SS Matera Calcio

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Matera Calcio
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Basic data
Surname Società Sportiva Matera Calcio
Seat Matera
founding 1933
president ItalyItaly Saverio Columella
Website materacalcio.it
First soccer team
Head coach ItalyItaly Pasquale Padalino
Venue Stadio XXI Settembre-Franco Salerno
Places 7,500
home
Away

The Società Sportiva Matera Calcio is an Italian football club from Matera . The club was founded in 1933 and plays its home games in the Stadio XXI Settembre-Franco Salerno , which can seat 7,500 spectators. Matera has played in Serie B for a year so far and is currently in the Lega Pro , the third highest division in Italy .

history

The Società Sportiva Matera Calcio was founded in 1933 in the city of Matera , which now has around 60,000 inhabitants in the region of Basilicata in southern Italy , fourteen years after the Potenza FC , the largest city in Basilicata, had created its main club, with which itself Matera's football club was to share a mutual rivalry throughout its existence. At the beginning the club was called US Matera , only three years later it became AS Matera . In 1948 the name was changed to AS Matera Calcio , followed ten years later by the name change to Libertas Matera . This name did not last long either, after the end of the 1963/64 season the club took on the name FBC Matera . The most successful period of football in Matera finally fell under this name.

In the years after the association was founded Matera played for many years at the regional level football and could not on the successes of the Association of Potenza build that many years in the series C spent. The FBC Matera rose to this league for the first time in 1968. After three years in Serie D , in the 1967/68 season they took first place in Girone G with a lead of four points over AC Savoia 1908 and made the first leap into the third division. There the FBC Matera was able to establish itself and stayed in this league for seven years. After relegation to Serie D in 1975, the immediate return succeeded, and they established themselves again in the third highest division. In the 1978/79 season, the team of coach Francesco Di Benedetto took first place in Girone B of Serie C1 and, due to the better goal difference compared to SC Pisa , made it to Serie B for the first time . And when they arrived in the second class, Matera immediately caused a sensation. A 1-1 draw at CFC Genoa was followed by a 1-0 win against AS Taranto . Over time, however, the performance of FBC Matera deteriorated and at the end of the season only the last place in the table was on the books. In 38 league games they only came to 26 points and had to go back to the C1 series together with the US Sambenedettese , Ternana Calcio and AC Parma .

In series C1, too, the FBC Matera suddenly no longer knew how to convince and was passed straight through to series C2 . You could be found there until 1987, before a new start in regional football followed with bankruptcy. In 1991 Matera returned to the C2 series and two years later even made it to the C1 series, from which they were relegated again. In 1997 Matera was broke again and had to relegate again. After the re-establishment, Matera returned relatively quickly to Serie D and became a permanent guest in this league. Only in 2014 was another class change due. The club, which has now been renamed SS Matera Calcio , was first in the Girone H of Serie D with two points ahead of Taranto and thus secured itself the return to the third division, which is now running under the name Lega Pro .

successes

  • Series D : 3 × (1967/68, 1975/76, 2013/14)
  • Campionato Interregional : 1 × (1990/91)
  • Coppa Italia Serie D : 1 × (2009/10)

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