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Football Club Matera, more commonly known as Matera, is an Italian football club society based in the city of Matera.
The first city club, named U.S. Matera, was founded in 1933. During its history, the team went through several bankruptcies and re-establishments. In September 2022, it retook the name and logo of FC Matera.
During 1926 and in the following years, the "Matheola Football Club", a team of the Opera Nazionale Dopolavoro of Matera, faced teams from nearby centres, sometimes with formations of 7 players per team, mainly using the "Campo delle Three Ways". An intense football and sporting ferment spreads in the city, which had just become the provincial capital. The first official football club in Matera was founded in the Federation Sports Office in Via La Vista on 5 September 1933 with the name of "Unione Sportiva Matera" and maroon colours; on 28 January 1934, on the occasion of the first official home match of the 1933–34 championship against Bitonto, the new Sports Field was inaugurated, later the "Luigi Razza" sports field, which became the "XXI Settembre" Stadium after the war. After having participated in a Third Division championship, Matera participated in the regional championship of the Second Division of Puglia, the highest regional championship of the time, later called First Division, starting from 1935–36. The club, which transformed itself into the Associazione Sportiva Materana in the 1936–37 championship, remained the city's highest expression of football until the Second World War. During the war, Matera was the only non-Apulian team to participate in the 1944 CONI Cup, a competition played in Puglia liberated by the Allied forces, while in the 1944–45 Apulian mixed tournament, they withdrew at the end of the first round.
In 1950 Matera Calcio, despite having finished in ninth place in the previous Apulian First Division championship, was admitted for the first time to an interregional championship, the Promozione (corresponding to the current Serie D), managed by the Southern Interregional League. At the end of the season, Matera were relegated and competed in the Apulian First Division championship. Still, despite coming first in group B, they were not classified as they had been officially registered in the Apulian championship by the F.I.G.C. for proximity reasons. He was therefore admitted to the new Lucanian Promotion championship, winning it in 1953 and returning to the interregional category, which in the meantime changed its name to IV Series, where he participated for five consecutive seasons. At the end of the 1957-58 season, Matera Calcio, after relegation to the Lucanian First Category, was excluded from the federal roles, so the first city team became Libertas Matera. In 1963, from the merger between Libertas and Acli Piccianello, the FootBall Club Matera was born, which two years later won its group and the semi-finals of the Lucanian First Category championship, and became Lucanian champion of the First Category by renunciation of Libertas Invicta Potenza.
Starting from 1965, the year of the return to Serie D, the person who, succeeding Riziero Zaccagnini, would be the president of the F.B.C. appeared on the scene. Matera for 22 years, Franco Salerno, who later also became Senator of the Republic, who will bring the blue and white club in the seventies to its highest levels ever. After three years in Serie D, Matera won the championship in 1967–68 ahead of Savoia and reached Serie C for the first time, relegating to Serie D in 1975 and returning to Serie C after a year. In 1978 the restructuring of the C series took place and Matera was admitted to the newly created C1 Series.
Following the first C1 series championship in history in the 1978-1979 season, under the guidance of president Franco Salerno, after whom the XXI Settembre Stadium was subsequently named, and coach Franco Dibenedetto (awarded that year with the Seminatore d'oro as best Serie C coach), the city of Matera reached Serie B for the first and only time in its history by winning on the last day against Lucchese.
Despite some prestigious results and a good first round that ended in 14th place in the safety zone in Serie B 1979–80 season, Matera collapsed in the second half; a double relegation from B to C2 followed, the year in which the Ballarin fire also occurred on the last day before the match between Sambenedettese and Matera. In the second half of the eighties, Matera experienced a second double relegation, moving from C2 to the Promotion championship.
As a consequence of this, the members of the F.C. Matera decided to carry out a corporate merger with the other Matera team, Pro Matera, a club active in the Interregional, giving life to Pro Matera Sport, which later became Matera Sport. In 1991 Matera won the interregional championship and then won promotion to C2 in the decisive play-off against Gangi, winning 2–0 at home and drawing 0–0 in Gangi, Sicily. Later he will also win the Jacinto Trophy, a precursor tournament to the current Amateur Scudetto (established since 1992) played between the six winners of the promotion play-offs; beating Aosta 1–0 in the final in Bovalino, Matera then became Interregional Italian Champions.
