The 2007–08 Serie C2 season was the thirtieth

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league season of

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Serie C2 Serie C2 was the fourth highest football league in Italy, the lowest with a professional status. History Before the 1978–79 season, there were only three professional football leagues in Italy, the third being Serie C. The league menaging t ...

since its establishment in 1978 . It was divided into two phases: the

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, played from September 2007 to May 2008, and the playoff phase from May to June 2008. The league was composed of 54 teams divided into three divisions of 18 teams each, whose teams will be divided geographically. Teams finishing first in the regular season, plus one team winning the playoff round from each division were promoted to

Serie C1 Serie C1 was the third highest football league in Italy. It consisted of 36 teams, divided geographically into two divisions. History Before the 1978–79 season, there were only three professional football leagues in Italy, the third being Se ...

; teams finishing last in the regular season, plus two relegation playoff losers from each division were relegated to

Serie D The Serie D () is the highest level of semi-professional football in Italy, and the fourth tier of the Italian national league system. It sits beneath the third and lowest fully professional league, Serie C, and feeds in to it through promotion ...

. In all, six teams were promoted to Serie C1, and nine teams were relegated to Serie D.

Events

The line-up was announced on July 19, 2007. The only team excluded because of financial troubles was Tempio, Serie D - Girone B winners in 2006–07. On August 3, 2007 it was announced that the vacancy would be filled by Serie D - Girone B runners-up U.S. Calcio Caravaggese (formerly ''USO Calcio Caravaggio''). The league features six teams relegated from

in 2006–07 (

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Teramo Teramo (; ) is a city and ''comune'' in the Italian region of Abruzzo, the capital of the province of Teramo. The city, from Rome, is situated between the highest mountains of the Apennines ( Gran Sasso d'Italia) and the Adriatic coast. Th ...

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and

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) and nine promoted from

(

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, Mezzocorona, Rodengo Saiano, Esperia Viareggio, Valle del Giovenco, Scafatese, Noicattaro, Neapolis and Calcio Caravaggese).

Standings

Serie C2/A

Final standings

Serie C2/B

Final standings

Serie C2/C

Final standings

Promotion and relegation playoffs

Serie C2/A

Promotion

:Promotion playoff semifinals :First legs to be played May 18, 2008; return legs to be played May 25, 2008 :Promotion playoff finals :First leg to be played June 1, 2008; return leg played to be June 8, 2008 Lumezzane promoted to Serie C1

Relegation

:Relegation playoffs :First legs to be played May 18, 2008; return legs to be played May 25, 2008 Cuneo and Calcio Caravaggese relegated to Serie D

Serie C2/B

Promotion

Relegation

:Relegation playoffs :First legs to be played May 18, 2008; return legs to be played May 25, 2008 Viterbese and Rovigo relegated to Serie D

Serie C2/C

Promotion

Relegation

:Relegation playoffs :First legs to be played May 18, 2008; return legs to be played May 25, 2008 Andria and Val di Sangro relegated to Serie D

Clubs

Serie C2/A

Serie C2/B

Serie C2/C

References

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