Английская Википедия:Catania FC
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Catania Football Club, commonly known as Catania, is an Italian football club based in the city of Catania, Sicily, that plays in Serie C.
Originally founded in 1908 as Associazione Sportiva pro Educazione Fisica, the club boasts 17 appearances in the top flight, reaching eighth place in Serie A on four occasions: during the early 1960s and again in 2012–13.Шаблон:Clarify It is the 12th most popular team in Italy, with around 600,000 fans.[1] The club also went on a number of dissolutions and refoundations, the last happening in 2022.
History
Origins (1901–1908)
Crews of English cargo ships brought football to Sicily.Шаблон:Citation needed Specifically, the earliest Catania team can be traced to a match that took place on 2 May 1901 at San Raineri di Messina against Messina Football Club; the team was Royal Yacht Catania, an English ship with a local Catanian crew.[2]
The ship workers' team was a pastime, and Catania's first professional football club was founded on 19 June 1908 by Italian film director Gaetano Ventimiglia and Francesco Sturzo d'Aldobrando, who founded the club under the name A.S. Educazione Fisica Pro Patria.Шаблон:Citation needed Early on, they would play against sailors visiting the port of Catania, foreign ships in particular.Шаблон:Citation needed Though their first ever match was against the Italian battleship Шаблон:Ship, the game ended in a 1–1 draw and the Catania line-up that day consisted of Vassallo, Gismondo, Bianchi, Messina, Slaiter, Caccamo, Stellario, Binning, Cocuzza, Ventimiglia and Pappalardo.Шаблон:Citation needed Just two years later, the club was renamed to Unione Sportiva Catanese.[3]
Foundation (1908–1943)
In northern Italy, football was more organised and clubs in the area competed in the early Italian Football Championships, while the southern clubs competed in competitions such as the Lipton, Sant' Agata, and Agordad cups.Шаблон:Citation needed US Catanese survived World War I, and after that, played in the local Coppa Federale Siciliana.Шаблон:Citation needed Seven seasons later, in 1927, they were promoted to the Campionato Catanese, later winning in the 1928–29 season.Шаблон:Citation needed As they gained promotion, the team entered the Second Division, but the fascist reform of Italian football dictated the disbandment of Catanese and the establishment of Società Sportiva Catania on 27 June 1929.[4] The new club first competed in Serie B in the 1934–35 season,[5] where they finished fourth; that year, Genoa won the Serie B title.
Catania played in the league for three seasons during this period before ultimately being relegated.Шаблон:Citation needed Down in Serie C, Catania was crowned the champion in the 1938–39 season, finishing above Sicilian rivals Siracusa and Messina, who came in second and third place respectively.Шаблон:Citation needed The club finished bottom of the league in Serie B and won only three games that season.Шаблон:Citation needed The club's name was briefly changed to Associazione Calcio Fascista Catania during the 1942–43 season in Serie C,Шаблон:Citation needed which ended prematurely due to World War II.
Rebirth (1945–1949)
After World War II ended, a local competition was organised, the Campionato Siciliano. At the end of that season, a local team named Elefante Catania[6] was merged into the club. The merged club kept the Catanese name and competed in Serie C during the 1945–46 season, but finished last. In the same league that season, a team called Virtus Catania competed with them, finishing eighth.[7]
At the end of the season, Catanese and Virtus merged to form Club Calcio Catania, with the club's first president as Santi Manganaro-Passanisi, who had previously been president of Catanese.Шаблон:Citation needed They were promoted to Serie C, where they spent three seasons.Шаблон:Citation needed After a duel with Reggina for first place in the league, Catania gained a promotion to Serie B for the 1948–49 season.Шаблон:Citation needed
Golden years (1953–1965)
The late 1950s–1960s are considered the golden yearsШаблон:Tone inline for the Catanian club, as they managed to achieve a promotion to Serie A on two occasions during this time.Шаблон:Citation needed Their first promotion from Serie B came when, during the 1953–54 season, they beat Cagliari and Lombardy side Pro Patria and were crowned champions of the division.Шаблон:Citation needed Their first season in Serie A saw the club achieve a respectable 12th-place finish, but the club was forcibly relegated due to financial scandals, as were Udinese Calcio.Шаблон:Citation needed
Under the management of Carmelo Di Bella, who had played for the club in the late 1930s, Catania gained promotion from Serie B in the 1959–60 season.Шаблон:Citation needed Catania had lost their final game 4–2 to Brescia and needed Parma to get a good result against Triestina for the Sicilian club to secure promotion.Шаблон:Citation needed That is exactly what happened, and Catania had gained a promotion.Шаблон:Citation needed
