Paganese Calcio 1926 is an Italian association football club from Pagani, Campania. It currently plays in

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 ...

History

The club was founded in 1926. Paganese also took part in the

Anglo-Italian Cup The Anglo-Italian Cup (, also known as the Anglo-Italian Inter-League Clubs Competition and from 1976 to 1986 as the Alitalia Challenge Cup, Talbot Challenge Cup or Gigi Peronace Memorial) was a European football competition. The competition was ...

in 1978, achieving a single victory and three defeats. The club won Serie D/H in 2005–2006 and have thus won promotion to

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 ...

for the 2006–2007 season. A second consecutive promotion in the

competition of 2006–07, after defeating

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and Reggiana in the playoffs, gave Paganese the right to play in

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 ...

in the 2007–08 season, their first appearance in the division since 1979. At the end of the

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 was relegated to

Lega Pro Seconda Divisione 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 ...

. In the 2011–12 of Lega Pro Seconda Divisione season, the club was immediately promoted to

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, beating

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2–0 in the first round of final play-off followed by 0–0 in the return.

Current squad

Former players

Vincent Taua Vincent Taua (born 1 November 1978) is a New Caledonian footballer who plays as a attacker for Campli. Besides France, he has played in Italy. Career Taua started his career with French fifth tier side Bastia B. In 2001, Taua signed for Cave ...

References

External links

Official website
Football clubs in Italy Football clubs in Campania Association football clubs established in 1926 Serie C clubs 1926 establishments in Italy {{Italy-footyclub-stub