# Ferdinando Coppola

Ferdinando Coppola (born 10 June 1978) is a former Italian professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

## Career
### Early career

Coppola's career began at native club Napoli, he was used as a backup goalkeeper for Giuseppe Taglialatela, Luca Mondini and Alessio Bandieri. In June 2000, he joined Roma as backup to Francesco Antonioli.

### Ascoli

He transferred to Serie B team Ascoli in the summer of 2003, making one appearance before being sent to Serie A team Reggina on loan, playing further two games.
He returned to Ascoli in 2004, and made 28 appearances, plus two more in play-offs, helping Ascoli achieve promotion back to Serie A. During the 2005–06 season, Coppola played all of the 38 Serie A fixtures, and saw Ascoli finish twelfth place in the table.

### Milan and Piacenza

Coppola was signed by A.C. Milan in June 2006, for €200,000, as a replacement for their third choice goalkeeper Valerio Fiori, who was set to retire from professional football. Coppola was to compete with Željko Kalac for this position.
He played a few friendly matches with A.C. Milan, but was sent back to Serie B, to play for Piacenza, because Fiori delayed his retirement.

### Atalanta

In the summer of 2007, he was loaned to Atalanta in Serie A.
In June 2008, Atalanta bought half of the rights from Milan for €750,000.

### Siena

After Atalanta were relegated, Milan bought him back for €200,000 and loaned him to Siena. Two days later Siena sold Gianluca Curci to Sampdoria.

### Torino

On 30 June 2011, Torino announced the signing of Coppola on a temporary basis from Milan. Before the start of the 2012–13, Coppola was sentenced to a six-month ban, later reduced to four months on appeal, for his involvement in the 2011–12 Italian football scandal. After serving the ban, during the January transfer window he re-joined Torino, this time on a permanent deal.

### Back in Milan

On 19 August 2013, he was re-signed by Milan.

### Bologna

On 8 July 2014, Coppola moved to Bologna.

## Career statistics

    As of 30 August 2012 (UTC)
| Club | Season | League | League | Cup | Cup | League Cup | League Cup | Europe | Europe | Total | Total |
| Club | Season | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Napoli | 1996–97 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Napoli | 1997–98 | 1 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Napoli | 1998–99 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Napoli | 1999–00 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0 |
| Napoli | 2000–01 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Napoli | Total | 22 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 0 |
| Bologna (loan) | 2000–01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bologna (loan) | 2001–02 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Bologna (loan) | 2002–03 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Bologna (loan) | Total | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| Ascoli | 2003–04 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Ascoli | 2004–05 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 0 |
| Ascoli | 2005–06 | 38 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 0 |
| Ascoli | Total | 69 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 72 | 0 |
| Reggina (loan) | 2003–04 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Reggina (loan) | Total | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Piacenza (loan) | 2006–07 | 42 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 0 |
| Piacenza (loan) | Total | 42 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 0 |
| Atalanta | 2007–08 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 0 |
| Atalanta | 2008–09 | 22 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 0 |
| Atalanta | 2009–10 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| Atalanta | Total | 68 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 70 | 2 |
| Siena (loan) | 2010–11 | 40 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 0 |
| Siena (loan) | Total | 40 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 0 |
| Torino (loan) | 2011–12 | 22 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 0 |
| Torino (loan) | Total | 22 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 0 |
| Milan | 2012–13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Milan | Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Career total | Career total | 263 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 284 | 0 |