Catania returned into Serie A for the 1960–61 season to begin what would be a six-year stay in the league.Шаблон:Citation needed The newly promoted club finished in eighth above top Italian clubs such as Lazio and Napoli.Шаблон:Citation needed This season produced several notable wins; they beat Napoli and Bologna twice, Sampdoria 3–0 at home, and most notably, Milan 4–3 in Sicily.Шаблон:Citation needed Additionally, on the final day of the season, they beat Internazionale 2–0, with goals from Castellazzi and Calvanese.Шаблон:Citation needed Inter lost the closely contested title that year to Juventus.Шаблон:Citation needed
Four years later, in 1965, Catania would also finish eighth in the league, this time above Roma and Sicilian rivals Messina.Шаблон:Citation needed Many of the club's most notable stars played around this time, such as midfielders Alvaro Biagini and the Brazilian Chinesinho, along with wingers Carlo Facchin and Giancarlo Danova in the side.Шаблон:Citation needed Catania won against Juventus (2–0), Fiorentina (2–0), and Lazio (1–0).Шаблон:Citation needed
Decline (1966–1984)
After Catania's relegation in 1966, Carmelo Di Bella left and the club stayed in Serie B, later playing with Palermo in the Sicilian derby before the Palermitan club was promoted.Шаблон:Citation needed Catania followed in 1969–70 with a third-place finish, gaining a promotion.Шаблон:Citation needed They were relegated from Serie A after one season.Шаблон:Citation needed In that season, they had a 3–1 win against Lazio and a draw at home against Milan. Catania only scored 18 goals altogether in 30 games.Шаблон:Citation needed
In 1973–74, they were relegated down to Serie C, but were able to get a promotion to Serie B by winning as champions.Шаблон:Citation needed A similar situation occurred in 1976–77, where they were relegated down to Serie C.Шаблон:Citation needed They finished second, and later third, before finally being crowned champions of what was now known as Serie C1 in 1979–80.Шаблон:Citation needed
After three shortШаблон:Why seasons, Catania was promoted after finishing in third place, behind Milan and Lazio, into Serie A.Шаблон:Citation needed They played the 1983–84 season in Italy's top league, only winning once (which came against Pisa) with 12 points.Шаблон:Citation needed
Further decline and revival (1985–2006)
The decline of Catania started after their last relegation to Serie B.Шаблон:Citation needed The team was no longer able to reach the top division of Italian football, and instead continued to decline, remaining in Serie C1 for the latter part of the 1980s.Шаблон:Citation needed In 1993, the team's participation for the year was cancelled by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) due to financial irregularities.Шаблон:Citation needed
After a court session, magistrates declared the FIGC's decision as invalid, thus forcing it to include Catania back into the footballing foldШаблон:Tone inline for the year.Шаблон:Citation needed Catania was included in the Sicilian Eccellenza (the sixth tier of Italian football).Шаблон:Citation needed In the meantime, another Sicilian football team, Atletico Leonzio, from Lentini (in the Province of Syracuse), had been relocated in the city and renamed Atletico Catania.Шаблон:Citation needed Despite all of this, the real Catania was able to promote back to Serie C in a short amount of time,Шаблон:WhenШаблон:Vague later back to Serie B in 2002.Шаблон:Citation needed
In 2003, Catania was at the centre of a controversy that led to the enlargement of Serie B from 20 to 24 teams, known as Caso Catania.Шаблон:Citation needed The club claimed that Siena fielded an ineligible player in a 1–1 tie, a result which saw Catania relegated, whereas the two extra points from a victory would have kept them safe.Шаблон:Citation needed They were awarded a 2–0 victory before the result was reverted because the guilty player was a substitute which did not play the match; Catania appealed to the judges of the Autonomous Region of Sicily, who evaluated the victory.Шаблон:Citation needed In August, the FIGC decided to let Catania, along with Genoa and Salernitana, stay in Serie B; the newly reborn Fiorentina was also added for the 2003–04 season.Шаблон:Citation needed The ruling led to protests and boycotts by the other Serie B clubs that delayed the start of the season, until the intervention of the Italian government.Шаблон:Citation needed
The league was reduced to 22 teams for 2004–05, while at the same time, Serie A expanded from 18 to 20 teams.Шаблон:Citation needed During the start of that season, Antonino Pulvirenti, chairman of the flight company Windjet and owner of Sicilian Serie C1 team Acireale, bought the club.Шаблон:Citation needed Catania's new ownership revived the team, and in 2005–06, Catania ended in second place, earning a promotion to Serie A.Шаблон:Citation needed
Return to Serie A (2006–2013)
