A.S. Casale Calcio
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| Full name | Associazione Sportiva Casale Calcio SRL |
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| Nickname(s) | Nerostellati | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | 1909 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Stadio Natale Palli, Casale Monferrato, Italy |
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| Capacity | 6,035 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman | Giulio Bertacchi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | Franco Lerda | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Serie D/A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005–06 | Serie C2/A, 18th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Associazione Sportiva Casale Calcio is an Italian football club, based in Casale Monferrato, Piedmont. The team's nickname nerostellati (the “the starred-blacks”) refers to the team’s colours of black with a white star on the heart.
[edit] History
When the club was founded in 1909 Casale was at the geographical centre of the new footballing movement in Italy. Genoa, Pro Vercelli, Internazionale Torino and Alessandria were all leading clubs in the Italian football league system and Casale soon joined their number.
In May 1913 Casale became the first Italian club to defeat an English professional team when they beat Reading F.C. 2–1. Reading won all the other games on this tour, defeating Genoa, Milan, Pro Vercelli and even the Italian national team.
In the following season Casale won the national title for the first and (as of 2006) only time. Italian football was then organized on a regional basis and the national championship was divided into three stages. Casale topped the Ligurian-Piedmontese division and proceeded, along with second-placed Genoa, to compete in a division comprising the top northern teams. (The others being Inter Milan, Juventus, Vicenza and Verona.) Having won that division, Casale defeated central-southern champions Lazio 7–1, 0–2 in the two-leg final.
After World War I Casale remained in the top division for a couple of decades, representing what had been the cradle of early Italian football.
With the development of professionalism, Casale was progressively relegated to lower divisions, 1934 being their last year in Serie A.
At the end of the 2005–2006 season Casale finished bottom of Serie C2/A; in 2006–2007 they are competing in Serie D/A, joining their old rivals the “Greys” of Alessandria.
[edit] References
- For 1913: http://www.btinternet.com/~rfc1871/news/features/italiantour.htm (English), and Il Calcio a Casale M.to (Italian)
- For 1914: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campionato_di_calcio_italiano_1914 (Italian)
[edit] External links
- Official Website (Italian)
- Boys Casale: an Ultras site with more coverage on the foundation of the club and its early years. (Italian)
- Casale page @ Serie-D.com (English)
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