Associazione Sportiva Gubbio 1910 is an Italian association football club, based in

Gubbio Gubbio () is an Italian town and ''comune'' in the far northeastern part of the Italian province of Perugia (Umbria). It is located on the lowest slope of Mt. Ingino, a small mountain of the Apennine Mountains, Apennines. History Prehistory The ol ...

Umbria Umbria ( ; ) is a Regions of Italy, region of central Italy. It includes Lake Trasimeno and Cascata delle Marmore, Marmore Falls, and is crossed by the Tiber. It is the only landlocked region on the Italian Peninsula, Apennine Peninsula. The re ...

. The club play in

Serie C The Serie C (), officially known as Serie C NOW for sponsorship purposes, is the third-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie B and Serie A. The Lega Italiana Calcio Professionistico (Lega Pro) is the governing ...

, the third tier of Italian football.

History

The multi-sport club SPES Gubbio was founded in 1908. In 1910 SPES Gubbio began its football activity, and the official football sector was established on 25 March 1913. In February 2009, the club made national headlines by hiring 70-year-old

UEFA Cup The asterisk ( ), from Late Latin , from Ancient Greek , , "little star", is a Typography, typographical symbol. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a star (heraldry), heraldic star. Computer scientists and Mathematici ...

-winning coach Luigi Simoni as technical director (due to age limits), with former under-19 team boss Riccardo Tumiatti being promoted as first team coach. In the season

2010–11 Lega Pro Prima Divisione The 2010–11 Lega Pro Prima Divisione season was the thirty-third football league season of Italian Lega Pro Prima Divisione since its establishment in 1978, and the third since the renaming from Serie C to Lega Pro. It will be divided into two ...

season the club won promotion to

Serie B The Serie B (), officially known as 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 b ...

after 63 years, under the guidance of

Vincenzo Torrente Vincenzo Torrente (born 12 February 1966) is an Italian football coach and former player,. Playing career After starting his career at minor league club Nocerina, Torrente joined Genoa at the age of 19. A centre-back, he quickly became a mainst ...

(as appointed by Simoni himself). However, Gubbio's stay in the second tier of Italian football lasted only one season as they were immediately relegated back to Lega Pro Prima Divisione.

Colours and stadium

The team's colours are dark blue and red. Their home field is the

Stadio Pietro Barbetti Stadio Comunale Pietro Barbetti, is a multi-purpose stadium in Gubbio, Italy. It is mainly used mostly for football (soccer), football matches and hosts the home matches of A.S. Gubbio 1910 of Serie C. The stadium has a capacity of 5,300 spectato ...

, a 5,300 capacity all-seater stadium.

Current squad

Out on loan

References

External links

* Football clubs in Italy Football clubs in Umbria Association football clubs established in 1910 Serie B clubs Serie C clubs 1910 establishments in Italy {{Italy-footyclub-stub