A.S.D. Trapani Calcio
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Trapani Calcio is an Italian football club located in Trapani
, Sicily. The traditional club colours of Trapani is maroon, known in Italian language as granata. During the club's history they have played mostly in the Serie C
and D
leagues, and currently play in Lega Pro Prima Divisione.
To date the highest league position the club has finished was 4th in Serie C1 during the 1994–95 season. Throughout their long history, Trapani have won at least six recorded league championships in various divisions.
and Messina
.
U.S. Trapanese's first president was Giuseppe Platamone and the club played their games at Via Spalti. The first official game for the club came against Palermo
in October 1908, the more experienced Palermitan team won emphatically scoring 12 goals. Trapanese bounced back however, playing local derby's against teams from Marsala
and Erice
. By 1915 play was stopped because of World War I.
By June 1926, the name of the club was changed to A.S. Trapani. In the 1930–31 season, under the name Juventus Trapani, the club won promotion from III Divisione into II Divisione, the following season they achieved promotion again this time into the early 1930s equivalent of Serie C
. They finished 8th in Serie C during the 1942–43, but then football in Italy was put on hold for the Second World War.
, which at the time was divided into many regional groups. For the 1947–48 season, they qualified for the new, smaller Serie C; even finishing above Messina
. Unfortunately for the club, they were relegated down to level which Serie D
currently stands, in the 1949–50 after finishing second from bottom.
player Ignazio Arcoleo
as head coach, Trapani experienced two consecutive promotions from Serie D
to Serie C1
in the early 1990s.
In 1995, a strong and qualified team composed mostly by young promising players such as Marco Materazzi
and more experienced local footballers such as Francesco Galeoto
qualified to the promotion playoff, but ultimately lost to Walter Novellino's Gualdo in the semifinals with a late goal scored on injury time. Since then, Trapani experienced a slow but continuous decline, despite attempts to repeat past successes: Arcoleo left Trapani to coach Palermo
along some of the best players, including Galeoto. The club then relegated to Serie C2
in 1997, Serie D
in 2000 and even Eccellenza
in the 2005–06 season, despite a late attempt by Arcoleo and former star Gaetano Vasari
to save the team from relegation. In addition, the club also received a 12-points deduction for the 2006–07 season following a matchfixing attempt recognized by the Football Federation. In its 2006–07 Eccellenza campaign Trapani, coached by former Parma
midfielder Tarcisio Catanese
, ended the regular season phase to eleventh place, and saved from relegation after having won relegation playoffs to Terrasini in a 5–0 single-legged win.
From 2007 onwards Trapani competed in the Serie D, notably ending their 2009–10 campaign as runners-up behind winners Milazzo.
(formerly Serie C2), thus putting an end to a 13-year absence from the professional ranks. In this season 2010-11 from Lega Pro Seconda Divisione group C, promoted in the play-off to Lega Pro Prima Divisione.
and G.S. Mazara 1946
, from the neighbouring cities of Marsala
and Mazara del Vallo
. A rivalry with U.S. Città di Palermo
is also existing, but lightened by the distance in terms of divisions; Palermo and Trapani have in fact both played together Serie C1
for a very short amount of years.
Vincenzo Italiano
Marco Materazzi
Gaetano Vasari
Serie D
II Divisione
III Divisione
Interregionale
Trapani
Trapani is a city and comune on the west coast of Sicily in Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Trapani. Founded by Elymians, the city is still an important fishing port and the main gateway to the nearby Egadi Islands.-History:...
, Sicily. The traditional club colours of Trapani is maroon, known in Italian language as granata. During the club's history they have played mostly in the 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...
and 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...
leagues, and currently play in Lega Pro Prima Divisione.
To date the highest league position the club has finished was 4th in Serie C1 during the 1994–95 season. Throughout their long history, Trapani have won at least six recorded league championships in various divisions.
History
The club's roots can be traced back to 1905; on 2 April of that year, local newspaper the Gazzetta di Trapani ran an advert requesting young people to form a football association for Trapani. The club founded, by professor Ugolino Montagna and young native Abele Mazzarese to represent the West-Sicilian town was named Unione Sportiva Trapanese. It is one of the oldest teams on the island, after PalermoU.S. Città di Palermo
Unione Sportiva Città di Palermo is an Italian football club from Palermo, Sicily which currently plays in Serie A, the top level of Italian football. Formed in 1900 as Anglo Panormitan Athletic and Football Club, the club had various names before assuming its final form in 1987 and is currently...
and Messina
F.C. Messina Peloro
Associazione Calcio Rinascita Messina is an Italian football club based in Messina, Sicily. It currently plays in Serie D.- Brief history :The origins of the team go back to 1900 when Messina F.C was founded in the city. The club has spent most of its history in the lower Italian football leagues...
.
