U.S. Triestina Calcio 1918

Triestina
Full name Unione Sportiva Triestina Calcio 1918 S.r.l.
Nickname(s) Unione (The Union),
Alabardati (The Halberded),
"Greghi" (The Greeks)
Giuliani (The Julian)
Founded 1918
1994 (refounded)
2012 (refounded)
2016 (refounded)[1]
Ground Stadio Nereo Rocco,
Trieste, Italy
Capacity 32,454[2]
Chairman Mario Biasin
Manager Massimo Pavanel
League Serie C
2016-17 Serie D/C, 2nd (promoted)

Unione Sportiva Triestina Calcio 1918 S.r.l, commonly known as Triestina, is an Italian football club based in Trieste, in the region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia in northeast Italy. Originally founded in 1918, the club folded and was re-established several times in its history. As of the 2017–18 season, it plays in Serie C, Italian third level.

History

From the foundation to Serie A

The club was founded in 1918 as merger of local teams Ponziana and Foot-Ball Club Trieste. The club reached Seconda Divisione (now known as Serie B) in 1924. The club successively featured in the first-ever Serie A season in 1929, and played consecutively to the Italian top flight until 1956. During those successful times, the team also featured the likes of local Trieste native Nereo Rocco, who played as winger for Triestina from 1930 to 1937, becoming also the first player from the team to become part of the Azzurri squad (in 1934). Successively, Rocco returned to Triestina as a head coach in 1947, and completed the 1947–48 as Serie A runners-up, only behind Torino; this is still, as of today, the best result in history for the Trieste-based club. Rocco then left in 1950 to be replaced by Hungarian Béla Guttman, who managed to save the club from relegation only in the final matchday. Another struggling season followed in 1951–52, with Triestina escaping relegation only after winning playoffs against Lucchese and Brescia. During the 1952–53 season, Cesare Maldini[3] made his Serie A debut as a Triestina jersey. In 1953 Rocco returned to Triestina, but was sacked after 21 matchdays due to poor results. Three more mid-table seasons followed before Triestina suffered its first relegation in 1957. Successively, Triestina returned to Serie A in 1958, but were relegated in their first comeback season, which is also their last top flight campaign to date.

The club were successively relegated to Serie C in 1961 once, in 1965 twice, and even Serie D in 1971, forcing the alabardati to a local derby with Ponziana in 1975 which was quite unknown to local people in modern times. The club returned to Serie C in 1976, and was admitted to Serie C1 in 1978, and finally returned to Serie B in 1983, missing promotion to the top flight for a few seasons before being relegated in 1988. Triestina also played in second level between 1962–1965 and 1989–1991.

The first refoundation in 1994

In 1994, the team was forced to fold, because of financial insolvency, and was re-founded by Giorgio Del Sabato. The team restarted as U.S. Triestina Calcio from Serie D and was readmitted to Serie C2 by the federation one year later. In 2001, after six seasons in Serie C2, the club won promotion to Serie C1 after playoffs; this was followed by a second consecutive promotion, this time to Serie B, both under head coach Ezio Rossi.

In the 2005–06 season, Triestina changed its manager five times. The list include the tandem Alessandro Calori-Adriano Buffoni, Pietro Vierchowod, caretaker Francesco De Falco, youth team coach Vittorio Russo and Andrea Agostinelli.

In addition, Triestina's owner Flaviano Tonellotto was forced to resign on 1 February 2006 by the magistrates because of a pending court procedure for bankruptcy, and his wife Jeannine Koevoets was named to replace him at the helm of the club. However, Tonellotto was successively ordered to leave the association because of financial troubles. The magistrates named Francesco De Falco as caretaker chairman with the idea of finding somebody interested to buy the club. Curiously, in the 2005–06 De Falco, a player for Triestina in the 80's, covered three different roles in the club: director of football, manager and chairman. In April 2006 the team was purchased by the Fantinel family, owners of a wine company in the region.

In recent years, Triestina struggled to mount a promotion campaign to end half-century absence from the Italian top flight. Triestina finished 8th in 2008–2009 season. However failed to remain in Serie B in the 2009–10 season, with a crashing 3–0 defeat to Padova at the play-outs, and was relegated to Lega Pro Prima Divisione after 8 years of endeavour in the second tier of Italian football, only to be readmitted to Serie B after Ancona filed for bankruptcy.

On May 21, 2011, in the season 2010–11, after a disastrous campaign, Triestina was relegated from Serie B to Lega Pro Prima Divisione, having returned there in 2002 after 11 seasons in Serie C and Serie D.

2012: Relegation and bankruptcy

On January 25, 2012 the club in strong financial difficulty, has been declared bankrupt by the court of Trieste.[4][5][6]

In the season 2011–12 Triestina was relegated from Lega Pro Prima Divisione group B to Lega Pro Seconda Divisione.

