Pordenone Calcio, commonly referred to as Pordenone, is a professional

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club based in

Pordenone Pordenone (; Venetian and fur, Pordenon) is the main ''comune'' of Pordenone province of northeast Italy in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region. The name comes from Latin ''Portus Naonis'', meaning 'port on the Noncello (Latin ''Naon'') River'. ...

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, Italy. It currently plays in .

History

It was founded in 1920 as ''Football Club Pordenone''. In the 2007–08 season the club was promoted from

Eccellenza Friuli – Venezia Giulia Eccellenza Friuli-Venezia Giulia is the regional Eccellenza football division for clubs in the northern Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. It is competed amongst 16 teams, in one group. The winners of the Groups are promoted to Serie ...

to Serie D, and six seasons later (in 2014) it was promoted to the new Lega Pro. The club was relegated in 2015 but re-admitted at the start of

2015–16 Lega Pro The 2015–16 Lega Pro Divisione Unica is the second season of the unified Lega Pro division. The championship name, which is ''Divisione Unica'' according to the FIGC regulations, is called ''Lega Pro'' in official documents. Teams A total of ...

, to fill the vacancies. The club reached the Lega Pro play-offs for two seasons in a row, being defeated in the semi-finals by

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and Parma, the clubs that eventually got promoted. On 12 December 2017, in the Round of 16, Pordenone played Inter Milan for the Coppa Italia at the San Siro, drawing 0-0, and getting knocked out 5–4 in penalties. This is the farthest the team has ever reached in the competition. Pordenone successively won the Group B title in the

2018–19 Serie C The 2018–19 Serie C was the fifth season of the unified Serie C division, the third tier of the Italian football league system. Teams The league originally featured 60 teams. However, it saw the bankruptcy and subsequent withdrawal of Andria, ...

season under the tenure of seasoned manager Attilio Tesser, thus ensuring themselves the right to play Serie B for the first time in the club's history. The club's first season in Serie B was largely successful, achieving a fourth-place finish in the league and thus reached the play-offs for promotion to Serie A. However, Pordenone's push for a second-consecutive promotion was ended with a 2-1 aggregate defeat in the semi-final against Frosinone. In the 2020-21 season, Pordenone suffered a downturn in fortunes as the club ended the campaign in 15th position in the table, with

Tesser Tesser is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Abraham Tesser, American psychologist * Attilio Tesser (born 1958), Italian footballer and manager *Gregory Tesser (born 1946), English journalist * Rafael Tesser (born 1981), Brazilian ...

being removed from his position as coach in April 2021 and replaced by

Maurizio Domizzi Maurizio Domizzi (born 28 June 1980) is an Italian association football coach and former defender. He is the head coach of Eccellenza amateurs Castelvetro. Club career A S.S. Lazio youth product, Domizzi was farmed to Livorno at Serie C1 in Oct ...

. In the 2021-22 season campaign the team finished dead last and was relegated to Serie C, after changing three head coaches.

Players

Current squad

Out on loan

Coaching Staff

Honours

* Serie C :Champions: 2018–19 (group B) * Serie D : Champions: 2013–14 *

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:Winners: 2019

Colours and badge

The colours of the club are black and green, originated from the shirt of then Venezia. The away kit is usually predominantly white; during the years the secondary colors have been varying from green, red (evoking the same colors of the city of Pordenone banner) and black. The badge used to represent the city coat of arms, sometimes with a lizard; more recently the badge has been modernized with a logo representing the letters P and N, identifying the car plate of the province and three waves to depicting the river Noncello.

References

External links

Officiale site
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