Frosinone Calcio
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| Full name | Frosinone Calcio SRL |
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| Nickname(s) |
Canarini (The Canaries), Gialloazzurri (The Yellow-Light Blues), Ciociari (The Ciociarians) |
| Founded | 1912 as Union Sportive Frusinate |
| Ground | Stadio Matusa |
| Capacity | 9,680 |
| Chairman | Maurizio Stirpe |
| Manager | Pasquale Marino |
| League | Serie B |
| 2015–16 | Serie A, 19th (relegated) |
| Website | Club home page |
Frosinone Calcio is an Italian professional football club based in Frosinone, Lazio. The club was founded in 1912 under the name Unione Sportiva Frusinate. Following cancellation by the Italian Football Federation, it was refounded in 1990. In the 2014–15 season the club played in Serie B for the sixth time in its history. The club earned its first promotion to the top flight Serie A in the 2015–16 season, but were relegated back down to Serie B after just one season.
After a long tradition of playing in Serie C, in recent years, following the historic promotion which took place in the 2005–06 season, the club participated in five consecutive seasons in Serie B, becoming, after the two teams in Rome, the third most notable team of the region of Lazio. In its history Frosinone have won at a national level, two championships of Serie C2 (1986–87 and 2003–04) and two of Serie D (1965–66 and 1970–71). On 16 May 2015, the Ciociari, with a 3–1 win over Crotone, secured their first, historic promotion to Serie A.
The true original football club in the city of Frosinone was Bellator Frusinate, founded in the thirties by a group of citizens. The colours of the team were originally red and blue which were later changed to the current yellow and blue. It is from these colours, the nickname gialloblu is derived.
Bellator Frusinate managed to reach the National First Division in 1934. The figure of president Emilio Frongasse was crucial in this period. In the later half of the thirties, Bellator Frusinate disbanded, and was replaced by FF.GG. Frosinone which played its football in an interprovincial tournament.
All the championships were suspended during the Second World War and the football club Frusinate disappeared.
The rebirth of Frosinone occurred in the 1945–1946 championship, the team competed in the Seconda Categoria championship and rose to Prima Categoria the following year, and later, following an excellent championship season, managed to gain promotion into Serie C-Lego Centro. From 1948–49 to 1951–52, the gialloblu competed in the Promozione-Interregionale della Lega Centro championship, and were included in the new Quarta Serie championship during the summer of 1952.
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