Stadio Enzo Ricci

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• U.S. Sassuolo (1972-2008)

• Games of the U.S. Sassuolo

The Stadio Enzo Ricci is a football stadium in the Italian city of Sassuolo. It can accommodate 4,008 spectators and served the club until 2008 U.S. Sassuolo as homestead.

History

The Stadio Enzo Ricci in Sassuolo, a city with about 40,000 inhabitants in the province of Modena, was opened in 1972. With the opening of the use of the venue by the local football club, the U.S. Sassuolo began. Sassuolo played for many years in the lowlands of the unterklassigen Italian football, but took place in the past few years a rapid ascent. For the 2008/09 season the club for the first time the promotion to its history in the second-rate Series B, after allowing the first table space is in the Girone A Serie C1. In the second division, the U.S. Sassuolo then could establish itself and not rise again. However, the Stadio Enzo Ricci with its well 4,000 spectators turned out to be not suitable for second division. With the rise of the U.S. Sassuolo drew out of his decades-long home stadium and played its home games from now on in nearby Modena Stadio Alberto Braglia, accommodating over 20,000 people place. After the 2012/13 season for the first time ever, the jump in the Serie A, the top division in the Italian football was successful, the club moved again the home ground and is now operating in the MAPEI Stadium - Città del Tricolore Reggio Emilia, the also has room for a little more than 20,000 guests.

For the future exist in the environment of the U.S. Sassuolo also plans which provide for the construction of a new club's stadium. Here, however, nothing is known concrete.