UC Sampdoria

{{main|History of UC Sampdoria}}

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{{anchor|Andrea Doria}} The roots of Sampdoria are to be found in two teams born in the late 1890s: Società Ginnastica Sampierdarenese and Società Andrea Doria. The former was founded in 1891 and opened its football section in 1899.{{cite book |last1=Ossola |first1=Franco |last2=Tavella|first2=Renato|title=Cento anni di calcio italiano |date=1997 |publisher=Newton & Compton |location=Rome |isbn=8881837854 |page=127}} The latter, named after Genoese admiral Andrea Doria, was founded in 1895.[https://www.sgandreadoria.it/easynews/newsleggi.asp?newsid=14 SG Andrea Doria] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231208133013/https://www.sgandreadoria.it/easynews/newsleggi.asp?newsid=14}}{{cite book |last1=Ossola |first1=Franco |last2=Tavella|first2=Renato|title=Cento anni di calcio italiano |date=1997 |publisher=Newton & Compton |location=Rome |isbn=8881837854 |page=226}}

Andrea Doria did not join the first Italian Football Championship organised by the Italian Federation of Football (FIF) and played on 8 May 1898. Instead, they played in the football tournament organised by the Italian Federation of Ginnastica.{{cite book |last1=Ossola |first1=Franco |last2=Tavella|first2=Renato|title=Cento anni di calcio italiano |date=1997 |publisher=Newton & Compton |location=Rome |isbn=8881837854 |pages=16–17}} The first ancestor of Sampdoria to play in the Italian Football Championship was Sampierdarenese, who joined the third edition in 1900 for their only appearance before World War One.{{cite book |title=Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004|date=2005|publisher=Panini Edizioni|location=Modena}}

Andrea Doria eventually joined the competition in 1902, but did not win a game until the 1907 edition, when they beat local rivals Genoa 3–1. It was not until 1910–11 that the club began to show promise, finishing above Juventus, Internazionale and Genoa in the main tournament.

After the war Sampierdarenese finally began to compete in the Italian Championship replacing another club from Bolzaneto, then an independent town in the province of Genoa, called Associazione del Calcio Ligure. Thus, during the 1919-20 edition Sampierdarenese and Andrea Doria met in the championship for the first time. Doria won the first-leg game (4–1 and 1–1) and finished second after Genoa in the Liguria group, qualifying for the National Round.

Andrea Doria ended up first in the Liguria group above local rivals Genoa in the 1920-21 Championship.

For the 1921–22 season the Italian top league was split into two competitions, one run by the Italian Football Federation and a second one organised by the secessionist Italian Football Confederation. Sampierdarenese joined the IFF tournament, while Andrea Doria and Genoa signed up for the one organised by the Confederation. Sampierdarenese won the Liguria section and then went on to the semi-finals, finishing top out of three clubs and thus reaching the final against Novese. Both legs of the final ended in 0–0 draws, thus a repetition match was played in Cremona on 21 May 1922. The match went into extra time with Novese eventually winning the tie (and the Championship) 2–1.

By season 1924–25, Sampdoria's ancestors were competing against each other in the Northern League; Andrea Doria finished one place above their rivals and won one match 2–1, while Sampierdarenese were victorious 2–0 in the other.

A process of unification of the many professional football teams in Italy was started by the Fascist government. Particularly in 1927 multiple smaller clubs where merged into one all over the country. Among many other similar examples, four teams based in Rome merged and became AS Roma. Similarly, at the end of the 1926–27 season Sampierdarenese and Andrea Doria merged for the first time under the name La Dominante.{{cite book |last1=Papa |first1=Antonio |last2=Panico|first2=Guido|title=Storia sociale del calcio in Italia |date=2002 |publisher=Il Mulino|location=Italy |isbn=9788815087645 |page=136}}

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Wearing green and black striped shirts, La Dominante Genova lived a short life, having played just three championships, and was not particularly successful. The team was admitted to the 1927-28 Divisione Nazionale Group B, ending the season in 10th place.{{cite book |title=Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004|date=2005|publisher=Panini Edizioni|location=Modena}} The next season was the last year of Divisione Nazionale, and Dominante finished in 10th place. Finally, in 1929 Dominante competed in the first-ever Serie B tournament where they finished third, just missing out on promotion.{{cite book |title=Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004|date=2005|publisher=Panini Edizioni|location=Modena}}

