- S.S.D. Licata 1931
Football club infobox
clubname = Licata
fullname = Società Sportiva Dilettante Licata 1931
nickname = "Gialloblu" (Yellow-blues);
"I Santi" (The Saints);
"I Falchi" (The Hawks)
founded =1931
ground =Stadio Dino Liotta ,Licata ,Italy
capacity = 8,000 | chairman =Piero Santamaria
manager =Antonello Capodicasa
league =Eccellenza Sicily
season = 2006-07
position = Serie D/I, 15th
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leftarm2=3366CC|body2=3366CC|rightarm2=3366CC|shorts2=3366CC|socks2=FFFF00Società Sportiva Dilettante Licata 1931 is an Italian football club located in
Licata ,Sicily . The traditional club colours of Licata isyellow andblue ; known in Italy as "giallloblu". The club has two other nicknames; I Santi which means The Saints, and I Falchi which translates as The Hawks.Licata is a historical Sicilian team, and one of the only six Sicilian football clubs to have ever reached the
Serie B league inItalian football history. [ [http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/region-italy.html RSSSF.com] ] The club currently plays in theEccellenza Sicily.History
The club was founded in
1931 as Associazione Calcio Licata by a few local students who discovered the game of football thanks to some Swedish sailors who worked in the area; the official team colours, in fact, refer to theflag of Sweden . The club was renamed Polisportiva Licata in 1967. [ [http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/region-italy-sicily-b.html RSSSF.com] ]The first appearance of Licata in a professional league, is dated in
1982 within Serie C2. During the 1984-85 season, Licata, coached by a youngZdeněk Zeman , won Serie C2 and promoted to Serie C1, despite a team composed almost entirely by players from the youth squad.In 1988, with
Aldo Cerantola as coach, Licata won also Serie C1/B, and were promoted toSerie B for the first time ever in the club's history. During its first season in the Italian second division, withGiuseppe Papadopulo as coach, then replaced byFrancesco Scorsa , Licata ended in ninth place; finishing above Parma. They also achieved the honour of playing aCoppa Italia match at the Stadio San Siro against AC Milan.The following season however, Licata were relegated to Serie C1 after finishing in 18th position. A couple of seasons later, in 1991-92 they were relegated down to
Serie C2 . They were then relegated in the 1992-94 season, and were set to compete in the CND league, but slow decay for the Sicilian club was complete and they became bankrupt in1994 .Reformation
A new club, Licata AC, was then founded and admitted to the regional
Eccellenza league [ [http://www.calciodieccellenza.it/Classifiche/94-95.html CalcioDIEcecellenza.it] ] . But in 1996, after having daringly avoided relegation, Licata AC did not register to Eccellenza and was cancelled too; a new team, Santos Licata (then Nuovo Licata, that finally switched to the current denomination), started from "Promozione" (7th level in theItalian football league system ).During the 2005/06 season, Licata won the round A of Sicilian Eccellenza, consequently returning to
Serie D for the first time for a decade.Notable former players
*flagicon|Italy
Walter Mazzarri
*flagicon|ItalyMassimo Taibi Notable former managers
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Aldo Cerantola
*flagicon|ItalyGiuseppe Papadopulo
*flagicon|Czech Republic flagicon|ItalyZdeněk Zeman Honours
Serie C1
*Champions: 1987-88Serie C2
*Champions: 1984-85References
External links
*it icon [http://www.licata1931.com/ Official homepage]
*it icon [http://www.ultraslicata1931.it/ Fans' site]
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