A.S. Lucchese Libertas 1905

The AS Lucchese Libertas is an Italian football club based in Lucca, a city of the Tuscany region. The club colors are red and black. As the stadium club serves the Stadio Porta Elisa, Lucca, it can accommodate 7400 spectators.

History

The club was founded in 1905 as Lucca Football Club and took in the first years after the founding of the Prima Categoria Tuscany part. In the 1920s the club in the Seconda Divisione and Prima Divisione North was active in 1930, the team was the winner of the Prima Divisione Girone A first qualify for the B series. 1924 took the club with the Unione Sportiva Lucchese Libertas renamed the first name change. After a year in Serie B the team a league level fell after the missed relegation back and entered followed by three years in a row back in the Prima Divisione on. By winning the Girone C in the season 1933/34, the Tuscan team created the promotion for the second highest Italian league and got two years later after winning the Serie B championship for the first time in the club's history in the Serie A on. The season 1936/37, was tied closed with Ambrosiana Inter in seventh place, this meant the best finish in club history.

After the relegation could be ensured in the following season, the team had to play as a Table again the transition to Serie B in 1939. Three years later, with the fall in the third-class series C the next setback and the club was temporarily suspended from the game. After the resumption of league operation in 1945, the team succeeded after a year in Serie C, the immediate return to the second division and 1947 for a year qualified later even for series A. The greatest success was in season 1948/49, won be as Lucchese points with Fiorentina and U.S. Triestina 8th place in the championship reached.

In 1952 the club was relegated after five years in Serie A again and was immediately passed the following year in the C series. The Tuscan team could not slow the downward trend for the time being and fell in 1954 in the fourth league. It was followed by many years in the third and fourth division. Between 1961 and 1963 the club met again prior to Serie B and spent up to a new promotion for the second- highest division in 1990, almost 30 years in the Italian third division.

During this time, Lucchese took several name changes. In 1969, the club was named U.S. Lucchese Libertas Spa, ten years later, the management decided to rename the club again and then changed its name to U.S. Lucchese Libertas Srl, followed in 1983 with AS Lucchese Libertas Srl another name change of the Lucchese team. In the 1990s, the team managed to at least approximately to the earlier successes to tie and remained until relegation in 1999 represented a total of nine years in a row in the B series. At the beginning of the new millennium, Lucchese kept constant in Serie C1, but was able to post any significant success.

In the 2007 /08 season, the financial difficulties of the club were known and the club had to declare bankruptcy. The President Giuliano Giuliani led the club continued after the re-establishment in the following year and took the game operating under the name of Sporting Lucchese again. The team competed in the series D. Lucchese managed by winning the Girone E in the 2008/ 09 season, the return in the fourth- highest division. After the club had regained its original name, succeeded in the season 2009/10 as the winner of the fourth-rate Girone B Lega Pro Seconda Divisione, the second rise in a row.

Former Players

• Italy Marco Ambrosio
• Italy Alberto Bertuccelli
• Italy Francesco Cozza
• Mali Souleymane Diamoutene
• Italy Eusebio Di Francesco
• Italy Giovanni Galli
• Italy Corrado Grabbi
• Italy Daniele Mannini
• Italy Tommaso Maestrelli
• Italy Andrea Masiello
• Italy Davide Succi
• Italy Vittorio Tosto
• Belgium Luis Oliveira
• Italy Aldo Olivieri
• Italy Lorenzo Squizzi
• Cameroon Pierre Wome

Former coach

• Italy Federico Allasio
• Amedeo Amadei Italy
• Italy Bruno Arcari
• Italy Ottavio Barbieri
• Italy Bruno Bolchi
• Italy Tarcisio Burgnich
• Luigi De Canio Italy
• Italy Giulio Cappelli
• Italy Sergio Castelletti
• Italy Francesco Chimenti
• Hungary 1918 Ernő Erbstein
• Italy Eugenio Fascetti
• Italy Luigi Ferrero
• 1918 Hungary József Ching
• Hungary Mihály Kincses
• 1918 Hungary András Kuttik
• Italy Marcello Lippi
• Italy Amos Mariani
• Italy Aldo Olivieri
• Italy Corrado Orrico
• Italy Giuseppe Papadopulo
• Italy Oronzo Pugliese
• Italy Luigi Rosellini
• Italy Virginio Rosetta
• 1918 Hungary György Sárosi
• Italy Giuliano Sarti
• Italy Franco Scoglio
• Italy Luigi Simoni
• Italy Giuliano Tagliasacchi
• Italy Giuseppe Viani