Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Pontevecchio are an Italian association 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 located in Ponte San Giovanni

Ponte San Giovanni

Ponte San Giovanni is a frazione of the city of Perugia, Italy. It has 13,296 inhabitants and is one of the largest and most populated neighbourhoods in the capital city of Umbria. It is also the seat of the eighth ward of the city of Perugia....

, a suburb of Perugia

Perugia

Perugia is the capital city of the region of Umbria in central Italy, near the River Tiber, and the capital of the province of Perugia. The city is located about north of Rome. It covers a high hilltop and part of the valleys around the area....

, Umbria. They currently play 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...

. Their colours are green and red.

Pontevecchio are known for having been coached by Serse Cosmi

Serse Cosmi

However, after a disappointing series of results, including elimination in Champions League and results in Serie A much below the expected results, Cosmi was finally fired on February 10, 2006.-Brescia and Livorno:...

 during the 1990s; during his tenure as head coach, the club achieved a number of promotions which led them from Prima Categoria

Prima Categoria

Prima Categoria is the name of a level of football in Italy. It is considered to be the eighth level in the Italian football league system and is organized by the National Amateur League by the Regional Committees. Each individual league winner within the Prima Categoria level progresses to their...

 to 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...

. After Cosmi left Pontevecchio to join Arezzo

A.C. Arezzo

Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Atletico Arezzo is an Italian association football club based in Arezzo, Tuscany...

, the club quickly returned down to the lower divisions, and returned to Serie D only after having won the 2006–07 Eccellenza

Eccellenza 2006-07

This is a list of division winners and playoff matches in the regionally-organized Eccellenza 2006-2007.-Division winners:-Rules:In the regional playoffs, each Regional Committee can decide its own rules to admit a single team to the national phase...

 regional league; the same season they won the 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...

, defeating Caserta

A.S.D. Caserta Calcio

Football Club Casertana 1908 is an Italian football club, based in Caserta, Campania. It currently plays in Serie D. 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...

in the final.

External links

Official website