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This article is about the italian football league. For its brazilian counterpart, see Campeonato Brasileiro Série C Football league
Serie C ( italian pronunciation : [ ˈsɛːrje ˈtʃi ] [ 1 ] ) is the third-highest division in the italian football league system after the Serie B and Serie A. The Lega Italiana Calcio Professionistico ( Lega Pro ) is the governing body that runs the Serie C. The union of the Lega Pro Prima Divisione and the Lega Pro Seconda Divisione as Lega Pro Divisione Unica ( much besides abbreviated as Lega Pro ) in 2014 [ 2 ] reintroduced the format of the original Serie C that existed between 1935 and 1978 ( before the split into Serie C1 and Serie C2 ). On 25 May 2017 the Lega Pro assembly unanimously approved the return to the original name of the competition to Serie C. [ 3 ]

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A third division above the regional leagues was first base created in Italy in 1926, when fascist authorities decided to reform the major championships on a national basis, increasing the number of teams participating by promoting many regional teams from the Third Division ( Terza Divisione ) to the Second Division ( Seconda Divisione ). A raw league running this second base Division, the Direttorio Divisioni Inferiori Nord ( Northern Directory of Lower Divisions ) was set up in Genoa, while football natural process in the southerly part of the country was run by the Direttorio Divisioni Inferiori Sud which former became the Direttorio Meridionale ( Southern Directory ). These leagues did not last long ; after another reform they were disbanded between 1930 and 1931. Some bigger clubs who owned big pitches with dimensions of 100×60 metres were promoted to the First Division ( Prima Divisione ) ; a league defined and structured as the “ National Championship ”. The Second Division had no relegations to regional leagues as most were reelected at the begin of each new season. once a critical brink was reached the italian confederation decided to close the two leagues and move all teams to the “ Direttori Regionali ” ( Regional Committees ) so that the labor-intensive job of organization was delegated to more effective and unionize regional staff. The most successful teams coming from the second Divisions in 5 years ( from 1926–27 to 1930–31 ) composed 6 ever-growing sections of the First Division ( Prima Divisione ) which at the begin had just a few teams in just one incision from southern Italy. This backing was organized by the same league governing Serie A and Serie B ( the “ Direttorio Divisioni Superiori ” ), even if, as opposed to the two higher divisions, it was structured in local groups with geographic criteria. The phone number of clubs belonging to the Prima Divisione continued to increase every year, until FIGC decided to rename it Serie C ( at the beginning of the 1935–36 temper ) while a subsequent boastfully reduction in 1948 led to the universe of a sole national division in 1952–53. The reform that created the actual league was decided by Bruno Zauli in 1959 as he built on the incomplete solve started by the former president of the united states Ottorino Barassi to make professional football fully recognised and organised. While Lega Calcio had a stated mission of organising master and national divisions, the new Lega Nazionale Semiprofessionisti based in Florence had to regulate the two semiprofessional and subnational divisions : Serie C and Serie D, with the first one adopting a format of three groups of 20 teams each. In 1978 the semiprofessional sector was abolished ; Serie D became an amateurish section while Serie C was divided into two professional divisions ( Serie C1 and Serie C2 ), and the league changed its identify to Lega Professionisti Serie C. On 20 June 2008, the league was restructured and took its stream mention Lega Italiana Calcio Professionistico. After the league reform of 2014, the two former divisions of Lega Pro Prima Divisione and Lega Pro Seconda Divisione were ultimately merged into a new league ; the Lega Pro Divisione Unica or more colloquially addressed as fair Lega Pro. This is the league structure presently in operation ; comprising 60 teams that are divided geographically in three groups of 20 each. At the end of each season, four teams are promoted to Serie B ( three group winners, plus one coming from a promotion playoff involving the three group runner-up ). meanwhile, nine teams are relegated to Serie D : the last-placed team from each group go down directly, whereas teams between 16th and 19th from each group place play a delegating playoff ( formally referred to as play-out ), with the two losing teams from each group besides relegated. In May 2017, the Lega Pro forum unanimously approved the render to the original name Serie C. [ 3 ] The 2017–18 Serie C season includes 19 teams in each of the three divisions after adjustments were made for exclude clubs. [ 4 ]

Homegrown players [edit ]

To encourage the development of homegrown players, all Lega Pro clubs were capped to use no more than 16 players in their squads that were older than 23 years of historic period ( in 2019–20 temper, musician born before 1 January 1997 ), plus two wildcard for hanker serving players of the clubs. The clubs could use an inexhaustible numbers of under-23 players. [ 5 ]

Clubs [edit ]

2021–22 members [edit ]

Group A ( North ) [edit ]

10 teams from Lombardy, 3 teams from Veneto, 2 teams from Emilia-Romagna, 2 teams from Piedmont, 2 teams from Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and 1 team from Friuli Venezia Giulia .

Group B ( Centre ) [edit ]

7 teams from Tuscany, 4 teams from Emilia-Romagna, 3 teams from Marche, 2 teams from Abruzzo, 1 team from Lazio, 1 team from Liguria, 1 team from Sardinia and 1 team from Umbria.

Group C ( South ) [edit ]

6 teams from Apulia, 4 teams from Campania, 3 teams from Sicily, 2 teams from Basilicata, 2 teams from Calabria, 2 team from Lazio and 1 team from Molise .

Seasons in Serie C [edit ]

This is the complete list of the clubs that took part in the 38 Serie C seasons played from the 1935–36 season until the 1977–78 season ( engagement in the editions of the 1945–46, 1946–47 and 1947–48 seasons, championships that due to World War II, are excluded from the list as they were divided into two wholly freelancer leagues ), the three Lega Pro seasons played from the 2014–15 season until the 2016–17 season, and from the 2017–18 temper. The teams in bold compete in Serie C in the stream season .

Champions [edit ]

For Serie C1 and Lega Pro Prima Divisione winners, see Lega Pro Prima Divisione and for Serie C2 and Lega Pro Seconda Divisione winners, see Lega Pro Seconda Divisione between 1978–79 and 2013–14

Notes [edit ]

^ Refounded in 2014 in a one group as Lega Pro ; renamed in 2017 as Serie C .