# 2006–07 Ascoli Calcio 1898 season

The 2006-07 season was Ascoli's 108th in existence and 16th in the top flight of Italian football. The team only competed in Serie A and Coppa Italia.

## Players
### Squad information

    Squad at end of season
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | ITA | Gianluca Pagliuca |
| 3 | DF | ITA | Stefano Lombardi |
| 5 | DF | ITA | Michelangelo Minieri |
| 6 | MF | ITA | Luis Fernando Centi |
| 7 | MF | ITA | Gaetano Fontana |
| 8 | MF | ITA | Michele Fini |
| 9 | FW | ITA | Michele Paolucci |
| 11 | FW | CRO | Saša Bjelanović |
| 12 | GK | ITA | Daniele Capriotti |
| 13 | DF | ITA | Lorenzo Pasqualini |
| 14 | MF | ITA | Luigi Di Biagio |
| 15 | FW | LVA | Edgars Gauračs |
| 16 | MF | ITA | Domenico Giampà |
| 17 | MF | ITA | Stefano Guberti |
| 18 | MF | ITA | Simone Pesce |
| 19 | GK | ITA | Alessandro Boccolini |
| 20 | MF | ITA | Giampietro Perrulli |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 21 | MF | RUS | Viktor Budyanskiy |
| 22 | DF | ITA | Gaetano Vastola |
| 23 | DF | ITA | Riccardo Corallo |
| 24 | FW | ITA | Marco Delvecchio |
| 25 | MF | ITA | Massimo Bonanni |
| 27 | MF | ITA | Paolo Zanetti |
| 31 | DF | ITA | Paolo Foglio |
| 32 | DF | ROU | Valentin Năstase |
| 33 | GK | GRE | Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos |
| 77 | DF | FRA | Oliver Nsiabamfumu |
| 79 | DF | ITA | Matteo Melara |
| 81 | DF | ITA | Giuseppe Bellusci |
| 84 | FW | CMR | Thomas Job-Iyock |
| 85 | DF | ITA | Manuel Biondi |
| 86 | MF | ITA | Mauro Pucello |
| 87 | DF | ITA | Mauro Sosi |
| 88 | FW | ITA | Francesco Marigliano |
| 89 | MF | ITA | Davide Raffaello |
| 90 | MF | ITA | Francesco Uliano |
| 99 | FW | ITA | Andrea Soncin |

### Left club during season

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 2 | DF | ITA | Massimo Gotti (loan return to Udinese) |
| 3 | DF | SRB | Aleksandar Luković (loan return to Udinese) |
| 4 | DF | ITA | Marco Pecorari (loan return to Lecce) |
| 6 | MF | ITA | Mirko Cudini (to Vicenza) |
| 10 | MF | ITA | Daniele Galloppa (loan return to Roma) |
| 14 | MF | ALB | Ervin Skela (released) |
| 28 | DF | ITA | Salvatore Bocchetti (on loan to Frosinone) |
| 41 | MF | ITA | Fabio Pecchia (to Foggia) |
| — | MF | ITA | Leandro Vitiello (on loan to Sambenedettese) |

### Transfers
#### Summer

In :
| Pos. | Name | from | Type |
| MF | Paolo Zanetti | Empoli | Free transfer |
| DF | Gaetano Vastola | Salernitana | Undisclosed |
| MF | Ervin Skela | Kaiserslautern | Free transfer |
| DF | Simone Pesce | Torres | Free transfer |
| DF | Marco Pecorari | Lecce | Undisclosed |
| MF | Fabio Pecchia | Bologna | Free transfer |
| FW | Michele Paolucci | Juventus | Loan transfer |
| GK | Gianluca Pagliuca | Bologna FC 1909 | Free transfer |
| DF | Valentin Năstase | Bologna | Free transfer |
| MF | Olivier Nsiabamfumu | Rennes | Free transfer |
| DF | Michelangelo Minieri | Avellino | Undisclosed |
| FW | Thomas Job-Iyock | Cremonese | Undisclosed |
| MF | Stefano Guberti | Torres | €300.000 |
| DF | Massimo Gotti | Udinese | Loan transfer |
| MF | Edgars Gauračs | Blāzma | Undisclosed |
| MF | Daniele Galloppa | Triestina | Loan (€150.000) |
| MF | Gaetano Fontana | Napoli | Undisclosed |
| DF | Paolo Foglio | Siena | Undisclosed |
| GK | Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos | Roma | Free transfer |
| FW | Marco Delvecchio | Parma | Free transfer |
| DF | Riccardo Corallo | Cremonese | End of loan |
| MF | Viktor Budyanskiy | Avellino | Loan transfer |
| DF | Salvatore Bocchetti | Virtus Lanciano | Promoted from U19 |
| DF | Aleksandar Luković | Udinese | Loan transfer |
Out :
| Pos. | Name | To | Type |
| GK | Carlo Zotti | Roma | End of loan |
| MF | Valerio Virga | Roma | End of loan |
| FW | Schumacher | Udinese | End of loan |
| FW | Fabio Quagliarella | Sampdoria | End of loan |
| MF | Andrea Parola | Sampdoria | €900.000 |
| DF | Massimo Paci | Parma | Undisclosed |
| MF | Alessandro Moro | Treviso | Undisclosed |
| DF | Maurizio Lauro | Cesena | Undisclosed |
| MF | Roberto Guana | Brescia | Undisclosed |
| MF | Luigi Giorgi | Foligno | Loan transfer |
| MF | Pasquale Foggia | Lazio | End of loan |
| FW | Marco Ferrante | Pescara | Free transfer |
| DF | Maurizio Domizzi | Napoli | End of loan |
| MF | Ivano Della Morte | US Alessandria Calcio 1912 | Free transfer |
| DF | Cristiano Del Grosso | Cagliari | Undisclosed |
| MF | Domenico Cristiano | Rimini | Free transfer |
| MF | Nicolás Córdova | Messina | End of loan |
| GK | Ferdinando Coppola | Milan | €200.000 |
| DF | Gianluca Comotto | Torino | End of loan |
| DF | Alfredo Cariello | Crotone | Free transfer |
| DF | Francesco Carbone | Frosinone | End of loan |
| FW | Igor Budan | Atalanta | End of loan |
| DF | Daniele Adani | Empoli | Undisclosed |