On 19 June 2012 the club was finally declared bankrupt and the team was disbanded.[7]

Stefano Mario Fantinel, former chairman of the club, was suspended from football activities for 5 years after the prosecutor found accounting irregularities of the club.[8] In July, three more months were added due to player transfer irregularities.[9] Fantinel was also suspended for 3 months in 2006–07 Serie B, also causing the club 1 point, for irregularities on preparing quarterly management report on 30 March 2006.[10]

Unione Triestina 2012 / U.S. Triestina Calcio 1918

On 31 July 2012 was founded the new company Unione Triestina 2012 S.S.D.  a. r.l.[11] that restarted from Eccellenza thanks to Article 52 of N.O.I.F..[12] The sports title was later transferred to another "limited company in amateur sport" (Italian: Società Sportiva Dilettantistica a responsabilità limitata) U.S. Triestina Calcio 1918 s.s.d. a. r.l. in 2016.[1] After the promotion to Serie C on 4 August 2017,[13] the company dropped the legal suffix "amateur sport" from the name.

Colors and badge

The team's colours are red and white.

League participations (since 1929)

Serie A: 1929–1957 (Serie A wasn't played between 1943–1946 due to Second World War), 1958–1959

Serie B 1957–1958, 1959–1961, 1962–1965, 1983–1988, 1989–1991, 2002–2011

Serie C/Serie C1/L. Pro I Div.: 1961–1962, 1965–1971, 1972–1974, 1976–1983, 1991–1994, 2001–2002, 2011–2012, 2017-

Serie D/C2 (as fourth level): 1971–1972, 1974–1976, 1995–2001, 2014–2017

Serie D (as fifth level): 1994–1995, 2013–2014

Eccellenza (as sixth level): 2012–2013

Current squad

As of 30 September, 2018

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 Italy GK Alex Valentini
2 Italy DF Lorenzo Libutti
3 Italy DF Alessandro Lambrughi (Captain)
4 Italy DF Sergio Sabatino
5 Italy DF Alessandro Malomo
6 Italy DF Luca Pizzul
7 Italy MF Demetrio Steffè
8 Italy MF Federico Maracchi
9 Uruguay FW Pablo Granoche
10 Italy FW Andrea Bracaletti
11 Ghana FW Davis Mensah
14 Slovenia DF Roberto Codromaž
No. Position Player
16 Argentina MF Federico Gasparini
17 Italy MF Davide Bariti
19 Italy DF Giovanni Formiconi
20 Italy MF Marco Beccaro
21 Italy MF Tommaso Coletti
22 Italy GK Pierpaolo Boccanera
23 Italy FW Mirco Petrella
24 Italy DF Emiliano Pedrazzini
25 Italy DF Alessandro Ghiglia
27 Italy MF Thomas Bolis (on loan from Atalanta)
29 Italy FW Andrea Procaccio
Italy MF Ivan Castiglia

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
Italy MF Thomas Erman (at Clodiense)

Former managers

References

  1. 1 2 "Comunicato Ufficiale N°394/A (2015–16)" (PDF) (Press release) (in Italian). Italian Football Federation (FIGC). 23 May 2016. Retrieved 26 September 2017.
  2. ↑ FussballTempel.Net
  3. ↑ http://www.sportmediaset.mediaset.it/calcio/calcio/articoli/75803/maldini-dispiace-vedere-cosi-la-triestina.shtml
  4. ↑ http://www.sportmediaset.mediaset.it/calcio/legapro/articoli/75799/addio-alabarda-triestina-fallita.shtml
  5. ↑ http://www.toronews.net/index.php?action=article&ID=25996
  6. ↑ http://it.eurosport.yahoo.com/25012012/35/calcio-tribunale-civile-decretato-fallimento-d-0.html
  7. ↑ http://www.calcioblog.it/post/25097/piacenza-e-triestina-ufficialmente-fallite
  8. ↑ ""C.U. N°64/TFN – Sezione Disciplinare (2015–16)" (PDF). Tribunale Federale Nazionale – Sezione Disciplinare (in Italian). FIGC. 24 March 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  9. ↑ "C.U. N°7/TFN – Sezione Disciplinare (2016–17)" (PDF). Tribunale Federale Nazionale – Sezione Disciplinare (in Italian). FIGC. 22 July 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  10. ↑ "C.U. N°1 (2006–07)" (PDF) (in Italian). Lega Calcio. 1 July 2006. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  11. ↑ Written at Rome. "Costituita la nuova Triestina". L'Arena (in Italian). Verona. Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata (ANSA). 31 July 2012. Retrieved 26 September 2017.
  12. ↑ http://ilpiccolo.gelocal.it/sport/2012/08/07/news/la-triestina-deve-ripartire-dall-eccellenza-regionale-1.5514572
  13. ↑ "Lega Pro a 56 squadre. Ripescata la Triestina, respinte le domande di Rende e Rieti" (Press release) (in Italian). FIGC. 4 August 2017. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
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