Gallipoli Calcio
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Gallipoli Calcio is an Italian association football
Football in Italy
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 club, based in Gallipoli, Apulia.

History

The club was founded in 1999 as Associazione Calcio Gallipoli to represent the town of Gallipoli from the province of Lecce
Province of Lecce
The Province of Lecce is a province in the Apulia region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Lecce. Totally included in the Salento peninsula, it is the second most populous province in Apulia and the twenty-first most populous in Italy....

. The club quickly rose up the Italian football system, being one of the two who were promoted from Eccellenza Apulia
Eccellenza Apulia
Eccellenza Apulia is the regional Eccellenza football division for clubs in the Southern Italian region of Apulia, Italy. It is competed amongst 18 teams, in one group. The winners of the Groups are promoted to Serie D...

 in 2003–04.

After gaining a promotion during their first ever season in Serie D
Serie D
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, the club changed its name to Gallipoli Calcio in 2005. Gallipoli then completed it by winning a third consecutive promotion to 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....

, and making their absolute debut in the Italian third-highest level in the 2006–07 season
Serie C1 2006-07
The 2006–07 Serie C1 was the football league season of Italian Serie C1 for the years 2006 and 2007. It was divided into two phases: the regular season, played from September 3, 2006 to May 13, 2007, and the playoff phase. Once the regular season was over teams placed 2nd to 5th entered a playoff...

, which ended in a mid-table place. Former Serie A
Serie A
Serie 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...

 star Dario Bonetti
Dario Bonetti
Dario Bonetti is an Italian football manager and former defender. He is the elder brother of Ivano Bonetti.-Playing career:Bonetti made his professional debut in the 1978-79 season with Brescia...

 was then chosen as new boss for the 2007–08 season
Serie C1 2007-08
The 2007-08 Serie C1 season will be the thirtieth football league season of Italian Serie C1 since its establishment in 1978 . It will be divided into two phases: the regular season, played from September 2007 to May 2008, and the playoff phase from May to June 2008.The league will be composed of...

; he was however sacked later following disagreements with the board, in spite of impressive performances which gave the team a third place in the table. The club ultimately ended the season in ninth place, well below their initial expectations. Former AS Roma
A.S. Roma
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 playing hero Giuseppe Giannini
Giuseppe Giannini
Giuseppe Giannini is a former Italian international footballer, who currently serves as head coach of Serie B side Grosseto. He spent the majority of his 16-year playing career with A.S...

 was successively appointed as new head coach for Gallipoli's 2008–09 campaign, which ended in triumph, as the giallorossi won a historic first promotion to 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...

 as league winners in the final week.

In July 2009, the club's future was put in doubt when President of the club, oil businessman and Senator
Italian Senate
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 Vincenzo Barba, announced that the club was up for sale at no cost. In addition, their home stadium (Stadio Antonio Bianco
Stadio Antonio Bianco
Stadio Antonio Bianco is a multi-use stadium in Gallipoli, Italy. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Gallipoli Calcio. The stadium holds 5,000 people....

) was declared unfit as Serie B venue, so the club will be forced to play home games at the Via del Mare
Stadio Via del Mare
Stadio Via del Mare is a multi-purpose stadium in Lecce, Italy. It is mostly used for football matches and is the home of U.S. Lecce. The stadium was built in 1966 and holds 33,876. It takes its name from the street leading to the sea.-History:...

 in Lecce
Lecce
Lecce is a historic city of 95,200 inhabitants in southern Italy, the capital of the province of Lecce, the second province in the region by population, as well as one of the most important cities of Puglia...

. The situation seriously hampered their preparations for their first season 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...

 and the club was forced to play with its under-19 squad for their Coppa Italia
Coppa Italia
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 second round match versus Lumezzane
A.C. Lumezzane
Associazione Calcio Lumezzane is an Italian association football club, based in Lumezzane, Lombardy. The club was founded in 1948. The club currently plays in Lega Pro Prima Divisione....

 in which they were soundly beaten in a 6–0 defeat. With only two weeks before the start of the league, only four first team players were still under contract and no pre-season training camp was organized and no head coach was appointed yet.

On 11 August 2009 a Udine
Udine
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-based company called "D'Odorico Group" took over the club from Barba, putting an end to weeks of speculation regarding the future of the club. The new owner confirmed Giannini as coach. Despite being underdogs, Gallipoli managed to earn 28 points, thus ending the first half of the season in 11th place, but the situation crumbled in the second leg. Giannini resigned on 22 March 2010 after the club regularly failed to pay salaries to its players. After a two-game tenure under youth team coach Giovanni De Pasquale, former Triestina, Torino and Treviso boss Ezio Rossi was appointed. The change did not have any effect, as Gallipoli were relegated back to the third tier on 16 May 2010. The club had severe financial issues, and this caused at first the inability to request the admission to the Italian third tier (30 June 2010). The club owed Luca Pasqualin of P.D.P. srl for agent fee of €12,000 for signing Piergiuseppe Maritato
Piergiuseppe Maritato
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 and upheld by Tribunale Nazionale di Arbitrato per lo Sport of CONI.

Then, in July 2010, a court in Lecce declared the bankrupt of the club.

A new club called A.S.D. Gallipoli Football 1909 was founded on 13 July 2010. Its goal is entering Promozione
Promozione
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, the 7th tier of Italian football. The first season (2010–2011) finished with Gallipoli that reached the 3° place in graduatory, and then they lose the play-off to be promoted in Eccellenza Apulia
Eccellenza Apulia
Eccellenza Apulia is the regional Eccellenza football division for clubs in the Southern Italian region of Apulia, Italy. It is competed amongst 18 teams, in one group. The winners of the Groups are promoted to Serie D...

.

Current squad

  • P Massimo Negro
  • P Martegani Jorge
  • D Vito Tarantino
  • D Daniel Gustavo Marquez
  • D Maurizio Urso
  • D Marco Ancora
  • D Emanuele Serio
  • C Giuseppe De Ventura
  • C Mauro Giordano
  • C Godwin Obinna
  • C Antonio De Razza
  • C Alessio Mauro
  • C Sebastian Pistelli
  • C Cosimo Coccioli
  • C Luca Bianco
  • A Dario Larrosa
  • A Martin Prest
  • A Giancarlo Malcore
  • A Paolo Scuglia
  • A Antonio Coppola
  • A Enzo Barrotti
  • A Pierandrea Rollo

Honours

Lega Pro Prima Divisione: 1
  • Winners: 2008–09


Supercoppa di Lega Pro Prima Divisione: 1
  • Winners: 2009


Serie C2
Serie C2
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: 1
  • Winners: 2005–06
    Serie C2 2005-06
    The 2005–06 Serie C2 was the football league season of Italian Serie C2 for the years 2005 and 2006. It was divided into two phases: the regular season, played from August 28, 2005 to May 7, 2006, and the playoff phase. Once the regular season was over teams placed 2nd to 5th entered a playoff to...



Coppa Italia Serie C: 1
  • Winners: 2006


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...

:
  • Promoted: 2004–05


Eccellenza Apulia
Eccellenza Apulia
Eccellenza Apulia is the regional Eccellenza football division for clubs in the Southern Italian region of Apulia, Italy. It is competed amongst 18 teams, in one group. The winners of the Groups are promoted to Serie D...

: 1
  • Winners: 2003–04

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