#### Winter

In :
| Pos. | Name | from | Type |
| FW | Andrea Soncin | Atalanta | Undisclosed |
| DF | Matteo Melara | Torino | Loan transfer |
| MF | Luigi Di Biagio | Brescia | Free agent |
| MF | Luis Fernando Centi | Atalanta | €725.000 |
| MF | Massimo Bonanni | Sampdoria | Loan transfer |
| DF | Stefano Lombardi | Arezzo | Undisclosed |
Out :
| Pos. | Name | To | Type |
| MF | Fabio Pecchia | Foggia | Undisclosed |
| DF | Aleksandar Luković | Udinese | End of loan |
| DF | Massimo Gotti | Udinese | End of loan |
| DF | Salvatore Bocchetti | Frosinone | €1.900.000 |
| MF | Ervin Skela | Kaiserslautern | Free transfer |
| DF | Marco Pecorari | Spezia | Undisclosed |
| DF | Mirko Cudini | Vicenza | Undisclosed |
| MF | Daniele Galloppa | Siena | End of loan |

## Competitions
### Serie A
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 16 | Torino | 38 | 10 | 10 | 18 | 27 | 47 | −20 | 40 | |
| 17 | Cagliari | 38 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 35 | 46 | −11 | 40 | |
| 18 | Chievo (R) | 38 | 9 | 12 | 17 | 38 | 48 | −10 | 39 | Relegation to Serie B |
| 19 | Ascoli (R) | 38 | 5 | 12 | 21 | 36 | 67 | −31 | 27 | Relegation to Serie B |
| 20 | Messina (R) | 38 | 5 | 11 | 22 | 37 | 69 | −32 | 26 | Relegation to Serie B |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 27 May 2007. Source: Competitive matches

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 |
| Ground | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H |
| Result | L | D | L | D | D | L | L | D | L | L | L | D | L | D | L | L | L | W | L | L | W | L | L | D | D | D | D | W | L | L | L | D | D | L | L | W | L | W |
| Position | 19 | 15 | 13 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 18 | 17 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 |

