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| Full name | Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Licata Calcio | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nicknames | Gialloblu (Yellow-blues) I Santi (The Saints) Le Aquile (The Eagles) | ||
| Founded | 1931 | ||
| Ground | Stadio Dino Liotta, Licata,Italy | ||
| Capacity | 11,000 | ||
| Chairman | Piero Santamaria | ||
| Manager | Giovanni Campanella | ||
| League | Eccellenza | ||
| 2020–21 | Serie D/I, 10th | ||
Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Licata Calcio is anItalian association football club located inLicata, Sicily.
Licata is a historical Sicilian team, and one of the six Sicilian football clubs to have ever reached theSerie B league in Italian football history.[1]
The club currently plays inEccellenza.
The club was founded in 1931 asAssociazione Calcio Licata by a few local students who discovered the game of association football thanks to someSwedish sailors who worked in the area; the official team colours, in fact, refer to theflag of Sweden. The club was renamedPolisportiva Licata in 1967.[2]
The first appearance of Licata in a professional league, is dated in 1982 withinSerie C2. During the 1984–85 season, Licata, coached by a youngZdeněk Zeman, won Serie C2 and was promoted to Serie C1, despite a team composed almost entirely by players from the youth squad.
In 1988, withAldo Cerantola as coach, Licata won also Serie C1/B, and was promoted toSerie B for the first time in the club's history. During its first season in the Italian second division, withGiuseppe Papadopulo as a coach, then replaced byFrancesco Scorsa, Licata ended in ninth place; finishing aboveParma. They also achieved the honor of playing aCoppa Italia match at theStadio San Siro againstAC 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 toSerie 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 in 1994.
A new club,Licata AC, was then founded and admitted to the regionalEccellenza league.[3] But in 1996, after having daringly avoided relegation, Licata AC did not register to Eccellenza and was cancelled too; a new team,Santos Licata (thenNuovo Licata, that finally switched to the current denomination), started fromPromozione (7th level in theItalian football league system).
During the 2005–06 season, Licata won the round A of Sicilian Eccellenza, consequently returning toSerie D for the first time for a decade.
In the season 2010–11 it was promoted fromEccellenza Sicily group A toSerie D.
A new club was created in 2014 after another bankruptcy.
The traditional club colours of Licata is yellow and blue; known in Italy asgialloblu. The club has two other nicknames;I Santi which means The Saints, andI Falchi which translates as The Hawks.
