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Associazione Sportiva Avellino 1912 (formerly Unione Sportiva Avellino and Avellino Calcio.12 S.S.D.), since summer 2010, is the new name of the 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 Avellino

Avellino

Avellino is a town and comune, capital of the province of Avellino in the Campania region of southern Italy. It is situated in a plain surrounded by mountains 42 km north-east of Naples and is an important hub on the road from Salerno to Benevento.-History:Before the Roman conquest, the...

, Campania

Campania

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. The club was founded in 1912 and its traditional colours are green and white. Avellino are nicknamed the "Lupi", which means wolves, and their club crest displays a wolfs head.

After relegation from 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...

at the end of the 2008–09 season

Serie B 2008-09

The 2008–09 Serie B season was the seventy-seventh since its establishment. A total of 22 teams will contest the league, 15 of which will be returning from the 2007–08 season, four of which will have been promoted from Serie C1 , and three relegated from Serie A.-Teams:Noted teams featured in the...

the club was not admitted due to financial troubles and had to start again 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...

as Avellino Calcio.12 S.S.D..

After gaining promotion during the 2010-11 season, they currently play in Lega Pro Prima Divisione group A.

Foundation

The club was founded as U.S. Avellino during 1912 to give the town of Avellino

Avellino

a footballing representative. The early history of the club is quite obscure as they only competed at a lower level against regional sides. Avellino competed in IV Divisione from 1913 until after the Second World War; today's equivalent of that level is Serie D

Serie D

Post-War emergence

For the earlier part of their history the club did not achieve anything of note, until being placed 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...

for the 1945–46 post-War season. In the 1946–47 season they narrowly missed out on getting through to the interregional final, after finishing third in their group.

Avellino beat out the likes of Catania

Calcio Catania

Calcio Catania is an Italian football club founded in 1908 and based in Catania, Sicily. The club has spent much of its history in Serie B, gaining promotion to Italy's top league Serie A five times...

, Reggina

Reggina Calcio

Reggina Calcio are an Italian association football club, the main club of the city of Reggio Calabria. Founded in 1914, they currently play in the Italian Serie B, and play their home matches at the 27,763 seater Stadio Oreste Granillo...

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...

to win promotion to Serie B

Serie B

at the end of the 1940s. However, the club were accused of match fixing

Match fixing

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and the federation decided to strip them of their promotion, instead relegating them down to Serie D

Serie D

. Although they were able to return to Serie C after one season, Avellino were relegated back down to spend six seasons in a row at Serie D level.

Eventually Avellino returned, but in the space of six seasons, Avellino gained promotion to Serie C in three of them and were relegated back down twice.

Rise

Avellino were promoted to Serie B

Serie B

in 1973 and Serie A in 1978. A truly remarkable feat for a southern provincial side was a 10-year stay in Serie A between 1978 and 1988, with the club holding a mid-table place for the majority of that period. Their best finish was 8th in 1987, with a team starring Angelo Alessio

Angelo Alessio

Angelo Alessio is a professional Italian football coach and a former player.-External links:*...

, Paolo Benedetti, Franco Colomba

Franco Colomba

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and Dirceu

Dirceu

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. The club has tended to shift between Serie B and C1 in the years since.

More recently, the club marked a Serie B

Serie B

return after defeating neighbours Napoli

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....

in the Serie C1/B play-off finals. An unsuccessful 2005–06 campaign ended in a loss on relegation playoffs to Albinoleffe

U.C. AlbinoLeffe

Unione Calcio AlbinoLeffe is an Italian association football club based in Leffe and also representing the town of Albino, in the Province of Bergamo, Lombardy. AlbinoLeffe plays its home games at the Atleti Azzurri d'Italia stadium, in the city of Bergamo, and its official colors are dark blue and...

(0–2, 3–2). The 2006–07 season, with Giuseppe Galderisi

Giuseppe Galderisi

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as head coach, then replaced by Giovanni Vavassori

Giovanni Vavassori

Giovanni Vavassori is an Italian football manager and former centre back, last in charge of Verona.-Playing:...

, ended in a second place in the Serie C1/B regular season; this was then followed by a successful campaign in the promotion playoffs, in which Avellino defeated Foggia

U.S. Foggia

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in the finals, being therefore promoted to Serie B once again. However, this was followed by Vavassori's resignations on 16 July 2007, shortly after his confirmation as Avellino boss, being then replaced by Maurizio Sarri

Maurizio Sarri

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two days later. Sarri himself resigned one month later, being replaced by Guido Carboni

Guido Carboni

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and later Alessandro Calori

Alessandro Calori

Alessandro Calori is an Italian association football coach and former player.-Playing:A product of Arezzo's youth system, Calori made his professional debut in 1985 with Serie C team Montevarchi, where he spent four season...

. Despite this, the club did not manage to escape relegation, ending the season in 19th place. The club was however readmitted to Serie B later on to fill a league vacancy created by Messina

F.C. Messina Peloro

's disbandment.

Relegation and exclusion from Lega Pro

The team finished second from bottom in the 2008–09 season

Serie B 2008-09

and was therefore relegated. On 9 July 2009, the Covisoc (Commissione di Vigilanza sulle Società Calcistiche, Vigilancy Commission on Football Clubs) organization announced that the team did not pass the financial requirements in order to be admitted to the league. The club was allowed to appeal the decision until 11 July 2009. On July 11, Avellino

U.S. Avellino

Associazione Sportiva Avellino 1912 , since summer 2010, is the new name of the Italian football club, based in Avellino, Campania. The club was founded in 1912 and its traditional colours are green and white...

failed to appeal the exclusion.

Restart from serie D

The team become Avellino Calcio.12 S.S.D. restarts from Serie D, finishing 5th, but August 4, 2010 they were later admitted to Lega Pro Seconda Divisione to fill vacancies. This ordeal saw them become the latest in a long line of Italian clubs that have faced severe financial difficulties, such as Napoli and Fiorentina.

From Lega Pro Seconda Divisione to Prima Divisione

In the 2010–11 season the team became Associazione Sportiva Avellino 1912 and played in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione finishing 4th, being defeated by Trapani in the play-off final, but August 4, 2011 it was later admitted to Lega Pro Prima Divisione, again, to fill vacancies..

Current squad

As of 1st September, 2011

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Honours

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....
Champions: 2002–03
Runners-up: 1994–95, 2004–05, 2006–07
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....
Runners-up: 1972–73

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