The 2006–07 season had Catania in Serie A for its first appearance in 22 years.Шаблон:Citation needed In their first year back, their home form saw them peak as high as fourth place after 20 games.Шаблон:Citation needed
Their return season changed drastically on 2 February 2007, due to the 2007 Catania football violence incident. It happened during the Sicilian derby with Palermo, where policeman Filippo Raciti was killed during football-related violence caused by Catania ultras outside the Stadio Angelo Massimino.[8] The event led FIGC Commissioner Luca Pancalli to cancel all football-related events in the country for a period of time, including league and national team matches.Шаблон:Citation needed Catania chairman and owner Antonino Pulvirenti announced his willingness to leave the football world, stating it was not possible to go on producing football in Catania.Шаблон:Citation needed
After the Italian football league reopened, Catania continued on.Шаблон:VagueШаблон:Citation needed They failed to win for 12 games in a row before beating Udinese 1–0 in late April 2007, where they eventually finished 13th.[9]
The following season, with manager Pasquale Marino leaving for Udinese and Silvio Baldini taking charge of the team, proved to be much harder.Шаблон:Citation needed In the Coppa Italia, Catania reached to the semi-finals, then lost to A.S. Roma.Шаблон:Citation needed Subsequently, Baldini resigned from his post on 31 March 2008, being replaced by Walter Zenga.Шаблон:Citation needed Despite this, Zenga managed to lead the rossazzurri off the relegation zone in a heated final week game, a 1–1 home tie to Roma, with an equaliser goal scored by Jorge Martínez in the 85th minute.Шаблон:Citation needed Zenga was successively confirmed in charge of the team for the upcoming 2008–09 season.Шаблон:Citation needed
On 5 June 2009, Zenga left Catania to be the manager at arch-rival football club Palermo.Шаблон:Citation needed He was replaced by Gianluca Atzori, with one year of experience at Lega Pro Prima Divisione team Ravenna.Шаблон:Citation needed Atzori was noted for using an attacking 4–3–3 formation at Ravenna and was expected to continue a similar approach with the Elefanti.Шаблон:Citation needed
On 8 December 2009, Siniša Mihajlović was appointed new head coach of Catania, taking over Atzori.Шаблон:Citation needed He signed a contract until June 2011, with the Elefanti.Шаблон:Citation needed Arriving at the club that was dead lastШаблон:Tone inline in the Serie A standings, Mihajlović debuted with a loss against Livorno.Шаблон:Citation needed The following week, his team beat Juventus away in Turin with a 2–1 scoreline.Шаблон:Citation needed After Mihajlović's departure to Fiorentina, Catania appointed Marco Giampaolo as new head coach for the 2010–11 season.Шаблон:Citation needed In January 2011, Catania decided to remove Giampaolo from his position due to poor results and replace him with former Argentine football player Diego Simeone, who managed to guide the Sicilians to safety before to part companyШаблон:Clarify by the end of the season, after only four months in charge of the team.Шаблон:Citation needed Later, Catania appointed 37-year-old Vincenzo Montella to replace Simeone at his second managerial experience after having served as caretaker at Roma during the final part of the 2010–11 season.Шаблон:Citation needed
Rolando Maran managed the team in the 2012–13 season, who guided Catania to a record-breaking season where they accrued 56 points from 38 Serie A matches.Шаблон:Citation needed The season also saw Catania take a record number of home wins in one season, its record number of victories overall in a single top flight campaign, as well as its record points total in Serie A for the fifth consecutive season.Шаблон:Citation needed They finished ahead of Internazionale at the conclusion of the season and were just five points away from competing in the UEFA Europa League.Шаблон:Citation needed
Second decline and 2022 bankruptcy (2013–2022)
After being relegated from Serie A after the 2013–14 season, Catania was again relegated to the Lega Pro and was deducted by nine points after.Шаблон:Citation needed During the 2014–15 season, head coach and owner Antonio Pulvirenti admitted to fixing five matches.[10][11]
The club announced that Sport Investment Group Italia S.p.A. (S.I.G.I.) acquired 95.4% of the club's assets on Friday, 24 July 2020.[12] On 16 January 2021, a preliminary purchase agreement was signed, with which a group of investors represented by the American lawyer Joe Tacopina undertook to purchase all shares from SIGI.[13] The takeover never materialized, and on 22 December 2021, the club was declared insolvent and entered administration.Шаблон:Citation needed Following three auctions and a takeover offer by entrepreneur Benedetto Mancini, the club's provisional exercise by the Tribunal of Catania effectively ended on 9 April 2022, leading to its immediate exclusion from the 2021–22 Serie C season.[14] Soon after, the Italian Football Federation formalised the club's exclusion from the Italian professional ranks, and released all of the club's players and non-playing staff.[15]