Dominante then absorbed the local team Corniglianese and competed in the 1930–31 Serie B under the name of Foot Ball Club Liguria. The team did not do well, finishing in 18th place and suffering relegation to Prima Divisione.{{cite book |title=Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio 2007|date=2006 |publisher=Panini S.p.A.|location=Modena, Italy |page=97}}

Both Sampierdarenese and Andrea Doria reverted to their previous names in 1931 as separate clubs.{{cite book |last1=Ossola |first1=Franco |last2=Tavella|first2=Renato|title=Cento anni di calcio italiano |date=1997 |publisher=Newton & Compton |location=Rome |isbn=8881837854 |page=226}} In the span of just a few years Sampierdarenese then climbed up from Prima Divisione to Serie B and finally Serie A. Ending up second in the Girone D of the 1931–32 Prima Divisione, they got promoted to Serie B. After the uneventful 1932–33 Serie B season, the team proceeded to win the 1933–34 Serie B championship and were promoted into Serie A for the first time.{{cite book |title=Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio 2007|date=2006 |publisher=Panini S.p.A.|location=Modena, Italy |page=97}}

On 15 July 1937 Sampierdarenese absorbed Corniglianese and Rivarolese, with the club adopting the name Associazione Calcio Liguria.{{cite book |last1=Dellachà |first1=Gino |title=Una storia biancorossonera. Il calcio a San Pier d'Arena dal tempo dei pionieri del Liguria alla Sampdoria.|date=2016 |publisher=Sportmedia|location=Genova |isbn=9788887588385|page=175}} This saw them reach fifth place in Serie A in 1939.{{cite book |last1=Dellachà |first1=Gino |title=Una storia biancorossonera. Il calcio a San Pier d'Arena dal tempo dei pionieri del Liguria alla Sampdoria.|date=2016 |publisher=Sportmedia|location=Genova |isbn=9788887588385|page=189}} In the early 1940s, the club was relegated but bounced straight back up as Serie B champions in 1941.

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After World War II, both Andrea Doria and Sampierdarenese (the name Liguria was abolished in 1945) were competing in Serie A, but in a reverse of pre-war situations, Andrea Doria were now the top club out of the two. However, on 12 August 1946, a merger occurred to create Unione Calcio Sampdoria.

The first chairman of this new club was Piero Sanguineti, but the ambitious entrepreneur Amedeo Rissotto soon replaced him, while the first team coach during this period was a man from Florence named Giuseppe Galluzzi. To illustrate the clubs would be equally represented in the new, merged club, a new kit was designed featuring the blue shirts of Andrea Doria and the white, red and black midsection of Sampierdarenese. In the same month of the merger, the new club demanded they should share the Stadio Luigi Ferraris ground with Genoa. An agreement was reached, and the stadium began hosting Genoa's and Sampdoria's home matches.

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For about thirty years the Genoese played constantly in Serie A, with mixed results, the best of which was in the 1960–1961 season, in which they obtained fourth place in the championship. In the 1965–1966 season Sampdoria finished sixteenth, relegating to Serie B for the first time in its history; however, the following year they won the second-tier championship and immediately returned to Serie A.

In 1979, the club, then playing Serie B, was acquired by oil businessman Paolo Mantovani (1930–1993), who invested in the team to bring Sampdoria to the top flight. In 1982, Sampdoria made their Serie A return and won their first Coppa Italia in 1985. In 1986, Yugoslav Vujadin Boškov was appointed as the new head coach. The club won their second Coppa Italia in 1988, being admitted to the 1988–89 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, where they reached the final, losing 2–0 to Barcelona.[https://www.rsssf.org/ec/ec198889.html Cup Winners' Cup 1988–89]. The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. (Retrieved 3 June 2011).[http://en.archive.uefa.com/competitions/ecwc/history/season=1988/intro.html 1988/89: Hat-trick for Barcelona] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100623021312/http://en.archive.uefa.com/competitions/ecwc/history/season%3D1988/intro.html |date=23 June 2010 }}. 1 June 1989. UEFA. (Retrieved on 3 June 2011). A second consecutive triumph in the Coppa Italia gave Sampdoria a spot in the 1989–90 Cup Winners' Cup, which they won after defeating Anderlecht after extra time in the final.{{cite news |last1=Kelly |first1=Conor |title=Sampdoria and the glory years of the 1990s |url=https://thesefootballtimes.co/2015/01/11/remembering-sampdorias-glory-years/ |access-date=16 March 2020 |publisher=These Football Times |date=11 January 2015}}

