# 2019–20 Fortitudo Bologna season

The 2019–20 season is Fortitudo Bologna's 88th in existence (6th after the re-foundation) and the new club's 1st season in the Lega Basket Serie A after the promotion in the top flight of Italian basketball.

## Overview

The promotion of Fortitudo Bologna to the highest Italian Competition is an important return as Fortitudo Bologna has been one of the most important teams in the Italian Basketball history.
After the demotion to the Legadue and immediately to the Serie A dilettanti in 2009, the team saw the bankruptcy in 2012. In 2013 the, Bologna, was re-established under the name of Fortitudo Pallacanestro Bologna 103 and slowly moved its way up to the today's Serie A after 10 years.
The promotion was achieved by winning the 2018–19 Serie A2 Basket.
The 2019-20 season was hit by the coronavirus pandemic that compelled the federation to suspend and later cancel the competition without assigning the title of winner to anyone. Fortitudo Bologna ended the championship in 8th position.

## Kit

Sponsor: Pompea
| Home | Away |

## Players

The team composition is the same as the last game played on February 9 before the interruption of the championship due to the coronavirus pandemic. Kassius Robertson was released before the official interruption of the season due to an injury procured during the FIBA AmeriCup qualification window with the Canadian national team. Jerome Dyson was hired from Virtus Roma to replace Kassius Robertson, but he never played any games.

### Current roster

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.

### Depth chart

| Pos. | Starting 5 | Bench |
| C | Henry Sims | Ed Daniel |
| PF | Maarty Leunen | Stefano Mancinelli |
| SF | Pietro Aradori | Nicolò Dellosto |
| SG | Jerome Dyson | Daniele Cinciarini |
| PG | Matteo Fantinelli | Rok Stipčević |
5+5 format (colours: Italian or homegrown players; foreign players; young players)

### Squad changes
#### In

| No. | Pos. | Name | Age | Moving from | Type | Ends | Transfer fee | Date |
| 24 | PG | Rok Stipčević | 33 | Rytas Vilnius | 1 year | June 2020 | Free | 10 June 2019 |
| 22 | F/C | Ed Daniel | 29 | Peristeri | 1 year | June 2020 | Free | 4 July 2019 |
| 3 | G/F | Kassius Robertson | 25 | Medi Bayreuth | 1 year | June 2020 | Free | 16 July 2019 |
| 14 | C | Henry Sims | 29 | Virtus Roma | 1 year | June 2020 | Free | 6 August 2019 |
| 9 | F | Nicolò Dellosto | 19 | Reggio Emilia | N/A | N/A | Youth system | 6 August 2019 |
| 4 | G/F | Pietro Aradori | 30 | Virtus Bologna | 4 years | June 2023 | Free | 12 August 2019 |
| 23 | F | Deshawn Stephens | 29 | Hapoel Tel Aviv | 2 months | November 2019 | Free | 18 September 2019 |
| 11 | G | Jerome Dyson | 32 | Virtus Roma | end of the season | June 2020 | Undisclosed | 26 February 2020 |

#### Out

| No. | Pos. | Name | Age | Moving to | Moving to | Type | Transfer fee | Date |
| 0 | SF | Carlos Delfino | 36 | free agent | free agent | end of contract | Free | 1 July 2019 |
| 4 | G/F | Giacomo Sgorbati | 21 | Aurora Basket Jesi | | end of contract | Free | 1 July 2019 |
| 8 | C | Matteo Franco | 36 | retired | retired | end of contract | Free | 1 July 2019 |
| 9 | SF | Andrea Benevelli | 33 | Urania Milano | | end of contract | Free | 1 July 2019 |
| 16 | PG | Marco Venuto | 33 | Ravenna | | end of contract | Free | 1 July 2019 |
| 20 | SG | Guido Rosselli | 36 | Scaligera Verona | | end of contract | Free | 1 July 2019 |
| 22 | PG | Giovanni Pini | 26 | Virtus Roma | | end of contract | Free | 1 July 2019 |
| 41 | G | Kenny Hasbrouck | 32 | Scaligera Verona | | end of contract | Free | 1 July 2019 |
| 23 | F | Deshawn Stephens | 30 | Scafati Basket | | end of contract | Free | 31 October 2019 |
| 3 | G/F | Kassius Robertson | 25 | free agent | free agent | mutual consent | Free | 3 March 2020 |

#### Confirmed

| No. | Pos. | Name | Age | Moving from | Type | Ends | Transfer fee | Date |
| 6 | PF | Stefano Mancinelli | 41 | Auxilium Torino | 4 years | June 2021 | Free | 6 July 2016 |
| 5 | SG | Daniele Cinciarini | 41 | JuveCaserta | 2 + 1 years | June 2020 | 40,000€ | 25 April 2017 |
| 21 | PG | Matteo Fantinelli | 30 | Universo Treviso Basket | 1 + 2 | June 2021 | Free | 20 June 2018 |
| 10 | F/C | Maarty Leunen | 39 | Scandone Avellino | 1 + 2 | June 2021 | Free | 30 July 2018 |

#### Coach

| Nat. | Name | Age. | Last team | Last team | Type | Ends | Date | Source |
| | Antimo Martino | 41 | Basket Ravenna | | 2 | 2020 | 12 June 2018 | |

## Competitions
### Serie A

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Qualification or relegation |
| 6 | Vanoli Cremona | 20 | 12 | 8 | 1627 | 1617 | +10 | |
| 7 | Umana Reyer Venezia | 21 | 11 | 10 | 1638 | 1582 | +56 | Qualification for EuroCup |
| 8 | Pompea Fortitudo Bologna | 21 | 11 | 10 | 1624 | 1670 | −46 | Qualification for Champions League |
| 9 | Dolomiti Energia Trento | 21 | 11 | 10 | 1635 | 1665 | −30 | Qualification for EuroCup |
| 10 | Openjobmetis Varese | 19 | 9 | 10 | 1570 | 1522 | +48 | |

### Italian Cup

Bologna qualified to the 2020 Italian Basketball Cup having ended the first half of the season in 6th place. They lost the semifinal against New Basket Brindisi.