S.P.A.L. 2013

SPAL

Full name

Società Polisportiva Ars et Labor 2013

Nickname(s)

Spallini;
Biancazzurri (The White-Blues);
Estensi

Founded

1907 (as "Società Polisportiva Ars et Labor")
2005 (refounded)
2012 (refounded)
2013 (refounded)

Ground

Stadio Paolo Mazza,
Ferrara, Italy

Capacity

19,000

Chairman

Walter Mattioli

Manager

Oscar Brevi

League

Lega Pro/B

2013–14

Lega Pro Seconda Divisione/A, 6th

Home colours

Away colours

Third colours

Società Polisportiva Ars et Labor 2013 (or simply SPAL) is a professional Italian football club, based in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna. The club currently plays in the Lega Pro, having last been in Serie A in 1968. Their highest result in Serie A was fifth place in the 1959-1960 league season.

History

The history of S.P.A.L. 2013 officially started in 1907, following the bankruptcies in 2005 and 2012 of Società Polisportiva Ars et Labor 2013, based in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna. It currently plays in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione.

Società Polisportiva Ars et Labor

The club was founded in 1907 as Ars et Labor by the salesian priest Pietro Acerbis and was renamed in 1912 as Società Polisportiva Ars et Labor. It has played in serie A from 1920 to 1925 and from 1951 to 1968: their highest result in Serie A was fifth place in the 1959-1960 league season.

It was refounded in 2005 after the bankruptcy as Spal 1907.

In the summer 2012, after a new bankruptcy, was founded the new company Società Sportiva Dilettantistica Real S.P.A.L. that restarted from Serie D^[1] thanks to Article 52 NOIF of FIGC. ^[2]

S.S.D. Real S.P.A.L.

In the summer 2012 was founded the new company Società Sportiva Dilettantistica Real S.P.A.L. that restarted from Serie D^[3] thanks to Article 52 NOIF of FIGC.^[4]

S.P.A.L. 2013

At the end of the 2012-13 Serie D season the club took back its original denomination: in fact Giacomense, a club founded in 1967 of Masi San Giacomo, a frazione of Masi Torello moved to city of Ferrara. On 12 July 2013, after unsuccessful negotiations for the sale of the company between Vincent Candela and the group Wind4Win, represented by Andrea Cani and Giulio Finzi, owner Roberto Benasciutti made a deal with the Colombarini family for the merger between S.P.A.L. and Giacomense, with the latter giving its sports title to S.P.A.L. and moving to play in Ferrara. The club changed its name to S.P.A.L. 2013 in order to continue the soccer history of S.P.A.L.. The new club completed the 2013–14 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione season in sixth place, thus qualifying to the inaugural unified 2014–15 Lega Pro season.

Colours and badge

The team's colours are blue and white.

Current squad

As of 16 February, 2015

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Position	Player
**	GK	Pietro Menegatti
**	GK	Marco Albertoni (on loan from Genoa)
**	GK	Giovanni Ranieri (on loan from Inter)
**	DF	Daniele Gasparetto
**	DF	Tommaso Silvestri
**	DF	Nicolas Giani
**	DF	Simone Aldrovandi (on loan from Chievo)
**	DF	Marcello Cottafava
**	DF	Valerio Nava (on loan from Atalanta)
**	DF	Riccardo Rosina
**	DF	Andrea Lenzi (on loan from Alessandria)
**	MF	Eugenio Romulo Togni (on loan from Avellino)
**	MF	Andrea Landi

No.	Position	Player
**	MF	Giorgio Capece
**	MF	Federico Gentile
**	MF	Matteo Gerbaudo (on loan from Juventus)
**	MF	Alessandro Bellemo
**	MF	Manuel Lazzari
**	MF	Mattia Finotto
**	MF	Alberto Filippini
**	MF	Davide Di Quinzio
**	FW	Emanuele Rovini (on loan from Empoli)
**	FW	Gianmarco Zigoni (on loan from Milan)
**	FW	Giordano Fioretti
**	FW	Luca Veratti (on loan from Bologna)

References

External links

Official Site

Lega Pro · 2014–15 clubs

Girone A	AlbinoLeffe Alessandria Arezzo Bassano Virtus Como Cremonese FeralpiSalò Giana Erminio Lumezzane Mantova Monza Novara Pavia Pordenone Pro Patria Real Vicenza Renate Südtirol Torres Venezia

Girone B	Ancona Ascoli Carrarese Forlì Grosseto Gubbio L'Aquila Lucchese Pisa Pistoiese Pontedera Prato Pro Piacenza Reggiana San Marino Santarcangelo Savona SPAL Teramo Tuttocuoio

Girone C	Aversa Normanna Barletta Benevento Casertana Catanzaro Cosenza Foggia Ischia Juve Stabia Lecce Lupa Roma Martina Franca Matera Melfi Messina Paganese Reggina Salernitana Savoia Vigor Lamezia

Serie C seasons

Seconda Divisione	1926–27 1927–28

Prima Divisione	1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35

Serie C	1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78

Prima Divisione (Serie C1)	1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14

Lega Pro	2014–15

Football in Italy

Overview	National association League system List of clubs List of venues Records Scudetto Capocannoniere

International	Italy Under-21 Under-20 Under-19 Under-18 Under-17 Under-16 Under-15 Italy women

Leagues	Lega Serie A Lega Serie B Lega Pro Lega Nazionale Dilettanti Lega Calcio (defunct)

League competitions	Serie A Serie B Lega Pro Serie D Eccellenza Promozione Prima Categoria Seconda Categoria Terza Categoria Lega Pro Prima Divisione (defunct) Lega Pro Seconda Divisione (defunct)

Cup competitions	Coppa Italia Supercoppa Italiana Coppa Italia Lega Pro Supercoppa di Lega di Prima Divisione Supercoppa di Lega di Seconda Divisione Coppa Italia Serie D Coppa Italia Dilettanti

Youth competitions	Campionato Nazionale Primavera Coppa Italia Primavera Supercoppa Primavera Torneo di Viareggio Campionato Nazionale Dante Berretti

Women's competitions	Serie A Coppa Italia

Awards	Oscar del Calcio AIC Italian Football Hall of Fame

Miscellaneous	Totonero 1980 Totonero 1986 2004–10 Italian football scandal 2006 Italian football scandal 2011–12 Italian football scandal Foreign Serie A players Foreign Serie B players

Seasons	1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15