2019–20 Victoria Libertas Pesaro season

For the 2019-20 season, Pesaro entrusts the team to the young and promising coach Federico Perego, coming from a 5 years experience in the German Basketball Bundesliga as assistant coach of Brose Bamberg and head coach in the second half of his last year.

But the season has an horrible start with a streak of 10 consecutive losses that forces the team to replace Perego with Giancarlo Sacco.^[1] Sacco's nomination is a comeback as he started his coaching career with Pesaro in 1984 until 1987 and again as head coach in the 1998–99 season.

However, even with the new coach, Pesaro did not manage to interrupt the losing streak until the first match of the second half of the season against Fortitudo Bologna,^[2] after 16 consecutive losses.

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 to anyone.^[3] Pesaro ended the championship in the last 17th position with only one match won.

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The team composition is the same as the last game played on February 9^[4] before the interruption of the championship^[5] due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Before the official conclusion of the season, four players left the team. Clint Chapman first and Jaylen Barford, who moved to Virtus Roma, left in search for better opportunities, while Troy Williams and Zach Thomas were released after the pandemic to rejoin their families in the US.

Carpegna Prosciutto Basket Pesaro roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Wt. Age SG 0 Barford, Jaylen (*) 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 92 kg (203 lb) 28 – (1996-01-23)23 January 1996 G/F 3 Drell, Henri 2.04 m (6 ft 8 in) 85 kg (187 lb) 24 – (2000-04-25)25 April 2000 PG 4 Mussini, Federico 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 82 kg (181 lb) 28 – (1996-03-12)12 March 1996 SF 5 Williams, Troy (*) 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 95 kg (209 lb) 29 – (1994-12-30)30 December 1994 G 8 Pušica, Vasilije 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 95 kg (209 lb) 28 – (1995-09-12)12 September 1995 PG 9 Calbini, Lorenzo 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 74 kg (163 lb) 21 – (2002-12-20)20 December 2002 SG 11 Miaschi, Federico 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) 90 kg (198 lb) 24 – (2000-04-26)26 April 2000 SF 12 Eboua, Paul 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 97 kg (214 lb) 24 – (2000-02-15)15 February 2000 C 13 Chapman, Clint (*) 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) 111 kg (245 lb) 35 – (1989-03-06)6 March 1989 F 15 Alessandrini, Nicolas 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) 98 kg (216 lb) 23 – (2001-05-08)8 May 2001 F/C 20 Basso, Beniamino 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) 101 kg (223 lb) 23 – (2001-02-24)24 February 2001 PF 23 Thomas, Zach (C *) 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 103 kg (227 lb) 28 – (1996-06-21)21 June 1996 C 35 Totè, Leonardo 2.10 m (6 ft 11 in) 110 kg (243 lb) 26 – (1997-07-08)8 July 1997 PF 41 Zanotti, Simone 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) 91 kg (201 lb) 31 – (1992-12-31)31 December 1992	Head coach Giancarlo Sacco Assistant coach(es) Paolo Calbini Luca Pentucci Legend (C) Team captain (*) Left the team after the last match Injured Roster Updated: March 10, 2020

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	Moving from		Type	Ends	Transfer fee	Date	Source
11	SG		Federico Miaschi	19	Trapani		loan contract (from Venezia)	June 2020	Free	29 June 2019	[6]
4	PG		Federico Mussini	23	Reggio Emilia		1 year	June 2020	Free	5 July 2019	[7]
35	SF		Leonardo Totè	21	Aurora Jesi		1 year	June 2020	Free	6 July 2019	[8]
12	SF		Paul Eboua	19	Roseto Sharks		1 year	June 2020	Free	9 July 2019	[9]
0	PG		Jaylen Barford	23	Greensboro Swarm		1 year	June 2020	Free	12 July 2019	[10]
23	PF		Zach Thomas	23	Okapi Aalstar		2 years	June 2021	Free	17 July 2019	[11]
3	G/F		Henri Drell	19	Baunach Young Pikes		3 years	June 2022	Free	19 July 2019	[12]
8	G		Vasilije Pušica	23	Partizan Belgrade		1 year	June 2020	Free	3 August 2019	[13]
16	C		Tautvydas Lydeka	35	Derthona Basket		2 months	October 2019	Free	31 August 2019	[14]
13	C		Clint Chapman	30	Rasta Vechta		1 year	June 2020	Free	1 October 2019	[15]
5	SF		Troy Williams	24	Stockton Kings		1 year	June 2020	Free	12 December 2019	[16]

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	Moving to		Type	Transfer fee	Date	Source
1	SG		James Blackmon	24	Aquila Basket Trento		end of contract	Free	1 July 2019	[17]
2	PF		Erik McCree	25	BCM Gravelines-Dunkerque		end of contract	Free	1 July 2019	[18]
3	PG		Dominic Artis	25	Dąbrowa Górnicza		end of contract	Free	1 July 2019	[19]
7	G/F		Lamond Murray	24	Rethymno Cretan Kings		end of contract	Free	1 July 2019	[20]
9	PG		Mark Lyons	29	Hapoel Tel Aviv		end of contract	Free	1 July 2019	[21]
20	C		Andrea Ancellotti	31	Latina Basket		end of contract	Free	1 July 2019	[22]
32	PG		Diego Monaldi	26	Napoli Basket		end of contract	Free	1 July 2019	[23]
35	F/C		Aleksandr Šaškov	19	Olimpia Milano		return from loan	Free	1 July 2019	[24]
44	G/F		Dez Wells	27	San Miguel Beermen		end of contract	Free	1 July 2019	[25]
55	C		Egidijus Mockevičius	26	Fuenlabrada		end of contract	Free	1 July 2019	[26]
16	C		Tautvydas Lydeka	36	Sintek–Dzūkija		end of contract	Free	1 November 2019	[27]
13	C		Clint Chapman	30	free agent		mutual consent	Undisclosed	17 February 2020	[28]
0	PG		Jaylen Barford	24	Virtus Roma		mutual consent	Undisclosed	19 February 2020	[29][30]
5	SF		Troy Williams	24	free agent		mutual consent	Undisclosed	9 March 2020	[31]
23	PF		Zach Thomas	23	free agent		mutual consent	Undisclosed	10 March 2020	[32]

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	Moving from		Type	Ends	Transfer fee	Date	Source
41	C		Simone Zanotti	31	San Crispino Basket P.S. Elpidio		1 + 1 year	June 2020	Free	11 July 2018	[33][34]

Nat.	Name	Age.	Previous team		Type	Ends	Date	Replaces		Date	Type
	Giancarlo Sacco	62	Legnano Basket Knights		1 year	2020	5 December 2019[1]		Federico Perego	5 December 2019[1]	sacked
	Federico Perego	34	Brose Bamberg		2 years	2021	14 June 2019[35]		Matteo Boniciolli	14 May 2019[36]	resigned

The following deal never activated and the player's contract was withdrawn before the beginning of the season.

Signing date	Withdrawal date	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	Moving from		Moved to		Type
5 August 2019[37]	22 August 2019[38]	F/C		DeJuan Blair	30		Austin Spurs	1 year	free agent