A.C.D. Foggia Calcio
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| Full name | Foggia Calcio s.r.l. |
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| Nickname(s) | i Satanelli (The Little Satans) |
| Founded | 1920 2004 (refound) 2012 (refound) |
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Stadio Pino Zaccheria, Foggia, Italy |
| Capacity | 25,085 |
| Chairman | Lucio Fares |
| Manager | Giovanni Stroppa |
| League | Lega Pro/C |
| 2015–16 | Lega Pro/C, 2nd |
Foggia Calcio is an Italian football club, based in Foggia, in the southern Italian region of Apulia. Foggia currently plays in the Lega Pro, having last been in the higher Serie A in 1995.
The team gained nationwide popularity as Foggia Calcio in the 1990s when coached by Zdeněk Zeman because of its attacking, spectacular style of play, which brought Foggia continuously on the verge of UEFA Cup qualification, launching several players who later broke through at international level such as Giuseppe Signori, Francesco Baiano, Brian Roy, Igor Kolyvanov, Igor Shalimov, Roberto Rambaudi and Dan Petrescu. However, Foggia Calcio went bankrupted in 2004 and was replaced by U.S. Foggia, which was bankrupted again in 2012.
The club was founded in 1920 as Foggia Calcio. The club spent its early history playing football in the lower leagues, winning a championship in the dilettanti in 1933.
In 1957–58, a merger took place between Foggia Calcio and Foggia Incedit, forming Unione Sportiva Foggia as the club is today. In 1961–62, the team was taken over by President Domenico Rosa Rosa, a wood industrialist, and coach Oronzo Pugliese, who quickly led them to promotion to Serie B.
History was made in the 1963–64 season, when Rosa Rosa and Oronzo Pugliese's Foggia reached Serie A for the first time. From 1964–65, Foggia managed to compete in three consecutive seasons in the top flight. On 31 January 1965, still under the guidance of coach Pugliese, Foggia recorded a historic 3–2 victory against Inter, who were at the time led by manager Helenio Herrera. The season was crowned by the national call-ups of Micelli and Nocera who played for Italy against Wales. Italy won 4–1 and Nocera managed to get on the scoresheet. At the end of the season, Pugliese left to take charge of Roma.
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