Associazione Sportiva Dilettante Modica Calcio is an Italian association football club, based in

Modica Modica (; scn, Muòrica) is a city and ''comune'' of 54,456 inhabitants in the Province of Ragusa, Sicily, southern Italy. The city is situated in the Hyblaean Mountains. Modica has neolithic origins and it represents the historical capita ...

, Sicily. Modica's team colours are red and blue and it currently plays in

Eccellenza Sicily Eccellenza Sicily ( it, Eccellenza Sicilia) is the regional Eccellenza football division for clubs in Sicily, Italy. It is competed amongst 32 teams, in two different groups (A and B). The winners of the Groups are promoted to Serie D. The clubs w ...

History

The club Modica Calcio was founded in 1932 and has a long history in Italian non-league football. Modica played in Serie C2/C during the 2005–06, but was immediately relegated after playoffs and then cancelled because of financial irregularities. Successively, a new property bought

Eccellenza The Eccellenza (, "excellence") is the fifth level (since 2014–15) of Italian football. It is a regional league, composed of 28 divisions divided geographically. All 20 regions are represented by at least one division except for Piedmont and ...

club A.S.D. Pol. Libertas Acate from the neighbouring city of

Acate Acate ( Sicilian: ''Acati'' or ''Vischiri'') is a small town and ''comune'' in the south of Sicily, Italy, part of the province of Ragusa. It is located in the Dirillo River valley, from Ragusa. Until 1938 it was called Biscari, and its histo ...

; the new club, commonly referred to as Libertas Acate-Modica, won the Round B of

league being therefore promoted to

Serie D The Serie D () is the top level of semi-professional football in the country. The fourth tier of the Italian league system, the competition sits beneath the third professional league, Serie C. It is administered by the Lega Nazionale Dilettant ...

. The club was expected to reassume the original denomination from the following season, but this change was made effective only before the beginning of the 2009–10 season. It in the season 2010–11, from

group I relegated, in the play-out, to

, where it plays in the current season.

External links

Official site
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