User:Angelo.romano/G.S. Mazara 1946
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| Full name | Gruppo Sportivo Mazara 1946 |
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| Nickname(s) | Gialloblu, Canarini | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | 1946 (U.S. Mazara) 1996 (G.S. Mazara 1946) |
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| Ground | Stadio Nino Vaccara Mazara del Vallo, Italy |
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| Capacity | 3,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman |  Giuseppe Maniscalco |
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| Manager | Filippo Cavataio |
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| League | Eccellenza - Sicily A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005-06 | Promozione - Sicily D, 1st | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gruppo Sportivo Mazara 1946 is an Italian football team from Mazara del Vallo, Sicily, which currently plays in the Sicilian A Round of Eccellenza division.
The official team colours are yellow and blue. The team is nicknamed gialloblu (referring to the team colours) or, more commonly, canarini (referring to the sole yellow colour).
Mazara plays its home matches in Stadio Nino Vaccara, a small stadium curiously located along the Mazaro river, whose field switched in the early 2000s to be synthetic from dirt floor.
[edit] History
[edit] Foundation and early years
First traces about football in Mazara are dated 1946. However, a team to represent the city of Mazara del Vallo, U.S. Mazara, was founded only in 1957/1958, and took part in the Promozione league. Mazara took part to Serie D in 1960/1961, but relegated in 1963/1964. Successively, Mazara played a single Serie D season in 1971/1972, but immediately relegated. Mazara finally returned to Serie D in 1976/1977, after having won 1-0 a promotion playoff, played at Stadio Renzo Barbera, Palermo, to Canicattì. The single playoff match featured an attendance 12,000, mostly from Mazara.
In 1985 Mazara, under coach Ignazio Arcoleo, won Serie D gaining its first Serie C2 promotion; however, this was then cancelled by the Football Federation because of alleged matchfixing, and bitter rivals Trapani were promoted at canarini's place. Successively, Mazara barely missed promotion on several occasions: the club placed second in 1988/1989, 1 point behind winners Acireale; in 1990/1991, third behind Gangi (who then lost playoff to Matera); in 1993/1994, seventh placed after having led the table for almost all the first half of the season.
After almost twenty Serie D seasons, in 1994/1995 Mazara, under serious financial troubles, relegated to Eccellenza, where another local team, Mazara 2000, was already playing. Mazara 2000 was a minor, young team who quickly climbed the football pyramid up to Eccellenza, whereas the US Mazara appeared to be a team under decline. Both teams played Eccellenza in 1995/1996, challenging each other in the league, in a new local derby. Mazara classified fourth, whereas Mazara 2000 obtained a good seventh place. Mazara, who was under growing economic difficulties, agreed for a merge with Mazara 2000, and G.S. Mazara 1946 was founded.
First appearance for Mazara 1946, in 1996/1997, was very successful, as the team managed to win hands down the Eccellenza league and return to Serie D. The first Serie D season for the new club ended in a hard saving, just one point above the relegation places. 1998/1999 was not easier, as Mazara was forced to play a relegation playoff against Sancataldese, then won 1-0.
Under heavy financial troubles, Mazara played 1999/2000 Serie D with a team mostly composed of young and unexperienced players, and humiliatingly relegated to Eccellenza with just 8 points in 34 matches, obviously last-placed in the table.
Since then, Mazara experienced a declining time, even relegating to Promozione in 2003/2004 after playoffs. The club, with a new property, successfully returned to Eccellenza in 2005/2006 under coach Filippo Cavataio, and is now leading the table also in Eccellenza, making new hopes of a comeback to the past successes.
