Scafatese Calcio 1922

Not to be confused with A.S.D. U.S. Scafatese Calcio of the same city.

Scafatese

Full name	Società Sportiva Scafatese Calcio 1922
Founded	1922
Ground	Stadio Giovanni Vitiello, Scafati, Italy
Capacity	2,650
Chairman	Felice Romano
Manager	Franco Fabiano
League	Serie D
2023-24	Serie D, 4th
Website	scafatesecalcio1922.wordpress.com
Home colours Away colours

Società Sportiva Scafatese Calcio 1922 is an Italian association football club located in Scafati, Campania that currently plays in the Serie D league.

History

Foundation

Founded in 1922, the club was initially named Unione Sportiva Scafatese. Initially playing in the Second and Third Division championships, they beat Avellino 15-0 in their 1941 match. Reached Serie C for the first time, they played for two seasons before the interruption of World War II.

Serie B

After the championships resumed, Scafatese enrolled in the 1945-'46 Serie C championship and finished third. Due to the resignation of two preceding teams (Benevento and Gladiator,) it was promoted to Serie B for the '46-'47 season. Gialloblù closed the championship in fourth place in their first year of the league, winning the same amount of points as Lecce, with Ternana and Pescara promoted to Serie A. During the '47-'48 championship however, they placed twelfth, and were relegated to Serie C due to recent reforms.

Scafatese retired at the start of the 1948-'49 Serie C championship from financial difficulties, after scoring a single point in 11 days.

From the 1950s to the 1970s

After retiring, Scafatese participated in the First Division championship for 3 seasons (the fifth series at the time, after Serie A, B, C and Promotion). When the Fourth Series was established, however, they participated in the Promotion championship from 1952-'53 for 2 seasons. Relegated to the First Division afterwards, the team remained there until '56-'57, when it was promoted to the national amateur championship. During the '57-'58 season, Scafatese won their group ahead of Turris, but lost during the next phase. Things took a turn following year as the Canaries came second in group D, behind their cousins Angri. In the '59-'60 season, Scafatese entered the national finals, and after beating Libertas Potenza, Morrone and Calangianus, they played finals in Rimini for the title against Ponziana from Trieste. After a 1-1 draw, however, the referee decided the match with a coin flip, and Scafatese won.

The 1960s saw the team compete in Serie D for nine consecutive years, with its highest placement at fourth during the '62-'63 season, but they were eventually demoted at the end of the '68-'69 championship. In the early 70's, Scafatese was relegated to First Category, but returned after a year to the Promotion. The team was close to returning to the fourth series several times, concluding the seasons 1972-'73 and '74-'75 in second place, but finally returned to Serie D in the '75-'76 season. In '76-'77 and '77-'78, the Canaries played in the Serie D championship, demoting Scafatese at the end of the latter.

From the 1980s to the 2000s

After the demotion, the team struggled to recover. A crisis of results in 1983-'84 caused Scafatese to sink into the First Category, and only returned to register in the Promotion after merging with Don Bosco Oplonti in 1986. The yellow-blues placed second in '87-'88 behind Ebolitana, and again in '88-'89 in second place behind Nocerina but this time they were still rescued in the Interregional. From the '89-'90 season the Canaries played eight consecutive championships in the fourth series, winning salvation on the last day more than once, until relegation came in the '96-'97 season. In both the '97-'98 and '98-'99 seasons, Scafatese played in the regional Eccellenza championship with little satisfaction.

From the 2000s to the 2010s

The 1999-2000 championship, however, proved to be exciting, in fact with twenty victories, nine draws and only one defeat against the grey-reds of Angri, Scafatese won the tournament and returned to Serie D after three years, however in the 2000-'01 season the Canarini relegated following the 2-1 defeat in Olbia on the penultimate day of the championship. In '03-'04 the yellow-blue team managed to return to Serie D by beating Gragnano 2-1 on the last day of the championship at the Romeo Menti in Castellammare di Stabia. This time the Gialloblù achieved safety in Serie D in the '04-'05 season after winning the play-out match.

After fourth place in the 2005-'06 season, the following year they managed to return to Serie C, after an exciting duel with Sibilla Cuma from Bacoli, who were five points behind at the end of the season. The typical formation of the Scafatese team that won the '06-'07 Serie D championship coached by Egidio Pirozzi is: Sorriso, Baylon, Santamaria, Cordua, De Franco, Ginobili, Marzano, Marasco, Cosa, Sarli, Spinelli. And so on 6 May 2007, Scafatese finally landed in C2, defeating the Lazio team Pisoniano 6-3 at the Comunale di Scafati in front of around seven thousand spectators.

In Serie C2 in the 2007-'08 season, Scafatese, after avoiding direct relegation on the last day by winning at home to Real Marcianise, crossed Val di Sangro in the play-outs, saving themselves at the end of the double match (1-0 at home and 2 -2 in Abruzzo). In the '08-'09 championship this time the team managed to achieve its seasonal objective by avoiding the play-outs two days early and therefore directly saving itself in a year where the Canaries performed well, just as there was a quiet salvation also in the '09-'10 season.

2010-2020

In the summer of 2010, due to serious economic problems, the company was not registered in the Lega Pro Seconda Division championship but did not fail and started again from the Third Category, where it managed to win three consecutive championships, to then carry out a merger with the club of Montecorvino Rovella thus enrolling in the Eccellenza championship for the 2013-2014 season. In the 2014-15 season Scafatese reached the final of the Regional Italian Cup but was defeated 2-0 by Virtus Volla, while the following year they were relegated after losing the play-out against Valdiano. The team thus starts again from the Promotion where in the 2017-2018 season it manages to return to Excellence after two years, a category that Scafatese maintains the following year after winning the play-out playoff. After this salvation, the team continues to compete in the Eccellenza championship also in the 2019-2020 season and then in 2020-2021, being defeated in the latter year in the first round of the play-offs. Scafatese subsequently reached the play-offs for another three consecutive seasons, but was eliminated first by Savoia in the 2021-2022 season, then by Agropoli in the 2022-2023 championship and finally by the Amalfi Coast in 2023-24.

Colors and badge

The team has blue and yellow colors.

Past players

• Luigi Sorrentino

External links

• (in Italian) Official homepage