Salernitana
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| Full name | Unione Sportiva Salernitana 1919 S.r.l. |
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| Nickname(s) | i Granata (The Garnets) |
| Founded | 1919 2005 (re-founded) 2011 (re-founded) |
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Stadio Arechi, Salerno, Italy |
| Capacity | 31,300 |
| Chairman | Marco Mezzaroma and Claudio Lotito |
| Manager | Alberto Bollini |
| League | Serie B |
| 2016–17 | Serie B, 10th |
| Website | Club home page |
Unione Sportiva Salernitana 1919, or simply Salernitana is an Italian professional association football club based in Salerno, Campania. Salernitana returned to Serie B in 2015, having finished first in Lega Pro Prima Divisione Girone C.
The club is the legitimate heir of the former Salernitana Calcio 1919 and there is a sports continuity also with the former Salerno Calcio in the 2011–12 season which has restarted from Serie D rather than from Terza Categoria, thanks to Article 52 NOIF of FIGC.
The club – named Salerno Calcio – is soon after promoted to Lega Pro Seconda Divisione as it re-obtained the original name of U.S. Salernitana 1919. It was immediately promoted to Lega Pro Prima Divisione.
The origins of the team go back to 1919 when in Salerno was founded the former Unione Sportiva Salernitana renamed Salernitana Sport in 1978, which spent the vast majority of their history at the Serie B and Serie C levels of Italian football.
Salernitana plays their home games at Stadio Arechi. In their earliest years, Salernitana competed in the Italian Football Championship on a regional basis. They played at this level for four seasons during the 1920s. Since that time the club returned to the top level of Italian football twice; they played in Serie A during 1947–48 and 1998–99.
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