 In July 2014 he accepted an offer to become new head coach of his former club Foggia in the Lega Pro league, with whom he won a Coppa Italia Lega Pro in 2016 and narrowly missed promotion after a 5–3 aggregate loss to Pisa in the playoff finals.He was successively confirmed, after allegedly turning down an offer from Serie A's F.C.Crotone during the summer, only to be removed as a manager in August 2016 due to disagreements with the board regarding the transfer strategy of the club.