21 Feb 2028
Monday
Process
81 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

14 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Mohamed Amine Chakir is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.48 with 29 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

Antonino Arzillo says Foggia went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

Marco Bevilacqua is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Foggia is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Foggia lose Ionut Iancu

147 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Match

Foggia find a way past Catania

Catania made Foggia work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

McCartney Woodhouse signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” McCartney Woodhouse commits to Foggia for another 4 years.

In brief

Back issues
80 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

7 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Mohamed Amine Chakir is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.46 with 28 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Market

Steeve-Mike Eyango asks to leave Foggia

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Steeve-Mike Eyango says Foggia went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Foggia lose Luca Nocerino

14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Match

Foggia see off Latina

Three points for Foggia, 1-0 the final word against Latina in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Antonino Arzillo

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

79 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

31 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Mohamed Amine Chakir is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.44 with 27 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Match

7 matches without a win for Foggia

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Foggia are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Mario Paura gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match

Foggia and Crotone take a point apiece

It finished 3-3, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Market

Giugliano expected to open talks for Marco Bevilacqua

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Foggia will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Squad

Maxime Giron knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Foggia, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

78 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

24 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Mohamed Amine Chakir is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.41 with 25 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Market

Luca Nocerino hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Foggia can pretend not to have heard.

Match

6 matches without a win for Foggia

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Foggia are no longer polite ones.

In brief

77 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

17 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Antonino Arzillo asks to leave Foggia

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Mohamed Amine Chakir is carrying Foggia

23 goals and a season average of 7.39. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Match

5 matches without a win for Foggia

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Foggia are no longer polite ones.

Market

Eric Biasiol is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Foggia is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Ionut Iancu gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match

Honours even between Foggia and Audace Cerignola

2-2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Market

Francesco Rizzo is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Foggia has been clear about where Francesco Rizzo stands, which is more than many ever get.

Squad

Felice D'Amico knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Foggia, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad

Somebody is after Riccardo Brosco’s shirt

A new face in his position, and Riccardo Brosco suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Foggia have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.

In brief

76 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

10 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Pietro Leonardelli

There were 10 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Match

4 matches without a win for Foggia

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Foggia are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Foggia lose Luca Nocerino

42 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Market

Tiago Machado moves on

Benevento pay $290.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Gabriel Pellegrino

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match

Foggia share the spoils with Potenza

A 1-1 draw with Potenza leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

75 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

3 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Eric Biasiol: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Foggia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Mario Paura

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

Gabriel Pellegrino knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Foggia, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

74 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

27 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Mohamed Amine Chakir is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.38 with 21 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

Zhivodar Zhekov: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Foggia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match

Foggia come up short against Casarano

Casarano left with the points after a 1-2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief

73 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

20 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Eric Biasiol has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Foggia they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Gabriele Morelli

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match

Foggia and Trapani take a point apiece

It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

72 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

13 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Mohamed Amine Chakir is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.39 with 20 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Maxime Giron

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match

Foggia share the spoils with Casertana

A 3-3 draw with Casertana leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

71 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

6 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tiago Machado: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Foggia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Mohamed Amine Chakir is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.30 with 18 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Match

Foggia see off Giugliano

Three points for Foggia, 1-0 the final word against Giugliano in a contest settled by the finer margins.

In brief

70 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

29 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Cornelius Staver says Foggia went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Mohamed Amine Chakir is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.26 with 17 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Match

Foggia come up short against Cavese

Cavese left with the points after a 1-3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief

69 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

22 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Eric Biasiol has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Foggia they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Mohamed Amine Chakir

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

Costly mistake from Pietro Leonardelli

An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Pietro Leonardelli knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.

Match

Foggia share the spoils with Sorrento

A 1-1 draw with Sorrento leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Market

Davide Petermann linked with a move away

The name of Davide Petermann keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Foggia say nothing, which says plenty.

Squad

Felice D'Amico scores at last

The wait is over, and the relief was visible from the back of the stand. 2 for the season, and the next one always comes easier.