#### Matches
### Coppa Italia
## Statistics
### Appearances and goals

    As of 27 May 2007
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Serie A | Serie A | Coppa Italia | Coppa Italia |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Goalkeepers ||||||||||
| 1 | GK | ITA | Gianluca Pagliuca | 25 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 12 | GK | ITA | Daniele Capriotti | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | GK | ITA | Alessandro Boccolini | 3 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | GK | GRE | Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos | 14 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||
| 3 | DF | ITA | Stefano Lombardi | 11 | 0 | 10+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | ITA | Michelangelo Minieri | 25 | 0 | 19+6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | DF | ITA | Lorenzo Pasqualini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | DF | ITA | Gaetano Vastola | 19 | 0 | 16+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | DF | ITA | Riccardo Corallo | 12 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | DF | ITA | Paolo Foglio | 13 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 32 | DF | ROU | Valentin Năstase | 33 | 0 | 29+1 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 |
| 77 | DF | FRA | Olivier Nsiabamfumu | 3 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 79 | DF | ITA | Matteo Melara | 17 | 0 | 16+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 81 | DF | ITA | Giuseppe Bellusci | 6 | 0 | 3+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 85 | DF | ITA | Manuel Biondi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 87 | DF | ITA | Mauro Sosi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||
| 6 | MF | ITA | Luis Fernando Centi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | ITA | Gaetano Fontana | 12 | 0 | 11+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | ITA | Michele Fini | 36 | 1 | 32+2 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | ITA | Luigi Di Biagio | 7 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | MF | ITA | Domenico Giampà | 17 | 1 | 11+4 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 18 | MF | ITA | Simone Pesce | 37 | 0 | 27+8 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | RUS | Viktor Budyanskiy | 35 | 3 | 31+1 | 3 | 2+1 | 0 |
| 25 | MF | ITA | Massimo Bonanni | 18 | 2 | 13+5 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | MF | ITA | Paolo Zanetti | 33 | 1 | 29+2 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 86 | MF | ITA | Mauro Pucello | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 88 | MF | ITA | Davide Raffaello | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 89 | MF | ITA | Francesco Marigliano | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 90 | MF | ITA | Franceso Uliano | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Forwards ||||||||||
| 9 | FW | ITA | Michele Paolucci | 46 | 8 | 32+13 | 6 | 1 | 2 |
| 11 | FW | CRO | Saša Bjelanović | 30 | 8 | 26+2 | 7 | 2 | 1 |
| 15 | FW | LVA | Edgars Gauračs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | FW | ITA | Stefano Guberti | 32 | 1 | 22+9 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 20 | FW | ITA | Giampietro Perrulli | 46 | 2 | 27+19 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | FW | ITA | Marco Delvecchio | 15 | 2 | 10+5 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 84 | FW | CMR | Thomas Job-Iyock | 8 | 2 | 4+2 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 99 | FW | ITA | Andrea Soncin | 20 | 6 | 16+4 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Players transferred out during the season ||||||||||
| 2 | DF | ITA | Massimo Gotti | 28 | 3 | 22+1 | 2 | 4+1 | 1 |
| 3 | DF | SRB | Aleksandar Luković | 12 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | ITA | Marco Pecorari | 16 | 1 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | ITA | Mirko Cudini | 21 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | ITA | Daniele Galloppa | 18 | 0 | 13+5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | ALB | Ervin Skela | 12 | 0 | 7+5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | DF | ITA | Salvatore Bocchetti | 4 | 0 | 2+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 41 | MF | ITA | Fabio Pecchia | 12 | 0 | 6+3 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 |
* Source:

### Goalscorers

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Name | Serie A | Coppa Italia | Total |
| 11 | FW | | Saša Bjelanović | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| 9 | FW | | Michele Paolucci | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| 99 | FW | | Andrea Soncin | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 21 | MF | | Viktor Budyanskiy | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 20 | FW | | Giampietro Perrulli | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 25 | MW | | Massimo Bonanni | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 24 | FW | | Marco Delvecchio | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 14 | MF | | Luigi Di Biagio | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | FW | | Michele Fini | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 27 | MF | | Paolo Zanetti | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 17 | FW | | Stefano Guberti | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | DF | | Marco Pecorari | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 31 | DF | | Paolo Foglio | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 16 | MF | | Domenico Giampà | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| # | Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| TOTAL | TOTAL | TOTAL | TOTAL | 36 | 1 | 37 |
Last updated: 27 May 2007

### Clean sheets

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Name | Serie A | Coppa Italia | Total |
| 33 | GK | | Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 1 | GK | | Gianluca Pagliuca | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| TOTAL | TOTAL | TOTAL | TOTAL | 5 | 1 | 6 |
Last updated: 27 May 2007

### Disciplinary record

| No. | Pos | Nat | Name | Serie A | Serie A | Serie A | Coppa Italia | Coppa Italia | Coppa Italia | Total | Total | Total |
| 5 | DF | | Michelangelo Minieri | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | | Viktor Budyanskiy | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| 32 | DF | | Valentin Năstase | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | DF | | Paolo Foglio | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | DF | | Riccardo Corallo | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | | Michele Fini | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | MF | | Paolo Zanetti | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | | Gaetano Fontana | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | MF | | Simone Pesce | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | | Stefano Lombardi | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| 24 | FW | | Marco Delvecchio | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | FW | | Saša Bjelanović | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 79 | DF | | Matteo Melara | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | | Marco Pecorari | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | MF | | Massimo Bonanni | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | | Michele Paolucci | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | FW | | Giampietro Perrulli | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | GK | | Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | DF | | Gaetano Vastola | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | | Mirko Cudini | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 99 | FW | | Andrea Soncin | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | | Aleksandar Luković | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | | Luigi Di Biagio | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | GK | | Gianluca Pagliuca | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | | Daniele Galloppa | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | MF | | Domenico Giampà | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 84 | FW | | Thomas Job-Iyock | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | | Ervin Skela | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 117 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 119 | 5 | 3 |
Last updated:

## Sources

* RSSSF - Italy 2006/07