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This was followed only one year later by their first and only Scudetto, being crowned as Serie A champions with a five-point advantage over second-placed Internazionale. The winning team featured several notable players, such as Gianluca Pagliuca, Gianluca Vialli, Roberto Mancini, Toninho Cerezo, Pietro Vierchowod and Attilio Lombardo, with Boškov as head coach.{{cite news |last1=Smyth |first1=Rob |title=The forgotten story of … Sampdoria's only scudetto |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2009/jun/25/sampdoria-1991-rob-smyth |access-date=16 March 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=25 June 2009}} In the following season, Sampdoria reached the European Cup final and were defeated once again by Barcelona, at Wembley Stadium.{{cite news |title=From the Vault: Barcelona win the last European Cup final at Wembley |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2011/may/27/last-european-cup-final-wembley |access-date=16 March 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=27 May 2011}}

Vujadin Boškov is recognised as one of Sampdoria's most successful managers winning a record amount of trophies and thus further establishing the club's reputation in Europe.

On 14 October 1993, Paolo Mantovani died suddenly and was replaced by his son Enrico. During his first season (1993–94), Sampdoria won one more Coppa Italia and placed fourth in Serie A. During the following four seasons, many players from his father's tenure left the club but many important acquisitions were made which kept Sampdoria in the top tier Serie A. This included the likes of Argentine internationals Juan Sebastián Verón and Ariel Ortega, and international midfielders Clarence Seedorf and Christian Karembeu. In April 1995 Sampdoria reached the semi-final stage of the Cup Winners' Cup, losing out to Arsenal on penalties after two legs.

In May 1999 Sampdoria were relegated from Serie A and did not return to the top flight until 2003.

File:Luigi Delneri UC Sampdoria.jpg managed Sampdoria to fourth place and Champions League qualification in 2010.]]

In 2002 Sampdoria was acquired by Riccardo Garrone, an Italian oil businessman. Sampdoria returned to Serie A in 2003 led by talisman Francesco Flachi, and ended their first season in eighth place. After several more top-half finishes, manager Walter Novellino gave way to Walter Mazzarri in 2007.{{cite news |title=2007, un anno di Samp: a giugno comincia l'era Mazzarri|trans-title=2007, Samp's year: in June the Mazzarri era began|url=https://www.sampdoria.it/2007-un-anno-di-samp-a-giugno-comincia-lera-mazzarri/ |access-date=16 March 2020 |publisher=U.C. Sampdoria |date=31 December 2007 |language=it}}

With the signings of forwards Antonio Cassano from Real Madrid,{{cite news |title=Cassano signs on at Sampdoria |url=https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro/history/seasons/2020/?referrer=%2Feuropean-qualifiers%2Fnews%2Fnewsid%3D703088 |access-date=16 March 2020 |publisher=UEFA |date=30 May 2008}} and Giampaolo Pazzini in January 2008, Sampdoria ended the 2007–08 season in sixth position and qualified for the 2008–09 UEFA Cup.{{cite news |title=Sampdoria on guard for Metalist steel |url=https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/news/01d5-0e70b3f44740-5cbcbd54b93a-1000/ |access-date=16 March 2020 |publisher=UEFA |date=7 January 2009}} The following season, they came fourth and qualified for the UEFA Champions League play-offs under manager Luigi Delneri, who left for Juventus.{{cite news |title=Di Carlo installed at Sampdoria |url=https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/01e5-0e74a4c12896-6d3d62808825-1000--di-carlo-installed-at-sampdoria/?referrer=%2Fuefachampionsleague%2Fnews%2Fnewsid%3D1492841 |access-date=16 March 2020 |publisher=UEFA |date=26 May 2010}} With the departures also of CEO Giuseppe Marotta, and both Cassano and Pazzini, and the squad being stretched by Champions League football, Sampdoria were relegated to Serie B after a 2–1 loss at home to Palermo in May 2011.{{cite news |title=Sampdoria suffer Serie A relegation |url=https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2011/0515/279947-serie/ |access-date=16 March 2020 |publisher=RTÉ |date=15 May 2011}} In the following season June 2012, Sampdoria won promotion back to Serie A after defeating Varese 4–2 on aggregate in the play-off final.{{cite news |title=Sampdoria, la notte della festa Vince a Varese e torna in Serie A|trans-title=Sampdoria, the night of the party They defeat Varese and return to Serie A|url=https://www.repubblica.it/sport/calcio/serie-b/2012/06/09/news/varese_sampdoria_play_off-36893444/ |access-date=16 March 2020 |work=La Repubblica |date=9 June 2012 |language=it}}