In brief

68 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

15 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Federico Valietti says Foggia went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Mohamed Amine Chakir is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.29 with 16 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

Ionut Iancu out for 14 days

The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Ionut Iancu, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

In brief

67 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

8 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Foggia bow out of the cup

Lazio go through and Foggia go home, 1-3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

The terraces

The ground has had enough

“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 6 of the 30 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.

Squad

Mohamed Amine Chakir is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.25 with 15 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Match

Foggia find a way past Picerno

Picerno made Foggia work for it, but the scoreboard read 3-2 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Luca Nocerino stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Luca Nocerino and Foggia agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Costly mistake from Sören Dutoit

An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Sören Dutoit knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Gabriele Morelli

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Boardroom

Foggia release $882.7K for the manager

The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.

Market

Maxime Giron linked with a move away

The name of Maxime Giron keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Foggia say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

66 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

1 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Pietro Leonardelli

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market

Sören Dutoit asks to leave Foggia

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Mohamed Amine Chakir is carrying Foggia

14 goals and a season average of 7.20. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

In brief

65 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

25 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Pietro Leonardelli

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Mario Paura

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match

Foggia come up short against Cosenza

Cosenza left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief

64 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

18 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Mohamed Amine Chakir takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Squad

Foggia lose Ionut Iancu

45 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Match

Foggia see off Salernitana

Three points for Foggia, 3-1 the final word against Salernitana in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Marco Bevilacqua signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marco Bevilacqua commits to Foggia for another 4 years.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Felice D'Amico

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market

Experience through the door at Foggia

Ionut Iancu arrives at 36 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.

In brief

63 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

11 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Chastening afternoon for Foggia

A 1-4 beating by Benevento was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Squad

Steeve-Mike Eyango says Foggia went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Match

No end in sight to Foggia's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Foggia has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Gabriele Morelli

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Boardroom

Inquest at Foggia

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

Squad

Pietro Leonardelli lets one through his hands

A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.

In brief

62 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

4 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Mohamed Amine Chakir takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Squad

Felice D'Amico: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Foggia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match

No end in sight to Foggia's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Foggia has to find a result from somewhere.

In brief

61 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

27 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Sören Dutoit is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Sören Dutoit: 3 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Match

Foggia march on in the cup

Trento are out and Foggia go through, 0-0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Squad

Filippo Calvo: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Foggia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Gabriel Pellegrino

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match

Honours even between Foggia and Latina

1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Squad

A first senior shirt for Gianpaolo Ragone

Every debut is a small story about the future: Gianpaolo Ragone, 21 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.

In brief

60 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

20 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

A hiding for Foggia

Beaten 0-3 by Crotone, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

The terraces

The boos come down from three sides

“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 6 of the 30 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Pietro Leonardelli

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

59 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

13 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Foggia tear Siracusa apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3-0 against Siracusa, and it could have been more.

Squad

Mohamed Amine Chakir: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Foggia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match

Foggia make it 4 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Foggia have 4 straight wins of it.

Market

Tiago Machado’s move to Trapani falls through

The deal that would have taken Tiago Machado to Trapani has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Foggia with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Mario Paura

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market

Maxime Giron linked with a move away

The name of Maxime Giron keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Foggia say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

58 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Pietro Leonardelli keeps Foggia in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

Foggia make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Foggia have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad

Riccardo Brosco signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Riccardo Brosco commits to Foggia for another 2 years.

Match

Foggia see off Audace Cerignola

Three points for Foggia, 3-2 the final word against Audace Cerignola in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Felice D'Amico

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

Gabriel Pellegrino is off the mark for Foggia

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

In brief

57 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Pietro Leonardelli keeps Foggia in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market

Sören Dutoit hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Foggia can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Foggia turn down Trapani for Tiago Machado

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Gabriel Pellegrino

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match

Foggia see off Potenza

Three points for Foggia, 1-0 the final word against Potenza in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Mohamed Amine Chakir finally opens his account

He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Foggia have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.

