A.S.D. Gallipoli Football 1909
Gallipoli Calcio is an Italian football club from Gallipoli, a city in the Apulia region. The club colors are yellow and red the association serves as the stadium Stadio Antonio Bianco, it can accommodate 4,368 spectators.
History
The club was founded in 1999 as Associazione Calcio Gallipoli, to represent the province of Lecce and Gallipoli.
In 2004, the AC Gallipoli for the first time the rise of the fifth- highest division succeeded in the D series, in Italian football. In the same year, the club changed its name was called the Gallipoli Calcio. Once in the premiere season in Serie D in the relay Puglia, the first place was busy, the club managed to march through the C2 series. There, too, the team immediately became first and qualified for the Serie C1. His first season in the third highest Italian league in the season 2006/ 07 ended the team on a mid-table. The former Serie A player Dario Bonetti has been set for the 2007 /08 season as the new coach. He was later released due to disagreements with the board. The team finished its second season in Serie C1 in third place in the table. The former AS Roma player and Italian international Giuseppe Giannini was appointed for the season 2008/ 09 as the new head coach. This season ended in the biggest triumph of the club's history. The Giallorossi rose for the first time in her young club history in Serie B on after the club finished third in the Lega Pro Prima Divisione Girone B first place ahead of Benevento Calcio and in the relegation to the uprising against Benevento successful FC Crotone. These two teams followed the AC Cesena and Padova Calcio in the example series Since the local stadium was too small for second division football, Gallipoli moved to the Serie B game time into the Stadio Via del Mare in nearby Lecce, which seats 33,000 spectators.
In this first season of second division club first started out well. The club managed to start a large number of draws against teams like U.S. Grosseto, U.S. Sassuolo Calcio Ascoli Calcio and FC Empoli. But in the second half of the season the team lost ground. You cashed in rows veritable " clapping " as in 0:5 against Vicenza Calcio or at 1:5 against UC AlbinoLeffe and finally presented the second-worst defense in the league. At the end of the season Gallipoli Calcio finished next to last in the standings and had just as Salernitana Calcio, AC and AC Mantova Ancona the aisle in the Lega Pro Prima Divisione compete. For the third division, however, gave no license and started by a start-up for 2010/11 season in the siebtklassigen Promozione in the Apulia region, where it was 2010/11, missed by the third place of the ascent.