Trapani Calcio

Trapani
Full name Trapani Calcio
Nickname(s) Granata (The garnets)
Founded 1905 (1905)
Ground Stadio Polisportivo Provinciale,
Erice, Italy
Ground Capacity 7,000
Chairman Vittorio Morace
Manager Serse Cosmi
League Serie B
2015–16 Serie B, 3rd
Website Club home page

Trapani Calcio is an Italian football club located in Trapani, Sicily. They currently play in Serie B, the 2nd level of Italian football.

They are nicknamed the Granata (the Garnets), after their kit colour.

History

In brief

During the club's history they have played mostly in the Serie C and D leagues. In the 2013–14 season, they played in Serie B for the first time in the club's history.

To date the highest league position the club has finished after the 1929–30 season was 2nd in the third highest level of Italian football, a position the club attained 3 times, in the Prima Divisione during the 1934–35 season,[1] in the Serie C during the 1960–61 season[2] and again during the 1962–63 season.[3]

Before the 1929–30 season, the club played for one season at the then highest level football division in the 1921–22 season,[4] but retired during the championship, forfeiting the last 6 matches.

In recent years, the highest league position the club attained was 4th in the third highest level of Italian football, then called Serie C1, during the 1994–95 season,[5] a result that was bettered in the 2011–12 season when Trapani achieved a second place in the same division. Throughout their long history, Trapani have won at least six recorded league championships in various divisions.

Foundation

The club's roots can be traced back to 1905;[6] on 2 April of that year, local newspaper the Gazzetta di Trapani ran an advert requesting young people to form a football association for Trapani.[7] The club founded, by professor Ugolino Montagna and young native Abele Mazzarese to represent the West-Sicilian town was named Unione Sportiva Trapanese. It is one of the oldest teams on the island, after Palermo and Messina.

U.S. Trapanese's first president was Giuseppe Platamone and the club played their games at Via Spalti. The first official game for the club came against Palermo in October 1908, the more experienced Palermitan team won emphatically scoring 12 goals. The Trapanese bounced back, however, playing local derbys against teams from Marsala and Erice. In 1915 play was stopped because of World War I.

Post-war times

After the war, in 1921 three teams had risen up; Vigor, Bencivegna and Drepanum. During the 1921–22 season Vigor finished 6th in the Sicilian section of the national championship of the C.C.I. (Confederazione Calcistica Italiana). On 22 January 1923 a merger took place between Vigor and Drepanum, the club decided to revive the previous name U.S. Trapanese.

In June 1926, the name of the club was changed to A.S. Trapani. In the 1930–31 season, under the name Juventus Trapani, the club won promotion from III Divisione into II Divisione, the following season they achieved promotion again this time into the early 1930s equivalent of Serie C. They finished 8th in Serie C in the 1942–43 season, but then football in Italy was put on hold for the Second World War.

1940s, 50s and 60s

Just after World War II, the club were using the name A.S. Trapani for one season, before changing its name to A.S. Drepanum. They were entered into Serie C, which, at the time, was divided into many regional groups. For the 1947–48 season, they qualified for the new, smaller Serie C; even finishing above Messina. Unfortunately for the club, they were relegated down to Serie D, in the 1949–50 season after finishing second from bottom.

1990s: peak and decline

With former Serie A player Ignazio Arcoleo as head coach, Trapani experienced two consecutive promotions from Serie D to Serie C1 in the early 1990s.

In 1995, a strong and qualified team composed mostly of young promising players such as Marco Materazzi and more experienced local footballers such as Francesco Galeoto qualified to the promotion play-off, but ultimately lost to Walter Novellino's Gualdo in the semi-finals with a late goal scored on injury time. After that, Trapani experienced a slow but continuous decline, despite attempts to repeat past successes: Arcoleo left Trapani to coach Palermo along some of the best players, including Galeoto. The club then relegated to Serie C2 in 1997, Serie D in 2000 and even Eccellenza in the 2005–06 season, despite a late attempt by Arcoleo and former star Gaetano Vasari to save the team from relegation. In addition, the club also received a 12-points deduction for the 2006–07 season following a matchfixing attempt recognized by the Football Federation. In its 2006–07 Eccellenza campaign, Trapani, coached by former Parma midfielder Tarcisio Catanese, ended the regular season phase to eleventh place, and saved from relegation after having won relegation play-offs to Terrasini in a 5–0 single-legged win. From 2007 onwards Trapani competed in the Serie D with little success.

