Pierpaolo Bisoli
Bisoli in 2019
Personal information
Date of birth (1966-11-20) 20 November 1966 (age 57)
Place of birth Porretta Terme, Italy
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Südtirol (head coach)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1984–1987 Pistoiese 66 (3)
1987–1988 Alessandria 33 (4)
1988–1989 Arezzo 34 (3)
1989–1991 Viareggio 67 (8)
1991–1997 Cagliari 167 (5)
1997–1999 Empoli 41 (0)
1999–2000 Perugia 32 (0)
2000–2001 Brescia 32 (2)
2001–2002 Pistoiese 28 (1)
2002–2003 Porretta
Managerial career
2005–2007 Prato
2007–2008 Foligno
2008–2010 Cesena
2010 Cagliari
2011 Bologna
2012–2014 Cesena
2015–2016 Perugia
2016–2017 Vicenza
2017–2018 Padova
2018–2019 Padova
2020–2021 Cremonese
2022 Cosenza
2022–2023 Südtirol
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Pierpaolo Bisoli (born 20 November 1966)[1] is an Italian football manager and former midfielder, most recently in charge as head coach of Serie B club Südtirol.

Career

Playing

Born in Porretta Terme, Bisoli started his professional career in 1984 with Pistoiese, where he spent a total of three seasons. He then played for a handful of minor teams before to join Cagliari in 1991, becoming a mainstay for the Sardinians. He spent six seasons for the rossoblu, marking a total of 167 appearances and also taking part in the club's 1994–95 UEFA Cup stint. In 1997, he moved to newly promoted Serie A team Empoli, where he played for two seasons. He then played for Perugia, Brescia and Pistoiese before to retire in 2003 after a season with amateur hometown club Porretta.

Coaching

Following his retirement from active football, Bisoli accepted an assistant coaching role at Fiorentina, working alongside head coach Emiliano Mondonico during the 2004–05 season.[2] He then became head coach of Serie C2 team Prato, where he worked for two seasons. From 2007 he is head coach of newly promoted Serie C1 side Foligno, where he surprisingly won a promotion playoff spot in his first season with the club, and then achieving a promotion playoff spot in his second season with the Umbrian minnows. From July 2008 he is head coach of Cesena in the former Serie C1, now rebranded as Lega Pro Prima Divisione, managing to guide the bianconeri to win the league title in his first season in charge of the club.

He was confirmed head coach of Cesena also for the 2009–10 season, which proved to be a very successful one as the club from Romagna joined the race for direct promotion to Serie A, a league Cesena has not played in since 1991. He ultimately guided Cesena to a historical promotion in the final game of the season, after the Bianconeri from Romagna ended the league in second place, thus ending a 19-year absence from the top flight for his club. He left Cesena at the end of the season to join his former club Cagliari, agreeing a contract with the Sardinian Serie A club.[3] His experience at Cagliari as head coach however proved to be highly unsuccessful, and he was ultimately dismissed on 15 November 2010 after a 0–1 home loss that left the Sardinians in 19th place.[4][5]

On 26 May 2011 Bisoli was named as the new coach of Bologna, but he was sacked on 4 October 2011, with the club the bottom of the table and replaced by Stefano Pioli.[6]

On 11 September 2012, he was named new coach of Cesena en place of the sacked Nicola Campedelli.[7] In the 2013–14 Serie B he successfully led Cesena to triumph in the promotion playoff and back to the top flight. He was however dismissed on 8 December 2014 due to poor results, with Cesena deep in the relegation zone.[8]

He was subsequently appointed as head coach of Serie C club Padova for the 2017–18 season,[9] during which he led the club to win the league title and direct promotion to Serie B. Confirmed for the following campaign in the Italian second tier, he was successively sacked on 6 November 2018 due to poor results.[10] He was reinstated as the head coach of Padova on 28 December 2018.[11]

He was named head coach of struggling Serie B club Cremonese on 5 March 2020, and successively confirmed for the 2020–21 Serie B season after guiding the team to safety. He was however sacked on 7 January 2021 due to poor results.[12]

On 17 February 2022 he was unveiled as the new head coach of Serie B club Cosenza until the end of the season.[13] On 15 June 2022, after guiding them to safety, Cosenza announced that Bisoli will not continue coaching the club.[14]

On 29 August 2022, Bisoli was announced as the new head coach of newly-promoted Serie B club Südtirol.[15] After guiding Südtirol to an impressive season and a spot in the promotion playoffs, he was confirmed in charge of the club for the 2023–24 Serie B season, during which he failed to maintain the club in the higher positions of the league table. He was sacked on 4 December 2023 following a 0–1 home loss to Como, leaving Südtirol in 13th place.[16]

Personal life

Pierpaolo has a son Dimitri Bisoli as a professional footballer.

