AC Perugia Calcio

The Associazione Calcio Calcistica Perugia ( Perugia Calcio AC short ) is an Italian football club based in the Umbrian university town of Perugia. The club colors are red and white. In the summer of 2010 the club was re-founded as ASD Perugia Calcio and put the game operating in the fünftklassigen Series D continued, although one would have sporty qualified for the Lega Pro Prima Divisione, but due to the poor financial participation in the professional operation did not enter.

Currently, you will find the club again in the third-class Lega Pro Prima Divisione.

Club history

The Associazione Calcio Perugia ( Perugia AC short ) was founded in 1905, SS 1913 Perugia and was renamed again in 1919 the old name AC Perugia. 1975 succeeded in Perugia promotion to the top division of the country, the series A. In the season 1978/79 the team remained unbeaten, but was nevertheless due to the high number of draw only runner behind AC Milan. The runner-up is the biggest success at the national level to date. In the 1980s, been involved in sports is increasingly being eroded. The involvement in a betting scandal drew a deduction of five points for the 1980/81 season after themselves, Perugia dismounted at the end of the season. In the 1985/86 season, Perugia was still playing in Serie B, the club of involvement in a betting scandal has again been provided. The relegation to Serie C2, the fourth- highest division, was the result. In 1991, the Roman businessman Luciano Gaucci took over the club and led him back from the third division in the Serie A in 1997/98 was followed by one season in Serie B. In the summer of 2003 under coach Serse Cosmi Perugia won the final against VfL Wolfsburg in the UEFA Intertoto Cup. 2004 had the AC Perugia leave the highest Italian league again after you had failed in the relegation. At the end of the 2004/05 season after the club was defeated in the relegation game to take part in the Serie A Torino Calcio, financial problems have led to days that led to the refusal of a license. A successor organization called Perugia Calcio SpA was founded, became president of the entrepreneur Vincenzo Silvestrini.

In the 2010/11 season the club played in the Serie D after the club at end of season 2009/10 at number eleven had secured lying in the league in the Lega Pro Prima Divisione, but pulled it due to the poor financial situation from the professional operation back and not reported to participation in the Lega Pro. The club was then re-established as ASD Perugia Calcio and played in the 2010/11 season in the series fünftklassigen D Girone E, where he finished the 2010/11 the first place and rising in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione the. By returning to the professional operation of the club 's name was changed accordingly; the addition Dilettantistica as a synonym for temporary amateur status was removed and replaced by the neutral term Calcistica. In the game year 2011/12 Perugia Calcio won the championship of the fourth-highest Italian league and secured the second rise in a row. Furthermore, the Supercoppa di Lega di Seconda Divisione was won for the first time.

Anecdotes

2002 and 2003, the AC Perugia caused by several events making headlines

  • The commitment of the Libyan soccer player Saadi Al- Gaddafi, son of Libyan President Muammar al - Gaddafi, caused a stir. Gaddafi took part only in a single game. After the positive outcome of a doping -A- sample and the denial of a B sample he was suspended in November 2003.
  • Also in 2003, committed the AC Perugia former Canadian athletes Ben Johnson as a conditioning coach. Johnson had been taken from him after a positive doping test at the 1988 Olympic Games -won gold medal, another doping case led in 1993 to a life ban.
  • Only in planning it remained when the AC Perugia in 2003 announced his intention to take the first senior football club female players in the squad. After the Swedish internationals Victoria Svensson and Hanna Ljungberg had refused to appropriate offers submitted Association chief Gaucci the German national team player Birgit Prinz with a budget of around one million euros offer. Even Prince refused.
  • After the then loaned to AC Perugia South Korean Ahn Jung- hwan in the second round of the 2002 World Cup in Japan / Korea the "golden goal " against Italy scored and South Korea paved the way into the quarter-finals said club president Luciano Gaucci against the Italian sports newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport: "I 'm not going to pay the salary of a player who has ruined Italian football. " Although of pages of Perugia, this statement was later withdrawn, the subject of Italy was done so for Ahn.

Stadium

ASD Perugia Calcio playing in the Stadio Renato Curi built in 1975, offers 28,000 spectators. The stadium was named after the former player Renato Curi, who died during a league game in 1977.

Former Players

Former coach

A.C. Milan Al-Saadi Gaddafi Jehad Muntasser Pietro Pastore Ascoli Calcio 1898 SS Barletta Calcio Benevento Calcio Frosinone Calcio U.S. Grosseto F.C. US Lecce A.C. Pisa 1909 AC Prato FC Esperia Viareggio
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