Lega Pro Seconda Divisione was the fourth highest
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
league in
Italy
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, 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 20 and 21. Group A covered northern and north-central Italy, Group B south-central and southern Italy.
Until the 2007–08 season, the league was known as Serie C2.
Before the 1978–79 season, there were only three professional football leagues in Italy, the third being
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 ...
. In 1978, it was decided to split
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 ...
into Serie C1 (the third highest league) and
Serie C2. Upon its inception in 1978–79, Serie C2 consisted of four divisions, however, that number was reduced to three from the start of the 1991–92 season. The reform, already decided by the FIGC lead to the reunification with the first division starting from 2014–15 and with the subsequent rebirth of the third tier championship organized by the pro league with 60 teams divided into three groups of 20 in
Lega Pro
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 ...
.
During the regular season, teams only played the other teams in their division. Each opponent was played twice, once at home and once away, for a total of 34 matches. Games were scheduled such that in the first 17 matches, every opponent was played once. In the last 17 matches, the same opponents were played in the same order, with the only difference being that the venue changed.
Past champions
Serie C2
Seasons from 1978–79 to 1990–91
Seasons from 1991–92 to 2007–08
Lega Pro Seconda Divisione
Seasons from 2008–09 to 2010–11
Seasons from 2011–12 to 2013–14 season
See also
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Italian football league system
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Professional sports leagues in Italy
Defunct football leagues in Italy
Sports leagues established in 1978
1978 establishments in Italy
Sports leagues disestablished in 2014
2014 disestablishments in Italy
Italy
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