Stadio Romeo Menti (Castellammare di Stabia)
- Games for SS Juve Stabia
The Stadio Romeo Menti is a football stadium in the Italian town of Castellammare di Stabia. It can accommodate 12,800 spectators and serves the club SS Juve Stabia as homestead.
History
The Stadio Romeo Menti in Castellammare di Stabia, a port city with a population over 60,000 in the Gulf of Naples in the Campania region, was built in 1984 and opened a year later, in 1985. For the first game in the new stadium, the future users club, SS Juve Stabia and local rival and former first division side U.S. Avellino met for a friendly match, the Juve Stabia won 3-1. Since that day, SS Juve Stabia uses the Stadio Romeo Menti as the venue for home games in football. The club has played one season in the second-rate series B, the rest of the year was the association founded in 1907, located in the lower leagues of Italian football. For the season 2011/12 Juve Stabia has qualified for the second time in club history for the B series, the first time since 1952.
The Stadio Romeo Menti is named after Romeo Menti. It therefore has the same name as the stadium of Vicenza Calcio. Menti was an Italian footballer in the forties, the 1945 was loaned for one year from Torino to Juve Stabia. Then Menti was a part of the great team of Torino, the Grande Torino, and died like almost all of his teammates on 4 May in 1949 the plane crash of the machine, bring the players of Torino by Games away from Lisbon back home should. Over the roofs of Turin, the aircraft crashed on the hill of Superga.
Currently, the Stadio Romeo Menti has a capacity of 12,800 spectators. Once the capacity of the sports facility was lower, the current capacity was achieved after finishing work in 2009. Earlier, could barely 8,000 spectators in the stadium See games. Most, however, the stadium is not full. Even before the remodeling in 2006 were at least 10,000 spectators once the derby between Juve Stabia and after a bankruptcy then connected with foundation in Serie C1 starting Napoli (3:1).