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Benevento
2019–20 season
Chairman	Oreste Vigorito
Manager	Filippo Inzaghi
Stadium	Stadio Ciro Vigorito
Serie B	1st (promoted)
Coppa Italia	Second round
Top goalscorer	League: ; Marco Sau (12); All: ; Marco Sau (12)
	← 2018–19 2020–21 →

The 2019–20 season was the second consecutive season of Benevento in the second division of Italian football after relegation from Serie A in 2018.

Along with competing in the league, the club also participated in the Coppa Italia.

On 29 June 2020, Benevento secured promotion to the Serie A with seven matches to spare.^[1] At the time, Benevento had won 23 of their 31 league games and lost just once, and had a 24-point advantage over nearest rivals Crotone and Cittadella.^[1] Ascoli were the last club to be promoted with seven games remaining, and they did so in 1977–78 when only two points were awarded for a victory.^[1]

Players

Squad information

As of 30 January 2020^[2]

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	ITA	Lorenzo Montipò
2	DF	ITA	Francesco Rillo
3	DF	ITA	Gaetano Letizia
4	MF	ITA	Lorenzo Del Pinto
5	DF	ITA	Luca Caldirola
6	MF	CIV	Siriki Sanogo
7	MF	GER	Oliver Kragl
8	MF	COL	Andrés Tello
9	FW	ITA	Massimo Coda
10	MF	ITA	Nicolas Viola (Vice-captain)
11	DF	ITA	Christian Maggio (Captain)
12	GK	ITA	Niccolò Manfredini
13	DF	ITA	Alessandro Tuia
14	DF	ITA	Massimo Volta


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
16	MF	ITA	Riccardo Improta
17	MF	GHA	Abdallah Basit
18	DF	GHA	Bright Gyamfi
19	MF	ITA	Roberto Insigne
20	FW	ITA	Giuseppe Di Serio
21	MF	FIN	Përparim Hetemaj
22	GK	ITA	Pier Graziano Gori
23	DF	ITA	Luca Antei
25	FW	ITA	Marco Sau
27	MF	SVN	Dejan Vokić
28	MF	ITA	Pasquale Schiattarella
32	FW	ITA	Gabriele Moncini
35	DF	ITA	Federico Barba (on loan from Chievo)

Out on loan

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	DF	ITA	Gianluca Di Chiara (at Perugia)
—	DF	ITA	Luca Sparandeo (at Virtus Francavilla)
—	DF	ITA	Salvatore Tazza (at Arzignano)
—	MF	ITA	Alessio Donnarumma (at Picerno)
—	MF	JPN	Cy Goddard (at Pafos)


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	MF	BRA	Guilherme (at Yeni Malatyaspor)
—	MF	ITA	Giovanni Volpicelli (at Arezzo)
—	FW	SWE	Samuel Armenteros (at Crotone)
—	FW	ITA	Pietro Iemmello (at Perugia)

Competitions

Serie B

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Benevento (C, P)	38	26	8	4	67	27	+40	86	Promotion to Serie A
2	Crotone (P)	38	20	8	10	63	40	+23	68	Promotion to Serie A
3	Spezia (O, P)	38	17	10	11	54	40	+14	61	Qualification for promotion play-offs semi-finals
4	Pordenone	38	16	10	12	48	46	+2	58^[a]	Qualification for promotion play-offs semi-finals
5	Cittadella	38	17	7	14	49	49	0	58^[a]	Qualification for promotion play-offs preliminary round

Source: Lega Serie B (in Italian) SOCCERWAY (in English)
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goal difference; 5) Goals scored; 6) Draw.^[3]
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Pordenone finished ahead of Cittadella on head-to-head points: Pordenone 0–0 Cittadella, Cittadella 0–2 Pordenone.

Results summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
35	24	8	3	60	22	+38	80	14	4	0	39	8	+31	10	4	3	21	14	+7

Last updated: 19 July 2020.
Source: Soccerway

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of Benevento after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards.

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38
Team ╲ Round
Benevento	9	4	2	1	2	4	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

	Champions, promotion to Serie A
	Promotion to Serie A
	Play-off semifinals
	Play-off preliminary round
	Play-out
	Relegation to Serie C

Source: Serie BKT

Matches

August

23 August 2019 Match 1	Pisa	0 - 0	Benevento	Pisa
21:00	Lisi 36' Benedetti 43' De Vitis 58' Belli 61'	Summary	Volta 45'	Stadium: Arena Garibaldi – Stadio Romeo Anconetani Attendance: 8,521 Referee: Francesco Fourneau

31 August 2019 Match 2	Benevento	4 - 1	Cittadella	Benevento
18:00	Ghiringhelli 28' (o.g.) Maggio 51' Insigne 58' Volta 69' Coda 83'	Summary	Diaw 37' 80'	Stadium: Stadio Ciro Vigorito Referee: Gianluca Aureliano

Coppa Italia

Second round

11 August 2019	Benevento (2)	3–4	Monza (3)	Benevento
CEST (UTC+02:00)	Tello 51', 83' Viola 90+4' (pen.)		Bellusci 4' Finotto 17', 88' Iocolano 49'	Stadium: Stadio Ciro Vigorito

Statistics

Hat-tricks

As of 3 July 2020.

Player	Against	Result	Date
Nicolas Viola	Trapani	5–0 (H) Archived 2020-09-11 at the Wayback Machine	6 December 2019
Marco Sau	Ascoli	4–0 (H) Archived 2020-09-11 at the Wayback Machine	29 December 2019