Fortitudo Agrigento

Fortitudo Agrigento
Nickname I Giganti
Leagues Serie A2
Founded 1969
Arena PalaMoncada
Capacity 3,200
Location Agrigento, Italy
Team colors White, Blue
         
Main sponsor Moncada
President Salvatore Moncada
Head coach Franco Ciani
Website fortitudoagrigento.it
Uniforms

Fortitudo Agrigento is an Italian professional basketball team, based in Agrigento, Sicily.[1][2] Founded in 1969, the side plays in the second division Serie A2 as of the 2015–16 season.

History

Before the creation of Fortitudo Agrigento, there were many different teams in Agrigento. In 1968 one of these local teams achieved the promotion to Serie C, but due to financial difficulties it had to left the league soon.

In 1969 was founded the Fortitudo Agrigento that started from the 7th-tier League, "Promozione", of the Italian basketball league system.

During the 1988–89 season Fortitudo achieved the first promorion to Serie B beating Porto Empedocle, Cefalù, Catania and many other popular teams.

The next season is worse than the previous one. Fortitudo was relegated again to Serie C. So they decided to rebuild part of the team of the 1988–89 season and a new Manager. At the end of the season Agrigento was again in Serie B.

From the 2007-08 season, Fortitudo Agrigento has been able to achieve a series of promotions consecutively until the promotion to Serie A2 in 2012.

References

  1. ↑ Eurobasket.com team profile
  2. ↑ Official website
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