S.S. Juve Stabia
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Società Sportiva Juve Stabia is an Italian 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, based in Castellammare di Stabia
Castellammare di Stabia
Castellammare di Stabia is a comune in the province of Naples, Campania region, southern Italy. It is situated on the Bay of Naples about 30 kilometers southeast of Naples, on the route to Sorrento.-History:...

, Campania
Campania
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. The club was first founded in 1907 and has been refounded at various points during its history, the most recent being in 2002.

Stabia have played in the First Division Championship (Serie A)
Italian Football Championship
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, during the early 1920s, they have also played in 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...

; currently, Juve Stabia plays in 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...

. The team's colours are yellow and blue.

History

The club representing the town of Castellammare di Stabia
Castellammare di Stabia
Castellammare di Stabia is a comune in the province of Naples, Campania region, southern Italy. It is situated on the Bay of Naples about 30 kilometers southeast of Naples, on the route to Sorrento.-History:...

 in the Province of Naples
Province of Naples
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 can be traced back to 19 March 1907, when Weiss, the Romano brothers and Pauzano, founded the club as Stabia Sporting Club. Originally it was a sporting club that participated in fencing
Fencing
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, cycling
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, running, swimming and rowing
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.

By 1911, the footballing section of the club first started activity. The first officially reported game took place on 12 February 1911 against a team from Torre Annunziata
Torre Annunziata
Torre Annunziata is a city and comune in the province of Naples, region of Campania in Italy. It is located at the Gulf of Naples at the foot of Mt. Vesuvius.-History:...

, which is around four miles away. The match itself took place on the field of "le Montagnelle" near Boscotrecase
Boscotrecase
Boscotrecase is a comune in the Province of Naples in the Italian region Campania, located about 20 km southeast of Naples...

, it finished 3–0 to Stabia. This was reported in the Neapolitan daily paper "Il Mattino
Il Mattino
Il Mattino is an Italian daily newspaper, founded in 1892 in Naples, Italy, by the journalists Eduardo Scarfoglio and Matilde Serao.Based on 2008 survey data from Accertamenti Diffusione Stampa, Il Mattino is the most read daily newspaper in Campania, and one of the most read in southern...

".

Stabia played local games at this point, a notable 0–0 draw was achieved against the more famous Naples
S.S.C. Napoli
Società Sportiva Calcio Napoli, commonly referred to as Napoli, is a professional Italian football club based in Naples and founded in 1926. The club has spent most of its history in Serie A, where it currently plays its 2011–12 season....

 on 1 February 1914, the squad that day included; Dell’Aquila, Schettino, Celoro, De Rosa, Laugeri (captain), Amato, Weiss, Pauzano, Romano I°, Romano II° and Cappa. Around this period Stabia also played a match against the crew of English ship HMS Black Prince
HMS Black Prince (1904)
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, with the English winning 11–1.

Stabia enters the league

During 1916, Stabia entered into league competitions for the first time. They were entered into the old Terza Category (today's equivalent is Serie C
Serie C
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), Stabia reached the semi-finals before losing 5–1 to Campania
Campania
Campania is a region in southern Italy. The region has a population of around 5.8 million people, making it the second-most-populous region of Italy; its total area of 13,590 km² makes it the most densely populated region in the country...

n rivals Savoia
F.C. Savoia 1908
Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Calcio Savoia is an Italian association football club located in Torre Annunziata, Campania. It currently plays in Serie D. Its colors are all-white....

. Play was halted for World War I, but after it in 1919 the club was refounded thanks largely to Vincenzo Bonifacio. The first game after refounding was a friendly against a team of English sailors who called themselves War Lion, Stabia were victorious, winning the game 6–0. In Castellammare di Stabia
Castellammare di Stabia
Castellammare di Stabia is a comune in the province of Naples, Campania region, southern Italy. It is situated on the Bay of Naples about 30 kilometers southeast of Naples, on the route to Sorrento.-History:...

 a club was founded during August 1919, called Sport Club War, this was merged with Stabia S.C. by 1920.

Stabia were entered into the Italian Football Championship 1921–22
Italian Football Championship 1921-22 (C.C.I.)
Italian Football Championship 1921-22 was formed during the summer of 1921, as a result of a dispute between the Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio and the main teams....

 in the Confederazione Calcistica Italiana variation, here they competed against the top clubs from the Campania region. The club finished 6th out of seven clubs, the most memorable result of which was a 4–0 victory away against Salernitana
Salernitana Calcio 1919
Salerno Calcio, or simply Salerno is an Italian association football club from Salerno, Campania.The club is not the legitimate heir of the former Salernitana Calcio 1919, but there is however a sports continuity between the two companies thanks to Article 52 NOIF of FIGC, and the fact that they...

. They returned the following season in 1922–23, where the Campania section was down to five teams; they finished 3rd in their region, behind Savoia and Internaples
S.S.C. Napoli
Società Sportiva Calcio Napoli, commonly referred to as Napoli, is a professional Italian football club based in Naples and founded in 1926. The club has spent most of its history in Serie A, where it currently plays its 2011–12 season....

, thus meaning they did not go any further in the competition that season.

Around this period Scarselli, Coppola and Pausano obtained the land for Stabia where the Stadio Romeo Menti
Stadio Romeo Menti
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would much later be built. After playing at the top level of the Italian Championship, they spent some time in the Seconda Categoria and then in 1929 they dropped down to the third level of Italian football. Here they bounced between the third level and the amateurs.

The 1936–37 season was a successful one for the club, they went through the season undefeated and won the Prima Divisione, the Coppa di Natale and the Direttoriwhich waso Regionale; the latter of achieved with a 5–1 victory over Casertana
A.S.D. Caserta Calcio
Football Club Casertana 1908 is an Italian football club, based in Caserta, Campania. It currently plays in Serie D. The club was founded in 1908 as Robur Caserta and became known as Unione Sportiva Casertana from 1928 until 2005, when the team was cancelled by the federation. The club was...

. Around this period, Stabia joined the organization Ludi Fascisti Stabiesi, the president was the Amilcare Sciarretta, a civil employee of the Banca d'Italia
Banca d'Italia
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.

AS Juventus Stabia

A second sporting club was founded in the town by Salvatore Russo during 1937; it was named Associazione Sportiva Juventus Stabia. The Juventus part of the name is taken from the famous Turin club Juventus
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...

, who were particularly successful during the early part of the 1930s; the word is latin
Latin
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 for youth.

Current squad

As of 31 August 2011

Honours

  • Serie C
    • Champions: 1950–51

  • Lega Pro Prima Divisione
    • Promoted: 2010-11 (After Play-Offs)

  • Lega Pro Seconda Divisione
    • Champions: 1992–93 (Serie C2), 2009-10

  • Coppa Italia Lega Pro
    • Winners: 2010-11

  • 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...

    • Promoted: 1971–72, 1978–79, 1990–91, 2003–04

  • Coppa Italia Serie D
    Coppa Italia Serie D
    Coppa Italia Serie D is a straight knock-out based competition involving teams from Serie D in Italian football. All games, including the final, are on a home/away basis...

    • Winners: 2003–04

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