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| Full name | Savoia 1908 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nicknames | Bianchi (Whites), Oplontini | |||
| Founded | 1908 1955 (refounded) 2010 (refounded) 2021 (refounded) | |||
| Ground | Stadio Alfredo Giraud, Torre Annunziata,Italy | |||
| Capacity | 10,750[1] | |||
| Chairman | Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy | |||
| Manager | Franco Fabiano | |||
| League | Serie D | |||
| 2023–24 | Eccellenza Campania/A,11th of 18 | |||
Savoia 1908 is anItalian association football club located inTorre Annunziata, Campania. It currently plays inSerie D.
It is one of the oldest clubs in southern Italy. It was founded on 21 November 1908 by a group of industrial mills and pasta factories, with the help of other individuals from the middle-class of Torre Annunziata. The club color is white, the color of the raw material of the economy of Torre Annunziata of the time:flour. The club crest is the stylized Savoy shield and plays its home games in the Alfredo Giraud Stadium. They won the championship ofSouthern Italy in 1924, obtaining the honor of facing the national champions, Genoa.[2]
Founded in 1908 asUnione Sportiva Savoia, after the homonymousItalian royal family at the time, the team played the ItalianSerie A league finals in 1924, losing toGenoa C.F.C.
In 1915 the club became affiliated to theItalian Football Federation and the first official tournament played was the International Cup, played in Naples in 1916 withNaples,Puteoli,Bagnolese and Internazionale and finished in 3rd place. During the Great War he won the third-rate Campano championship and on 3 November 1919 lost the play-off for admission to the First Category against Pro Caserta, he participated in the Promotion League 1919-1920 where, although he came third, he was admitted to the First Category 1920-1921 for the enlargement of federal cadres. In this period the club absorbed the second town team of Pro Italia, and on 13 June 1920 theCampo Oncino was inaugurated.
In its first two seasons in the top flight the club did not pass the regional phase, obtaining a third and a second place, with first being Fornari and then Garozzo. Subsequently, under the control ofVoiello, came the first and biggest winning cycle in the history of the club, when it won three consecutive titles of champion of Campania, another title of champion of central-southern Italy and reached the double final Scudetto of 1924, when it lost against the Genoa. Until then the champions of central-southern Italy had always suffered defeats by the great clubs of the north, but after the honorable defeat of the first leg by 3–1, in the return leg the Savoia entered the history of Italian football by drawing for 1- 1 with the eight-time champions of Italy, becoming the first club in central-southern Italy to end a race. Coach of that triennium was Raffaele Di Giorgio, supported by Wisbar in the last two years.
From the thirties, in the first five years of which it was calledFascio Sportivo Savoia, the club played steadily in Serie C until after the war, excluding the two years 1936–1938, becoming firstFootball Association Torre Annunziata and thenSpolettificio Torre Annunziata, in fact a team military consisting mainly of footballers who were stationed in the city barracks, which regained the Serie C dominating the league with fourteen wins and a draw in sixteen matches. With the purchase ofEnrico Colombari, who ended his career as a footballer in Torre Annunziata and started as a coach, the club ranked second in 1938-1939 behind the MATER ofFulvio Bernardini; then, with Osvaldo Sacchi as a trainer, he obtained in 1939 the best result ever in the Italian Cup, in which he reached the final sixteenths; subsequently, with Ruggero Zanolla, he arrived fifth in 1940–41 and third in 1942–43.
In 1944, for political reasons, the club had to renounce both the emblem of the Savoy, the symbol of the club, and its name, changed first toIlva Torrese and then toUnione Sportiva Torrese. During the last years of the Second World War it participated in the 1944 Liberation Cup and the 1945 Campano Mixed Championship, coming second and ninth respectively. At the resumption of the championships the Torrese was classified fourth in 1945–46, which thanks to the renunciations of Benevento and Gladiator, earned it the first promotion in Serie B of its history. Under the presidency of Carotenuto, the technical guidance of Dario Compiani and with the goals of the attacking trio Eugenio Calleri, Renato Ghezzi and Secondo Rossi, the team was classified sixth in 1946–47, which is today the highest point reached by the club from the establishment of the single round. With the reduction of the federal cadres, the 12th place of 1948 saw its return to Serie C. From that year the club began a slow decline in which there were 4 demotions compared to a single promotion in 1955, the year that also saw the closure of theCampo Formisano that had hosted the whites for about a quarter of a century.
In 1955 a new club restarted asUnione Sportiva Savoia 1908, relegating down to Serie D and even Promozione. Two consecutive promotions, in 1964 and 1965, led Savoia to Serie C, where however played it just for one season.
In 1978/1979, Savoia was admitted by theItalian Football Federation to the newbornSerie C2 division, playing at that level until 1981/1982. Savoia returned to play Serie C2 eight years later, and promoted to Serie C1 in 1994/1995 after playoffs under coachLuigi De Canio. In 1998/1999, under coachOsvaldo Jaconi, popular for his successful years atCastel di Sangro, Savoia qualified for the Serie B promotion playoffs. In the playoff semifinals, Savoia sensationally eliminatedPalermo, winning both the matches, and defeating 2–0Juve Stabia in a final, and also a derby between two rival teams. In 1999/2000, despite a fairly good start, Savoia quickly entered into crisis, and Jaconi was fired at the 14th day, being replaced byFranco Varrella, who however was unable to save the team from relegation. After an unenthusiastic Serie C1 campaign in 2000/2001, in the next summer Savoia was cancelled because of financial troubles. On those days, anEccellenza club fromNaples, Internapoli, accepted to relocate to Torre Annunziata and switched its denomination toIntersavoia, quickly obtaining promotion to Serie D. Following that promotion, the team has assumed the former denomination.
At the end of the2008–09 Serie D season the club was relegated to Eccellenza, but was excluded from that championship during the following season.
In the summer 2010 the club was refounded asA.S.D. Calcio Savoia and restarted fromPromozione: in this season 2010–11 it was promoted toEccellenza Campania and became the current denomination. Also in the next season it was promoted, toSerie D. In the season 2013–14 it was promoted toLega Pro as Serie D/I winners. The next season they were relegated back down to Serie D.
In the season 2017–2018 it was promoted toSerie D as Eccellenza Campania winners. In the summer of 2018 the club was renamedU.S. Savoia 1908.
The club moved back to Eccellenza in 2021 after swapping their football title withGiugliano.[3]
In November 2022 the club was acquired by a consortium headed byEmanuele Filiberto of Savoy, Prince of Venice, who was appointed as the new chairman.[4]
