U.S. Sassuolo Calcio

Sassuolo reached Serie C1 in 2006 after winning the Serie C2 promotion play-offs by beating Sansovino in the final. In the following years, Sassuolo proved to be a serious contender for promotion to Serie B. With Gian Marco Remondina as head coach, they barely missed it in 2007, as they lost immediate promotion to Grosseto in the final days of the season, finishing in second-place; and then were defeated by fifth-placed Monza in the play-off semi-finals. Remondina then left Sassuolo to join Serie B's Piacenza, and former Serie A player Massimiliano Allegri was then chosen as new head coach.

Under Allegri, Sassuolo quickly revived their hopes to obtain promotion to Serie B; this ultimately came on 27 April 2008, when they won the Serie C1/A title, thus ensuring a historical promotion to Serie B, the first in the club's history.[6]

Following Sassuolo's promotion to the Italian second tier, Allegri left Sassuolo to fill the head coaching position at Serie A team Cagliari. In July 2008, the club appointed former Atalanta and Siena boss Andrea Mandorlini for the 2008–09 season.

Massimiliano Allegri, manager of Sassuolo in 2008 who won promotion to Serie B, winning group A of Serie C1 and the Supercoppa Lega Pro.

Sassuolo had a surprisingly good start to the 2008–09 campaign and held a promotion playoff place for very long time. They only won two points in their last five matches to eventually finish in seventh place. Despite a successful season, Mandorlini left Sassuolo by mutual consent in June 2009, whereupon the team then appointed former Piacenza coach Stefano Pioli on 11 June 2009.

Sassuolo successively qualified to the Serie B promotion playoffs in 2009–10 by placing fourth, and 2011–12 in third, being eliminated at the semi-finals in both seasons.

In the 2012–13 season, however, under the guidance of new head coach Eusebio Di Francesco, Sassuolo won the Serie B title, thus achieving direct promotion to Serie A and ensuring a first top-flight campaign ever for the 2013–14 season.

During pre-season training, Sassuolo won the TIM Trophy after losing to Juventus on penalties then beating Milan 2–1, marking the first time a team other than Milan, Internazionale or Juventus have won the Cup.

Eusebio Di Francesco, manager of the historic promotion to Serie A for the Neroverdi in 2013.

On 25 August 2013, Sassuolo played their first-ever Serie A match, a 2–0 loss away at Torino.[7] The team's second match was their first at home, against Livorno, where striker Simone Zaza scored Sassuolo's first top-flight goal as they lost 4–1.[8] On 22 September 2013, Sassuolo endured a heavy 7–0 defeat at home to Internazionale. The team earned their first point in their fifth match, on 25 September away to Napoli. Zaza equalised as the game finished 1–1, ending the hosts' perfect start to the season.[9] This was followed by a first home point on 29 September, a 2–2 draw with Lazio.[10] On 20 October 2013, Sassuolo won their first Serie A game, defeating Bologna 2–1 at home with goals from Domenico Berardi and Antonio Floro Flores, moving the club off bottom place.[11] Sassuolo won away for the first time in Serie A on 3 November against Sampdoria, with Berardi scoring their first top-flight hat-trick to win 4–3.[12] Since the following match, a 1–1 draw at Roma on 10 November, the club has been outside the relegation zone.[13] On 12 January 2014, Berardi was the only player in the season to score four goals in a game, as Sassuolo came from 2–0 down to win 4–3 against Milan.[14] Towards the end of January 2014, Sassuolo were in bottom place and so manager Di Francesco was relieved of his duties and Alberto Malesani was brought in. The managerial change did not have the desired effects and so in early March, Sassuolo re-entrusted the side to the management of Di Francesco. Sassuolo won its away match against Fiorentina 4–3 on 6 May 2014, and after winning 4–2 against Genoa on 11 May, Sassuolo guaranteed its place in Serie A for the 2014–15 season. Berardi finished in equal 7th place in the Serie A top scorers list, with 16 goals for the season.

The Neroverdi had a much better 2014–15 Serie A season, finishing comfortably beyond relegation in 12th place. Berardi was once more the club's top goalscorer with 15 league goals.

