Fabio Caserta

{{short description|Italian football coach and former player|bot=PearBOT 5}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Fabio Caserta

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1978|9|24}}

| birth_place = Melito di Porto Salvo, Italy

| height = 1.80 m

| position = Midfielder

| currentclub = Catanzaro (manager)

| years1 = 1997–1998 | clubs1 = Locri | caps1 = 29 | goals1 = 9

| years2 = 1998–1999 | clubs2 = Pergocrema | caps2 = 29 | goals2 = 2

| years3 = 1999–2000 | clubs3 = Locri | caps3 = 32 | goals3 = 6

| years4 = 2000–2004 | clubs4 = Igea Virtus | caps4 = 116 | goals4 = 23

| years5 = 2004–2007 | clubs5 = Catania | caps5 = 96 | goals5 = 13

| years6 = 2007–2008 | clubs6 = Palermo | caps6 = 26 | goals6 = 1

| years7 = 2008–2009 | clubs7 = Lecce | caps7 = 33 | goals7 = 5

| years8 = 2009–2011 | clubs8 = Atalanta | caps8 = 15 | goals8 = 0

| years9 = 2010–2011 | clubs9 = → Cesena (loan) | caps9 = 25 | goals9 = 1

| years10 = 2012–2016 | clubs10 = Juve Stabia | caps10 = 100 | goals10 = 14

| manageryears1 = 2017–2020 | managerclubs1 = Juve Stabia

| manageryears2 = 2020–2021 | managerclubs2 = Perugia

| manageryears3 = 2021–2022 | managerclubs3 = Benevento

| manageryears4 = 2023–2024 | managerclubs4 = Cosenza

| manageryears5 = 2024– | managerclubs5 = Catanzaro

}}

Fabio Caserta (born 24 September 1978) is an Italian football coach and former player who is the manager of {{Italian football updater|Catanzaro}} club Catanzaro.

Playing career

After a long career playing in minor divisions (Serie D with Locri, and Serie C2 with Igea Virtus), he was signed by Serie B side Catania in 2004, becoming a team leader and a fan favourite, as well as a protagonist in the successful 2005–06 campaign that brought the rossazzurri back into Serie A. After an impressive 2006–07 season, he was then signed on 31 August 2007 by arch-rivals Palermo.{{cite web|url=http://www.ilpalermocalcio.it/it/0607/news_scheda.jsp?id=7607|title=Preso Caserta dal Catania|date=2007-08-31|access-date=2007-08-31|language=it|author=US Città di Palermo}} On 31 July 2008, Serie A newcomers Lecce bought the contract of Caserta from Palermo for €1.6million.{{cite web|url=http://www.uslecce.it/pageview2.php?i=2606&sl=1|title=Caserta, il centrocampista arriva a titolo definitivo dal Palermo|date=2008-07-31|access-date=2008-07-31|language=it|author=U.S. Lecce}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}{{cite news|url=http://www.ilpalermocalcio.it/it/0809/news_scheda.jsp?id=9777 |title=DICHIARAZIONE DI ZAMPARINI |date=2008-09-02 |access-date=2010-03-14 |work=ilpalermocalcio.it |language=it |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090429025709/http://www.ilpalermocalcio.it/it/0809/news_scheda.jsp?id=9777 |archive-date=2009-04-29 }}

Atalanta successively acquired him for the 2009–10 season, after Lecce were relegated to Serie B.

On 24 June 2010, he was loaned to Serie A newcomer Cesena along with Maximiliano Pellegrino, as part of the deal that Atalanta bought Ezequiel Schelotto outright.{{cite news|url=http://www.cesenacalcio.it/notizie/news/accordo-con-latalanta-per-la-cessione-di-schelotto.html|title=Accordo con l'Atalanta per la cessione di Schelotto|date=24 June 2010|access-date=2 July 2010|work=AC Cesena|language=it|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100630174536/http://www.cesenacalcio.it/notizie/news/accordo-con-latalanta-per-la-cessione-di-schelotto.html|archive-date=30 June 2010}}

Coaching career

After retirement, he stayed at Juve Stabia as part of head coach Gaetano Fontana's staff.

On 15 July 2017, he was announced as Juve Stabia's new head coach. In his second season in charge, he guided Juve Stabia to direct promotion to Serie B as Serie C/C winners. He left Juve Stabia following their relegation at the end of the 2019–20 season.

