Potenza Sport Club S.r.l. was an Italian

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club, based in

Potenza Potenza (, ; ; , Potentino dialect: ''Putenz'') is a ''comune'' in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata (former Lucania). Capital of the Province of Potenza and the Basilicata region, the city is the highest regional capital and one of ...

Basilicata Basilicata (, ; ), also known by its ancient name Lucania (, , ), is an administrative region in Southern Italy, bordering on Campania to the west, Apulia to the north and east, and Calabria to the south. It has two coastlines: a 30-kilometr ...

. The club was re-founded in 2004 as A.S. Calcio Potenza, (legal suffix S.r.l. was added circa 2005) after the merger of the old A.S.C. Potenza (founded in 1983) and F.C. Potenza (founded in 1994 and previously known as Potenza S.C.), and changed its name to Potenza S.C. in 2006. The club was expelled from

2009–10 Lega Pro Prima Divisione The 2009–10 Lega Pro Prima Divisione season was the thirty-second football league season of Italian Lega Pro Prima Divisione since its establishment in 1978, and the second since the renaming from Serie C to Lega Pro. It was divided into two ph ...

in mid-season.

History

Potenza was promoted in

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on 18 June 2007 by beating Benevento over two games in the 2006–07 Serie C2 promotion playoffs. Potenza also took part in five

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seasons from 1963–64 to 1967–68. The biggest success of her was finishing 5th in Serie B in 1964–65 season. In March 2010 Potenza was excluded from the

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with immediate effect after the club was found guilt of matchfixing regarding a league game against

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in April 2008. The verdict was partly reverted on appeal, where it was allowed Potenza to complete the season; however, the club will nevertheless appear as last-placed in the final table, thus forcing the club to play in the

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 ...

for the 2010–11 season. In July 2010 the club was excluded by the Italian football federation due to financial problems, and successively admitted into the

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amateur league. However, the club did not participate in any league in 2011–12 season. In April 2012, the membership of the club in Italian Football Federation.

Notable former players

;former Italian internationals and under-21 internationals *

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* Francesco Colonnese

References

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