A.S. Lucchese-Libertas
Encyclopedia
Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Football Club Lucca 2011 is an Italian football
club, based in Lucca
, Tuscany
that currently plays in Eccellenza Tuscany
.
The club was founded in 1905 and having last been in Serie A
in 1952.
The team's colors are red and black. Their home ground is the Stadio Porta Elisa
, which is situated on the Via dello Stadio in Lucca.
its first football team. Originally named Lucca Football Club the club was founded by the Vittorio brothers and Guido Mensini. The first large achievement by the club was winning the Goblet of the King during the 1919/20 season, not long after the tournaments foundation. The same season Lucca won the Regional cup of Tuscany.
and Giovanni Moscardini
.
The 1930s saw the club been promoted to Serie B
, and then in 1936, Lucchese won promotion to Serie A
the top league in Italy
, they stayed there for three seasons. The club were relegated to Serie B as World War II started. Prior to the war players such as Egri Erbstein, Aldo Olivieri
and Antonio Perduca
were fan's favorites. Lucchese promoted again to Serie A in 1947 and stayed there for 5 seasons.
In 1984 it changed its name to A.S. Lucchese Libertas.
The club spent also several seasons in Serie B (last 1998–99) and Serie C1
, being also coached by Luigi Simoni
, UEFA Cup-winning coach with Inter Milan.
In 2008 the club folded due to financial issues and was admitted in the Italian bottom division Terza Categoria
before being declared bankrupt in December 2008.
to represent the city of Lucca
.
In its first season of existence, Sporting Lucchese promptly won the Girone E round of Serie D, thus acquiring the right to take part to the 2009–10 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione.
The club has also taken the old denomination of Associazione Sportiva Lucchese Libertas 1905 starting with the new season, after the Sporting Lucchese owner acquired the naming and logo rights of the old franchise in a public auction. Lucchese made second consecutive promotion after finishing Group B of Lega Pro Seconda Divisione as champion in 2009–10 and has played in Lega Pro Prima Divisione in the 2010–11 season.
In summer 2011, it does not appeal against the exclusion of Covisoc and disappears so from the professional football.
.
Luis Oliveira
Pierre Wome
Aldo Olivieri
Corrado Grabbi
Salvatore Tedesco Francesco Cozza
Eusebio Di Francesco
Iosif Fabian
:
Serie C
:
Serie C1
:
Serie C2
:
Serie D
:
Tuscany
League Division 1:
Promozione
:
Coppa Italia Serie C
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, based in Lucca
Lucca
Lucca is a city and comune in Tuscany, central Italy, situated on the river Serchio in a fertile plainnear the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Lucca...
, Tuscany
Tuscany
Tuscany is a region in Italy. It has an area of about 23,000 square kilometres and a population of about 3.75 million inhabitants. The regional capital is Florence ....
that currently plays in Eccellenza Tuscany
Eccellenza Tuscany
Eccellenza Tuscany is the regional Eccellenza football division for clubs in Tuscany, Italy. It is competed amongst 36 teams, in two different groups . The winners of the Groups are promoted to Serie D...
.
The club was founded in 1905 and having last been in Serie A
Serie 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...
in 1952.
The team's colors are red and black. Their home ground is the Stadio Porta Elisa
Stadio Porta Elisa
Stadio Porta Elisa is a multi-use stadium in Lucca, Italy. The authorized capacity is 7,386, but it can hold about 12,000; 2,500 of them are covered.It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of A.S. Lucchese-Libertas....
, which is situated on the Via dello Stadio in Lucca.
History
The club was founded on 25 May 1905, giving the town of LuccaLucca
Lucca is a city and comune in Tuscany, central Italy, situated on the river Serchio in a fertile plainnear the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Lucca...
its first football team. Originally named Lucca Football Club the club was founded by the Vittorio brothers and Guido Mensini. The first large achievement by the club was winning the Goblet of the King during the 1919/20 season, not long after the tournaments foundation. The same season Lucca won the Regional cup of Tuscany.
From Lucca Football Club to A.S. Lucchese Libertas
In 1924 the club merged with another local team and changed its name to Unione Sportiva Lucchese-Libertas. During the 1920s, notable players at the club included Ernesto BoninoErnesto Bonino (footballer)
Ernesto Bonino was an Italian professional football player.He played for 7 seasons for A.S. Lucchese Libertas 1905....
and Giovanni Moscardini
Giovanni Moscardini
Giovanni Moscardini , also known as Johnny Moscardini, was an Italian Scottish footballer who played for Lucchese, Pisa, Genoa and Italy. He was one of the earliest of the Oriundi. While the majority of these foreign-born footballers who played for Italy came from South America, Moscardini was the...
.
The 1930s saw the club been promoted to 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...
