Casertana Football Club is an Italian association football club based in

Caserta Caserta () is the capital of the province of Caserta in the Campania region of Italy. It is an important agricultural, commercial, and industrial ''comune'' and city. Caserta is located on the edge of the Campanian plain at the foot of the Camp ...

Campania Campania (, also , , , ) is an administrative Regions of Italy, region of Italy; most of it is in the south-western portion of the Italian peninsula (with the Tyrrhenian Sea to its west), but it also includes the small Phlegraean Islands and the i ...

. The club currently plays in

Serie D The Serie D () is the top level of semi-professional football in the country. The fourth tier of the Italian league system, the competition sits beneath the third professional league, Serie C. It is administered by the Lega Nazionale Dilettant ...

History

The club was founded in 1908 as Robur Caserta and became known as Unione Sportiva Casertana from 1928 until 2005, when the team was cancelled by the federation. The club also had two stints in

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 ...

in 1970–71 and 1991–92. The club was refounded in 2005 as A.S. Caserta Calcio and was later renamed A.S. Casertana Calcio. During the

2009–10 Serie D The 2009–10 Serie D was the sixty-second edition of the top level Italian non-professional football championship. It represented the fifth tier in the Italian football league system. It consisted of 167 divided into six 18-team divisions, one 1 ...

season, the side took back its traditional denomination. Casertana made its return to professionalism at the end of the 2012–13 season, after finishing fourth in

, thus reaching the promotion play-off only to be beaten by Virtus Verona in the final. However, the club was successively admitted into

Lega Pro Seconda Divisione Lega Pro Seconda Divisione was the fourth highest football league in Italy, the lowest with a professional status. Usually it consisted of 36 teams, but in the 2011–12 season, there were 41 teams divided geographically into two divisions of 2 ...

as a replacement for a number of teams that went bankrupt by the end of the season. The club ended the 2013–14 season in second place, thus qualifying to the

2014–15 Lega Pro The 2014–15 Lega Pro was the first season of the unified Lega Pro division in place of the old Prima Divisione and Seconda Divisione. The league is composed of 60 teams divided into three different groups of 20 each. Teams A total of 60 team ...

division.

Colours and badge

The colours of the team are red and blue.

Players

Current squad

''As of 15 December 2022''.

Club officials

Board of directors

* Last updated: 2 November 2020 * Source:

Current technical staff

* Last updated: 2 November 2020 * Source:

Nearby clubs

Casertana shared a local rivalry with Piedimonte Matese-based clubs A.S.D. Tre Pini Matese, F.W.P. Matese (now both defunct), as well as Alife-based club

A.S.D. Alliphae A.S.D. Alife is an Italian association football club based in Alife, Caserta, Campania. The club currently plays in Prima Categoria Molise. History The club was founded in 2007 as A.S.D. Atletico Matese Alife () and has been sponsored by Ban ...

. They share a local rivalry with Tre Pini's successor club A.S.D. Football Club Matese.

Notable former managers

Giuseppe Materazzi Giuseppe Materazzi (born 5 January 1946 in Arborea, Province of Oristano) is an Italian football manager and former player, who played as a midfielder. Playing career Sardinian-born Materazzi is best remember as one of the most representative p ...

Nedo Sonetti Nedo Sonetti (born 25 February 1941) is an Italian football manager and former player, who played as a defender. Biography Sonetti was born in Piombino, southern Tuscany and lives now in Gorle. Playing career As a defender, Sonetti played in ...

Adriano Lombardi Adriano Lombardi (7 August 1945 – 30 November 2007), nicknamed ''il rosso di Ponsacco'', was an Italian football player and a football coach, mostly known for his time spent at Avellino. Career He played as a midfielder with many teams, in ...

Honours

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Serie C1 Lega Pro Prima Divisione was the third highest football (soccer), football league in Italy. It consisted of 33 teams, divided geographically into two divisions of 16 and 17 teams for group A and B respectively. Until 2008 it was known as Serie C1 ...

**Champions (1): 1969–70, 1990–91 *

Serie C2 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione was the fourth highest football league in Italy, the lowest with a professional status. Usually it consisted of 36 teams, but in the 2011–12 season, there were 41 teams divided geographically into two divisions of 2 ...

**Champions (1): 1980–81 *

**Champions (3): 1949–50, 1962–63, 1995–96 **Runners-up (2) : 1960–61, 1977–78 *

Eccellenza Campania Eccellenza Campania is the regional Eccellenza football league for clubs in the Southern Italian region of Campania, Italy. It is composed of 32 teams, divided into divisions A and B, which are 2 of the 28 total Eccellenza divisions in all of Ita ...

**Champions (1): 2006–07 * Promozione Campania **Champions (1): 1953–54

References

External links

Official homepage
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