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L'Aquila Calcio 1927 is an Italian association football

Football in Italy

Football is the most popular sport in Italy. The Italian national football team has won the FIFA World Cup 4 times , trailing only Brazil . Italy's club sides have won 27 major European trophies, making them the most successful European nation in the subject of football...

club located in L'Aquila

L'Aquila

L'Aquila is a city and comune in central Italy, both the capital city of the Abruzzo region and of the Province of L'Aquila. , it has a population of 73,150 inhabitants, but has a daily presence in the territory of 100,000 people for study, tertiary activities, jobs and tourism...

, Abruzzo

Abruzzo

Abruzzo is a region in Italy, its western border lying less than due east of Rome. Abruzzo borders the region of Marche to the north, Lazio to the west and south-west, Molise to the south-east, and the Adriatic Sea to the east...

.

They are currently playing the 2010–11 season in the Lega Pro Seconda Divisione B being promoted from the Serie D/F in the 2009–10 season. Their colors are red and blue.

History

Existence of football clubs in L'Aquila can be traced back to 1910, when an amateur club called Football Club L'Aquila, then unregistered to the Italian Football Federation, was already existing. In 1926, the club started using red and blue as official colours. In 1929, a new club called Società Sportiva Città dell'Aquila was founded, but lasted only a very few years. In September 1931 Associazione Sportiva L'Aquila was founded, as derivation of a local fascist sports organization, starting playing in the locally-organized Seconda Divisione. After two promotions, in 1934 L'Aquila spent its first season in the Serie B

Serie B

Serie B, currently named Serie bwin due to sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It is contested by 22 teams and organized by the Lega Serie B since July 2010, after the split of Lega Calcio that previously took care of both the...

league. In 1936 the head coach Attilio Buratti died and several team players were seriously injured in a train accident in Contigliano

Contigliano

Contigliano is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 60 km northeast of Rome and about 8 km west of Rieti...

. The club later did not manage to escape relegation and ended its Serie B tenure after three seasons.

On December 1937 the club played a Coppa Italia

Coppa Italia

The Coppa Italia is an Italian football annual cup competition. Its first edition was held in 1922, but the second champions were not crowned until 1936. Roma and Juventus lead the way with nine wins. Roma has contested more finals, 16, while Torino and Juventus follow with 13...

game against Juventus F.C.

Juventus F.C.

Juventus Football Club S.p.A. , commonly referred to as Juventus and colloquially as Juve , are a professional Italian association football club based in Turin, Piedmont...

, losing 4–1 to the bianconeri. The club spent a total five consecutive seasons in Serie C

Serie C

The Lega Italiana Calcio Professionistico , commonly known as Lega Pro , is the governing body that runs the third and fourth highest football divisions in Italy, the Prima Divisione and Seconda Divisione respectively. It also includes the sole professional club of San Marino...

before the club was dismissed during wartime. In 1943 the club was refounded as Sportiva L'Aquila 1944 (1944 being the year when the club would have restarted its sports activities), playing Serie C

Serie C

three more seasons (from 1945 to 1948). In 1958, after several seasons spent in minor leagues, the club was readmitted to Serie C

Serie C

, where it spent 10 seasons, being relegated to Serie D

Serie D

Serie D is the top level of the Italian non-professional football association called Lega Nazionale Dilettanti. The association represents over a million football players and thousands of football teams across Italy. Serie D ranks just below Lega Pro Seconda Divisione , and is thus considered the...

in 1969. The club won promotion to Serie C2

Serie C2

Lega Pro Seconda Divisione is the name of the fourth highest football league in Italy, the lowest with a professional status. Usually it consists of 54 teams, but in the season 2010–11 the teams are only 49 divided geographically into three divisions of 17, 16 and 16 teams each...

in 1979, being again relegated to amateur football in 1982.

In 1993 the club was readmitted to Serie C2 to fill a league vacancy, but the club was ultimately cancelled 12 months later due to bankruptcy. In 1994 Associazione Sportiva L'Aquila was founded and admitted to Eccellenza

Eccellenza

Eccellenza is the sixth level of Italian football. It is a regional league, composed of 28 divisions divided geographically. All 20 regions are represented by at least one division except for Piedmont and Aosta Valley which share 2 divisions...

, then become Vis L'Aquila in 1995 after a merger with Serie D team Paganica Calcio. In 1998 the club won promotion to Serie C2, and reached Serie C1

Serie C1

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in 2000 after winning a playoff against Acireale. In 2004 the club relegated back to Serie C2, only to be cancelled once again and readmitted to Eccellenza under the current denomination. In 2009, following the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake

2009 L'Aquila earthquake

The 2009 L'Aquila earthquake occurred in the region of Abruzzo, in central Italy. The main shock occurred at 3:32 local time on 6 April 2009, and was rated 5.8 on the Richter scale and 6.3 on the moment magnitude scale; its epicentre was near L'Aquila, the capital of Abruzzo, which together...

, the club was promoted to Serie D under deliberation of the Lega Dilettanti (amateur football leagues committee), after it was realized the club was unable to complete the league, with two games yet to be played and the rossoblu topping the league at the time.

First team squad

As of 31 July 2011.

Notable former players

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Stefano Di Chiara

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Annibale Frossi

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Sergio Petrelli

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Daniel Ola

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Kenneth Zeigbo

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Notable former managers

András Kuttik

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János Nehadoma

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Leonardo Acori

Leonardo Acori is an Italian football manager, who is the current head coach of Lega Pro Prima Divisione club Benevento.-Coaching:...

Ottavio Barbieri

Ottavio Barbieri was an Italian association football midfielder and manager from Genoa. As a player he was a one club man and spent his entire career at hometown side Genoa. As a manager, in 1933/1934 season he led L'Aquila Calcio, winning 1st Division Championship and bringing the team in serie B...

Renato Benaglia

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Dino Bovoli

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Giovanni Degni

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Bruno Giordano

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Bruno Nobili

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Sergio Petrelli

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Paolo Stringara

Paolo Stringara is an Italian professional football coach and a former player. Currently, he manages Foggia.-External links:*...

External links

Official site

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