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Pisa Sporting Club, normally referred to as Pisa, is an italian football club based in Pisa, Tuscany. The team presently plays in Serie B.
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The club was founded in 1909 as Pisa Sporting Club and refounded in 1994 as Pisa Calcio ( and registered in Eccellenza, the regional football division in Italy ), after the cancellation of the former because of economic troubles. It was excluded again from italian football in 2009, after the place failed to collect adequate money to pay off the golf club ‘s debts. [ 2 ] In summer 2009 it was refounded with the appellation A.C. Pisa 1909. Pisa won two Mitropa Cups, in 1986 and 1988. They play their home matches at Arena Garibaldi – Stadio Romeo Anconetani, named after Romeo Anconetani, the chair who brought and led the club in Serie A during the 1980s. In 2016, Giuseppe Corrado bought the golf club and planned the newly Pisa stadium. In January 2021, billionaire Alexander Knaster acquired a 75 % post in the club. [ 3 ]
history [edit ]
Pisa S.C . [edit ]
After forwarding to Serie B in 1965, Pisa took three years to reach Serie A for the first gear time. Despite a weather feat, Pisa was relegated on the final examination day of the 1968–69 season. Spending much of the 1970s in Serie C, Pisa returned to Serie B in 1979 ( by which prison term the club had come under the presidency of the much-loved Romeo Anconetani ) and were promoted to Serie A in 1982, embarking on a time period of six out of nine seasons in Serie A. With danish international Klaus Berggreen among their stars, Pisa managed a credible eleventh home in the 1982–83 Serie A with 27 points and 27 goals scored and conceded in 30 games. The following season brought relegation ( during which they recorded good 3 wins and 16 draws ) with 15,000 fans travelling to Milan for the fateful penult game. promotion followed in 1985, and the team seemed capable of staying up until losing their last three games. The cycle was repeated in 1987, only for a english containing players like Dunga and Paul Elliott to stay up. The stopping point promotion to Serie A was achieved in 1990, and with the talents of players like Maurizio Neri, Michele Padovano and Lamberto Piovanelli up front and Diego Simeone, Henrik Larsen and Aldo Dolcetti in midfield, the side started well and was briefly atop the standings, only to suffer another relegation. delegating brought considerable fiscal strains to the club, and by 1994 they had lost a relegation play-off and were condemned to Serie C1 .
Pisa Calcio [edit ]
Bankruptcy saw Pisa reformed in Eccellenza, only to return to Serie C2 in 1996 and C1 in 1999. Pisa have since worked towards attaining Serie B status, which was achieved in 2007. Their crowd have been among the better in Italy ‘s lower divisions owing to the dedication of their fans. In 2005–06, the team, initially thought to be a protagonist for the promotion, were in continuous struggles, and avoided relegation after playoffs in two dramatic regional derbies against Massese. The 2006–07 season, with new boss Piero Braglia, brought Pisa back to competitiveness for a forwarding spotlight : the nerazzurri ended the regular temper in third position, and finally won the promotion playoffs by defeating Venezia in the semi-finals and Monza in the finals. For the 2007–08 Serie B crusade, the first in 13 years, Giampiero Ventura was named to replace Braglia at the helm of the nerazzurri. Despite initial predictions of a mid-low table space, Pisa ‘s impressive performances brought the team to fight for a direct promotion descry, besides thanks to a advancing line composed by Alessio Cerci, José Ignacio Castillo and Vitali Kutuzov which proved to be among the finest in the league. The club ended the regular temper in sixth put, consequently achieving a spot to the promotion playoffs, where Pisa was later defeated by Lecce.
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In 2008–09, the clubhouse was acquired by Rome entrepreneur Luca Pomponi, who initially failed into appointing Alessandro Costacurta as newfangled heading passenger car, frankincense confirming Ventura as nerazzurri foreman. The club, which was weakened by the departures of Cerci, Castillo, Kutuzov and several other players, did not manage to repeat its performances, with Ventura being ultimately sacked in March 2009, with the club in mid-table station. The appointment of Bruno Giordano, which was made to improve the team results, however proved to be disappoint in terms of results, as Pisa slowly lost positions in the postpone, and shockingly got immediately relegated in the final game of the season due to an injury-time home kill to Brescia which left the Tuscans in 18th place. The unexpected relegation besides unveiled a issue of massive fiscal issues which prevented the club from registering in the Lega Pro Prima Divisione, and in July 2009 the club was excluded by the italian Football Federation for the second time in its history .
home of A.C. Pisa 1909 as seen from the Leaning Tower of Pisa .
A.C. Pisa 1909 [edit ]
Pisa has been refounded with the appellation of A.C. Pisa 1909 S.S.D. ( in which S.S.D. is a legal suffix required by F.I.G.C. ) to start again from Serie D under modern ownership. [ 2 ] At the end of the season Pisa won Group D ( italian : Girone D ) of Serie D and was promoted to Lega Pro Seconda Divisione for the 2010–11 temper. [ 4 ] The team was then admitted to Lega Pro Prima Divisione for the 2010–11 season to fill vacancies created by a row of baseball club exclusions in moment and third base tier of italian football league system. Thus the S.S.D. legal suffix was cliff and replaced by S.r.l. . On 12 June 2016 Pisa gained promotion to Serie B after seven years by defeating Maceratese ( 3–1 ), Pordenone ( 3–0 on aggregate ) and Foggia in the two-legged play-off final ( 5–3 on aggregate ), [ 5 ] however, the club was relegated to Serie C the following season after finishing second-last .
Pisa Sporting Club [edit ]
Having moved back to Serie B in 2019, the club changed back its name to Pisa Sporting Club in the summer of 2021. [ 6 ]
team [edit ]
- As of 24 August 2021
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Out on lend [edit ]
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Coaching staff [edit ]
noteworthy former players [edit ]
Honours [edit ]
- Winners: 1985–86, 1987–88
- Winners: 1999–2000