S.P.A.L. 2013

SPAL

Full name

Società Polisportiva Ars et Labor 2013

Nickname(s)

Spallini;
Biancazzurri (The White-Blues);
Estensi

Founded

1907 (as "Società Polisportiva Ars et Labor")
2005 (refounded)
2012 (refounded)
2013 (refounded)

Ground

Stadio Paolo Mazza,
Ferrara, Italy

Capacity

19,000

Chairman

Walter Mattioli

Manager

Leonardo Semplici

League

Serie B

2015–16

Lega Pro/B, 1st (promoted)

Home colours

Away colours

Third colours

S.P.A.L. 2013, better known as Società Polisportiva Ars et Labor (or simply SPAL) is a professional Italian football club, based in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna. The club currently plays in the Serie B, second level of the Italian football league system, having last been in Serie A in 1968. SPAL plays its home matches at Stadio Paolo Mazza since 1928, named after Paolo Mazza (chairman of the society from 1946 to 1977).

History

Società Polisportiva Ars et Labor

The club was founded in 1907 as Circolo Ars et Labor by the salesian priest Pietro Acerbis, then was renamed in 1913 as Società Polisportiva Ars et Labor. Team has played in Serie A from 1920 to 1925, then from 1951 to 1968: their best finish was fifth in the 1959–60 league season. It was refounded in 2005 after the bankruptcy as Spal 1907.

S.S.D. Real S.P.A.L.

In the summer of 2012, after suffering a second successive bankruptcy, the club was refounded for the third time as Società Sportiva Dilettantistica Real S.P.A.L. and would begin life in Serie D^[1] thanks to Article 52 NOIF of FIGC.^[2]

S.P.A.L. 2013

At the end of the 2012–13 Serie D season the club took back its original denomination: in fact Giacomense, a club founded in 1967 at Masi San Giacomo, a frazione of Masi Torello moved to the city of Ferrara. On 12 July 2013, owner Roberto Benasciutti made a deal with the Colombarini family for the merger between S.P.A.L. and Giacomense, with the latter giving its sports title to S.P.A.L. and moving to play in Ferrara. The club changed its name to S.P.A.L. 2013 in order to continue the soccer history of S.P.A.L..

The new club completed the 2013–14 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione season in sixth place, thus qualifying to the inaugural unified 2014–15 Lega Pro season.

On Saturday 23 April 2016, the squad secured promotion to Serie B for the first time since 1992–93 season.

Colours and badge

The team's colours are blue and white.

Current squad

As of 31 August 2016

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

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Alex Meret (on loan from Udinese)
2	DF	Daniele Gasparetto
3	DF	Tommaso Silvestri
4	MF	Mariano Arini
5	DF	Nicolas Giani
6	DF	Michele Cremonesi
7	FW	Mirco Antenucci
8	MF	Mirco Spighi
9	FW	Alberto Cerri (on loan from Juventus)
10	FW	Luigi Grassi
11	FW	Mattia Finotto
12	GK	Gabriele Marchegiani
13	MF	Andrea Beghetto

No.	Position	Player
14	DF	Kevin Bonifazi (on loan from Torino)
15	MF	Alberto Picchi
17	FW	Gianmarco Zigoni (on loan from Milan)
18	MF	Eros Schiavon
19	MF	Luca Mora
20	MF	Michele Castagnetti
21	MF	Simone Pontisso (on loan from Udinese)
22	GK	Paolo Branduani
23	DF	Francesco Vicari
24	DF	Cristiano Del Grosso (on loan from Atalanta)
27	MF	Paolo Ghiglione (on loan from Genoa)
28	MF	Pasquale Schiattarella
29	MF	Manuel Lazzari

References

External links

Official Site

Serie B

2016–17 clubs	Ascoli Avellino Bari Benevento Brescia Carpi Cesena Cittadella Frosinone Hellas Verona Latina Novara Perugia Pisa Pro Vercelli Salernitana SPAL Spezia Ternana Trapani Vicenza Virtus Entella

Former clubs	Acireale Alba Trastevere AlbinoLeffe Alessandria Alzano Virescit Ancona Arezzo Arsenale Taranto Atalanta Barletta Biellese Bologna Bolzano Brindisi Campobasso Carpi Carrarese Casale Casertana Castel di Sangro Catania Catanzaro Cavese Centese Chievo Como Cosenza Crema Cremonese Derthona Empoli Fanfulla Fermana Fidelis Andria Fiorentina Fiumana Foggia Forlì Frosinone Gallaratese Gallipoli Genoa Grion Pola Grosseto Gubbio Juve Stabia Juventus L'Aquila Lazio Lecce Lecco Legnano Licata Liguria Livorno Lucchese Maceratese Magenta Mantova Marzotto Massese M.A.T.E.R. Matera Messina Mestre Milan Modena Molinella Monfalcone Monza Napoli Nocerina Padova Palermo Parma Pavia Piacenza Piombino Pistoiese Portogruaro Potenza Prato Pro Gorizia Pro Patria Pro Sesto Ravenna Reggiana Reggina Rieti Rimini Roma Sambenedettese Sampdoria Sampierdarenese Sanremese Sassuolo Savoia Savona Scafatese Seregno Sestrese Siena Siracusa Sorrento Suzzara Taranto Torino Trani Treviso Triestina Udinese Varese Venezia Viareggio Vigevano Virtus Lanciano Vita Nova Vogherese

Statistics	Records

Serie B seasons

Prima Divisione	1926–27 1927–28 1928–29

Serie B	1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17

1945–46 postwar season^†	Serie B-C in Northern Italy Serie A-B in Southern Italy

^†Championships recognized as official by the Italian Football Federation

Football in Italy

Overview	National association League system List of clubs List of venues Records Scudetto Capocannoniere

International	Italy Under-21 Under-20 Under-19 Under-18 Under-17 Under-16 Under-15 Italy women

Leagues	Lega Serie A Lega Serie B Lega Pro Lega Nazionale Dilettanti Lega Calcio defunct

League competitions	Serie A Prima Divisione defunct Divisione Nazionale defunct Serie B Lega Pro Lega Pro Prima Divisione defunct Lega Pro Seconda Divisione defunct Serie D Eccellenza Promozione Prima Categoria Seconda Categoria Terza Categoria

Cup competitions	Coppa Italia Supercoppa Italiana Coppa Italia Lega Pro Supercoppa di Lega Pro Supercoppa di Lega di Seconda Divisione defunct Coppa Italia Serie D Coppa Italia Dilettanti

Youth competitions	Campionato Nazionale Primavera Coppa Italia Primavera Supercoppa Primavera Torneo di Viareggio Campionato Nazionale Dante Berretti

Women's competitions	Serie A Coppa Italia Supercoppa Italiana

Awards	Gran Galà del Calcio AIC Italian Football Hall of Fame

Miscellaneous	Totonero 1980 Totonero 1986 Italian Law 91/1981, Article 18B financial doping scandals 2006 Italian football scandal 2011–12 Italian football scandal 2015 Italian football scandal Article 52 of N.O.I.F. Foreign Serie A players Foreign Serie B players

Seasons	1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17

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