Potenza Calcio
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| Surname | Potenza Calcio | ||
| Seat | Potenza | ||
| founding | 1919 2004 2012 |
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| president |
 Salvatore Caiata
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| Website | calciopotenza.eu | ||
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| Head coach |
Domenico Giacomarro
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| Venue | Alfredo Viviani Stadium | ||
| Places | 5,500 | ||
| league | Series C , Group C | ||
| 2018/19 | 5th place | ||
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The Potenza Calcio is an Italian football club from Potenza . The club was founded in 1919 and plays its home games in the Stadio Alfredo Viviani , which can seat 5,500 spectators. Potenza FC has played in Serie B for five years and is currently in Serie C , the third-highest division in Italy .
history
The Potenza Football Club was founded in 1919 in the city of Potenza , with today about 67,000 inhabitants in the region of Basilicata in southern Italy located, founded. As a result, there were no activities in the league until 1933. Only in the year mentioned did the then SC Lucano join league games. The first qualification for Serie C soon succeeded , where one could find twelve seasons from 1935 to 1949. After having slipped into the deepest local football in between, the club initially managed to return to Serie D in 1959 and two years later to rise again to Serie C. There, the club, now renamed Potenza Sport Club , quickly established itself and took part in the 1961/62 season equaled third place in its season. In 1963 they became first of the Girone C of the C series with six points ahead of Trapani Calcio , which meant the first promotion of Potenza SC to the B series . The most successful years in the club's history began with this rise.
Under coach Egizio Rubino , Potenza established himself in the second division and reached a surprising ninth place in the table in his first season. The following year they even finished fifth and missed promotion to Serie A by only three points over SPAL Ferrara . During that season, Potenza SC had a young attacker, Roberto Boninsegna , who later became a controversial star player at Inter Milan and took part in two football World Cups . After the successful 1964/65 season, the successful coach Rubino left the club and moved to Foggia Incedit , his successor being Renato Lucchi . With eleventh place in the 1965/66 series B, another respectable result was achieved. A year later they finished eighth. The 1967/68 season, however, was less positive for Potenza SC. The club bobbed around in the table basement from the start of the season and found itself in last place after forty match days. A mere 23 points meant relegation to third division.
After relegation to Serie C, Potenza SC did not get good placements there either. Only five years after relegation from Serie B you had to move into fourth class. The immediate resurgence followed, but they couldn't stay in Series C for long. In general, the club alternated between third, fourth and fifth class in the following years. In 1986 they were finally bankrupt, the first new club from Potenza followed. After restarting regional football , they returned to Serie C1 in 1992 , played there for two years and went bankrupt again in 1994. Regional football followed in Potenza for many years before the club, now renamed ASC Potenza , returned to Serie C2 in 2004 . Three years later, the promotion to the C1 series was clear. After relegation from the Lega Pro Prima Divisione 2010, Potenza had to file for bankruptcy again, accompanied by the renewed restart in the Eccellenza Lucana. From there, they slowly worked their way up again, so that today's Potenza Calcio has been back in the now third-rate Series C since 2018.
successes
- Promotion to Serie B : 1 × (1962/63)
