ASD Nocerina 1910

ASG Nocerina
	ASG Nocerina
Basic data
Surname	Associazione Sportiva Giovanile Nocerina
Seat	Nocera Inferiore
founding	1910
Colours	black red
Website	asgnocerina.it
First soccer team
Venue	San Francesco d'Assisi Stadium
Places	6852
league	Eccellenza
2014/15	7th place
home	Away

Associazione Sportiva Giovanile Nocerina is an Italian football club from Nocera Inferiore , Province of Salerno in the Campania region . The club was founded in 1910 and plays its home games in the Stadio San Francesco d'Assisi , which can seat 6,852 spectators. ASG Nocerina currently plays in the fifth-rate Eccellenza , after having been second-rate at times after being promoted from the Lega Pro Prima Divisione in 2011 .

history

Beginnings

The association Associazione Sportiva Giovanile Nocerina , or ASG Nocerina for short , was founded in 1910. The club, which originally comprised football , theater , cycling and various smaller sports, made its first game only a short time after it was founded. Against FBC Pagani a 1-0 win was achieved. In 1919 the first derby between ASG Nocerina and Salernitana Calcio took place, which Salerno won 2-1. Overall, Nocerina played in the lower leagues of Italian football in those early years. In 1929, the native Hungarian Ernő Erbstein , who had previously coached the first division club AS Bari , became the coach of ASG Nocerina. Although Erbstein that years later, the great team of AC Turin train and in 1949 the Superga air disaster , he should be killed, was only a year coach Nocerina, is probably still the most famous coach of the club.

Between Serie B and amateur football

After long years in lower Italian leagues, AG Nocerina, pronounced Associazione Giovanile Nocerina , rose like the club from its foundation on February 1, 1910 until 1988, when one after the other in AC Nocerina , Polisportiva Nocera Superiore , US Nocerina and finally in ASG Nocerina was renamed, was called, succeeded in 1947 promotion to Serie B , the second highest division in Italian football. However, as twelfth in the table, they immediately relegated. After the sixth place in Serie C was reached in 1948/49 and the promotion was missed, Nocerina had to go into the promozione in 1950, because the Italian federation did not get a license for the fourth-class Serie D , in which one relegated from a sporting point of view would.

ASG Nocerina player in March 2008

The AG Nocerina spent many years in amateur football. It was not until 1973 that Nocerina succeeded in getting promoted to the third highest Italian football league with a first place in the Girona G of Serie D. There the club was fourth straight away and was able to establish itself in Serie C in the following years. In 1977/78 the team took first place in the Girona C due to the better goal difference with equal points compared to Catania Calcio and rose to Serie B - for the first time in 31 years. In the first season, which you spent again in the second division, AG Nocerina was third from bottom and had to start again in the third division, together with renowned clubs such as US Foggia and FC Varese . Only four years after relegation from Serie B, the team of AG Nocerina had to relegate to Serie C2, today's Lega Pro Seconda Divisione , and in the following years always shuttled between third and fourth league.

In 1988 ASG Nocerina went bankrupt and had to restart in the Campania Regionalliga , the Promozione Kampania. The return of the club to Serie C2 lasted until 1994, after having had to go through some promotions, but also setbacks due to crashes in the provincial leagues like Eccelenza. After returning to the C2 series, Nocerina was first in the Girona C of the C2 series and rose again to the third division. There, too, the club was able to continue its series of successes and ended up in a respectable third place. In relegation games for promotion to Serie B, however, you failed to Ascoli Calcio . In 1998 they were in the relegation final for promotion to the second division, but were subject to Ternana Calcio . In the season before and in the seasons after that, Nocerina played against relegation and was only able to secure relegation in Serie C1 after relegation playouts, in which they played until 2003.

Development since 2002

In the 2002/03 season, ASG Nocerina almost managed to get back into Serie C1, but the club failed in promotion playoffs at FC Catanzaro . Until 2007, the club played in the lower climes of the C2 series, before they had to relegate to the fourth-class Serie D in that year. The direct resurgence was missed after losing in the promotion playoffs against US Siracusa . In 2009 the leap into the Lega Pro Seconda Divisione succeeded again by a second place in the Girona H of the Serie D and won promotion games. There the ASG Nocerina played well and was able to celebrate promotion to the Lega Pro Seconda Divisione after the 2009/10 season . This dominated the club 2010/11 and was by a large margin first of the Girona B with eleven points ahead of Benevento Calcio . With that, ASG Nocerina was promoted to Serie B. A short time later, the club won the Supercoppa di Lega di Prima Divisione against AS Gubbio in 1910 .

After returning to the second division, however, things were no longer as successful for the ASG Nocerina team. Already at the beginning of the 2011/12 Serie B season, the team played against the direct relegation, but could not prevent this despite two coach changes (promotion coach Gaetano Auteri was replaced by Salvatore Campilongo and inherited him again a few weeks later). After 42 game days, ASG Nocerina rose after a 0-1 defeat on the last day of the game against Pescara Calcio in 20th place together with Vicenza Calcio , UC AlbinoLeffe and AS Gubbio. Thus, the Campanian club has played in Italy's third-highest division again since 2012.

League exclusion

In November 2013 there was a scandal game in the derby at US Salernitana . After fanatical fans of Nocerina were not admitted to the game, they asked the team not to play. There were massive threats to the players. Right at the start of the game, Nocerina substituted three players, and by the 21st minute five more players had left the field due to alleged injuries, so the referee had to abandon the game. The club was punished with relegation and a fine of 10,000 euros. Furthermore, the coaches were banned for three and a half years and five players for a year.

Stadion

The Stadio San Francesco d'Assisi .

The stadium of San Francesco d'Assisi in Nocera Inferiore serves as the venue for home games for ASG Nocerina . The stadium was built in 1970 and opened in 1973. In 1978 the first construction work with an expansion of the sports facility took place after the then AG Nocerina had moved up to the second-class Serie B. The stadium was renovated for the second time in 1986, the north curve was built in 2006 and the tartan track was renewed after 20 years.

The Stadio San Francesco now has space for 6,852 spectators, making it one of the smaller Serie B stadiums to which ASG Nocerina was promoted in the 2011/12 season. It is therefore to be expected that expansion work will take place soon. The record setting in the stadium was achieved when 15,000 spectators watched a second division game between AG Nocerina and CFC Genoa in 1979 . The biggest event so far in the Stadio San Francesco d'Assisi was the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1992.