Casertana Football Club is an Italian association football club based in

Caserta Caserta () is the capital of the province of Caserta in the Campania region of Italy. It is an important agricultural, commercial, and industrial '' comune'' and city. Caserta is located on the edge of the Campanian plain at the foot of the Ca ...

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. The club currently plays in

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 ...

History

The club was founded in 1908 as Robur Caserta and became known as Unione Sportiva Casertana from 1928 until 2005, when the team was cancelled by the federation. The club also had two stints in

Serie B The Serie B (), currently named Serie BKT for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It has been operating for over ninety years since the 1929–30 season. It had been ...

in 1970–71 and 1991–92. The club was refounded in 2005 as A.S. Caserta Calcio and was later renamed A.S. Casertana Calcio. During the 2009–10 Serie D season, the side took back its traditional denomination. Casertana made its return to professionalism at the end of the 2012–13 season, after finishing fourth in

, thus reaching the promotion play-off only to be beaten by Virtus Verona in the final. However, the club was successively admitted into Lega Pro Seconda Divisione as a replacement for a number of teams that went bankrupt by the end of the season. The club ended the 2013–14 season in second place, thus qualifying to the 2014–15 Lega Pro division.

Colours and badge

The colours of the team are red and blue.

Players

Current squad

''As of 15 December 2022''.

Club officials

Board of directors

* Last updated: 2 November 2020 * Source:

Current technical staff

* Last updated: 2 November 2020 * Source:

Nearby clubs

Casertana shared a local rivalry with Piedimonte Matese-based clubs A.S.D. Tre Pini Matese, F.W.P. Matese (now both defunct), as well as Alife-based club

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. They share a local rivalry with Tre Pini's successor club A.S.D. Football Club Matese.

Notable former managers

* Giuseppe Materazzi *

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Honours

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' * Serie C1 **Champions (1): 1969–70,

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* Serie C2 **Champions (1): 1980–81 *

**Champions (3): 1949–50, 1962–63, 1995–96 **Runners-up (2) : 1960–61, 1977–78 *

Eccellenza Campania Eccellenza Campania is the regional Eccellenza football league for clubs in the Southern Italian region of Campania, Italy. It is composed of 32 teams, divided into divisions A and B, which are 2 of the 28 total Eccellenza divisions in all of Ita ...

**Champions (1): 2006–07 * Promozione Campania **Champions (1): 1953–54

References

External links

Official homepage
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