The Boscaglia years: from Serie D to Serie B

In 2009, chairman Vittorio Morace appointed Roberto Boscaglia as new head coach, with the aim to bring the club back into professionalism; in his first season in charge, Trapani ended as runners-up behind Milazzo. However, later in August, due to the high number of resignations of clubs in the higher ranks, Trapani was admitted into the 2010–11 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione (formerly Serie C2), thus ending the club's 13-year absence from the professional ranks.

In 2010–11, Trapani finished as runners-up in the Lega Pro Seconda Divisione group C, and successively won the promotion play-offs to Lega Pro Prima Divisione. In the first campaign in the third tier, Trapani surprised everyone by topping the league against all odds; an end-of-season crisis, however, led to the Sicilians being overtaken by Spezia in the penultimate week of the season and losing direct promotion. In the subsequent promotion play-offs, Trapani defeated Cremonese in the semi-finals, but then lost a two-legged final to fourth-placed outsiders Lanciano. In the following season, however, Trapani were crowned champions (this time in group A) and finally promoted to Serie B for their first time ever.

Rivalries

Trapani's main rivals are Marsala 1912 and Mazara, respectively from the neighbouring cities of Marsala and Mazara del Vallo. A rivalry with Palermo also exists, but has rarely been contested: Palermo and Trapani briefly played together in Serie C1, and renewed their rivalry in the 2013–14 Serie B campaign.

Honours

Lega Pro Prima Divisione:

Serie C2:

Serie D:

II Divisione:

III Divisione:

Interregionale:

Current squad

As of 31 August 2016.[8]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 Italy GK Guido Guerrieri (on loan from Lazio)
3 Italy DF Antonino Daì
4 Italy DF Luca Pagliarulo (Captain)
5 Italy MF Matteo Scozzarella
6 Italy DF Matteo Legittimo
7 Italy MF Luca Nizzetto
8 Italy DF Giuseppe Figliomeni
9 Romania DF Mihai Bălașa (on loan from Roma)
10 Croatia FW Bruno Petković
11 Italy FW Davis Curiale
12 Italy GK Riccardo Ferrara
13 Italy DF Pasquale Fazio
14 Italy MF Maurizio Ciaramitaro
16 Equatorial Guinea MF José Machín (on loan from Roma)
17 Italy MF Antonino Barillà
No. Position Player
18 Italy FW Nicola Citro
19 Italy FW Andrea Ferretti
20 Brazil MF Igor Coronado
21 Italy DF Lorenzo Carissoni (on loan from Torino)
22 Italy GK Simone Farelli
23 Italy DF Pietro Visconti
24 Italy MF Davide Raffaello
25 Italy FW Luigi Canotto
26 Argentina MF Santiago Colombatto (on loan from Cagliari)
29 Italy DF Simone Rizzato
30 Italy DF Mattia Tumminelli
32 Argentina DF Tiago Casasola (on loan from Roma)
34 Croatia DF Anton Krešić (on loan from Atalanta)
36 Brazil FW Caio De Cenco
37 Italy FW Domenico Mistretta

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
Italy GK Richard Marcone (at Südtirol)
Brazil DF Tulhão (at Lucchese)
No. Position Player
27 Italy MF Giuseppe Fornito (at Catania)
Italy FW Claudio Sparacello (at Südtirol)

Reserves

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
28 Italy MF Giuseppe Vitale
31 Italy FW Sergio Cucchiara
33 Italy FW Samuel Portovenero

Notable former managers

References

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