Francesco Monaco (born 6 May 1960) is an Italian association football manager and a former player who played as a midfielder.
Monaco has been a former player in the lower ranks of Italian professional football of Squinzano, Sampdoria, Novara, Teramo, Lucchese, Lanciano and Forlì.
[1][2] His successive coaching experience was at the helm of Potenza on Prima Divisione, where he replaced Ezio Capuano for a bare month (from September to October 2009).
[3] In summer 2011 he was appointed new head coach of Lega Pro Prima Divisione club Piacenza until the end of the season.
On 16 June 2014, he was renamed new coach of Piacenza in Serie D. In January 2018, he was hired by ASD Fabriano Cerret.