Fabio Lucioni (born 25 September 1987) is an Italian

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who plays as a defender for

Serie B The Serie B (), currently named Serie Balkrishna Industries, BKT for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It has been operating for over ninety years since the 1929–30 ...

club

Frosinone Frosinone (, local dialect: ) is a town and ''comune'' in Lazio, central Italy, the administrative seat of the province of Frosinone. It is located about south-east of Rome close to the Rome-Naples A1 Motorway. The city is the main city of the Va ...

on loan from

Lecce Lecce ( ); el, label=Griko, Luppìu, script=Latn; la, Lupiae; grc, Λουπίαι, translit=Loupíai), group=pron is a historic city of 95,766 inhabitants (2015) in southern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Lecce, the province ...

Career

Ternana, loans and Gela

Born in

Terni Terni ( , ; lat, Interamna (Nahars)) is a city in the southern portion of the region of Umbria in central Italy. It is near the border with Lazio. The city is the capital of the province of Terni, located in the plain of the Nera river. It is ...

, Umbria, Lucioni started his career at hometown club

Ternana Ternana Calcio, commonly referred to as Ternana, is an Italian football club based in Terni, Umbria. The club was founded in 1925 and refounded in 1993. In its history, Ternana has twice played in Serie A (in the 1972–73 and 1974–75 seas ...

. In January 2008, he was loaned to

Lega Pro Seconda Divisione Lega Pro Seconda Divisione was the fourth highest football league in Italy, the lowest with a professional status. Usually it consisted of 36 teams, but in the 2011–12 season, there were 41 teams divided geographically into two divisions of 2 ...

(Serie C2) clubs, namely

Monopoli Monopoli (; Monopolitano: ) is a town and municipality in Italy, in the Metropolitan City of Bari and region of Apulia. The town is roughly in area and lies on the Adriatic Sea about southeast of Bari. It has a population of 49,246 ...

and

Noicattaro Noicattaro (, Barese: ; known as Noja until 1862) is a town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Bari and region of Apulia, southern Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a count ...

. After 6 months at Ternana without a league appearance, he left for

Gela Gela (Sicilian and ; grc, Γέλα) is a city and (municipality) in the Autonomous Region of Sicily, Italy; in terms of area and population, it is the largest municipality on the southern coast of Sicily. Gela is part of the Province of Cal ...

along with Salvatore Ricca in January 2010. Gela signed Lucioni outright and Ricca on a temporary deal. Lucioni made 15 appearances for Gela.

Siena, Barletta and loans

In July 2010, he was signed by

team

Siena Siena ( , ; lat, Sena Iulia) is a city in Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the province of Siena. The city is historically linked to commercial and banking activities, having been a major banking center until the 13th and 14th centuri ...

for €25,000AC Siena SpA Report and Accounts on 30 June 2011 and farmed to third division club

Barletta Barletta () is a city, ''comune'' of Apulia, in south eastern Italy. Barletta is the capoluogo, together with Andria and Trani, of the Province of Barletta-Andria-Trani. It has a population of around 94,700 citizens. The city's territory belong ...

in a co-ownership deal, for a peppercorn fee of €500. On 23 June 2011, Siena bought back Lucioni also for €500. However, as Siena was promoted back to Serie A, Lucioni failed to enter first team. On 22 July 2011, Lucioni joined another third division club

Spezia Calcio Spezia Calcio is a professional Association football, football club based in La Spezia, Liguria, Italy. Spezia Calcio was founded in 1906 by the Swiss banker Hermann Hurni (or Hurny in some documents), who played for the early Crystal Palace am ...

on a temporary deal. He won the

Supercoppa di Lega di Prima Divisione The Supercoppa di Serie C, formerly named Supercoppa di Lega Pro, is an Italian football competition played by the three group winners of Serie C, inaugurated in 2000. Forerunners The FIGC introduced a third-level national football championship f ...

against his former club Ternana as well as promotion to Serie B. On 5 July 2012, he was named in the 28-man pre-season squad for Siena. However, on 20 July he left the Serie A club altogether.

