A.S. Trapani

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Trapani

Full name

Associazione Sportiva Dilettante Trapani Calcio

Nickname(s)

Granata (Maroons)

Founded

1905

Ground

Stadio Provinciale di Trapani,
Trapani, Italy

Capacity

7,000

Chairman

Vittorio Morace

Manager

Tarcisio Catanese

League

Sicilian Eccellenza - Round A

2005-06

Serie D, 14th





Home colours





Away colours

Associazione Sportiva Trapani is an Italian football club located in Trapani, Sicily. The traditional club colours of Trapani is maroon, known in Italian language as granata. During the club's history they have played mostly in the Serie C and D leagues, but currently play in the Sicilian Eccellenza.

To date the highest league position the club has finished was 4th in Serie C1 during the 1994-95 season. Throughout their long history, Trapani have won atleast six recorded league championships in various divisions.

1 History
- 1.1 Post-War Revival
- 1.2 Trapani at their peak
2 Notable former players
3 Notable former managers
4 Honours
5 References
6 External links

[edit] History

The club's roots can be traced back to 1905; on 2 April of that year, local newspaper the Gazzetta di Trapani ran an advert requesting young people to form a football association for Trapani.^[1] The club founded, by professor Ugolino Montagna and young native Abele Mazzarese to represent the West-Sicilian town was named Unione Sportiva Trapanese. It is one of the oldest teams on the island, after Palermo and Messina.

U.S. Trapanese's first president was Giuseppe Platamone and the club played their games at Via Spalti. The first official game for the club came against Palermo in October 1908, the more experienced Palermitan team won empatically scoring 12 goals. Trapanese bounced back however, playing local derby's against teams from Marsala and Erice. By 1915 play was stopped because of World War One.

[edit] Post-War Revival

After the war, in 1921 three teams had rose up; Vigor, Bencivegna and Drepanum. During the 1921-22 season Vigor finished 6th in the Sicilian section of the national championship of the C.C.I. (Confederazione Calcistica Italiana). On 22 January 1923 a fusion took place between Vigor and Drepanum, the club decided to revive the previous name U.S. Trapanese.

By June 1926, the name of the club was changed to A.S. Trapani. In the 1930-31 season, under the name Juventus Trapani, the club won promotion from III Divisione into II Divisione, the following season they achieved promotion again this time into the early 1930s equivelent of Serie C. They finished 8th in Serie C during the 1942-43, but then football in Italy was put on hold for the Second World War.

[edit] Trapani at their peak

With former Serie A player Ignazio Arcoleo as head coach, Trapani experienced two consecutive promotions from Serie D to Serie C1 in the early 1990s. In 1995, a strong team composed mostly by young promising players such as Marco Materazzi and more experienced local footballers such as Francesco Galeoto qualified to the promotion playoff, but ultimately lost to Gualdo.

Since then, Trapani have not reached such heights, and swere uccessively relegated down to Serie D and even Eccellenza in the 2005-06 season, despite a late attempt by local hero Arcoleo to save the team from relegation. Currently, the team, coached by former Parma midfielder Tarcisio Catanese, is fighting to keep itself out of the relegation playoff positions.