Managerial statistics

As of match played 5 March 2023[17]
Managerial record by team and tenure
Team Nat From To Record
G W D L GF GA GD Win %
Prato Italy 29 July 2005 14 June 2007 85 24 30 31 83 94 −11 028.24
Foligno Italy 14 June 2007 4 June 2008 42 20 13 9 48 36 +12 047.62
Cesena Italy 6 June 2008 23 June 2010 84 39 25 20 107 67 +40 046.43
Cagliari Italy 23 June 2010 15 November 2010 13 3 5 5 14 11 +3 023.08
Bologna Italy 26 May 2011 4 October 2011 6 1 1 4 4 11 −7 016.67
Cesena Italy 11 September 2012 8 December 2014 104 35 35 34 114 121 −7 033.65
Perugia Italy 5 June 2015 24 May 2016 44 15 13 16 43 43 +0 034.09
Vicenza Italy 3 October 2016 18 April 2017 29 7 11 11 24 31 −7 024.14
Padova Italy 21 June 2017 6 November 2018 54 24 17 13 72 52 +20 044.44
Padova Italy 28 December 2018 17 March 2019 11 2 6 3 9 8 +1 018.18
Cremonese Italy 5 March 2020 7 January 2021 31 10 10 11 35 35 +0 032.26
Cosenza Italy 17 February 2022 15 June 2022 17 5 4 8 20 25 −5 029.41
Südtirol Italy 29 August 2022 Present 25 12 11 2 31 20 +11 048.00
Career Total 545 197 181 167 604 554 +50 036.15

References

  1. ^ "Pierpaolo Bisoli". FootballPlus.com. Retrieved 3 May 2008.
  2. ^ "Fiorentina, lo staff tecnico e medico per la prossima stagione" (in Italian). Nove da Firenze. 16 July 2004. Retrieved 3 May 2008.
  3. ^ "Oggi la presentazione di Bisoli" (in Italian). Cagliari Calcio. 23 June 2010. Archived from the original on 7 September 2010. Retrieved 23 June 2010.
  4. ^ "Comunicato Stampa" (in Italian). Cagliari Calcio. 15 November 2010. Retrieved 16 November 2010.[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ "Cagliari, esonerato Bisoli Cellino ingaggia Donadoni" (in Italian). La Gazzetta dello Sport. 16 November 2010. Retrieved 16 November 2010.
  6. ^ "Bologna, ufficiale: Bisoli esonerato, arriva Pioli". BolognaToday (in Italian). www.bolognatoday.it. 4 October 2011. Retrieved 5 October 2011.
  7. ^ Nazionale, Quotidiano (11 September 2012). "Bisoli: "Sono entusiasta d'essere tornato, per me è come la prima volta"". Quotidiano Nazionale.
  8. ^ "COMUNICATO UFFICIALE – Bisoli sollevato dall'incarico di allenatore della prima squadra". AC Cesena. 8 December 2014. Archived from the original on 5 April 2015. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
  9. ^ Calcio Padova, Pierpaolo Bisoli nuovo allenatore 21 giugno 2017‚ padovaoggi.it, 21 June 2017
  10. ^ "Calcio Padova, "ribaltone" a sorpresa: esonerato Bisoli, al suo posto Foscarini" (in Italian). Padova Oggi. 6 November 2018. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
  11. ^ "Sollevato dall'incarico mister Claudio Foscarini. Guida tecnica della prima squadra affidata a mister Pierpaolo Bisoli" (in Italian). Calcio Padova. 28 December 2018. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
  12. ^ "BISOLI SOLLEVATO DALLA GUIDA TECNICA DELLA PRIMA SQUADRA" (in Italian). US Cremonese. 7 January 2021. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  13. ^ "Cosenza, ecco il nuovo allenatore: Bisoli firma fino al termine della stagione" (in Italian). TuttoMercatoWeb. 17 February 2022. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
  14. ^ "Il Cosenza Calcio saluta Pierpaolo Bisoli" (in Italian). Cosenza. 15 June 2022. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
  15. ^ "Pierpaolo Bisoli è il nuovo allenatore dell'FC Südtirol" (in Italian). F.C. Südtirol. 29 August 2022. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
  16. ^ "L'FC Südtirol si separa da Bisoli" (in Italian). FC Südtirol. 4 December 2023. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
  17. ^ "Pierpaolo Bisoli career sheet". footballdatabase. footballdatabase. Retrieved 23 December 2020.

External links

Cagliari Calcio – managers
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LR Vicenza – managers
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