Carmine Gautieri (born 20 July 1970) is an Italian professional

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and a former player.

Playing career

Gautieri amassed a total of 227 games with 26 goals in

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, the top level of Italian football. An offensive midfielder, he also played for

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in the late 1990s under the tenure of manager

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Coaching career

Gautieri started his coaching career in the minor leagues with Potenza and Olbia. His breakthrough came with third division minnows Virtus Lanciano, which he joined in 2011–12 and immediately led to success in the

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promotion playoffs. After being confirmed as Virtus Lanciano's head coach for the club's historical first Serie B appearance, he managed his side to league safety despite being widely predicted as one of the likeliest sides for relegation. Gautieri left Virtus Lanciano at the end of the 2012–13 season and was appointed new

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head coach after that. This role was however quite short-lived, as he tended his resignation on 3 August 2013, citing personal reasons. In November 2013 he was appointed new head coach of another Serie B club,

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, in place of Stefano Sottili only to be dismissed himself later in March 2014 due to poor results. In July 2014, he was named the new head coach of newly-relegated Serie B club

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. He was removed from his managerial duties on 3 January 2015 and replacing with youth coach Ezio Gelain, with Livorno in sixth place. He then served as head coach of Serie B club

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from March to June 2016, succeeding in keeping the Lazio-based club in the second division. On 22 January 2017, Gautieri went back into management as new head coach of another relegation-battling Serie B club,

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. After Gautieri lost 6 matches in a row out of 7, he was fired only one and a half months later. On 14 October 2019, he joined

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club

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. He was sacked on 2 December 2020 due to a negative start in the

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season. On 17 February 2022, he signed for

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on a deal until the end of the season. After not being confirmed as head coach of Avellino, on 23 January 2023 he was appointed at the helm of Serie C club Sangiuliano City. He was however dismissed just three months later, on 23 April 2023, after failing to keep the team out of the relegation playoff zone. On 17 August 2024, Gautieri was appointed new head coach of Serie C club

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. Hired after

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's disengagement from the club due to financial cutbacks within the club and talks about an impending takeover, he was eventually dismissed himself on 13 November 2024, after having missed attending the last two games.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gautieri, Carmine 1970 births Living people Men's association football wingers Italian men's footballers Italian football managers Empoli FC players SS Turris Calcio players AC Cesena players SSC Bari players AC Perugia Calcio players AS Roma players Piacenza Calcio 1919 players Atalanta BC players SSC Napoli players Delfino Pescara 1936 players Sorrento Calcio 1945 players Potenza SC managers SSC Bari managers US Livorno 1915 managers Ternana Calcio managers US Triestina Calcio 1918 managers US Avellino 1912 managers Taranto FC 1927 managers Serie A players Serie B players Serie C players Serie B managers Serie C managers Footballers from Naples Latina Calcio 1932 managers