In brief

56 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Tiago Machado asks to leave Foggia

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

Leandro D'Angelo comes home

The shirt still fits. Leandro D'Angelo is back at Foggia, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Market

Elia Di Stefano comes home

The shirt still fits. Elia Di Stefano is back at Foggia, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

In brief

55 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Foggia

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Federico Valietti

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market

Maxime Giron linked with a move away

The name of Maxime Giron keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Foggia say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

54 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Sören Dutoit placed on the list

Foggia have made Sören Dutoit available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

Squad

Marco Bevilacqua asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Market

Francesco Andrea Di Vito leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Francesco Andrea Di Vito leaves Foggia the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

In brief

53 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Foggia put Mirko Silvestri on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Sören Dutoit

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Boardroom

Foggia pull $176.1K back off the table

The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.

In brief

52 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

McCartney Woodhouse gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market

The Davide Petermann talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Foggia know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Squad

Luca Nocerino asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

51 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Foggia boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad

Foggia lose Francesco Rizzo

15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Tiago Machado

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

50 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Foggia sign Filippo Calvo, one for the future

Filippo Calvo is 19, and Foggia have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Squad

Federico Valietti gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Till Winkelmann knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Foggia, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

49 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Foggia put Mirko Silvestri on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Squad

Felice D'Amico gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market

A long bet from Foggia on Luca Rossini

He is 20, and nobody at Foggia signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Market

A long bet from Foggia on Antonino Arzillo

He is 20, and nobody at Foggia signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Boardroom

Foggia pull $176.1K back off the table

The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.

Squad

Till Winkelmann asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Squad

Riccardo Brosco has company in his position

The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Riccardo Brosco keeps the shirt for now, at Foggia's convenience rather than his own.

Market

Mohamed Amine Chakir arrives on loan

Foggia have taken Mohamed Amine Chakir on loan from Ascoli — cover where cover was needed.

Market

Foggia pick up Mario Paura for nothing

The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Mario Paura arrives at Foggia with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.

In brief

48 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Marco Bevilacqua says Foggia went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Gianpaolo Ragone signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Gianpaolo Ragone commits to Foggia for another 3 years.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Marco Oliva

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

47 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Foggia

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Market

Foggia sell Christian Tommasini for $1.3M

Christian Tommasini has left for Pisa in a $1.3M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad

Nicolás Muñoz out for 14 days

The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Nicolás Muñoz, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Gianpaolo Ragone stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Gianpaolo Ragone and Foggia agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Marco Bevilacqua

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market

Maxime Giron linked with a move away

The name of Maxime Giron keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Foggia say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

46 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Foggia sell Michael Liguori for $1.2M

Michael Liguori has left for Torino in a $1.2M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Market

Pisa are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Foggia will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Market

Foggia sell Filippo Perucchini for $14.0K

Filippo Perucchini has left for Arzignano in a $14.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Francesco Rizzo

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

Marco Bevilacqua asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Squad

Riccardo Brosco loses a friend at Foggia

The move was somebody else's story. What it left behind was a dressing-room stall nobody has taken and a player who keeps looking at it.

In brief

45 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Torino are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Foggia will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Federico Valietti

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Boardroom

Foggia pull $176.1K back off the table

The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.

Market

The clock runs on Filippo Perucchini's contract

6 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

The terraces

The stands have heard the Michael Liguori talk too

What was a back-page story is now a matter for the terraces, and the terraces do not do nuance. Foggia would like it dealt with before it becomes the only question anybody asks.

Squad

Alessandro Minelli asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

44 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Michael Liguori asks to leave Foggia

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Federico Valietti says Foggia went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

A long bet from Foggia on Zhivodar Zhekov

He is 20, and nobody at Foggia signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

In brief

43 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Foggia boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad

Felice D'Amico gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market

Maxime Giron linked with a move away

The name of Maxime Giron keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Foggia say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

42 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Cornelius Staver gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market

Christian Tommasini linked with a move away

The name of Christian Tommasini keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Foggia say nothing, which says plenty.

Squad

Federico Ragnoli Galli knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Foggia, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

41 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Alexandru Borbei keeps Foggia in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

3 goals for Christian Tommasini

The match ball belongs to Christian Tommasini, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Squad

Tiago Machado: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Foggia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

In brief

40 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Michael Liguori asks to leave Foggia

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Match

No end in sight to Foggia's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Foggia has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Alexandru Borbei

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match

Foggia come up short against Trapani

Trapani left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Boardroom

$176.1K taken back off the Foggia table

What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.