In 2013, following the death of his father, Edoardo Garrone took over the presidency of Sampdoria, but his main goal was to sell it as soon as possible to free himself of the debts that the company had incurred over the previous years.{{cite news |title=Sampdoria, cambio clamoroso. Garrone ha venduto a Ferrero |url=https://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/Serie-A/Sampdoria/12-06-2014/samp-cambio-vista-garrone-ha-venduto-80904569394.shtml |access-date=13 May 2025 |agency=gazzetta.it |publisher=gazzetta.it |date=12 June 2014}}{{cite news |title=Garrone a Ferrero: ha lasciato 65 milioni in eredità |url=https://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/Serie-A/Sampdoria/14-07-2015/sampdoria-dote-milionaria-garrone-ferrero-ha-lasciato-65-milioni-eredita-120563332525.shtml |access-date=13 May 2025 |agency=gazzetta.it |publisher=gazzetta.it |date=15 July 2015}}

The sale of Sampdoria to Massimo Ferrero was widely contested by Sampdoria fans.{{cite news |title=Samp a Ferrero, i tifosi non si fidano: «È un personaggio da film» |url=https://www.ilsecoloxix.it/sport/2014/06/13/news/samp-a-ferrero-i-tifosi-non-si-fidano-e-un-personaggio-da-film-1.32057077 |access-date=13 May 2025 |agency=ilsecoloxix.it |publisher=ilsecoloxix.it |date=13 June 2014}} A sell-off, which even after years, some fans continue to reproach in 2023.{{cite news |title=Samp, 500 tifosi a Garrone: 'Andremo in B ma guardati le spalle' |url=https://www.ansa.it/liguria/notizie/2023/02/03/samp-500-tifosi-contestano-garrone-sotto-sede-erg_8747d345-8f71-4b19-a4c7-0f997c0033c8.html |access-date=13 May 2025 |agency=ansa.it |publisher=ansa.it |date=3 February 2023}}{{cite news |title=Samp, 500 tifosi contestano Garrone sotto sede Erg |url=https://www.sportmediaset.mediaset.it/calcio/samp-500-tifosi-contestano-garrone-sotto-sede-erg_60664616-202302k.shtml |access-date=13 May 2025 |agency=sportmediaset.mediaset.it |publisher=sportmediaset.mediaset.it |date=3 February 2023}}

In 2023, after Massimo Ferrero's arrest in 2021 and the continuous protests from the fans, he clarified that the sale was a mistake due to pressure from his family to sell Sampdoria as soon as possible. A further wrong choice defined by Garrone because it was sold to an unreliable person.{{cite news |title=Sampdoria, Garrone racconta: 'Ecco perché l'ho data a Ferrero. Sulla frase in piazza...' |url=https://www.calciomercato.com/news/sampdoria-garrone-racconta-ecco-perche-l-ho-data-a-ferrero-sulla-78098 |access-date=13 May 2025 |agency=calciomercato.com |publisher=calciomercato.com |date=21 April 2023}}

