F.C. Pro Vercelli 1892

Vercelli Calcio

Full name

Football Club Pro Vercelli s.r.l.

Nickname(s)

Bianche Casacche (White Shirts),
Leoni (Lions)

Founded

1892 (as sport club S.G. Pro Vercelli)
1903 (as football division U.S. Pro Vercelli Calcio)
2010 (refounded)

Ground

Stadio Silvio Piola,
Vercelli, Italy

Capacity

5,500

President

Massimo Secondo

Head Coach

Gianluca Grassadonia

League

Serie B

2016–17

Serie B, 16th

Website

Club website

Home colours

Away colours

Third colours

Football Club Pro Vercelli, commonly known as Pro Vercelli, is an Italian association football club based in Vercelli, Piedmont.^[1] Mostly renowned as one of the most successful teams in the early football era of Italy, with seven national titles (all won between 1908 and 1922), they currently play in the Serie B league.

History

Early league successes and decline

The origins of football in Vercelli go back to 1892 when it was founded as Società Ginnastica Pro Vercelli (Pro Vercelli Gymnastics Society), and 1903 with its Football Division.

The first official match for the football division of S.G. Pro Vercelli took place on 3 August 1903 against the Forza e Costanza.

The club won seven Italian Football Championships from 1908 to 1922: 1908, 1909, 1910–11, 1911–12, 1912–13, 1920–21, and 1921–22.

The introduction of professionalism in Italian football, and the rise of teams from larger industrial and business cities such as Milan and Turin, led Pro Vercelli to a slow but continuous decline. They played Serie A for their last time to date in 1934–35, and went ultimately relegated also from the 1947–48 Serie B, starting a long period out of the two top divisions of Italian football, even being relegated to Italy's amateur league, Serie D, in multiple times. They regained professional status for good after winning promotion and the Scudetto Dilettanti in the season 1993–94.

Bankruptcy and the new Pro Vercelli

Former Pro Belvedere logo

In the early 2000s, Pro Vercelli also had to challenge crosstown rivalry from a new team, A.S. Pro Belvedere Vercelli (with the colors yellow and green), founded in the summer of 2006 as a merger between A.S. Trino Calcio (based in Trino, Piedmont), who played in Serie D and minor league team P.G.S. Pro Belvedere, founded in 1912.

In the 2006–07 Serie D, the team finished 9th in Girone A. A year later, in the Serie D 2007–08 season, the team finished 3rd in the same division, qualifying for the Serie D play-offs. It won its way to the group stage of the tournament, but failed qualify as one of the top 5 teams of the play-offs, all of which were later promoted to Lega Pro Seconda Divisione.

In the 2008–09 Serie D, Pro Belvedere finished first in Girone B, winning direct promotion to Lega Pro Seconda Divisione. Their debut season into professional football also featured, for the first time in the club's history, a crosstown derby with Pro Vercelli, but was not particularly successful, with the team lying in second-last place for most of the time in the 2009–10 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione, and promotion winning coach Luca Prina being replaced by the more experienced Gianfranco Motta.

Pro Belvedere were relegated after only one season but re-admitted to fill a number of vacancies in the league; at the same time, due to large debts, Pro Vercelli was not allowed to participate in the 2010–11 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione and so folded. In order to keep the old Pro Vercelli alive, Pro Belvedere changed its name to U.S. Vercelli Calcio and weeks later acquired honours and trademarks from the old Pro Vercelli, being thus allowed to switch its denomination to the current one, as well as to maintain the historical names and colors of the original team.^[1]

In the season 2010–11 the team played in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione ranking 3rd and was eliminated from Pro Patria in the semifinal of the play-off, but on 4 August 2011 it was later admitted to Lega Pro Prima Divisione to fill vacancies.^[2]

New successes: back to Serie B after 64 years

In the season 2011–12 of Lega Pro Prima Divisione the club was promoted to Serie B after 64 years, beating Carpi 3–1 in the final return of the play-off after the 0–0 of the first round.^[3]^[4]

The club had a very unsuccessful return to Serie B, finishing 21st of 22 teams and with a goal difference −30, the worst in the league. Their placing in the league meant that they were relegated to Lega Pro Prima Divisione.

In 2013–14 season, Girone A of Lega Pro 1, Pro Vercelli missed out on an immediate automatic promotion back to Serie B by a single point, finishing second in the league to Virtus Entella and eight points above third placed Südtirol. Striker Ettore Marchi starred throughout the season, scoring 15 goals. In the promotion play-offs, Pro Vercelli eliminated FeralpiSalò, Savona and ultimately defeated Südtirol in the final, thus returning to Serie B after only one season away. Pro Vercelli finished 16th in Serie B in the 2014–15 season and 17th in the 2015–16 season.

Colors and badge

The historical color of the shirts of Pro Vercelli is white.

