Stadio Domenico Francioni
- U.S. Latina
- Games of the U.S. Latina
- Concerts
The Stadio Domenico Francioni is a football stadium in the Italian city of Latina. It can accommodate more than 7,000 spectators and is the club US Latina as homestead.
History
The Stadio Domenico Francioni in Latina, a city with about 120,000 inhabitants in the region of Lazio, was started in 1932 to build. Here, the start of construction falls on the same year as the start of construction of the city of Latina, which is the first resulting in the time of Italian fascism planned city. Three years later, in 1935, presented to Cope Stadio Domenico Francioni, at the opening of the new venue was the name Stadio Comunale di Latina. Such names were spread enormously in the reign of Benito Mussolini, it was almost every municipal stadium Stadio Comunale. After the Second World War, it received its present name since Stadio Domenico Francioni.
Since 1945, the Stadio Domenico Francioni the Club U.S. Latina serves as the venue for home games in football. The U.S. Latina came to 2013 do not have the third Italian football league out and moved into their history several times as the club name. In the third league season 2012/13 then succeeded but somewhat surprisingly the initial ascent to Serie B after being in playoff games to move up first against the ASG Nocerina and in the final game also was able to prevail against AC Pisa itself. Thus matches the second- highest division in the Italian football find the Stadio Domenico Francioni in the 2013/14 season held for the first time.
Currently, the Stadio Domenico Francioni can accommodate 7,191 spectators, the actual capacity is 8,000 spectators. For security reasons, this has been somewhat reduced. In addition to the football games of the U.S. Latina already other events took place in the past here. So already occurred, for example, Deep Purple or Tiziano Ferro to concerts in the stadium of Latina on a meeting of Italian politician Giulio Andreotti with Pope John Paul II during his visit of Latina in 1991, the stadium record in its history.