Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Pineto Calcio, commonly known as Pineto, is an Italian association football club from

Pineto Pineto is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Teramo, Abruzzo, in central Italy. It is a 20th-century seaside resort on the Adriatic coast, with sandy beaches shaded by pine trees that give their name to the town. Geography Pineto is known ...

Abruzzo Abruzzo (, ; ; , ''Abbrìzze'' or ''Abbrèzze'' ; ), historically also known as Abruzzi, is a Regions of Italy, region of Southern Italy with an area of 10,763 square km (4,156 sq mi) and a population of 1.3 million. It is divided into four ...

. They currently play in the

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 ...

league.

History

Founded in 1962, Pineto have been playing in the amateur leagues of Italian football throughout their whole history. In 1977, they obtained their first promotion 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 ...

, playing the Italian amateur top flight for a lone season before their return in 1983. They played Serie D until 1994, and again from 1995 to 1997, before being relegated into the lower ranks of Italian football. In 2016, after winning the

Eccellenza The Eccellenza (, "excellence") is the fifth level (since 2014–15) of Italian football.Official ...

national promotion playoffs, Pineto were promoted back to Serie D after a 18-year absence. In the

2022–23 Serie D The 2022–23 Serie D is the seventy-third season of the top-level Italian non-professional football championship. It represents the fourth tier in the Italian football league system. Rules The season will provide a total of nine promotions to ...

season, Pineto turned out to be heavy contender for a historical promotion to

, and also reached the final of the

Coppa Italia Serie D Coppa Italia Serie D (Italian language, Italian for Serie D Italian Cup) is a straight knock-out based competition involving teams from Serie D in Italy, Italian football (soccer), football. The competition is held since the 1999–2000, when Ser ...

tournament, the very first time for a club from Abruzzo. On 7 May 2023, Pineto won the Serie D Group F, thus ensuring promotion to Serie C for the first time in the club's history. They ended the season by winning the 2022–23 Coppa Italia Serie D, defeating

Giana Erminio Associazione Sportiva Giana Erminio S.r.l. is an Italian football club based in Gorgonzola, Lombardy. The team currently plays in Italy's . History The club was founded in 1909 as ''Unione Sportiva Argentia'', and later adopted the current name ...

in the final.

Current squad

Out on loan

Honours

:* Champions (1):

2022–23 The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen ...

:* Champions (1):

References

External links

Official website
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