2022 refoundation (2022–present)
In June 2022, Australian development industry entrepreneur Ross Pelligra, whose mother was born in Catania, was assigned by the city the right to register a new club in the Italian Serie D, in compliance with Article 52 of N.O.I.F.Шаблон:Citation needed He promised to invest economical resources, with the main goal to bring back Catania in Serie A, additionally showing interest in acquiring the Torre Del Grifo training center, built during the Pulvirenti era.[16]
The new club was renamed to Catania Società Sportiva Dilettantistica, with Ross Pelligra as president and Vincenzo Grella as vice-president, was subsequently admitted to the 2022–23 Serie D.Шаблон:Citation needed Catania then went onto finish first in Group I in Serie D and obtain automatic promotion back into Serie C for the 2023-2024 season.Шаблон:Citation needed
Players
Current squad
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Presidential history
Шаблон:Unreferenced section Catania had several presidents over time,Шаблон:WhenШаблон:Vague some of which have been owners or honorary presidents, below is a list of them since 1946:
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Managerial history
Catania had many managers and trainers over time. In some seasons, more than one manager was in charge. Below is a chronological list of them since 1946:[17]
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Stadium information
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- Name: Stadio Angelo Massimino
- Location: Catania
- Capacity: 23,420Шаблон:Citation needed
- Inauguration: 27 November 1937Шаблон:Citation needed
- Pitch Size: 110 x 70 metresШаблон:Citation needed
Catania first made their debut at the Stadio Angelo Massimino, formerly called the Stadio Cibali, in 1937Шаблон:Citation needed. The stadium was renamed in honour of former president Angelo Massimino in 2002; he had been president of the club from 1969 until his death in 1996.Шаблон:Citation needed
It has been proposed that the club would move to a 33,765 seater stadium named Stadio Dèi Palici, which is to be located in the southern outskirts of the city of Catania in an industrial zone called Pantano d'Arci.[18]
Sports centre
Шаблон:Unreferenced section Catania trains at the Torre del Grifo Village sports center, inaugurated on 18 May 2011 and located in the adjacent municipality of Mascalucia.Шаблон:Citation needed Owned by the Etna club, the centre covers an area of 150,000 m2 and has four regulation football fields—two with natural grass and two with synthetic grass—two swimming pools, and four gyms.Шаблон:Citation needed In addition, Torre del Grifo houses the headquarters of Calcio Catania.Шаблон:Citn
Honours
| Competición | Titles |
|---|---|
| Coppa delle Alpi | 1960 (representing FIGC) |
| competition | Titles |
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| Serie B | 1953–54 |
| competition | titles |
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| Prima Divisione | 1933–34 |
| competition | titles |
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| Serie C | 1938–39, 1947–48, 1948–49, 1974–75, 1979,80 |
| competition | titles |
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| Serie C2 | 1998–99 |
| competition | titles |
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| Serie D | 1994–95, 2022–23 |
| competition | titles |
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| Eccellenza | 1993–94 |
important placings
| Coppa delle Alpi | Final |
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| Genoa vs Catania | 1964 |
| Coppa Italia | Semifinal |
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| Roma vs Catania | 2007–08 |
Divisional movements
| Series | Years | Last | Promotions | Relegations |
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| A | 17 | 2013–14 | - | Шаблон:Decrease 5 (1955, 1966, 1971, 1984, 2014) |
| B | 34 | 2014–15 | Шаблон:Increase 5 (1954, 1960, 1970, 1983, 2006) | Шаблон:Decrease 6 (1937, 1940, 1974, 1977, 1987, 2015) |
| C +C2 |
32 +4 |
2021–22 | Шаблон:Increase 6 (1934, 1939, 1949, 1975, 1980, 2002) Шаблон:Increase 1 (1999 C2) |
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| 87 out of 90 years of professional football in Italy since 1929 | ||||
| D | 2 | 1994–95 | Шаблон:Increase 2 (1930, 1995) | never |
| E | 1 | 1993–94 | Шаблон:Increase 1 (1994) | never |
Club records
- Highest League Position: 8th, in the 1960–61 1964–65 and 2012–13 seasons.Шаблон:Citation needed
- Most League Appearances: 281, Damiano Morra between 1975 and 1984.Шаблон:Citation needed
- Most League Goals: 47, Guido Klein and Adelmo Prenna.Шаблон:Citation needed
- Most Serie A Appearances: 150, Giuseppe Vavassori between 1961 and 1966.Шаблон:Citation needed
- Most Serie A Points: 56 points in the 2012–13 seasonШаблон:Citation needed
References
External links
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