U.S. Trapanese's first president was Giuseppe Platamone and the club played their games at Via Spalti. The first official game for the club came against Palermo
U.S. Città di Palermo
Unione Sportiva Città di Palermo is an Italian football club from Palermo, Sicily which currently plays in Serie A, the top level of Italian football. Formed in 1900 as Anglo Panormitan Athletic and Football Club, the club had various names before assuming its final form in 1987 and is currently...
in October 1908, the more experienced Palermitan team won emphatically scoring 12 goals. Trapanese bounced back however, playing local derby's against teams from Marsala
Marsala
Marsala is a seaport city located in the Province of Trapani on the island of Sicily in Italy. The low coast on which it is situated is the westernmost point of the island...
and Erice
Erice
Erice is a historic town and comune in the province of Trapani in Sicily, Italy.Erice is located on top of Mount Erice, at around 750m above sea level, overlooking the city of Trapani, the low western coast towards Marsala, the dramatic Punta del Saraceno and Capo san Vito to the north-east, and...
. By 1915 play was stopped because of World War I.
Post-war times
After the war, in 1921 three teams had risen up; Vigor, Bencivegna and Drepanum. During the 1921–22 season Vigor finished 6th in the Sicilian section of the national championship of the C.C.I. (Confederazione Calcistica Italiana). On 22 January 1923 a fusion took place between Vigor and Drepanum, the club decided to revive the previous name U.S. Trapanese.By June 1926, the name of the club was changed to A.S. Trapani. In the 1930–31 season, under the name Juventus Trapani, the club won promotion from III Divisione into II Divisione, the following season they achieved promotion again this time into the early 1930s equivalent of 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...
. They finished 8th in Serie C during the 1942–43, but then football in Italy was put on hold for the Second World War.
1940s, 50s and 60s
Just after World War II, the club were using the name A.S. Trapani for one season, before changing its name to A.S. Drepanum. They were entered into Serie CSerie 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...
, which at the time was divided into many regional groups. For the 1947–48 season, they qualified for the new, smaller Serie C; even finishing above Messina
F.C. Messina Peloro
Associazione Calcio Rinascita Messina is an Italian football club based in Messina, Sicily. It currently plays in Serie D.- Brief history :The origins of the team go back to 1900 when Messina F.C was founded in the city. The club has spent most of its history in the lower Italian football leagues...
. Unfortunately for the club, they were relegated down to level which 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...
currently stands, in the 1949–50 after finishing second from bottom.
1990s: peak and decline
With former Serie ASerie A
Serie A , now called Serie A TIM due to sponsorship by Telecom Italia, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and has been operating for over eighty years since 1929. It had been organized by Lega Calcio until 2010, but a new...
player Ignazio Arcoleo
Ignazio Arcoleo
Ignazio Arcoleo is an Italian footballer and manager.- Playing career :Arcoleo, born in Mondello, a Palermo maritime frazione, to a fishermans' family, started his professional career in 1966/1967 for his home city team. He returned to play for Palermo in 1970, becoming one of the most...
as head coach, Trapani experienced two consecutive promotions from 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...
to Serie C1
Serie C1
Lega Pro Prima Divisione is the name of the third highest football league in Italy. It consists of 36 teams, divided geographically into two divisions of 18 teams each. Until 2008 it was known as Serie C1....
in the early 1990s.
In 1995, a strong and qualified team composed mostly by young promising players such as Marco Materazzi
Marco Materazzi
Marco Materazzi , is an Italian footballer who plays as a defender, and is currently a free agent.At the beginning of his career, Materazzi played with various Italian teams in Serie B and Serie C, and with Premier League side Everton. He spent two periods with Perugia and signed for...
and more experienced local footballers such as Francesco Galeoto
Francesco Galeoto
Francesco Galeoto is an Italian football defender-Career:After spending his early years as a youth player for hometown club Palermo, he left for Cerveteri in 1993. Since then, he played for several Serie B and Serie C1 teams, including Trapani, Palermo , Salernitana, Pescara and Taranto...
qualified to the promotion playoff, but ultimately lost to Walter Novellino's Gualdo in the semifinals with a late goal scored on injury time. Since then, Trapani experienced a slow but continuous decline, despite attempts to repeat past successes: Arcoleo left Trapani to coach Palermo
U.S. Città di Palermo
Unione Sportiva Città di Palermo is an Italian football club from Palermo, Sicily which currently plays in Serie A, the top level of Italian football. Formed in 1900 as Anglo Panormitan Athletic and Football Club, the club had various names before assuming its final form in 1987 and is currently...
along some of the best players, including Galeoto. The club then relegated 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 1997, 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 2000 and even 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...
in the 2005–06 season, despite a late attempt by Arcoleo and former star Gaetano Vasari
Gaetano Vasari
Gaetano "Tanino" Vasari is an Italian former football midfielder.-Career:Vasari, a native of the Palermo neighbourhood of Borgo Vecchio, started his playing career with Partinicaudace, a team from Partinico playing in the Serie D...
to save the team from relegation. In addition, the club also received a 12-points deduction for the 2006–07 season following a matchfixing attempt recognized by the Football Federation. In its 2006–07 Eccellenza campaign Trapani, coached by former Parma
Parma F.C.
