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| Full name | Associazione Calcio Carpi S.r.l. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nickname | i Biancorossi (The White-and-Reds) | |||
| Founded | 1909; 117 years ago (1909) | |||
| Ground | Stadio Sandro Cabassi | |||
| Capacity | 5,500 | |||
| Chairman | Claudio Lazzaretti | |||
| Manager | Stefano Cassani | |||
| League | Serie C Group B | |||
| 2024–25 | Serie C Group B, 13th of 20 | |||
| Website | carpicalcio.it | |||
A.C. Carpi is an Italian professionalfootball club based inCarpi, a city in theprovince of Modena. The club was founded in 1909, re-founded in 2000[1] and 2022.
Carpi's colours arewhite andred, hence the nickname "Biancorossi".[1] At the end of the2012–13 season, Carpi won their first promotion toSerie B. On 28 April 2015, the Biancorossi won their first promotion toSerie A, but were relegated back to Serie B after onlyone season.The Golden Era ended in 2019, with the relegation back in Serie C after five seasons in Serie B and one season in Serie A.
The Biancorossi have won a handful of league titles, including: the oldLega Pro Seconda Divisione;Serie B once;Serie C once; andSerie D four times. At the regional level, Carpi has wonPromozione, Prima Divisione, and twoPrima Categoria titles.[1]
The club was founded in the summer of 1909 by local student Adolfo Fanconi asJucunditas (Latin for "gaiety"), and changed their denomination toAssociazione Calcio Carpi a few years later.[2] Carpi played three seasons in the Italian Football Championship, the precursor toSerie A, from the1919–20 season until1921–22. Starting from the 1930s, they mostly played betweenSerie C andSerie D. Carpi achieved their best result in 1997, a third-placed finish under coachLuigi De Canio which allowed them to play theSerie B promotion playoffs then lost toMonza.[2] The club was cancelled in 2000 following relegation to Serie D and subsequent bankruptcy.
A new club, namedCalcio Carpi, was therefore admitted toEccellenza Emilia–Romagna. The club assumed the current denomination in 2002, following promotion toSerie D and a merger with the second team of the city,Dorando Pietri Carpi, that had just reached Serie D as well. Pietri Carpi also sold its license toBoca.
At the end of the 2009–10 season, through repechage due to the number of teams with financial difficulties, the club was admitted intoLega Pro Seconda Divisione. In 2010–11, the club's first season in the higher division, it was promoted again toLega Pro Prima Divisione. Because of the work being done on their stadium, the Sandro Cabasisi, the team played in theMapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore in the 2011–12 season.
In the season 2012–13 the team was promoted fromLega Pro Prima Divisione toSerie B for the first time when they defeatedLecce in the Girone A Play-off Final 2–1 on aggregate. This was the club's third promotion in just four seasons.
Carpi FC's first fixture at Serie B level ended in a 1–0 defeat away toTernana on 24 August 2013. Their first win was a 2–0 victory atSpezia courtesy of goals fromFabio Concas &Roberto Inglese. Carpi's first season inSerie B ended in a 12th-place finish, only three points away from a promotion play-off place, ensuring their place for another season.
The2014–15 Serie B campaign saw Carpi, managed by experienced coachFabrizio Castori, completing the first half of the season (21 games) in a first place, with a record of 43 points and a nine-point advantage over second-placedFrosinone. On 28 April 2015, after a goalless draw withBari, the club was promoted for the first time to Serie A.
Carpi's first season saw a complete overhaul of the squad from theseason previous due to the departure of long-timedirector of footballCristiano Giuntoli, who had masterminded the club's rise from the amateur Serie D to the top flight, toNapoli. He was subsequently replaced bySean Sogliano.
On 28 September 2015, after a 1–5 loss toRoma, the club announced it had relieved Castori of his coaching duties with immediate effect, replacing him withGiuseppe Sannino in the first managerial change of the2015–16 Serie A season.[3] Carpi had achieved just two points from its opening six matches. On 3 November, the club performed a U-turn, and Castori was rehired.[4] The club'sdebut top-flight season ultimately ended in relegation by a single point, with the club having found itself in a relegation dogfight from virtually the start of the season.
Thefollowing season saw another complete reconstruction of the first-team, with several important players returning to their parent clubs from loan, as Carpi sought an immediate return to Serie A. However, they fell toBenevento in the playoff final.
In the2017–18 Serie B season, Carpi placed 11th, but thefollowing season was marred by difficulties that caused the team's relegation toSerie C after six years, after having placed last with just 29 points.[5]
The2019–20 Serie C season started well for Carpi, which placed second in its group before theCOVID-19 pandemic halted the season. Carpi then went to the playoffs, but lost toNovara in the quarter finals.
Thefollowing season saw Carpi placing 15th in its group, narrowly avoiding relegation.
However, in July 2021, the COVISOC rejected the club's admission to the2021–22 Serie C, citing unpaid taxes and contributions between 2020 and 2021. The club was successively excluded entirely from Italian football.
In 2021, following the disbandment of the original Carpi, a new but distinct club namedAthletic Carpi played in the2021–22 Serie D season. On 13 September 2022, the club, renamedA.C. Carpi, eventually acquired all the naming and historical rights of the original one, thus formally becoming the direct heir of Carpi FC 1909.[6]
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| Level | Category | Participation | Debut | Final season | Total |
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| 1° | Prima Categoria | 3 | 1919–20 | 1921–22 | 4 |
| Serie A | 1 | 2015–16 | |||
| 2° | Seconda Divisione | 4 | 1922–23 | 1925–26 | 8 |
| Prima Divisione | 2 | 1926–27 | 1927–28 | ||
| Serie B | 2 | 2013–14 | 2014–15 | ||
| 3° | Prima Divisione | 7 | 1928–29 | 1934–35 | 32 |
| Serie C | 13 | 1936–37 | 1974–75 | ||
| Serie C1 | 10 | 1989–90 | 1998–99 | ||
| Lega Pro Prima Divisione | 2 | 2011–12 | 2012–13 | ||
| 4° | Promozione | 2 | 1950–51 | 1951–52 | 26 |
| IV Serie | 5 | 1952–53 | 1958–59 | ||
| Campionato Interregionale – Seconda Categoria | 1 | 1957–58 | |||
| Campionato Interregionale | 1 | 1958–59 | |||
| Serie D | 13 | 1962–63 | 1977–78 | ||
| Serie C2 | 3 | 1978–79 | 1999–00 | ||
| Lega Pro Seconda Divisione | 1 | 2010–11 | |||
| 5° | Campionato Interregionale | 7 | 1981–82 | 1987–88 | 16 |
| Serie D | 9 | 1980–81 | 2009–10 | ||
In81 football seasons starting from the onset at the national level in the Northern League in 1922:
| Level | Category | Participation | Debut | Final season | Total |
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| I | Promozione | 2 | 1913–14 | 1914–15 | 9 |
| Prima Divisione | 3 | 1935–36 | 1949–50 | ||
| Prima Categoria | 3 | 1959–60 | 1961–62 | ||
| Eccellenza | 2 | 2000–01 | 2001–02 |
In12 seasons starting from the onset at the regional level inPromozione in 1914:
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József Zilisy (1942–43)
Gianni De Biasi (1993–96)Luigi De Canio (1996–97)Walter De Vecchi (1997–98)Egidio Notaristefano (2011–12)Giuseppe Pillon (2014)Fabrizio Castori (2014–15)Giuseppe Sannino (2015)Fabrizio Castori (2015–17)
