Associazione Sportiva Gualdo Calcio is 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, based in Gualdo Tadino

Gualdo Tadino

Gualdo Tadino, an ancient town of Italy, in the province of Perugia in northeastern Umbria, on the lower flanks of Mt. Penna, a mountain of the Apennines. It is 47 km NE of Perugia and 30 km SE of Gubbio....

, Umbria.

History

The club was founded in 1920 as Società Sportiva Gualdo and made several appearances in professional football, reaching the Serie C1

Serie C1

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 promotion playoffs twice, in 1995 and 1998. In 1995 the club narrowly missed promotion losing the promotion playoff final on penalty shootouts to Avellino

U.S. Avellino

Associazione Sportiva Avellino 1912 , since summer 2010, is the new name of the Italian football club, based in Avellino, Campania. The club was founded in 1912 and its traditional colours are green and white...

.

The club was dropped by the federation because of financial troubles in 2006, after a season in the Serie C2/B

Serie C2

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; a new club, A.S. Gualdo Calcio, was subsequently admitted to Promozione

Promozione

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 (7th level of Italian football) and immediately won it, being therefore promoted to Eccellenza

Eccellenza

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 for the season 2007–08.

Honours

• Best placement: 3rd, Serie C1/B
  Serie C1
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  , 1994–95
• Highest home attendance: 4,500: vs Trapani, 1995-06-18; vs Nocerina
  A.G. Nocerina 1910
  Associazione Sportiva Giovanile Nocerina is an Italian association football club, based in Nocera Inferiore, Campania.Nocerina in the season 2011-12 plays in Serie B.- Games with Juventus :...
  
  , 1998-06-07

Notable former managers

Alberto Cavasin

Alberto Cavasin

Alberto Cavasin is an Italian football manager and former player. He last served as head coach of Serie A team Sampdoria.-Playing career:...

 Walter Novellino Giuliano Sonzogni Agatino Cuttone Paolo Beruatto

The most major players

David Matarazzi

Antonio Romanelli

Jacopo Sannipoli

Marco Campese

Marco Campese

Marco Campese is an Italian football midfielder who currently plays for A.S. Gualdo Calcio.- Appareances on Italian Series :Serie A : 0 AppsSerie C2 : 145 Apps, 10 GoalsSerie D : 32 Apps, 2 Goals...

Federico Grandoni

Edoardo Trollini

Paolo Bellucci

Paolo Bellucci

Paolo Bellucci is an Italian association football forward who currently plays for A.S. Gualdo Calcio.- Appareances on Italian Series :Serie A : 0 AppsSerie B : 0 AppsSerie C1 : 2 Apps...

Gianluca Levato

Non-playing staff

• Head coach Roberto Balducci

• Fitness coach Antonio Macrì