Siracusa
Full name	Unione Sportiva Siracusa srl
Nickname(s)	Biancazzurri, Aretusei
Founded	1956
Ground	Stadio Nicola De Simone, Syracuse, Italy
Capacity	2,000
Chairman	Luigi Salvoldi
Manager	Domenico Giacomarro
League	Serie D/I
2005-06	Serie D/I, 4th
Home colours Away colours

Unione Sportiva Siracusa is an Italian football club located in Syracuse, Sicily. It currently plays in Serie D. Its colors are all-blue. 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Syracuse (Italian, Siracusa, ancient Syracusa - see also List of traditional Greek place names) is a city on the eastern coast of Sicily and the capital of the province of Syracuse, Italy. ... This is a list of major football (soccer) stadia, grouped by country and ordered by capacity. ... Serie D is the top level of Italian non-professional football and fifth level overall. ... Serie D is the top level of Italian non-professional football and fifth level overall. ... Image File history File links left arm of kit template File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... body of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... rightarm of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... Image File history File links Kit_shorts. ... socks of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... Image File history File links left arm of kit template File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... body of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... rightarm of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... Image File history File links Kit_shorts. ... socks of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... Football (soccer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Syracuse (Italian, Siracusa, ancient Syracusa - see also List of traditional Greek place names) is a city on the eastern coast of Sicily and the capital of the province of Syracuse, Italy. ... Sicily (Sicilia in Italian and Sicilian, Σικελία in Greek) is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with an area of 25,700 km² and 5 million inhabitants. ... Serie D is the top level of Italian non-professional football and fifth level overall. ... The term Blue may refer any of a number of similar colors. ...

The first football team to represent the city of Syracuse was founded in 1924, under the name Gruppo Sportivo Tommaso Gargallo, playing Serie C. Successively the team switched its denomination to Associazione Sportiva Siracusa. Serie C is the name of the third and fourth highest football leagues in Italy. ...

In 1945/1946, Siracusa was admitted to Serie B, where played for seven consecutive seasons. After a relegation to the amateur leagues, Siracusa returned to Serie C in 1970/1971, after two playoffs ended in a tie: then, Siracusa was promoted following a successful coin flipping. Serie B is the name of the second highest football league in Italy. ... Coin flipping or coin tossing is the practice of throwing a coin in the air to resolve a dispute between two parties or otherwise choose between two alternatives. ...

In 1978/1979, Siracusa won the Italian Serie C Cup, defeating Biellese in the final. That same year, Siracusa promoted to Serie C1, where played for two season. Siracusa played Serie C2 until 1988, when, under coach Paolo Lombardo, the Sicilian club gained promotion to Serie C1. In 1994/1995, despite serious financial troubles, Siracusa almost reached promotion to Serie B, losing on playoffs to Avellino. Successively, the team was not able to go on financially, and Siracusa was consequently cancelled by the Italian Football Federation. The second local team, U.S. Marcozzi Siracusa 1956 of regional Promozione league, successively switched to the current denomination, thus becoming the main football team in Syracuse. The team reached Serie D in 1999, but quickly relegated to Eccellenza. Siracusa returned to play Serie D in 2002; since then, the Sicilian team is unsuccessfully trying to reach a Serie C spot. A.C. Biellese 1902 is an Italian football club, based in Biella, Piedmont. ... Unione Sportiva Avellino is an Italian football club, based in Avellino, Campania. ... The Italian Football Federation (FIGC) (Italian: Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio) is the governing body of football in Italy. ... Eccellenza (Italian for excellence) is the sixth level of Italian football (soccer). ...

External links

• (Italian) Official homepage