The Eccellenza Sardinia is the main
football championship played on the
island
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. Formerly called
Prima Categoria
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and
Promozione, it usually involves the participation of 16 teams. Whoever scores the most points wins the title of Regional Champion and is directly promoted to the
Serie D
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, the highest amateur championship. The teams ranked second to fifth enter the play-offs (with a single final on a neutral field). The winner advances to the national phase, which includes inter-regional play-offs for a place in
Serie D
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. The twelfth and thirteenth placed clubs face each other in the play-outs to decide the team that will participate in the inter-divisional play-offs against the winners of the promotion play-offs to avoid relegation. The last three placed teams (fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth) are automatically relegated to the
Promozione.
History
Due to its insularity, the top regional football championship in
Sardinia
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has developed differently from the rest of
Italy
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. In particular, it evolved through friendly tournaments of an unofficial and ''U.L.I.C.'' until the first post-war period. It was only in
1922
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that the regional committee announced the first regional championship of the
Terza Divisione. However, this championship was never played due to the presence of only
Cagliari, which was declared the first Sardinian champions automatically without ever taking the field. However, the red-blues lacked the necessary requisites for the national championship of the
Seconda Divisione and had to enroll in the following
Terza Divisione championship, which can be considered as the first federal championship officially played in
Sardinia
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: the first official kick-off on the island was whistled on
21 April
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1924
Events
January
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, at the 'Stallaggio Meloni' in
Cagliari, between S.G. Amsicora and
Cagliari, and ended with a score of 3 to 0 for the ''
rossoblù''.
S.G. Amsicora,
Cagliari, and
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took part in the championship.
Cagliari won the title in 1923-1924 and 1924-1925. It also almost won the 1925-1926 league but was canceled following riots between Amsicora (from
Cagliari) and
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(from
Sassari). Alternating years followed, in which the
Terza Divisione remained the only championship played on the
island
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. Exceptions were the 1926-1927, 1930-1931, and 1935-1936 seasons, in which there was no tournament, and the 1934-1935 season, because the second division was not organized. From the 1936-1937 season, the
Sardinian championship assumed the title of
Prima Divisione and was played regularly until the 1942-1943 season, after which the official championships were suspended due to the
Second World War
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.
The
Prima Divisione restarted from the 1945-1946 season and changed its name several times: The first name was
Prima Categoria
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, then
Promozione, Campionato Dilettanti Sardegna, and again
Promozione, until it took on the definitive name of
Eccellenza
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in 1991-1992.
Sardinian champion titles per team
Below is the historical ranking of the teams that have won the top regional championship in
Sardinia
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from 1924. From the 1981-1982 season to the 1989-1990 season, the title was awarded equally to the first classified teams of both rounds. There are 52 teams that have won the maximum Sardinian title from the 1922-1923 season to the 2022-2023 season, for a total of 94 championships played.
Here is the list of all the clubs who won the Sardinian First Division winners until the establishment of Eccellenza in 1991-92:
*1922-23 –
Cagliari (1)
*1923-24 –
Cagliari (2)
*1924-25 –
Cagliari (3)
*1927-28 –
Cagliari (4)
*1928-29 – Iglesias (1)
*1929-30 –
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(1)
*1936-37 –
Cagliari (5)
*1938-39 –
Olbia
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(1)
*1938-39 – Ilva (1)
*1940-41 – Medusa Bosa (1)
*1941-42 – Medusa Bosa (2)
*1945-46 –
Cagliari (6)
*1946-47 – Quartu (1)
*1947-48 – Montevecchio (1)
*1948-49 – Monreale (1)
*1949-50 –
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(2)
*1950-51 –
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(3)
*1951-52 – CUS Cagliari (1)
*1952-53 –
Olbia
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(2)
*1953-54 – Monreale (2)
*1954-55 –
Calangianus (1)
*1955-56 –
Tempio
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(1)
*1956-57 –
Olbia
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(3)
*1957-58 –
Nuorese (1)
*1958-59 –
Calangianus (2)
*1959-60 –
Calangianus (3)
*1960-61 – Ilvamaddalena (2)
*1961-62 – Ilvamaddalena (3)
*1962-63 – Carbonia (1)
*1963-64 –
Olbia
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(4)
*1964-65 – Sorso (1)
*1965-66 – Quartu Sant'Elena (1)
*1966-67 –
Alghero
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(1)
*1967-68 –
Nuorese (2)
*1968-69 – Iglesias (2)
*1969-70 – Guspini (1)
*1970-71 –
Nuorese (3)
*1971-72 – Iglesias (3)
*1972-73 – Seunis Thiesi (1)
*1973-74 – Tharros (1)
*1974-75 – Sant'Elena (1)
*1975-76 –
Calangianus (4)
*1976-77 –
Alghero
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(2)
*1977-78 – Carbonia (2)
*1978-79 –
Calangianus (5)
*1979-80 – Isili (1)
*1980-81 – Sorso (2)
*1981-82 – Fertilia (1)
*1982-83 – Gialeto (1) / S. Marco Cabras (1)
*1983-84 – Fersulcis (1) / Ozierese (1)
*1984-85 – Pirri (1) / Macomer (1)
*1985-86 – Gonnesa (1) / Sprint Ittiri (1)
*1986-87 – La Palma MU (1) / Ilva (4)
*1987-88 – Iglesias (4)
*1988-89 – Pirri (2) / Ozierese (2)
*1989-90 – Selargius (1) / Terralba (1)
1990-91–
Alghero
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(3)
Eccellenza Champions
The past champions of Eccellenza Sardinia were:
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*1991–92 – Castelsardo
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(1)
*1992–93 – Iglesias (5)
*1993–94 – Fermassenti (1)
*1994–95 – Ilvamaddalena (5)
*1995–96 – Atletico Elmas (1)
*1996–97 – Santa Teresa (1)
*1997–98 – Arzachena (1)
*1998–99 – Villacidrese (1)
*1999–00 – Tavolara (1)
*2000–01 – Atletico Elmas (2)
*2001–02 – Calangianus (6)
*2002–03 – Arzachena (2)
*2003–04 – Alghero
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(4)
*2004–05 – Nuorese (4)
*2005–06 – Tempio
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(2)
*2006–07 – Tavolara (2)
*2007–08 – Budoni
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(2)
*2008–09 – Sanluri (1)
*2009–10 – Porto Torres
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(1)
*2010–11 – Progetto Sant'Elia (1)
*2011–12 – Torres Torres may refer to:
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(4)
*2012–13 – Olbia
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(5)
*2013–14 – Nuorese (5)
*2014–15 – Muravera (1)
*2015–16 – Sassari (1)
*2016–17 – Tortolì (1)
*2017–18 – Castiadas
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(1)
*2018–19 – Muravera (2)
*2019–20 – Carbonia (3)
*2020–21 – Atletico Uri (1)
*2021–22 – Ilvamaddalena (6)
*2022–23 –
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