On 26 August 2020 he was hired by Serie C club Perugia.{{cite web|publisher=Perugia|url=https://www.acperugiacalcio.com/fabio-caserta-allenatore-della-squadra/|title=FABIO CASERTA NUOVO ALLENATORE DELLA PRIMA SQUADRA|date=26 August 2020|language=it}} On his first season in charge, Perugia were crowned Girone B champions, thus ensuring themselves promotion to Serie B after only one season in the Italian third tier.{{cite web|url=https://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/Serie-B/04-05-2021/dionisi-caserta-volti-nuovi-panchine-italiane-410712420038.shtml |title=Quelli che salgono. Dionisi e Caserta: i volti nuovi delle panchine italiane|publisher=La Gazzetta dello Sport|language=Italian|date=4 May 2021 |accessdate=4 May 2021}}

On 15 June 2021, one day after leaving Perugia by mutual consent, Caserta was unveiled as the new head coach of Serie B club Benevento, signing a two-year deal with the Campanians.{{cite web|url=https://www.beneventocalcio.club/news/notizie/3917/fabio-caserta-e-il-nuovo-allenatore-del-benevento.shtml|title=FABIO CASERTA È IL NUOVO ALLENATORE DEL BENEVENTO|publisher=Benevento Calcio|language=it|date=15 June 2021}} After guiding Benevento to a playoff spot in his first season, he was confirmed for the 2022–23 campaign, and dismissed on 20 September 2022 following a disappointing start of the season.{{cite web |url=https://www.beneventocalcio.club/news/comunicatistampa/4824/esonerato-mister-caserta.shtml |publisher=Benevento Calcio |language=Italian |accessdate=20 September 2022 |date=20 September 2022 |title=ESONERATO MISTER CASERTA}}

He successively took over at Serie B club Cosenza before being dismissed on 11 March 2024.{{cite web |language=it |date=11 March 2024 |accessdate=11 March 2024 |publisher=TuttoMercatoWeb |url=https://www.tuttomercatoweb.com/serie-b/cosenza-esonerato-fabio-caserta-dalla-guida-della-prima-squadra-1945131 |title=Cosenza, esonerato Fabio Caserta dalla guida della prima squadra}}

On 5 July 2024, Caserta was hired by Catanzaro in Serie B on a two-year contract.{{cite web|publisher=Catanzaro|url=https://www.uscatanzaro1929.com/2024/07/05/fabio-caserta-e-il-nuovo-tecnico-dellus-catanzaro/|title=FABIO CASERTA E’ IL NUOVO TECNICO DELL’US CATANZARO|trans-title=FABIO CASERTA IS THE NEW COACH OF US CATANZARO|date=5 July 2024|access-date=18 August 2024|language=it}}

Managerial statistics

class="wikitable" style="text-align: center" \|+ Managerial record by team and tenure
rowspan="2"\|Team !rowspan="2"\|Nat !rowspan="2"\|From !rowspan="2"\|To !colspan="8"\|Record
{{Tooltip\|G\|Games managed}} !{{Tooltip\|W\|Games won}} !{{Tooltip\|D\|Games drawn}} !{{Tooltip\|L\|Games lost}} !{{Tooltip\|GF\|Goals for}} !{{Tooltip\|GA\|Goals against}} !{{Tooltip\|GD\|Goal difference}} !{{Tooltip\|Win %\|Winning percentage}}
align=left\|Juve Stabia \|{{Flagicon\|Italy}} \|align=left\|15 July 2017 \|align=left\|4 August 2020 {{WDL\|123\|51\|37\|35\|for=177\|against=137\|diff=yes}}
align=left\|Perugia \|{{Flagicon\|Italy}} \|align=left\|26 August 2020 \|align=left\|14 June 2021 {{WDL\|42\|25\|10\|7\|for=73\|against=36\|diff=yes}}
align=left\|Benevento \|{{Flagicon\|Italy}} \|align=left\|15 June 2021 \|align=left\|20 September 2022 {{WDL\|50\|23\|10\|17\|for=73\|against=51\|diff=yes}}
colspan="4"\|Total {{WDLtot\|215\|99\|57\|59\|for=323\|against=224\|diff=yes}}

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|+ Managerial record by team and tenure

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