On 22 August Venezia announced the renewal of Filip Stanković until 30 June 2030. Three days earlier, on 19 August, they had confirmed the permanent signing of Lorenzo Montipò from Hellas Verona, with a contract until 2028. Two statements close together which, read side by side, say one thing about the goal of a newly promoted side.
The two goalkeepers
| Item | Filip Stanković | Lorenzo Montipò |
|---|---|---|
| Born in | 2002 | 1996 |
| At Venezia since | 2024 (on loan), then permanently | 19 August 2026 |
| Contract | until 30 June 2030 | until 30 June 2028 |
| Appearances at previous club | 37 in Serie B with Sampdoria | 179 across five seasons with Verona |
| National team | Serbia | no senior caps |
Stanković is twenty-four, stands 1.87 metres and came through the Inter academy without ever playing for the first team. His path is made of useful loans: two seasons at Volendam, in the Netherlands, with a promotion to the Eredivisie, a year at Sampdoria in Serie B as a regular starter, then Venezia. Montipò is thirty and arrives after five seasons in Verona.
Why the renewal comes now
The sequence matters. A club that signs a thirty-year-old goalkeeper permanently and three days later extends the twenty-four-year-old until 2030 is not choosing between the two: it is stating that it wants both, on different horizons.
Montipò’s contract runs to 2028, Stanković’s to 2030. The two dates describe two functions: immediate cover and a long investment. It is the way a promoted club tries not to pay twice for the same mistake, that of handing the new division to someone who has never played it as a starter and then finding no alternative in November.
What really changes between Serie B and Serie A
The goalkeeper’s trade changes in three places when you go up a division, and none of the three is about the spectacular save.
Volume. A team that controls games in Serie B concedes few shots and concedes them from distance. The same team in Serie A defends for longer, and the goalkeeper goes from three interventions a game to six or seven. It is not only fatigue: it is mental rhythm, because concentration has to be kept alive through phases where nothing happens for twenty minutes.
Shot quality. In Serie B a good share of the attempts arrive from outside the box or from wide positions. In Serie A the proportion of shots from inside the area and from worked situations grows, and the goalkeeper does not see the ball leave the foot because there is a body in front of him.
Distance from the line. A team that defends deep leaves the goalkeeper a lot of ground behind to cover when he comes out, but long windows to read the play. A team that defends high asks him to be an extra defender outside the box, with decisions taken in half a second. Giovanni Stroppa’s Venezia come from a Serie B won in first place and will have to choose which of the two sides to be in Serie A: that choice lands on the goalkeeper before it lands on anyone else.
The value of the promotion numbers
Thirty-eight appearances in thirty-eight league rounds in the promotion season says something precise: no rotation, no long injury, no moment when the coach changed his mind. For a goalkeeper who began that season at twenty-three, in a competition of forty-two matches in all, that is the kind of continuity worth more than any statistic.
The club’s own count reports fifty-five official appearances in the orange, black and green shirt and sixteen games closed without conceding. Roughly one clean sheet every three and a half matches, with a team that in between went through a relegation and a promotion.
What this choice says
Goalkeeper is the role where the hierarchy shows least and weighs most. In every other position a starter who loses his place still plays in spells; in goal it is all or nothing, and a wrong choice stands for months because changing it costs credibility.
Venezia have built theirs explicitly: a designated starter from the previous season tied to the club for four years, and an experienced goalkeeper ready to step in without the move looking like a demotion. It is a structure that holds if the coach communicates it well, and breaks by the third poor game if he does not.
What is left to find out
The open question concerns the first months. Stanković played sixteen Serie A matches in 2024-25, when Venezia went down: he knows what is coming, but his experience of the division is that of a team which lost.
The real jump is not technical, it is about expectation. Defending a goal in a league where your side starts out fighting to stay up means every mistake becomes a dropped point and every save is worth double. The contract until 2030 says the club is willing to wait for that jump to happen.
Data and information collected from public sources: official club statements, Wikipedia, statistical archives and sports press.
Frequently asked questions
How long is Filip Stanković tied to Venezia?
Until 30 June 2030. The club announced it on 22 August 2026.
How many games has Stanković played for Venezia?
Fifty-five official appearances and sixteen clean sheets according to the count published by the club, since his arrival in 2024-25. In the promotion season he played all thirty-eight Serie B rounds.
Who is Venezia's other goalkeeper?
Lorenzo Montipò, born in 1996, signed permanently from Hellas Verona on 19 August 2026 with a contract until 30 June 2028. At Verona he made 179 appearances across five seasons.
What changes for a goalkeeper between Serie B and Serie A?
The volume of shots faced, their quality and the distance at which the defensive line works. In Serie A a promoted side's goalkeeper makes more saves, in harder situations, and has less time on the ball.
Who coaches Venezia in Serie A?
Giovanni Stroppa, who led the side to promotion by winning the 2025-26 Serie B and has extended his deal until 2029.