Market

The Davide Petermann talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Foggia know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

39 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Foggia boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Match

9 unbeaten for Foggia

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Foggia did not have in the autumn.

Squad

Christian Dimarco is carrying Foggia

7 goals and a season average of 7.39. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad

Felice D'Amico gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match

Foggia draw a blank against Casertana

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Casertana defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

Market

Maxime Giron linked with a move away

The name of Maxime Giron keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Foggia say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

38 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Luca Nocerino: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Foggia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match

8 unbeaten for Foggia

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Foggia did not have in the autumn.

Squad

Francesco De Lucia out for 27 days

The medical room confirms 27 days on the sidelines for Francesco De Lucia, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Cornelius Staver

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match

Foggia share the spoils with Giugliano

A 1-1 draw with Giugliano leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Market

The Christian Tommasini talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Foggia know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

37 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Alexandru Borbei keeps Foggia in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

McCartney Woodhouse says Foggia went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Match

7 unbeaten for Foggia

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Foggia did not have in the autumn.

Squad

Federico Romeo is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.42 with 6 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

Nasser Bouyahmed stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Nasser Bouyahmed and Foggia agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Match

Foggia and Cavese cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Cavese came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

In brief

36 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Michael Liguori hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Foggia can pretend not to have heard.

Match

6 unbeaten for Foggia

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Foggia did not have in the autumn.

Match

Foggia find a way past Sorrento

Sorrento made Foggia work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Christian Dimarco named player of the month

The award goes to Christian Dimarco, and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Tiago Machado

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

Vincenzo Garofalo loses the armband

The captaincy has been taken off Vincenzo Garofalo. Foggia will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.

Boardroom

Foggia pull $176.1K back off the table

The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.

Squad

Riccardo Brosco takes the armband

It is a strip of cloth and it decides nothing on a Saturday. It still tells the dressing room exactly whose opinion the manager values, which is the whole point of it.

Market

Davide Petermann linked with a move away

The name of Davide Petermann keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Foggia say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

35 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Foggia boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad

Gianmarco Castorri: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Foggia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Christian Tommasini gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match

Foggia find a way past Monopoli

Monopoli made Foggia work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Christian Dimarco is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.37 with 7 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

Kevin Freiberger asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

34 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Francesco De Lucia out for 57 days

The medical room confirms 57 days on the sidelines for Francesco De Lucia, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Christian Dimarco is carrying Foggia

6 goals and a season average of 7.32. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Boardroom

Wages eat 94% of everything Foggia earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

In brief

33 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Federico Romeo is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.36 with 6 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

Kevin Freiberger left out for the big one

A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Kevin Freiberger will call it something else in private.

Match

Honours even between Foggia and Altamura

2-2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Federico Ragnoli Galli

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market

Michael Liguori linked with a move away

The name of Michael Liguori keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Foggia say nothing, which says plenty.

Squad

The selectors could not leave Christian Dimarco out

7.28 across ninety minutes and a place in the division's team of the week. He was the best player on that pitch and everybody there knew it.

In brief

32 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Michael Liguori hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Foggia can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Francesco Rizzo says Foggia went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Kevin Freiberger stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Kevin Freiberger and Foggia agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Sören Dutoit

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match

Foggia see off Cosenza

Three points for Foggia, 1-0 the final word against Cosenza in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Boardroom

Foggia pull $176.1K back off the table

The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.

In brief

31 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Sören Dutoit asks to leave Foggia

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Foggia boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Match

5 matches without a win for Foggia

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Foggia are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Kevin Freiberger gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Andrea Lannunziata out for 22 days

The medical room confirms 22 days on the sidelines for Andrea Lannunziata, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Alexandru Borbei lets one through his hands

A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.

Match

Foggia and Salernitana take a point apiece

It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Squad

Christian Dimarco is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.22 with 4 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Market

The Maxime Giron talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Foggia know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

30 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Christian Tommasini hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Foggia can pretend not to have heard.

Match

4 matches without a win for Foggia

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Foggia are no longer polite ones.

