Football Club Casertana 1908 is an Italian football

Football in Italy

Football is the most popular sport in Italy. The Italian national football team has won the FIFA World Cup 4 times , trailing only Brazil . Italy's club sides have won 27 major European trophies, making them the most successful European nation in the subject of football...

 club, based in Caserta

Caserta

Caserta is the capital of the province of Caserta in the Campania region of Italy. It is an important agricultural, commercial and industrial comune and city. Caserta is located on the edge of the Campanian plain at the foot of the Campanian Subapennine mountain range...

, Campania

Campania

Campania is a region in southern Italy. The region has a population of around 5.8 million people, making it the second-most-populous region of Italy; its total area of 13,590 km² makes it the most densely populated region in the country...

. It currently plays in Serie D

Serie D

Serie D is the top level of the Italian non-professional football association called Lega Nazionale Dilettanti. The association represents over a million football players and thousands of football teams across Italy. Serie D ranks just below Lega Pro Seconda Divisione , and is thus considered the...

. The club was founded in 1908 as Robur Caserta and became known as Unione Sportiva Casertana from 1928 until 2005, when the team was cancelled by the federation. The club was refounded as A.S. Caserta Calcio and later renamed to A.S. Casertana Calcio. During the 2009-10 Serie D season, the side took back its traditional denomination. The club also had two stints in Serie B

Serie B

Serie B, currently named Serie bwin due to sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It is contested by 22 teams and organized by the Lega Serie B since July 2010, after the split of Lega Calcio that previously took care of both the...

 in 1970–71 and 1991–92.

Notable former players

Luca Bucci

Luca Bucci

Luca Bucci is a retired Italian football goalkeeper.-Club career:After a few years in the third and second levels, Bucci made his Serie A debut playing for Parma F.C., in a league match against Udinese Calcio on August 29, 1993...

 Benito Carbone

Benito Carbone

Benito known as Benny Carbone is a retired Italian professional footballer and former manager of Serie B club Varese. He played as a forward, winger or midfielder...

 Gianluca Grava

Gianluca Grava

Gianluca Grava is an Italian football defender who currently plays for Serie A club Napoli.-Career:He made his Serie A debut at the age of 30 in Napoli's 5–0 victory over Udinese on 2 September 2007; he had previously made over 350 appearances with various clubs in the lower divisions of Italian...

 Fabrizio Ravanelli

Fabrizio Ravanelli

Fabrizio Ravanelli is a former international Italian football player, who won five titles with Juventus, including a Serie A championship in 1995 and a Champions League title in 1996....

 Francesco Statuto

Francesco Statuto

Francesco Statuto is an Italian former football player, being among the top midfielders for AS Roma during the 1990s....

 Borislav Cvetković

Borislav Cvetkovic

Borislav "Boro" Cvetković is a Croatian Serb football manager and former player....

Honours

Source: Casertana.com

• Serie C
  Serie C
  The Lega Italiana Calcio Professionistico , commonly known as Lega Pro , is the governing body that runs the third and fourth highest football divisions in Italy, the Prima Divisione and Seconda Divisione respectively. It also includes the sole professional club of San Marino...
  
  
  • Champions: 1969–70
  • Runners-up: 1967–68, 1968–69
• Serie C1
  Serie C1
  Lega Pro Prima Divisione is the name of the third highest football league in Italy. It consists of 36 teams, divided geographically into two divisions of 18 teams each. Until 2008 it was known as Serie C1....
  
  
  • Champions: 1990–91
• Serie C2
  Serie C2
  Lega Pro Seconda Divisione is the name of the fourth highest football league in Italy, the lowest with a professional status. Usually it consists of 54 teams, but in the season 2010–11 the teams are only 49 divided geographically into three divisions of 17, 16 and 16 teams each...
  
  
  • Champions: 1980–81
• Serie D
  Serie D
  Serie D is the top level of the Italian non-professional football association called Lega Nazionale Dilettanti. The association represents over a million football players and thousands of football teams across Italy. Serie D ranks just below Lega Pro Seconda Divisione , and is thus considered the...
  
  
  • Champions: 1949–50, 1962–63, 1995–96
  • Runners-up: 1960–61, 1977–78
• Eccellenza Campania
  Eccellenza Campania
  Eccellenza Campania is the regional Eccellenza football league for clubs in the Southern Italian region of Campania, Italy. It is composed of 32 teams, divided into divisions A and B, which are 2 of the 28 total Eccellenza divisions in all of Italy. The two winners of the divisions are...
  
  
  • Champions: 2006–07
• Promozione Campania
  Promozione
  Promozione is the name of a level of football in Italy. It is considered to be the 7th 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...
  
  
  • Champions: 1953–54
• Coppa Italia Dilettanti
  Coppa Italia Dilettanti
  The Coppa Italia Dilettanti is an annual knock-out competition for teams from the sixth and seventh levels of Italian football: the Eccellenza and the Promozione. All ties except for the final, which is held at the Stadio Flaminio in Rome, are played on a home-and-away basis...
  
  
  • Runners-up: 2006–07

External links

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