Can Cremonese’s Jamie Vardy rewrite another piece of history?

After rewriting history in Italy, can Jamie Vardy help Cremonese achieve something the club have never yet been able to do across their 128-year tenure?

An English player had never been awarded the Serie A Player of the Month award prior to last month, but step up, Vardy, to re-open those record books.

Jamie Vardy is already setting new trends on Italian Soil

Despite finding the back of the net only once in November, coming in the 2-1 home defeat to Juventus, the Leicester icon did enough to prevail. Remarkably, Cremonese lost all three of their matches last month, which just showcases how ineffectual and impressive Vardy was.

The award, introduced in 2019, is decided by fans’ votes and statistical information to back that up, so Vardy is clearly doing something right both on paper and on the pitch.

The veteran striker’s next job will be to try to fire the goals into the back of the net to help Cremonese qualify for Europe for the first time in the club’s 122-year history.

Having never played outside of England before relocating to Italy after leaving Leicester City, Vardy has expertly acclimatised to his new surroundings.

Stocksbridge, Halifax Town, Fleetwood and Leicester are clubs that appear on Vardy’s footballing CV, and the striker has always found a kindred spirit in Serie A side Cremonese in such a short time-span.

As the saying goes, form is temporary, but class is permanent. Vardy was sadly unable to save Leicester from relegation to the Championship last season, despite returning 13 attacking contributions (G9, A4), but has already shown his long-term class in Italy.

Cremonese will not be bullied despite being newly-promoted

Four goals in 10 appearances have helped fire his newly-promoted employers into ninth position in the Serie A standings, only four points adrift of the final European qualification berth. Como, a side Cremonese drew 1-1 with earlier this season, currently occupies the only passage from Serie A to the Conference League.

That was an impressive result, but take a look at La Cremo’s 3-1 win at high-flying fifth-placed Bologna at the start of December. Bologna aren’t the only side; Davide Nicola’s men have shocked this season.

Italian heavyweights AC Milan have also been put to the footballing sword by Cremonese, no less in their own backyard, as goals from Federico Baschirotto and Federico Bonazzoli shocked the San Siro in August.

A 1-1 draw against one of Serie A’s 2025/26 Champions League phase representatives, Atalanta, is the kind of form that puts a side firmly in the mix to qualify for European football. Speaking of our main subject matter, Vardy, he found the back of the net against Atalanta.

Cremonese were relegated on their previous venture into the top flight in 2022/23 when they finished in 19th position, but things seem very different this time around.

Vardy and Bonazzoli are firing on all cylinders

Vardy has struck up a formidable forward partnership with Federico Bonazzoli, who, in his own right, is Cremonese’s top scorer this season with five goals. Some of the defences to be included in the list of those having been tormented by Bonazzoli and Vardy include AC Milan, Bologna and Sassuolo.

Putting that into perspective, AC are currently top of the Serie A standings, Bologna are in the Europa League qualification position, and Sassuolo are above Cremonese in eighth.

Taking the spotlight off Bonazzoli for a second, what makes Vardy’s contributions all the more impressive is that his four goals have come from only 10 shots in 2025/26.

Cremonese only managed to find the back of the net 36 times in 2022/23, but Vardy and Bonazzoli have helped Nicola’s side to net 18 goals across 14 matches.

So, considering that scoring record over 38 matches, the newly-promoted outfit will surpass that tally, which ended in relegation.

A tricky trip to Torino faces Cremonese on Sunday

Cremonese will travel to the Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino on Saturday to face relegation-threatened Torino. A win could potentially take them to within one point of the European qualification positions, currently held onto by Como.

However, there is a notable statistic worth looking at. Cremonese haven’t won any of their previous six head-to-head encounters (D1, L5), dating back to before the turn of the century. Nevertheless, Cremonese will potentially take inspiration from Vardy’s November Serie A Player of the Month award to believe records are there to be broken.