Match

A bad afternoon for Foggia against Benevento

1-2 to Benevento, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Riccardo Brosco

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Boardroom

109% of the income goes out in wages at Foggia

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Squad

Federico Romeo is carrying Foggia

5 goals and a season average of 7.27. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

In brief

29 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Catania take the points off Foggia

Beaten 1-3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Antonio De Marco out for 26 days

The medical room confirms 26 days on the sidelines for Antonio De Marco, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Luca Nocerino gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

28 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Foggia turn down Pisa for Christian Tommasini

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Federico Valietti: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Foggia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

The Trapani deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Filippo Perucchini reports back to Foggia with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

In brief

27 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Filippo Perucchini hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Foggia can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Christian Tommasini attracts admirers

The name of Christian Tommasini has come up in conversations Foggia were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Kevin Freiberger gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match

Honours even between Foggia and Crotone

2-2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Market

Trapani expected to open talks for Filippo Perucchini

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Foggia will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Market

The Maxime Giron talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Foggia know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

26 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Christian Tommasini hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Foggia can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Steeve-Mike Eyango says Foggia went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Match

Foggia find a way past Siracusa

Siracusa made Foggia work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Boardroom

Wages eat 122% of everything Foggia earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Squad

Federico Romeo is carrying Foggia

5 goals and a season average of 7.23. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Federico Valietti

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

25 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Michael Liguori asks to leave Foggia

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Tiago Machado says Foggia went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Sören Dutoit gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match

Foggia find a way past Audace Cerignola

Audace Cerignola made Foggia work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

McCartney Woodhouse signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” McCartney Woodhouse commits to Foggia for another 4 years.

Squad

Antonio De Marco out for 60 days

The medical room confirms 60 days on the sidelines for Antonio De Marco, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

In brief

24 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Foggia come up short against Potenza

Potenza left with the points after a 1-3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Alessio Buttaro gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market

The Christian Tommasini talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Foggia know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Squad

Tiago Machado knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Foggia, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

Filippo Perucchini placed on the list

Foggia have made Filippo Perucchini available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

The terraces

The press have found their man in Federico Romeo

Column inches are not points, but a footballer whose name keeps appearing for the right reasons is a footballer whose price has just gone up.

In brief

23 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Foggia turn down Livorno for Eric Biasiol

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Riccardo Brosco loses the armband

The captaincy has been taken off Riccardo Brosco. Foggia will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Filippo Perucchini

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market

The Maxime Giron talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Foggia know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Squad

Davide Petermann takes the armband

It is a strip of cloth and it decides nothing on a Saturday. It still tells the dressing room exactly whose opinion the manager values, which is the whole point of it.

Squad

Tiago Machado asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

22 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Christian Tommasini hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Foggia can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom

191% of the income goes out in wages at Foggia

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Match

Foggia see off Casarano

Three points for Foggia, 2-0 the final word against Casarano in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Kevin Freiberger

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

Federico Magro knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Foggia, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad

Gianmarco Cangiano scores at last

The wait is over, and the relief was visible from the back of the stand. 3 for the season, and the next one always comes easier.

In brief

21 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

A bad afternoon for Foggia against Trapani

0-2 to Trapani, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Alexandru Borbei

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

Kevin Freiberger asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

20 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Eric Biasiol hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Foggia can pretend not to have heard.

Match

Foggia get the job done against Casertana

A 2-1 win over Casertana, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Luca Nocerino

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

Fabio Polinari finally opens his account

He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Foggia have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.

Squad

Federico Romeo unhappy with how he is being used

Asked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Federico Romeo has let it be known that he does not like the way Foggia are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.

Squad

Cornelius Staver knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Foggia, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

19 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Michael Liguori asks to leave Foggia

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Federico Magro says Foggia went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Riccardo Brosco signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Riccardo Brosco commits to Foggia for another 2 years.

Match

Foggia come up short against Giugliano

Giugliano left with the points after a 1-2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Felice D'Amico

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market

Christian Tommasini linked with a move away

The name of Christian Tommasini keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Foggia say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

18 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Christian Tommasini hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Foggia can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom

233% of the income goes out in wages at Foggia

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Sören Dutoit

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match

Foggia find a way past Cavese

Cavese made Foggia work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Vincenzo Garofalo is off the mark for Foggia

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

Squad

Felice D'Amico asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

17 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

11 matches without a win for Foggia

The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Foggia are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Tiago Machado says Foggia went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Christian Tommasini gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

16 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

10 matches without a win for Foggia

The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Foggia are no longer polite ones.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Kevin Freiberger

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match

Foggia and Monopoli take a point apiece

It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

15 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

9 matches without a win for Foggia

The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Foggia are no longer polite ones.

