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

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, and six seasons later (in 2014) it was promoted to the new

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. The club was relegated in 2015 but re-admitted at the start of

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, 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

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, the clubs that eventually got promoted. On 12 December 2017, in the Round of 16, Pordenone played

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for the

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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 season under the tenure of seasoned manager

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, thus ensuring themselves the right to play

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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

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for promotion to

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. However, Pordenone's push for a second-consecutive promotion was ended with a 2-1 aggregate defeat in the semi-final against

Frosinone Frosinone (, local dialect: ) is a town and ''comune'' in Lazio, central Italy, the administrative seat of the province of Frosinone. It is located about south-east of Rome close to the Rome-Naples A1 Motorway. The city is the main city of the Va ...

. 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 being removed from his position as coach in April 2021 and replaced by Maurizio Domizzi. In the 2021-22 season campaign the team finished dead last and was relegated to

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, after changing three head coaches.

Players

Current squad

Out on loan

Coaching Staff

Honours

:Champions: 2018–19 (group B) *

: Champions: 2013–14 * Supercoppa di Serie C :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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