| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 3 February 2006 | ||
| Position(s) | Right-back | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Sassuolo U20 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2020 | San Marino Academy | ||
| 2020–2023 | Sassuolo | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2023– | Sassuolo U20 | 23 | (1) |
| 2023–2024 | → Victor San Marino (loan) | 19 | (1) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2022 | San Marino U16 | 2 | (0) |
| 2021–2022 | San Marino U17 | 6 | (0) |
| 2024– | San Marino U21 | 2 | (0) |
| 2024– | San Marino | 9 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 30 May 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 11 June 2025 | |||
Giacomo Benvenuti (born 3 February 2006) is a Sammarinese football player who plays as a right-back for the Under-20 squad of Italian club Sassuolo and the San Marino national team.
A youth product of San Marino Academy, Benvenuti plays primarily as a right-back. He moved to the youth academy of Sassuolo in 2020. He joined Victor San Marino on loan for the 2023–24 season in the Serie D, where he was the youngest player in the tournament alongside his twin brother, and helped the club to a surprising third place league finish as a newly promoted team. [1] [2] On 21 June 2024, he signed a professional two-year contract with Sassuolo. [3] [2]
He played for the San Marino national under-21 football team in June 2024 as they recorded their first match win for over ten years. [2]
Benvenuti made his debut for the senior San Marino national team on 5 September 2024, starting the match in a Nations League game against Liechtenstein at the San Marino Stadium. He played the whole 90 minutes of the game as it ended in 1–0 San Marino victory, which was their first ever competitive victory, and their second-ever victory overall (the first victory came 20 years earlier in a friendly against Liechtenstein) and assisted the game-winning goal scored by Nicko Sensoli. Neither player had yet even been born on the occasion of San Marino's one previous match victory 20 years previously. [4]
Benvenuti is the son of the Italian former 800 metres runner Andrea Benvenuti who moved to San Marino at the end of his sporting career, and his wife Elena Vagnini, also a former runner. At 12 years-of-age, Giacomo ran the 1000 meters in 3.01 minutes. [5] Giacomo is the twin brother footballer of Tommaso Benvenuti. [3]