In June 2014 the club was purchased by the film producer Massimo Ferrero.{{cite news |title=Sampdoria, è ufficiale: il club passa da Garrone a Ferrero |url=https://sport.sky.it/calcio/2014/06/12/sampdoria_conferenza_stampa_garrone_cessione_ferrero |access-date=13 May 2025 |agency=sport.sky.it |publisher=sport.sky.it |date=12 June 2014}}{{cite news |title=Sampdoria venduta: Garrone la cede a Ferrero |url=https://st.ilsole24ore.com/art/notizie/2014-06-12/sampdoria-venduta-garrone-cede-ferrero-131059.shtml |access-date=13 May 2025 |agency=ilsole24ore.com |publisher=ilsole24ore.com |date=12 June 2014}} After sixth-placed rivals Genoa in the 2014–15 season failed to obtain a UEFA licence for the 2015–16 UEFA Europa League, seventh-placed Sampdoria took their spot.{{cite web|url=http://www.espnfc.us/uefa-europa-league/story/2477856/genoa-cede-europa-league-spot-to-sampdoria|title=Genoa cede Europa League spot to Sampdoria|date=3 June 2015}} The club built a solid foundation in Serie A for the next seven years. Notable managerial appointments were Marco Giampaolo and Claudio Ranieri, as well as the steady flow of goals from talismanic striker Fabio Quagliarella. Growing tensions however surrounded Ferrero's presidency, fuelled by his well-known and public support of AS Roma. Several attempts were made to sell the club, including to a consortium led by club legend Gianluca Vialli. On 6 December 2021 Massimo Ferrero was arrested by Italian police as part of ongoing investigations into corporate crimes and bankruptcy. He resigned from his position as President of Sampdoria with immediate effect, whilst a club statement assured fans that the affairs of the football club were not a part of the investigations.{{cite news |title=Massimo Ferrero: Sampdoria president steps down after arrest for alleged financial crimes|url=https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11868/12488421/massimo-ferrero-sampdoria-president-steps-down-after-arrest-for-alleged-financial-crimes |access-date=15 February 2022 |work=Sky Sports |date=6 December 2021 |language=en}} On 27 December, former player Marco Lanna was appointed president. In January 2022 the club welcomed back former manager Marco Giampaolo after a disappointing start to the season under Roberto D'Aversa. On 6 February in his first home game back in charge, Sampdoria defeated Sassuolo 4–0. Results however began to dwindle, and after eight games and a winless start to the 2022–23 season the club parted company with Giampaolo. On 6 October former Serie A player legend Dejan Stanković was appointed to the role with the task of steering the club clear of the relegation zone. Sampdoria were later relegated in the 2022–23 season from Serie A to Serie B.

In late May 2023 former Leeds United owner Andrea Radrizzani and the businessman Matteo Manfredi{{cite news |title=Leeds e banche: chi sono Radrizzani e Manfredi, i nuovi proprietari della Sampdoria |url=https://sport.sky.it/calcio/serie-a/andrea-radrizzani-matteo-manfredi-chi-sono |access-date=13 May 2025 |agency=sport.sky.it |publisher=sport.sky.it |date=31 May 2023}} reached an agreement with previous owner Massimo Ferrero to buy Sampdoria and prevent it from bankruptcy. On 27 June 2023, former Italy and Serie A legend Andrea Pirlo was appointed as the manager.{{cite web |url=https://www.reuters.com/sports/soccer/pirlo-named-coach-relegated-sampdoria-2023-06-27/ |title=Pirlo named coach at relegated Sampdoria |publisher=Reuters |date=27 June 2023 }}

The change in ownership, however, has not led to an improvement of fortunes for the club, and financial hardship continued well into the 2023–24 season: although they finished their first season back in the second tier with qualification to the promotion playoffs, they were eliminated by Palermo in the first round. The 2024–25 season was meant to feature an even stronger push for promotion with the acquisition of players like Massimo Coda and M'baye Niang, but the club started out with two losses and a draw on the first three games on the season. Results were never delivered despite four managerial changes, and as a result, Sampdoria placed 18th, which implied its first ever relegation to Serie C, the third tier of Italian football.{{cite news |title=Serie B: la Samp sprofonda in C, Brescia salvo. Playout Frosinone-Salernitana |url=https://sport.sky.it/calcio/serie-b/2025/05/13/risultati-serie-b-ultima-giornata-live-diretta-gol |access-date=13 May 2025 |agency=sport.sky.it |publisher=sport.sky.it |date=13 May 2025}} However, Brescia's four-point deduction at the end of the regular season meant that the club was thrown one final lifeline not to drop down to Serie C, as the subsequent shuffling of placements signified that they would play a relegation play-out match against Salernitana.{{cite web |last=Campanale |first=Susy |url=https://football-italia.net/brescia-docked-4-points-sampdoria-salernitana/ |title=Official: Brescia docked 4 points, Sampdoria and Salernitana in play-out |publisher=Football Italia |date=29 May 2025 }} They went on to win the play-off 5–0, Serie B officials awarded them a 3–0 win over Salernitana in the second leg of the playoff after it was abandoned.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/jun/23/sampdoria-in-line-to-avoid-relegation-to-serie-c-after-chaotic-playoff-abandoned-salernitana|title=Sampdoria avoid relegation to Serie C after chaotic playoff abandoned|date=23 June 2025|work=Guardian|accessdate=24 June 2025}}