Match

Foggia taken apart

0-4 to Picerno, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Market

Michael Liguori asks to leave Foggia

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Foggia dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Squad

Luca Nocerino gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Christian Tommasini asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

14 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Christian Tommasini hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Foggia can pretend not to have heard.

Match

8 matches without a win for Foggia

The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Foggia are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Federico Ragnoli Galli says Foggia went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Boardroom

233% of the income goes out in wages at Foggia

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Squad

Felice D'Amico gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Kevin Freiberger knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Foggia, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

13 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

7 matches without a win for Foggia

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Foggia are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Fabio Polinari says Foggia went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Match

Foggia come up short against Cosenza

Cosenza left with the points after a 1-2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief

12 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

6 matches without a win for Foggia

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Foggia are no longer polite ones.

Match

A bad afternoon for Foggia against Salernitana

1-2 to Salernitana, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Sören Dutoit

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

11 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

5 matches without a win for Foggia

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Foggia are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Marco Bevilacqua gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match

Foggia and Benevento take a point apiece

It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Market

Christian Tommasini linked with a move away

The name of Christian Tommasini keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Foggia say nothing, which says plenty.

Squad

Felice D'Amico knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Foggia, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

Eric Biasiol placed on the list

Foggia have made Eric Biasiol available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief

10 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Alexandru Borbei

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Match

4 matches without a win for Foggia

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Foggia are no longer polite ones.

Boardroom

Wages eat 399% of everything Foggia earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Squad

Davide Petermann gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match

Foggia and Catania take a point apiece

It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Squad

Christian Tommasini finally opens his account

He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Foggia have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.

In brief

9 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Foggia out of the cup

Ternana ended it 0-2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Market

Michael Liguori asks to leave Foggia

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Alexandru Borbei keeps Foggia in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

In brief

8 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Alexandru Borbei keeps Foggia in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Alessandro Minelli gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Christian Tommasini knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Foggia, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

7 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Foggia find a way past Siracusa

Siracusa made Foggia work for it, but the scoreboard read 3-2 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Kevin Freiberger gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Sören Dutoit asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Squad

Gianmarco Cangiano is off the mark for Foggia

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

Squad

Marco Bevilacqua is off the mark for Foggia

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

Market

Christian Tommasini linked with a move away

The name of Christian Tommasini keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Foggia say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

6 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Eric Biasiol hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Foggia can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom

392% of the income goes out in wages at Foggia

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Squad

Alexandru Borbei gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

5 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Michael Liguori asks to leave Foggia

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

Foggia turn down Parma for Riccardo Brosco

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Christian Tommasini gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Foggia lose Francesco De Lucia

37 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Match

Honours even between Foggia and Potenza

1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Squad

Michael Liguori is off the mark for Foggia

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

In brief

4 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Michael Liguori attracts admirers

The name of Michael Liguori has come up in conversations Foggia were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Market

Foggia sign Tommaso Lucchesi, one for the future

Tommaso Lucchesi is 16, and Foggia have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Market

A long bet from Foggia on Mauro D'Amico

He is 16, and nobody at Foggia signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

In brief

3 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Michael Liguori gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market

Foggia bring in an old head

Sören Dutoit is 35 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

Market

Christian Tommasini linked with a move away

The name of Christian Tommasini keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Foggia say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

2 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Foggia turn down Atalanta for Michael Liguori

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Eric Biasiol asks to leave Foggia

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Riccardo Brosco stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Riccardo Brosco and Foggia agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Federico Valietti out for 50 days

The medical room confirms 50 days on the sidelines for Federico Valietti, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Riccardo Brosco gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Michael Liguori asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

1 Edition

The Foggia Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Michael Liguori hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Foggia can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Maxime Giron stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Maxime Giron and Foggia agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

The clock runs on Maxime Giron's contract

36 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

In brief