Sassuolo improved again in the 2015–16 Serie A season, finishing ahead of the likes of Milan and Lazio in sixth place. The season included an opening day win over Napoli,[15] a Round 10 1–0 victory over Juventus at Mapei Stadium[16] and a 1–0 victory over Inter at the San Siro.[17]

On 21 May 2016, Sassuolo achieved their first ever Europa League qualification after finishing sixth in Serie A courtesy of a Juventus Coppa Italia win over Milan as Milan would have gone to Europe instead if they had won the final.[18] On 25 August 2016, Sassuolo qualified for the Europa League group stage after beating Red Star Belgrade 4–1 on aggregate in the playoff round.[19]

As of 12 January 2021 [24]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 2 DF  BRA Marlon 4 MF  ITA Francesco Magnanelli (captain) 5 DF  TUR Kaan Ayhan 6 DF  BRA Rogério 7 MF  CIV Jérémie Boga 8 MF  FRA Maxime Lopez (on loan from Marseille) 9 FW  ITA Francesco Caputo 10 MF  SRB Filip Đuričić 13 DF  ITA Federico Peluso 14 MF  EQG Pedro Obiang 17 DF  TUR Mert Müldür 18 FW  ITA Giacomo Raspadori 19 DF  ITA Filippo Romagna 21 DF  ROU Vlad Chiricheș

No. Pos. Nation Player 22 DF  GER Jeremy Toljan (on loan from Borussia Dortmund) 23 MF  CIV Hamed Junior Traorè (on loan from Empoli) 25 FW  ITA Domenico Berardi (vice-captain) 27 MF  SVK Lukáš Haraslín 31 DF  ITA Gian Marco Ferrari 47 GK  ITA Andrea Consigli (3rd captain) 56 GK  ITA Gianluca Pegolo 63 GK  ITA Stefano Turati 68 MF  MAR Mehdi Bourabia 73 MF  ITA Manuel Locatelli (4th captain) 77 DF  GRE Giorgos Kyriakopoulos 91 FW  URU Nicolás Schiappacasse 92 FW  FRA Grégoire Defrel

As of 1 February 2021

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  ITA Matteo Campani (at Paganese until 30 June 2021)[25] — GK  ITA Alessandro Russo (at Virtus Entella until 30 June 2021)[26] — GK  ITA Giacomo Satalino (at Monopoli until 30 June 2021) — DF  ITA Claud Adjapong (at Lecce until 30 June 2021)[27] — DF  ITA Giuseppe Aurelio (at Imolese until 30 June 2021)[28] — DF  ITA Cristian Dell'Orco (at Spezia until 30 June 2021)[29] — DF  ITA Raffaele Celia (at Alessandria until 30 June 2021)[30] — DF  ITA Edoardo Goldaniga (at Genoa until 30 June 2021)[31] — DF  ITA Giangiacomo Magnani (at Hellas Verona until 30 June 2021)[32] — DF  ITA Riccardo Marchizza (at Spezia until 30 June 2021)[33] — DF  ITA Andrea Meroni (at Pisa until 30 June 2021)[34] — DF  ITA Alessandro Pilati (at Imolese until 30 June 2021)[35] — DF  ITA Marco Pinato (at Cremonese until 30 June 2021)[36] — DF  ITA Luca Ravanelli (at Cremonese until 30 June 2021)[37] — DF  ITA Marco Sala (at SPAL until 30 June 2021)[38] — DF  ITA Leonardo Sernicola (at SPAL until 30 June 2021)[39] — MF  ITA Davide Frattesi (at Monza until 30 June 2021)[40]

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  ITA Andrea Ghion (at Carpi until 30 June 2021)[41] — MF  ITA Luca Mazzitelli (at Pisa until 30 June 2021)[42] — MF  ROU Raul Șteau (at Monopoli until 30 June 2021) — FW  SEN Khouma Babacar (at Alanyaspor until 30 June 2021)[43] — FW  ITA Roberto Battaglia (at Forlì until 30 June 2021)[44] — FW  ITA Enrico Brignola (at Frosinone until 30 June 2021)[45] — FW  ITA Andrea Cisco (at Novara until 30 June 2021)[46] — FW  ITA Federico Di Francesco (at SPAL until 30 June 2021)[47] — FW  URU Emiliano Gomez Dutra (at Albacete until 30 June 2021)[48] — FW  ITA Federico Iodice (at Modena until 30 June 2021)[49] — FW  ALB Aristidi Kolaj (at Pro Patria until 30 June 2021)[50] — FW  ITA Giacomo Manzari (at Carrarese until 30 June 2021)[51] — FW  DEN Jens Odgaard (at Pescara until 30 June 2021)[52] — FW  ITA Jacopo Pellegrini (at Gubbio until 30 June 2021)[53] — FW  ITA Nicholas Pierini (at Modena until 30 June 2021)[54] — FW  ITA Federico Ricci (at Monza until 30 June 2021)[55] — FW  ITA Gianluca Scamacca (at Genoa until 30 June 2021)[56]