontedera to be promoted to Serie C1: during that season, the team was known for having longily been the only undefeated team in all Italian professional leagues, and for having incredibly won 2–1 to the Italy national football team coached by Arrigo Sacchi in a friendly match played in April 1994. Pontedera played Serie C1 just in 1994/1995, and relegated to Serie D in 2001, and even Eccellenza in 2002. Pontedera returned to Serie D in 2005, after having won its Eccellenza round.

In summer 2006, The Gunther Corporation purchased Pontedera. It was reported in The Guardian newspaper on 17 May 2007 that the owner of Pontedera is a dog named Gunther IV, who inherited it from Gunther III who in turn inherited it from his owner Countess Libenstein.

Marcello Lippi, head coach of Italy national team and World Cup champion in the 2006 FIFA World Cup, started his professional managing career as Pontedera head coach in 1985–1986.

Its colours are all-dark red.

As of 31 January, 2021[1][2] 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 Edoardo Sarri 2 DF  ITA Lorenzo Milani 3 DF  ITA Paolo Ropolo 4 MF  ITA Lorenzo Bardini 5 DF  ITA Giacomo Risaliti 6 MF  ITA Francesco Benassai 7 FW  ITA Mauro Semprini 8 MF  ITA Andrea Caponi 9 FW  ITA Andrea Magrassi (on loan from Virtus Entella) 10 MF  ITA Gianluca Barba 11 FW  ITA Alessio Faella 12 GK  ITA Marco Angeletti (on loan from Spezia) 13 MF  ITA Giovanni Catanese

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 DF  ITA Lorenzo Bisconti 16 DF  ITA Stefano Parodi 17 FW  ITA Leonardo Stanzani (on loan from Bologna) 18 DF  ITA Luca Piana 20 MF  ITA Giacomo Benedetti 21 MF  ITA Gabriele Perretta 23 DF  ITA Emanuele Matteucci (on loan from Empoli) 25 DF  ITA Francesco Vaccaro 27 MF  ITA Giovanni Benericetti 28 FW  ITA Matteo Tersigni 30 GK  ITA Mattia Di Furia 34 MF  ITA Gianmarco Regoli 35 FW  ITA Elia Giani (on loan from Pisa)

Out 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 — MF  ITA Michele Bruzzo (at Potenza)

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW  ITA Mauro Semprini (at Südtirol)

• Marcello Lippi

• (in Italian) Official website