Honours

Italian Football Championship

Winners (7): 1908, 1909, 1910–11, 1911–12, 1912–13, 1920–21, 1921–22

Serie B

Winners (1): 1907

Serie D

Winners (4): 1956–57, 1970–71, 1983–84, 1993–94

Scudetto Dilettanti:

Winners (1): 1993–94

Current squad

As of 10 August, 2017.^[5]

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

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Tommaso Nobile
12	GK	Simone Moschin
22	GK	Alessandro Gilardi
2	DF	Filippo Berra
3	DF	Luca Bruno (on loan from Crotone)
13	DF	Elia Legati
15	DF	Dramane Konaté
20	DF	Luca Barlocco (on loan from Juventus)
25	DF	Lorenzo Grossi
28	DF	William Jidayi
--	DF	Lorenzo Cortinovis
--	DF	Carlo Mammarella
--	DF	Dario Bergamelli
6	MF	Dejan Danza
8	MF	Daniele Altobelli

No.	Position	Player
14	MF	Armando Vajushi
18	MF	Paolo Ghiglione (on loan from Genoa)
21	MF	Luca Castiglia
23	MF	Marco Firenze (on loan from Crotone)
29	MF	Alessandro Sangiorgi
33	MF	Umberto Germano
--	MF	Mario Pugliese (on loan from Atalanta)
7	FW	Claudio Morra
9	FW	Rolando Bianchi
10	FW	Andrea La Mantia
11	FW	Emanuele Rovini (on loan from Udinese)
19	FW	Alain Goury
--	FW	Junior Messias
--	FW	Gianmario Comi

Managers

Guido Ara (1919–26)
József Nagy (1928–32)
Guido Ara (1932–34)
Antonio Montico (1976–77)
Giuliano Zoratti (1986–90)
Bruno Baveni (1995–96)
Agatino Cuttone (1999–00)
Renzo Gobbo (2002–03)
Nello Santin (2003–04)
Roberto Galia (2007)
Gianluca Gaudenzi (2007–08)
Giancarlo Camolese (2012–13)
Cristiano Scazzola (2013–15)
Claudio Foscarini (2015–)

References

1 2 "Ecco la nuova F.C. Pro Vercelli 1892". Provercelli.Times.it (in Italian). 6 August 2010. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 16 August 2010.
↑ "Calcio, Lega Pro; ripescaggi: 5 in I Divisione e Rimini in II". la Repubblica (in Italian). 2011. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
↑ "Lega Pro 1° A 2011/2012 Aufstieg". Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 27 September 2015.
↑ Pasquino, Stefano (10 June 2012). "Pro Vercelli in serie B, anche il Lanciano promosso". Tuttosport (in Italian). Retrieved 27 September 2015.
↑ "Rosa Giocatori". F.C. Pro Vercelli (in Italian). Retrieved 30 August 2016.

External links

(in Italian) Official website
(in Italian) Unofficial website

Serie B
2017–18 clubs	Ascoli Avellino Bari Brescia Carpi Cesena Cittadella Cremonese Empoli Foggia Frosinone Novara Palermo Parma Perugia Pescara Pro Vercelli Salernitana Spezia Ternana Venezia Virtus Entella
Former clubs	Acireale Alba Trastevere AlbinoLeffe Alessandria Alzano Virescit Ancona Arezzo Arsenale Taranto Atalanta Barletta Benevento Biellese Bologna Bolzano Brindisi Campobasso Carpi Carrarese Casale Casertana Castel di Sangro Catania Catanzaro Cavese Centese Chievo Como Cosenza Crema Derthona Fanfulla Fermana Fidelis Andria Fiorentina Fiumana Forlì Frosinone Gallaratese Gallipoli Genoa Grion Pola Grosseto Gubbio Hellas Verona Juve Stabia Juventus L'Aquila Latina Lazio Lecce Lecco Legnano Licata Liguria Livorno Lucchese Maceratese Magenta Mantova Marzotto Massese M.A.T.E.R. Matera Messina Mestre Milan Modena Molinella Monfalcone Monza Napoli Nocerina Padova Pavia Piacenza Piombino Pisa Pistoiese Portogruaro Potenza Prato Pro Gorizia Pro Patria Pro Sesto Ravenna Reggiana Reggina Rieti Rimini Roma Sambenedettese Sampdoria Sampierdarenese Sanremese Sassuolo Savoia Savona Scafatese Seregno Sestrese Siena Siracusa Sorrento SPAL Suzzara Taranto Torino Trani Trapani Treviso Triestina Udinese Varese Viareggio Vicenza Vigevano Virtus Lanciano Vita Nova Vogherese
Statistics	Records Champions

Serie B seasons
Prima Divisione	1926–27 1927–28 1928–29
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1945–46 postwar season^†	Serie B-C in Northern Italy Serie A-B in Southern Italy
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Football in Italy
Overview	National association League system List of clubs List of venues Records Scudetto Cadetti 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 Serie C Lega Nazionale Dilettanti Lega Calcio defunct
League competitions	Serie A Prima Divisione defunct Divisione Nazionale defunct Serie B Serie C Lega Pro Prima Divisione defunct Lega Pro Seconda Divisione defunct Serie D Eccellenza Promozione Prima Categoria Seconda Categoria Terza Categoria
Cup competitions	Coppa Italia Supercoppa Italiana Coppa Italia Lega Pro Supercoppa di Lega Pro Supercoppa di Lega di Seconda Divisione defunct 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 Supercoppa Italiana
Awards	Gran Galà del Calcio AIC Italian Football Hall of Fame
Miscellaneous	Totonero 1980 Totonero 1986 Italian Law 91/1981, Article 18B financial doping scandals 2006 Italian football scandal 2011–12 Italian football scandal 2015 Italian football scandal Article 52 of N.O.I.F. Serie A players Foreign Serie A players Foreign Serie B players
Seasons	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 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18

Original Serie A clubs, 1929–30
Alessandria Bologna Brescia Cremonese Genoa (as Genova 1893) Internazionale (as Ambrosiana) Juventus Lazio Livorno Milan Modena Napoli Padova Pro Patria Pro Vercelli Roma Torino Triestina

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