Sutor Basket Montegranaro, is an amateur Italian
basketball
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club based in
Montegranaro,
Marche
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. It plays in the Promozione (7th division) as of June 2015.
It was formerly in the top division, with the
2013-14 season its last in
Lega Basket Serie A
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before on and off the court issues led to the club leaving the professional world.
History
The basketball club was founded in 1955 by local parish priest Don Gaetano Campanelli from
Porto San Giorgio as ''Società Sportiva Sutor'', ''sutor'' being a
Latin
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word for
shoemaker
Shoemaking is the process of making footwear.
Originally, shoes were made one at a time by hand, often by groups of shoemakers, or '' cordwainers'' (sometimes misidentified as cobblers, who repair shoes rather than make them). In the 18th cen ...
, the main local source of employment at the time.
Sutor mostly played in the lower divisions in its early years, they were promoted to the second division
Legadue
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in 2001 for the first time in history. Though they were relegated back to
Serie B
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they returned to the Legadue in 2004.
An against the odds promotion to the first division
Serie A
The Serie A (), officially known as Serie A Enilive in Italy and Serie A Made in Italy abroad for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Italy and the highest tier of the Italian football league system. Establish ...
in 2006 allowed the small town of
Montegranaro to become part of the Italian basketball elite.
Logos
Sutor Basket logo.jpg, Former logo
Arena
Historically, the team has played at the
PalaSavelli (capacity: 3,800) in
Porto San Giorgio, with a brief intermede in
Ancona
Ancona (, also ; ) is a city and a seaport in the Marche region of central Italy, with a population of around 101,997 . Ancona is the capital of the province of Ancona, homonymous province and of the region. The city is located northeast of Ro ...
at the
PalaRossini (capacity:5,066).
Players
Notable players
Sponsorship names
Throughout its history, due to sponsorship, the club has been known as:
*Premiata Montegranaro (1998-09)
*Sigma Coatings Montegranaro (2009–10)
*Fabi Shoes Montegranaro (2010–12)
External links
Official WebsiteProfile at Lega Basket
1955 establishments in Italy
Basketball teams established in 1955
Montegranaro
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