Carpi FC 1909

Carpi Football Club 1909 is an Italian football club based in Carpi, Modena in the Emilia -Romagna. The club was founded in 1909 and plays its home matches at the Stadio Sandro Cabassi, which seats 4,760 spectators. Carpi FC currently playing in the second-rate Series B, after 2012/13, the rise of the Lega Pro Prima Divisione had succeeded in season.

History

The Carpi Football Club was founded by a student named Adolfo Fanconi in the northern Italian town of Carpi in 1909. The first club name was Jucunditas. A few years later the name of the club was changed, he was henceforth from 1915 Associazione Calcio Carpi, Carpi short AC. This club name was worn until 2000, before the club was provided with the current name Carpi FC 1909.

The football club Carpi played to this day never been higher than in the third-class Lega Pro Prima Divisione respectively the former Serie C1. His biggest success of the series was able to celebrate the Emilian club when you under coach Luigi De Canio, among other teams like Udinese Calcio, the U.S. Lecce or the Genoa coaching later in the season 1996/97, the third in Group 1 C1 reached. In subsequent rise playoffs for promotion to Serie B, they failed until the endgame AC Monza Brianza at 2:3. Then we went for Carpi FC but steep downhill. After 1998, the decline in the C2 series could still be prevented, this happened a year later by an eighteenth place in the Group 1 Serie C1. In 2000, the AC Carpi was declared bankrupt and founded under the name Carpi FC 1909 new. It started in the Excellenza. 2002, the return was achieved in the series D and 2010 increased Carpi FC again in the Lega Pro Seconda Divisione fourth-rate. There, the team hit very well right away and finished first in Group B with two points ahead of Carrarese Calcio. After promotion back to the third division the team of coach Egidio Notaristefano performed well and finished after all the game day a surprising third place in the Girona A of Lega Pro Prima Divisione. This entitled Carpi FC to participate in the playoffs for the second division promotion, where they met in the first round of Sorrento Calcio. Against the Campanian put you through and had to be in the final of the second division promotion with the U.S. Pro Vercelli measure. The first leg ended in a goalless draw Vercelli. In the return match in Modena, however, decided Vercelli 3-1 for themselves and thus increased rather than Carpi on in the B series.

In the following season Carpi FC scrapped after the end of all game days the Lega Pro Prima Divisione A on the third place in the standings, only behind Trapani Calcio, which made ​​the direct promotion to Serie B, and U.S. Lecce and was thus eligible again for the playoff Games for the second division promotion. Here they met in the semi-final against FC Alto Adige and prevailed 4-3 after return to play here, while Lecce the other semi-final against Virtus Entella victorious designed and consequently playoff opponents Carpi FC was. After Carpi had kept in the home game 1-0 against the favorites from the south of Italy the upper hand, the team coached by Fabio Brini, who had replaced during the season Daniele Tacchini reached, at the Stadio Via del Mare to Lecce a 1-1 draw and promotion to Serie B for the first time in more than a century old club history.

Leagues affiliation

• B Series: a playtime

• Lega Pro Prima Divisione: 12 seasons

• Seconda Divisione Lega Pro: 5 seasons

• Series D: 29 seasons

Known player

• Italy Matteo Anania, defender of AC Pisa, from youth department of Carpi FC from 2003 to 2005 at the club active
• Italy Salvatore Bagni, active for the AC Perugia, Inter Milan and Napoli; Carpi as the first stop of his career
• Italy Raffaele Bianco, loaned 2012-2013 Juventus to Carpi, part of the ascent team to Serie B
• Italy Andrea Cupi, active at Carpi FC 1997 to 1998, continued to play for AS Roma, FC Empoli and Napoli
• Italy Simone Inzaghi, loaned 1996-1997 Piacenza to Carpi, for Lazio, Sampdoria and Atalanta Bergamo active
• Italy Salvatore Lanna
• Italy Marco Materazzi World Champion of 2006, 1996 briefly in the club, still in Perugia, Everton FC and Inter Milan

Known coach

• Italy Gianni De Biasi, 1993-1996 coach of AC Carpi, later, among others Coach at Modena, Brescia and Torino, currently Albanian national team coach
• Luigi De Canio Italy, current coach of Genoa, previously among others in Lecce, Napoli and Udinese, from 1996 to 1997 in Carpi