Reggina

On 20 July 2012,

Reggina Calcio Reggina 1914 S.r.l., commonly referred to as Reggina, is an Italian football club based in Reggio Calabria. Founded in 1914, they currently play in Serie B, and play their home matches at the 27,763 seater Stadio Oreste Granillo. They are ni ...

signed Lucioni to a new co-ownership deal, for a peppercorn of €250. He wore the no. 6 shirt, which was vacated by Antonio Giosa. He played 11 times in his second Serie B season. In June 2013, Siena gave up their chance to buy back the other 50% of Lucioni's registration rights from Reggina. The next season he swapped his previous no. 6 for the number 5 jersey, which had been vacated by

Gianluca Freddi Gianluca Freddi (born 29 March 1989) is an Italian footballer playing as a defender for Robur Siena. Biography A product of the A.S. Roma youth academy, Freddi usually plays as defender. Freddi made his debut against U.C. Sampdoria as a start ...

Benevento

Lucioni joined

Benevento Benevento (, , ; la, Beneventum) is a city and ''comune'' of Campania, Italy, capital of the province of Benevento, northeast of Naples. It is situated on a hill above sea level at the confluence of the Calore Irpino (or Beneventano) and the ...

in 2014. After collecting 36 appearances in the 2014–15 Serie C season, he became the team captain in 2015–16, when he gained promotion to

for the first time in the club's history. He captained his team to another historic promotion, this time to

Serie A The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Coppa ...

, in 2016–17, netting 3 goals in the process. He was alleged to have failed a

doping test A drug test is a technical analysis of a biological specimen, for example urine, hair, blood, breath, sweat, or oral fluid/saliva—to determine the presence or absence of specified parent drugs or their metabolites. Major applications of drug ...

in September 2017, shortly after Benevento's 1–0 Serie A defeat to

Torino Turin ( , Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. T ...

; with the defender having tested positive for a banned substance. An

Anabolic steroid Anabolic steroids, also known more properly as anabolic–androgenic steroids (AAS), are steroidal androgens that include natural androgens like testosterone (medication), testosterone as well as synthetic androgens that are structurally related ...

, known as

Clostebol Clostebol (; also known as 4-chlorotestosterone) usually as the ester clostebol acetate, is a synthetic anabolic–androgenic steroid (AAS). Clostebol is the 4- chloro derivative of the natural hormone testosterone. The chlorination prevents c ...

was detected in the sample Lucioni provided. Following this, in January 2018 the Benevento captain was suspended by NADO (Italy's National Anti-Doping Organization). Finally, he was disqualified for one year from the sport.

Lecce

On 20 July 2018 he joined

on a permanent basis. In August 2018 the doping ban was reduced and Lucioni could return to the pitch, making his debut with his new team on 27 August at

Stadio Ciro Vigorito Stadio Ciro Vigorito (formerly Stadio Santa Colomba) is a multi-use stadium in Benevento, Italy. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Benevento Calcio Benevento Calcio, commonly referred to as Benevento, ...

, facing his former team

. At the beginning of the 2021-22 season, he assumed the captaincy after

Marco Mancosu Marco Mancosu (born 22 August 1988) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Cagliari. Club career Cagliari Born in Cagliari, Sardinia, Mancosu started his career with hometown club Cagliari Calcio and made his f ...

left the club.

Loan to Frosinone

On 25 June 2022, Lucioni moved on loan to

Honours

;Spezia *

: 2012 *

Lega Pro Prima Divisione Lega Pro Prima Divisione was the third highest football league in Italy. It consisted of 33 teams, divided geographically into two divisions of 16 and 17 teams for group A and B respectively. Until 2008 it was known as Serie C1. Before the 1978� ...

: 2012 *

Coppa Italia Lega Pro Coppa Italia Serie C ( it, Serie C Italian Cup), formerly named Coppa Italia Lega Pro, is a straight knock-out based competition involving teams from Serie C in Italian football first held in 1972. Format There are a total of six rounds in the c ...

: 2012

References

External links

Football.it Profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lucioni, Fabio 1987 births Living people Italian footballers Ternana Calcio players A.S. Noicattaro Calcio players S.S.D. Città di Gela players A.C.N. Siena 1904 players A.S.D. Barletta 1922 players U.S. Lecce players Spezia Calcio players Reggina 1914 players Benevento Calcio players Frosinone Calcio players Serie A players Serie B players Serie C players Association football central defenders People from Terni Footballers from Umbria Doping cases in association football Italian sportspeople in doping cases Sportspeople from the Province of Terni