, and then in 1936, Lucchese won promotion to Serie A
Serie 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...
the top league in Italy
Italy
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, they stayed there for three seasons. The club were relegated to Serie B as World War II started. Prior to the war players such as Egri Erbstein, Aldo Olivieri
Aldo Olivieri
Aldo Olivieri was a former Italianfootball goalkeeper from 1931 to 1943, and trainer after World War II.-Career:Olivieri was born in San Michele Extra, Verona....
and Antonio Perduca
Antonio Perduca
Antonio Perduca was an Italian professional football player.-External links:*...
were fan's favorites. Lucchese promoted again to Serie A in 1947 and stayed there for 5 seasons.
In 1984 it changed its name to A.S. Lucchese Libertas.
The club spent also several seasons in Serie B (last 1998–99) and 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....
, being also coached by Luigi Simoni
Luigi Simoni
Luigi "Gigi" Simoni is an Italian football manager, currently in office with Gubbio of Serie B, and a former player.-Biography:Luigi Simoni was born at Crevalcore ....
, UEFA Cup-winning coach with Inter Milan.
In 2008 the club folded due to financial issues and was admitted in the Italian bottom division Terza Categoria
Terza Categoria
Terza Categoria is the name of the lowest level of "amateur" football in Italy. It is considered to be the 10th and lowest level in the Italian football league system. Each individual league winner within the Terza Categoria level progresses to their closest regional league in the Seconda...
before being declared bankrupt in December 2008.
S.S.D. Sporting Lucchese
A new franchise called Società Sportiva Dilettantistica Sporting Lucchese was admitted to Serie DSerie 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 represent the city of Lucca
Lucca
Lucca is a city and comune in Tuscany, central Italy, situated on the river Serchio in a fertile plainnear the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Lucca...
.
In its first season of existence, Sporting Lucchese promptly won the Girone E round of Serie D, thus acquiring the right to take part to the 2009–10 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione.
A.S. Lucchese Libertas 1905
In summer 2011, it does not appeal against the exclusion of Covisoc and disappears so from the professional football.
A.S.D. Football Club Lucca 2011
On August 1, 2011 a new franchise was founded to represent the city of Lucca called Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Football Club Lucca 2011 and in the currently season it plays in Eccellenza TuscanyEccellenza Tuscany
Eccellenza Tuscany is the regional Eccellenza football division for clubs in Tuscany, Italy. It is competed amongst 36 teams, in two different groups . The winners of the Groups are promoted to Serie D...
.
Notable former players
- See Also: :Category:A.S. Lucchese-Libertas players
Luis Oliveira
Luis Oliveira
Luis Airton Barroso Oliveira is a former Brazilian-Belgian football player and currently coach of the Nuorese.He spent most of his playing career in Italy.-Career:...
Pierre Wome
Pierre Wome
Pierre Nlend Womé is a Cameroonian football defender who is currently a free agent after being released from 1. FC Köln in 2010...
Aldo Olivieri
Aldo Olivieri
Aldo Olivieri was a former Italianfootball goalkeeper from 1931 to 1943, and trainer after World War II.-Career:Olivieri was born in San Michele Extra, Verona....
Corrado Grabbi
Corrado Grabbi
Corrado Grabbi is an Italian football player. He plays as a striker, most recently for Bellinzona.Grabbi began his career with Juventus youth team. He was promoted to first team and scored on his debut against Lazio, in one of his total two appearances in the 1994-1995 season...
Salvatore Tedesco Francesco Cozza
Francesco Cozza (footballer)
Francesco Cozza is a former Italian football player in the role of offensive midfielder, and currently a coach. He is currently in charge of Lega Pro Seconda Divisione club Catanzaro.-Playing career:...
Eusebio Di Francesco
Eusebio Di Francesco
Eusebio Di Francesco is a former professional Italian footballer, and now a football manager, currently managing U.S. Lecce.-Playing career:...
Iosif Fabian
Iosif Fabian
-Career:Born in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Fabian started his youth career at Muncitorii Cluj. Then he went to play in the neighborhood country Hungary for a few years starting there his senior career. He returned back in Romania, at Ferar Cluj for a short period before he joins up with Carmen Bucureşti...
Honours
Serie BSerie 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...
:
- Champions: 1935–36, 1946–47
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...
:
- Champions: 1960–61
- Runners-up: 1945–46, 1977–78
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....
:
- Runners-up: 1989–90
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...
:
- Champions: 1985–86, 2009–10
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: 1968–69, 2008–09
Tuscany
Tuscany
Tuscany is a region in Italy. It has an area of about 23,000 square kilometres and a population of about 3.75 million inhabitants. The regional capital is Florence ....
League Division 1:
- Champions: 1929–30, 1932–33, 1933–34
Promozione
Promozione
Promozione is the name of a level of football in Italy. It is considered to be the 7th level in the Italian football league system. Each individual league winner within the Promozione level progresses to their closest regional league in the Eccellenza level...
:
- Champions: 1919–20
Coppa Italia Serie C
Coppa Italia Serie C
Coppa Italia Lega Pro , formerly named Coppa Italia Serie C, is a straight knock-out based competition involving teams from Lega Pro in Italian football. All games, including the final, are on a home/away basis....
- Champions: 1989–90