Associazione Sportiva Casale Calcio is an
Italian footballFootball 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
Casale MonferratoCasale Monferrato, population 36,058, is a town and comune in the Piedmont region of north-west Italy, part of the province of Alessandria. It is situated about 60 km east of Turin on the right bank of the Po, where the river runs at the foot of the Montferrato hills. Beyond the river lies the...
,
PiedmontPiedmont is one of the 20 regions of Italy. It has an area of 25,402 square kilometres and a population of about 4.4 million. The capital of Piedmont is Turin. The main local language is Piedmontese. Occitan is also spoken by a minority in the Occitan Valleys situated in the Provinces of...
.
The club currently plays in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione.
The team's nickname
nerostellati (the “the starred-blacks”) refers to the team’s colours of black with a white star on the heart.
History
When the club was founded in 1909 Casale was at the geographical centre of the new footballing movement in Italy.
Genoa, Pro Vercelli, Internazionale Torino and
AlessandriaUnione Sportiva Alessandria Calcio 1912 is the professional Italian football club based in Alessandria, Piedmont.In the current season, it plays in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione group A.- Brief history :...
were all leading clubs in the
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and Casale soon joined their number.
In May 1913 Casale became the first Italian club to defeat an English professional team when they beat
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2–1. Reading won all the other games on this tour, defeating Genoa,
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, Pro Vercelli and even the
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.
In the following season Casale won their first and only national title. Italian football was then organized on a regional basis and the national championship was divided into three stages. Casale topped the Ligurian-Piedmontese division and proceeded, along with second-placed Genoa, to compete in a division comprising the top northern teams. (The others being Inter Milan,
JuventusJuventus Football Club S.p.A. , commonly referred to as Juventus and colloquially as Juve , are a professional Italian association football club based in Turin, Piedmont...
,
VicenzaVicenza Calcio is an Italian football club based in Vicenza, Veneto. The club was formed in 1902 and currently plays in Italy's Serie B, having spent the entire 1960s and a large part of the 1990s in Serie A...
and
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.) Having won that division, Casale defeated central-southern champions Lazio 7–1, 0–2 in the two-leg final.
After World War I Casale remained in the top division for a couple of decades, representing what had been the cradle of early
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.
With the development of professionalism, Casale was progressively relegated to lower divisions, 1934 being their last year in
Serie ASerie A , now called Serie A TIM due to sponsorship by Telecom Italia, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and has been operating for over eighty years since 1929. It had been organized by Lega Calcio until 2010, but a new...
.
Notable players
- See also :Category:A.S. Casale Calcio players
Five players who appeared in the scudetto-winning team of 1913–14 played in the
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, all making their international debuts between 1912 and 1914:
- Luigi Barbesino
Luigi Barbesino was an Italian association footballer and manager from Casale Monferrato in the region of Piedmont. He was a one club man in the truest sense of the term, spending his eight playing seasons at his home town club Casale, helping them to win their one and only Italian Football...
(midfielder)
- Giovanni Gallina (attacker)
- Angelo Mattea
Angelo Mattea was an Italian football player and manager from Santhià in the Province of Vercelli. He played club football for several clubs including Casale, which he helped to win the 1913–14 scudetto, and Juventus...
(midfielder)
- Giuseppe Parodi (midfielder)
- Amedeo Varese (midfielder)
Casale’s biggest star, however, was the full back
Umberto CaligarisUmberto Caligaris was an Italian international footballer who played, normally at left back, for A.S. Casale and Juventus. His 59 caps for the Italian national team stood as a record for many years....
whose career with the club ran from 1919 to 1928. During this period he made 37 appearances for the Azzurri. He represented Italy in the
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and won a bronze medal at the
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before leaving Casale for Juventus. His total of 59 caps stood as a record for many years.
Eraldo MonzeglioEraldo Monzeglio was an Italian football defender.Monzeglio was born in Vignale Monferrato, in the province of Alessandria ....
, later to represent Italy on numerous occasions, including the
1934The 1934 FIFA World Cup was the second FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national association football teams. It took place in Italy from 27 May to 10 June 1934....
and
1938The 1938 FIFA World Cup was the third staging of the World Cup, and was held in France from 4 June to 19 June. Italy retained the championship, beating Hungary 4–2 in the final.-Host selection:...
World Cups, made his Serie A debut with Casale in 1924–25. The following season, however he moved to
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.
Honours
Serie ASerie A , now called Serie A TIM due to sponsorship by Telecom Italia, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and has been operating for over eighty years since 1929. It had been organized by Lega Calcio until 2010, but a new...
Serie BSerie 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...
- Winners (1): 1929–30
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Coppa Italia DilettantiThe 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...
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