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The white, blue, red and black colours represent the club's origins with a merger between two teams, Sampierdarenese and Andrea Doria, who wore respectively red/black and white/blue jerseys with a shield with Saint George's Cross.{{cite news|url=http://football.guardian.co.uk/theknowledge/story/0,,1924393,00.html|title=What percentage of Frank Lampard's goals are deflected?|access-date=20 June 2007| work=The Guardian | location=London | first=Rob | last=Smyth | date=18 October 2006}}

The club crest features a sailor in profile known by Genoese name of Baciccia, a diminutive of Ligurian Gio-Batta, Italian Giovanni Battista, i.e. John-Baptist. The image of a sailor is used due to Sampdoria being based in the port city of Genoa.

The precise design of the Baciccia came from a Disney-licensed comic, Topolino, in 1980.

Since 1980, the Baciccia has appeared on the shirts of Sampdoria, mostly on the chest but occasionally on the sleeve.{{Cite web|last=Motherby|first=Les|date=26 November 2018|title=A history of Sampdoria's 'Baciccia' crest|url=https://museumofjerseys.com/2018/11/26/a-history-of-sampdorias-baciccia-crest/|access-date=20 October 2020|website=Museum of Jerseys|language=en-US}}

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Since 1946, the club have played at the Stadio Luigi Ferraris, also known as the Marassi from the name of the neighbourhood where it is located, which has a capacity of 33,205.{{Cite news| title = Stadio Luigi Ferraris| url = https://www.stadiumguide.com/luigiferraris/| publisher = stadiumguide.com| access-date =26 May 2024}} It is the ninth-largest stadium in Italy by capacity. The stadium is named after Luigi Ferraris (1887–1915), an Italian footballer, engineer and soldier who died during WWI.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cimeetrincee.it/ferraris.htm|title=ferraris|website=www.cimeetrincee.it}}

The ground is shared with Sampdoria's rivals, Genoa CFC{{cite news|url=http://www.footballderbies.com/index.php?country=2|website=FootballDerbies.com|title=Football Derby matches in Italy|date=29 June 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327170654/http://footballderbies.com/index.php?country=2|archive-date=27 March 2014|access-date=1 September 2007}} The stadium was dismantled and rebuilt before the 1990 FIFA World Cup, for which it hosted three Group C matches (between Costa Rica, Scotland and Sweden) and a round-of-16 match between the Republic of Ireland and Romania.{{cite web |url=https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2015/0624/710391-italia-90-irelands-greatest-day/ |title=Italia '90: Chronicling a nation gone loo-lah |website=www.rte.ie |publisher=RTE |first=Padraic |last=Ryan |date=26 June 2015 |accessdate=27 September 2021}}

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Sampdoria supporters come mainly from the city of Genoa. The biggest group are Ultras Tito Cucchiaroni, named after an Argentinian left winger who played for Sampdoria. The group were founded in 1969, making it one of the oldest ultra groups in Italy. They are apolitical, although there are smaller groups like Rude Boys Sampdoria, who are left-wing, but today this group is no longer active. The main support with flags and flares comes from the southern Curva, Gradinata Sud.

Sampdoria's biggest rivals are Genoa, against whom they play the Derby della Lanterna.{{cite news|url=http://www.footballderbies.com/index.php?country=2

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• Serie A
• Winners (1): 1990–91
• Serie B
• Winners (1): 1966–67
• Runners-up (1): 2002–03
• Coppa Italia
• Winners (4): 1984–85, 1987–88, 1988–89, 1993–94
• Runners-up (3): 1985–86, 1990–91, 2008–09
• Supercoppa Italiana
• Winners (1): 1991
• Runners-up (3): 1988, 1989, 1994

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• European Cup
• Runners-up (1): 1991–92
• European Cup Winners' Cup
• Winners (1): 1989–90
• Runners-up (1): 1988–89
• European Super Cup
• Runners-up (1): 1990

• Wembley International Tournament
• Winners (3): 1990, 1991, 1992
• Trofeo Bortolotti
• Winners (2): 1998, 2006
• Amsterdam Tournament
• Winners (1): 1988
• Joan Gamper Trophy
• Winners (1): 2012

:Competitive, professional matches only.

:Competitive, professional matches only.

