Davide Dionigi

Davide Dionigi

Personal information
Date of birth	(1974-01-10) 10 January 1974
Place of birth	Modena, Italy
Height
Position(s)	Attacking Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Matera
Youth career
1990–1991	Modena
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1991–1992	Modena	20	(1)
1992–1993	Milan	0	(0)
1993–1994	Vicenza	1	(0)
	Como	28	(14)
1994–1995	Reggiana	7	(0)
	Como	23	(3)
1995–1996	Torino	22	(1)
1996–1997	Reggina	37	(24)
1997	Fiorentina	2	(0)
1998–1999	Piacenza	59	(13)
2000	Sampdoria	35	(12)
2001–2002	Reggina	51	(17)
2002–2004	Napoli	63	(27)
2004–2005	Reggina	10	(0)
	→ Bari (loan)	21	(4)
2005–2006	→ Ternana (loan)	24	(3)
2006–2007	→ Spezia (loan)	15	(1)
	→ Crotone (loan)	11	(0)
2007–2009	Taranto	31	(11)
2009	Andria BAT	15	(1)
International career‡
1991–1992	Italy U-18	13	(5)
1994–1995	Italy U-21	7	(5)
Managerial career
2010–2012	Taranto
2012–2013	Reggina
2014	Cremonese
2015	Varese
2015−	Matera
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 17:59, 22 April 2010 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 11 June 2008

Davide Dionigi (born 10 January 1974 in Modena) is a former Italian footballer and current manager of Matera.

Career

Player

Dionigi started his career at hometown club Modena and played 20 games in Serie B. He then signed by A.C. Milan and played on their youth team. He then transferred to Vicenza (Serie B), and in November 1993 left for Como. He won promotion with Como partially by his 14 goals. In summer 1994, he left for Reggiana of Serie A, but in November 1994 he left on loan back to Como, this time at Serie B. In summer 1995, he signed for his third Serie A team, A.C. Torino, due to Como's relegation. In summer 1996, he had to search club again, due to Torino relegation. This time, joined Reggina of Serie B. He won top-scorer that season, and he was signed by another Serie A team Fiorentina. He played his worst Serie A start, and moved to Piacenza in October 1998, where he played two seasons. In January 2000, Piacenza sent him to Sampdoria of Serie B, but they met again six months later, due to relegation of Piacenza and Sampdoria missed the chance to promote. In January 2001, he re-joined Reggina, this time at Serie A to avoid relegation. But Reggina relegated at last, but Dionigi was one of the players to help the club back to Series A just a year later. He was dropped from the club Serie A plan, and he joined newly relegated S.S.C. Napoli of Serie B on 31 August 2002. He played in Naples until the club went bankrupt. Dionigi started his third spells at Reggio Calabria since 9 July 2004. After played another 10 Serie A games, he left on loan to Bari, Ternana, Spezia and lastly Crotone, all were Serie B clubs.

In summer 2007, he joined Taranto of Serie C1, where he last played since at Como 1993–94 season.

Manager

Since 9 November 2010 until 26 June 2012 he has been the head coach of Taranto.

On 2 July 2012 he was named new head coach of Reggina.

Honours an awards

• Serie B Top-scorer: 1997

Promotion through

• Serie B Third Place: 2002 (Reggina)
• Serie C1 playoffs winner: 1994 (Como)

External links

• (Italian) Stats. at Taranto Sport (In Excel File)
• (Italian) National Stats. at FIGC