Trapani Calcio

Trapani Calcio is an Italian football club based in Trapani. The club was founded in 1905 and plays its home matches at the Stadio Provinciale Polisportivo, which seats 10,000 spectators. Trapani Calcio was far show little presence in the professional sector, is in the 2013/14 season, however, to find in Italy, first in Serie B, the second division.

History

The association Trapani Calcio was founded in 1905 as Unione Sportiva Trapanese in Trapani, the seventh-largest city in Sicily. In the early years of the newly founded association took no part in the championships, but excelled rather by occasional games against top-class teams. Furthermore, over the years, took place a number of name changes. This had ultimately only an end in 1952, when the club adopted the name Associazione Sportiva Trapani and this also kept to the year 1990. The sporting successes had, however, already been set at this time, from 1946 to 1950 we acted for the first time for a long time in the third-tier Serie C. After the descent 1950, lasted until 1958, before Trapani managed to return to the third division. Until the late seventies into it, they stuck in the sequence with a few very short exceptions, in the third- highest division, and could establish themselves there.

The classification into the newly founded Serie C2, today's Lega Pro Seconda Divisione, 1978, but then began the creeping demise of the club, which reached its climax in 1984, when you had to re-found due to acute financial constraints, and now only still kicking at the provincial level. However, the financial problems stopped after the foundation, which culminated in a further bankruptcy and related foundation under the new name Trapani Calcio 1990. Then succeeded the club, after many years of Unterklassigkeit until 1994 to advance again in the third highest Italian league, where you stayed for three seasons in subsequent years.

On the descent from the Serie C1 in 1997, followed again many years of failure. In addition, again came problems of an economic nature, coupled with sporting failures kept away the club until 2011 further participation in the third-highest league. The resurgence in the Lega was not until the 2010/11 season, after the second rank one is in the final table of Girona C of Lega Pro Seconda Divisione, and had also prevailed in the subsequent play-off for promotion, Pro Prima Divisione reached - after fourteen years. Back in the third league, the club was able to establish itself and made in recent years primarily due to its shaped by the incumbent since 2009 coach Roberto Boscaglia offensive style of play caused a sensation and failed in the Lega Pro Prima Divisione 2011/12 just wide of the initial rise in the series B. After reaching a second table Ranges of Girone B, only behind Spezia Calcio, they lost in the playoffs Virtus Lanciano, and thus missed the direct walkover in the second division. In the following season, 2012/13 succeeded as First Place of Girone A of Lega Pro Prima Divisione the direct promotion to the second-class series B.

Achievements

  • Serie C2: 1x
  • Series D: 2x

Personalities

Known player

Known coach

  • Uruguay Washington Cacciavillani
  • Italy Achille Piccini
  • Italy Leandro Remondini
  • Austria Heinrich Schönfeld
Stadio Polisportivo Provinciale S.S. Virtus Lanciano 1924 Serie D 2013–14 Serie B AS Bari Carpi FC 1909 AC Cesena AS Cittadella FC Crotone U.S. Latina Calcio Modena F.C. Reggina Calcio AC Siena SS Juve Stabia Ternana Calcio
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