{{updated|1 July 2025}}{{cite web|url=http://www.sampdoria.it/primasquadra/|title=Prima Squadra|access-date=16 August 2018|publisher=UC Sampdoria|language=it}}

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{{Fs player|no= 4|pos=MF|nat=ENG|name=Ronaldo Vieira|other=4th captain}}

{{Fs player|no= 5|pos=DF|nat=ITA|name=Alessandro Pio Riccio}}

{{fs player|no= 6|pos=DF|nat=ITA|name=Simone Romagnoli}}

{{Fs player|no= 7|pos=MF|nat=ITA|name=Alessandro Bellemo}}

{{Fs player|no= 8|pos=MF|nat=ITA|name=Matteo Ricci}}

{{Fs player|no= 9|pos=FW|nat=ITA|name=Massimo Coda}}

{{Fs player|no=10|pos=FW|nat=ITA|name=Gennaro Tutino}}

{{Fs player|no=17|pos=MF|nat=NED|name=Melle Meulensteen}}

{{Fs player|no=18|pos=DF|nat=ITA|name=Lorenzo Venuti}}

{{Fs player|no=22|pos=GK|nat=ITA|name=Simone Ghidotti}}

{{Fs player|no=23|pos=DF|nat=ITA|name=Fabio Depaoli|other=3rd captain}}

{{Fs player|no=25|pos=DF|nat=ITA|name=Alex Ferrari}}

{{Fs player|no=26|pos=DF|nat=ITA|name=Giorgio Altare|other=on loan from Venezia; vice-captain}}

{{Fs player|no=44|pos=DF|nat=CYP|name=Nikolas Ioannou}}

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{{Fs player|no=80|pos=MF|nat=ITA|name=Leonardo Benedetti}}

{{Fs player|no=84|pos=FW|nat=ITA|name=Nikola Sekulov}}

{{Fs player|no=|pos=GK|nat=ITA|name=Nicola Ravaglia}}

{{Fs player|no=|pos=GK|nat=ITA|name=Elia Tantalocchi}}

{{Fs player|no=|pos=DF|nat=ITA|name=Simone Giordano}}

{{Fs player|no=|pos=DF|nat=CRO|name=Stipe Vulikić}}

{{Fs player|no=|pos=MF|nat=ITA|name=Francesco Conti}}

{{Fs player|no=|pos=MF|nat=ITA|name=Stefano Girelli}}

{{Fs player|no=|pos=MF|nat=ITA|name=Lorenzo Malagrida}}

{{Fs player|no=|pos=MF|nat=ITA|name=Ilario Porzi}}

{{Fs player|no=|pos=FW|nat=ITA|name=Antonino La Gumina}}

{{Fs player|no=|pos=FW|nat=ITA|name=Simone Leonardi}}

{{Fs player|no=|pos=FW|nat=ESP|name=Estanis Pedrola}}

{{Fs player|no=|pos=FW|nat=ITA|name=Luca Polli}}

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{{Fs player|no=12|pos=GK|nat=ITA|name=Nicholas Scardigno}}

{{Fs player|no=29|pos=GK|nat=ITA|name=Lorenzo Ceppi}}

{{Fs player|no=34|pos=GK|nat=BUL|name=Andrey Krastev}}

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{{Fs player|no=35|pos=DF|nat=NOR|name=Mateo Fisher}}

{{Fs player|no=43|pos=FW|nat=COD|name=Samuel Ntanda}}

{{Fs player|no=45|pos=MF|nat=CRO|name=Mate Ivković}}

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• Last updated: 8 April 2025
• Source:{{Cite web|url=https://www.sampdoria.it/organigramma/|title=Organigramma|website=sampdoria.it|access-date=28 May 2024}}

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• Last updated: 8 April 2025
• Source:{{Cite web|url=https://www.sampdoria.it/primasquadra/|title=Prima squadra|website=sampdoria.it|access-date=28 May 2024}}

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File:Vujadin Boškov (1976).jpg, former Sampdoria player in the early 1960s, became the longest serving and most successful manager in the club's history, and managed the team to their only Serie A title in 1991.]]

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The recent season-by-season performance of the club:

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• {{flagicon|FRA}} Alain Boghossian (France 1998)
• {{flagicon|GER}} Shkodran Mustafi (Brazil 2014)

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20201130201127/https://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/teams/50089--sampdoria/ UC Sampdoria] at UEFA.com (archived)
• [http://www.resultsfromfootball.com/seriea-team/ucsampdoria.html Sampdoria statistics]
• [http://www.sampstory.it The story told through UC Sampdoria collectables]

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