SC Siracusa

Sports Club Siracusa is an Italian football club based in Syracuse. The club was founded in 1924 and plays its home matches at the Stadio Nicola De Simone, which seats 4,500 spectators. U.S. Siracusa has played seven years in Serie B and is currently found in the Excellenza Sicilia, the sixth- highest division in Italy.

History

The club Unione Sportiva Siracusa was founded in 1924, fourth largest in Syracuse, Palermo, Catania and Messina city Sicily. The first few years, the club spent primarily in the Prima Divisione Sud, the highest regional league in southern Italy. In the season 1937/38 they won the championship of Sicily by a 2-2 - and 3-1 victory in the final against Palermo and thus qualified for the series C, Italy's third football league. Here played the U.S. Siracusa at once very well with and occupied as early as the first non- league season in second place in Group H, eight points behind Catania Calcio, the promotion to Serie B after playoff games. In the following four years was three times second behind Syracuse Taranto Calcio, Palermo or Catania. 1940/41, it even reached the first place in Group H of the Series C and participated in the playoffs for promotion to Serie B in part, subject to this, however, only slightly compared to the AC Prato and Pro Patria Calcio.

After the Second World War, caused by the forced break for football in Italy collapsed in the 1940s and 1950s to the most successful phase in the history of U.S. Siracusa. In the qualification phase 1945/46, Syracuse was able to achieve promotion to the Serie B 1946/47, and played in the first season called second-rate. With space twelve relegation was secured only by a projection of a point before the first relegated Alba Roma. The following season to date is the most successful in the history of U.S. Siracusa. In Girone C Serie B team finished fifth and missed the jump in the Serie A only six points for the U.S. Palermo. It was allowed to renowned clubs such as AC Anconitana, Ternana Calcio and AC Perugia behind. A second time Syracuse was fifth in the season 1950/51, only behind SPAL, the AC Legnano, which rose both, and the Modena FC and U.S. Livorno. Two years later were these great years of club history and past but the U.S. Siracusa rose after five years of second-class by a Seventeenth and last place just before the FC Lucca again in the C series from.

To date, the promotion back to Serie B was not successful. After fifteen years in the C series of the club in 1968 fell even in the series D, then the fourth league. After a brief upturn of the late seventies by winning the cup competition of the series C in 1979 and a few years in Serie C1, the U.S. Siracusa rose to 1995 even in Excellenza, the second highest Italian amateur league from. Then, the association founded new and was until 2002 in this regional league active before again made ​​the jump into the D series. In five of the next six years Siracusa failed when undertaking promotion to Serie C2 only in the playoffs. 2008/ 09 it was finally the first Girone I and rose to directly. In the first year in the Lega Pro Seconda Divisione, the former Serie C2, the U.S. Siracusa of the walkover succeeded to the Lega Pro Prima Divisione, they rose together with the SS Juve Stabia, Atletico Roma, SS Barletta Calcio and Gela Calcio in the third league. There you managed 2010/11 in the league in ninth place with confidence.

After the U.S. Siracusa had to climb only missed in the 2011/12 season in Serie B in the Promotion Playoffs - the team was defeated in the semi-finals of the SS Virtus Lanciano - the club was eliminated in July 2012 for financial reasons from all professional leagues. Under the name ' Associazione Sportiva Città di Siracusa Dilettantistica the team participated in the 2012/13 season at the Terza Categoria, the lowest league level in Italy, in part, securing the end of season promotion to the Seconda Categoria neuntklassige. As in June 2013 Siracusa sporting title of the AC Palazzolo 1954 - which was relegated to the sechstklassige Excellenza Sicilia - have been transferred, the club continued under the name Sport Club Siracusa continue the operation of gambling in the sixth-highest league level.

Achievements

  • Coppa Italia Serie C: 1x (1979 )
  • Excellenza Sicily: 1x (1997/ 98)
  • Scudetto Juniores Nazionali: 2x (2006/ 07, 2007/ 08)

Known player

  • Italy David Balleri, more than 300 times Serie A players for Sampdoria Genoa, Leghorn, etc., from 1990 to 1992 at the club
  • Italy Leonardo Colucci, active, among other things for Hellas Verona and Bologna, currently at FC Modena, began his career in Syracuse
  • Italy Luciano Favero, for example, in U.S. Avellino and Juventus active, even three years at Syracuse under contract
  • Italy Marco Giampaolo, coaches, inter alia, at AC Siena and AC Cesena at the moment, as a player in the U.S. Siracusa
  • Italy Pasquale Marino, now a successful trainer, among other things at Catania Calcio and Udinese, as a player for three years in Syracuse
  • Italy Claudio Ranieri, now a coach, most recently at AS Roma, among others previously already in Chelsea, Valencia and Juventus, as Active in the U.S. Siracusa

Known coach

  • Italy Mario Perazzolo as Active World Champion in 1938, the end of the player career and a year as a coach at the U.S. Siracusa
  • Argentina Bruno Pesaola, active both as a player and as a coach, inter alia, when SSC Napoli, 1980-1981 Coach of Syracuse
  • Italy Lido Vieri, 1970 as a player Vice World Champion, 1981-1982 Coach in Syracuse, more trainers stadiums, among others Torino Calcio Juve Stabia
  • Czech Republic Čestmír Vycpálek, uncle of Zdeněk Zeman and acting in Palermo, Parma and Juventus, 1960-1961 Coach of U.S. Siracusa
Eccellenza Calcio Catania Taranto FC 1927 Aurora Pro Patria 1919 History of A.C. Ancona S.P.A.L. 2013 A.S.D. Legnano Calcio 1913 Modena F.C. Serie D S.S. Virtus Lanciano 1924
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