Parma Football Club , commonly referred to as just Parma, is an Italian professional football club based in Parma, Emilia–Romagna that will compete in Serie A for the 2011–12 season, having finished in twelfth position last season. Founded as Verdi Foot Ball Club in July 1913, the club changed its...
midfielder Tarcisio Catanese
Tarcisio Catanese
Tarcisio Catanese is a retired Italian professional football midfielder who has more recently been involved in the sport as a manager....
, ended the regular season phase to eleventh place, and saved from relegation after having won relegation playoffs to Terrasini in a 5–0 single-legged win.
From 2007 onwards Trapani competed in the Serie D, notably ending their 2009–10 campaign as runners-up behind winners Milazzo.
From Serie D to Lega Pro Prima Divisione
On August 2010, due to the high number of club cancellations in the higher ranks, the Italian football federation decided to pick Trapani as one of the clubs chosen to fill such vacancies and admitted the club into the 2010–11 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione2010–11 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione
The 2010–11 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione season will be the thirty-third football league season of Italian Lega Pro Seconda Divisione since its establishment in 1978, and the third since the renaming from Serie C to Lega Pro....
(formerly Serie C2), thus putting an end to a 13-year absence from the professional ranks. In this season 2010-11 from Lega Pro Seconda Divisione group C, promoted in the play-off to Lega Pro Prima Divisione.
Rivalries
Trapani's main rival clubs are S.C. Marsala 1912S.C. Marsala 1912
Sport Club Marsala 1912 is an Italian association football club from the city of Marsala, Sicily. It was founded in 1912 and its official and historical colours are white and blue...
and G.S. Mazara 1946
G.S. Mazara 1946
Mazara Calcio A.S.D., formerly Gruppo Sportivo Mazara 1946, is an Italian football team from Mazara del Vallo, Sicily.It, in the season 2011-12 plays in Eccellenza Sicily.The official team colours are canary yellow and blue...
, from the neighbouring cities of Marsala
Marsala
Marsala is a seaport city located in the Province of Trapani on the island of Sicily in Italy. The low coast on which it is situated is the westernmost point of the island...
and Mazara del Vallo
Mazara del Vallo
Mazara del Vallo is a town and comune in southwestern Sicily, Italy, which lies mainly on the left bank at the mouth of the Mazaro river, administratively part of the province of Trapani....
. A rivalry with U.S. Città di Palermo
U.S. Città di Palermo
Unione Sportiva Città di Palermo is an Italian football club from Palermo, Sicily which currently plays in Serie A, the top level of Italian football. Formed in 1900 as Anglo Panormitan Athletic and Football Club, the club had various names before assuming its final form in 1987 and is currently...
is also existing, but lightened by the distance in terms of divisions; Palermo and Trapani have in fact both played together Serie C1
Serie C1
Lega Pro Prima Divisione is the name of the third highest football league in Italy. It consists of 36 teams, divided geographically into two divisions of 18 teams each. Until 2008 it was known as Serie C1....
for a very short amount of years.
Current squad
As of 31 August 2011Notable former players
Francesco GaleotoFrancesco Galeoto
Francesco Galeoto is an Italian football defender-Career:After spending his early years as a youth player for hometown club Palermo, he left for Cerveteri in 1993. Since then, he played for several Serie B and Serie C1 teams, including Trapani, Palermo , Salernitana, Pescara and Taranto...
Vincenzo Italiano
Vincenzo Italiano
Vincenzo Italiano is an Italian football player who is currently a midfielder for Padova of Serie B...
Marco Materazzi
Marco Materazzi
Marco Materazzi , is an Italian footballer who plays as a defender, and is currently a free agent.At the beginning of his career, Materazzi played with various Italian teams in Serie B and Serie C, and with Premier League side Everton. He spent two periods with Perugia and signed for...
Gaetano Vasari
Gaetano Vasari
Gaetano "Tanino" Vasari is an Italian former football midfielder.-Career:Vasari, a native of the Palermo neighbourhood of Borgo Vecchio, started his playing career with Partinicaudace, a team from Partinico playing in the Serie D...
Honours
Serie C2Serie 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...
- Champions: 1993–94
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...
- Champions: 1971–72, 1984–85
II Divisione
- Champions: 1931–32
III Divisione
- Champions: 1930/31
Interregionale
- Champions: 1992–93