Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Akragas 2018, commonly referred to as Akragas, is an Italian association football club based in

Agrigento Agrigento (; or ) is a city on the southern coast of Sicily, Italy and capital of the province of Agrigento. Founded around 582 BC by Greek colonists from Gela, Agrigento, then known as Akragas, was one of the leading cities during the golden ...

, Sicily. The club, in its first inception, was founded in 1929 and has played many years at

Serie C The Serie C (), officially known as Serie C NOW for sponsorship purposes, 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 ...

level, and currently plays in

Serie D The Serie D () is the highest level of semi-professional football in Italy, and the fourth tier of the Italian national league system. It sits beneath the third and lowest fully professional league, Serie C, and feeds in to it through promotion ...

History

The foundation

An ancestor of the club was known to have played since at least the early-1930s as Associazione Calcio Agrigento. The club had moderate success in the lower divisions of

Italian football Football ( ) is the most popular sport in Italy. The Italy national football team have won the FIFA World Cup four times (1934, 1938, 1982, 2006), trailing only Brazil (with five), runners-up in two finals both against Brazil, (1970, 1994) and ...

; it progressed beyond the regional Sicilian scene to

for the first time in the 1939–40 season. By the late 1940s A.C. Agrigento had fallen in stature, competing in the regional Promozione Sicily league after being relegated; their decline fully set in 1952 when the club became defunct due to financial difficulties.

Revival as Akragas

Following the previous club's closure, Akragas was revamped and a new team was set up by chairman

Enzo Lauretta Vincenzo "Enzo" Lauretta (22 March 1924 – 6 August 2014) was an Italian novelist, essayist and politician. Life and career Born in Pachino, in 1936 Lauretta moved to Agrigento with his family. A double graduate in literature and law, he ma ...

during 1952. The club was renamed Unione Sportiva Akragas, rather than using the Italianized version of the name, the club paid homage to the city's ''

Magna Graecia Magna Graecia refers to the Greek-speaking areas of southern Italy, encompassing the modern Regions of Italy, Italian regions of Calabria, Apulia, Basilicata, Campania, and Sicily. These regions were Greek colonisation, extensively settled by G ...

'' roots. A noted figure in Sicilian football,

Carmelo Di Bella Carmelo Di Bella (January 30, 1921 – September 9, 1992) was an Italian football player and manager. Di Bella spent the vast majority of his career in Sicily where he was a prominent figure in the footballing scene, especially in relation to the ...

was put in place as the club's first manager, while Gaspare Gallo was its first captain. To attract the attention of the supporters of defunct Agrigento, Akragas changed its colour, abandoning its violet and taking the white and blue of Agrigento. In the 2013–14 season, Akragas barely missed out on promotion to

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in favour of Savoia, but would go on to achieve this in the next season by winning Group I of the

league. They began to play in the

after the 2015–16 season. Club president Silvio Alessi announced on 13 July 2018, that the team did not register for the upcoming season of Serie D, to which it had been relegated, and the club had been placed in liquidation. The club was successively refounded and admitted to the

Promozione The Promozione (, "promotion") is the sixth level in the Italian football league system. Each individual league winner within the Promozione level progresses to their closest regional league in the Eccellenza level. Depending on each league's ...

amateur league of Sicily in 2018. In 2023, Akragas won the

Eccellenza The Eccellenza (, "excellence") is the fifth level (since 2014–15) of Italian football.Official ...

Sicily (Group A) title and assured promotion to

Colours and badge

The team plays in a light blue and white striped kit.

Honours

Serie C2 Serie C2 was the fourth highest football league in Italy, the lowest with a professional status. History Before the 1978–79 season, there were only three professional football leagues in Italy, the third being Serie C. The league menaging t ...

: :*Runner-up (1): 1982–83

: :*Winners (3): 1980–81; 1991–92; 2014–15 :*Runner-up (2): 1958–59; 2013–14

Eccellenza Sicily Eccellenza Sicily () is the regional Italian Eccellenza football division for clubs in Sicily. It is competed among 32 teams in two groups (A and B). The winners of the Groups are promoted to Serie D. The clubs that finish second also have the c ...

: :*Winners (1): 2012–13 Promozione Sicily: :*Winners (3): 1956–57; 1977–78 Prima Categoria Sicily: :*Runners-up (1): 1952–53

References

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