Associazione Sportiva Gubbio 1910 is an Italian association football club, based in

Gubbio Gubbio () is an Italian town and ''comune'' in the far northeastern part of the Italian province of Perugia (Umbria). It is located on the lowest slope of Mt. Ingino, a small mountain of the Apennines. History The city's origins are very ancient. ...

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. The club play in

Serie C The Serie C () 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 unification of the Lega Pro ...

, the third tier of Italian football.

History

The multi-sport club SPES Gubbio was founded in 1908. In 1910 SPES Gubbio began its football activity, and the official football sector was established on 25 March 1913. In February 2009, the club made national headlines by hiring 70-year-old

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-winning coach

Luigi Simoni Luigi "Gigi" Simoni (22 January 1939 – 22 May 2020) was an Italian football official, player and manager. A skilled tactician, as a coach Simoni enjoyed notable success in earning promotion from Serie B to Serie A with the teams he managed, a ...

as technical director (due to age limits), with former under-19 team boss Riccardo Tumiatti being promoted as first team coach. In the season

2010–11 Lega Pro Prima Divisione The 2010–11 Lega Pro Prima Divisione season was the thirty-third football league season of Italian Lega Pro Prima Divisione since its establishment in 1978, and the third since the renaming from Serie C to Lega Pro. It will be divided into two ...

season the club won promotion to

Serie B The Serie B (), currently named Serie Balkrishna Industries, BKT for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It has been operating for over ninety years since the 1929–30 ...

after 63 years, under the guidance of

Vincenzo Torrente Vincenzo Torrente (born 12 February 1966) is an Italian football coach and former defender, currently working as head coach of club Padova. Playing career After starting his career at minor league club Nocerina, Torrente joined Genoa at the a ...

(as appointed by Simoni himself). However, Gubbio's stay in the second tier of Italian football lasted only one season as they were immediately relegated back to Lega Pro Prima Divisione.

Colours and stadium

The team's colours are dark blue and red. Their home field is the

Stadio Pietro Barbetti Stadio Comunale Pietro Barbetti, is a multi-purpose stadium in Gubbio, Italy. It is mainly used mostly for football matches and hosts the home matches of A.S. Gubbio 1910 of the Lega Pro Prima Divisione Lega Pro Prima Divisione was the third h ...

, a 5,300 capacity all-seater stadium.

Current squad

Out on loan

References

External links

Official site
Football clubs in Italy Football clubs in Umbria Association football clubs established in 1910 Serie B clubs Serie C clubs 1910 establishments in Italy {{Italy-footyclub-stub