FC Matera
Football Club Matera, more commonly known as Matera, is an Italian football club society based in the city of Matera.
The first city club, named U.S. Matera, was founded in 1933. During its history, the team went through several bankruptcies and re-establishments. In September 2022, it retook the name and logo of FC Matera.
During 1926 and in the following years, the "Matheola Football Club", a team of the Opera Nazionale Dopolavoro of Matera, faced teams from nearby centres, sometimes with formations of 7 players per team, mainly using the "Campo delle Three Ways". An intense football and sporting ferment spreads in the city, which had just become the provincial capital. The first official football club in Matera was founded in the Federation Sports Office in Via La Vista on 5 September 1933 with the name of "Unione Sportiva Matera" and maroon colours; on 28 January 1934, on the occasion of the first official home match of the 1933–34 championship against Bitonto, the new Sports Field was inaugurated, later the "Luigi Razza" sports field, which became the "XXI Settembre" Stadium after the war. After having participated in a Third Division championship, Matera participated in the regional championship of the Second Division of Puglia, the highest regional championship of the time, later called First Division, starting from 1935–36. The club, which transformed itself into the Associazione Sportiva Materana in the 1936–37 championship, remained the city's highest expression of football until the Second World War. During the war, Matera was the only non-Apulian team to participate in the 1944 CONI Cup, a competition played in Puglia liberated by the Allied forces, while in the 1944–45 Apulian mixed tournament, they withdrew at the end of the first round.
In 1950 Matera Calcio, despite having finished in ninth place in the previous Apulian First Division championship, was admitted for the first time to an interregional championship, the Promozione (corresponding to the current Serie D), managed by the Southern Interregional League. At the end of the season, Matera were relegated and competed in the Apulian First Division championship. Still, despite coming first in group B, they were not classified as they had been officially registered in the Apulian championship by the F.I.G.C. for proximity reasons. He was therefore admitted to the new Lucanian Promotion championship, winning it in 1953 and returning to the interregional category, which in the meantime changed its name to IV Series, where he participated for five consecutive seasons. At the end of the 1957-58 season, Matera Calcio, after relegation to the Lucanian First Category, was excluded from the federal roles, so the first city team became Libertas Matera. In 1963, from the merger between Libertas and Acli Piccianello, the FootBall Club Matera was born, which two years later won its group and the semi-finals of the Lucanian First Category championship, and became Lucanian champion of the First Category by renunciation of Libertas Invicta Potenza.
Starting from 1965, the year of the return to Serie D, the person who, succeeding Riziero Zaccagnini, would be the president of the F.B.C. appeared on the scene. Matera for 22 years, Franco Salerno, who later also became Senator of the Republic, who will bring the blue and white club in the seventies to its highest levels ever. After three years in Serie D, Matera won the championship in 1967–68 ahead of Savoia and reached Serie C for the first time, relegating to Serie D in 1975 and returning to Serie C after a year. In 1978 the restructuring of the C series took place and Matera was admitted to the newly created C1 Series.
Following the first C1 series championship in history in the 1978-1979 season, under the guidance of president Franco Salerno, after whom the XXI Settembre Stadium was subsequently named, and coach Franco Dibenedetto (awarded that year with the Seminatore d'oro as best Serie C coach), the city of Matera reached Serie B for the first and only time in its history by winning on the last day against Lucchese.
Despite some prestigious results and a good first round that ended in 14th place in the safety zone in Serie B 1979–80 season, Matera collapsed in the second half; a double relegation from B to C2 followed, the year in which the Ballarin fire also occurred on the last day before the match between Sambenedettese and Matera. In the second half of the eighties, Matera experienced a second double relegation, moving from C2 to the Promotion championship.
As a consequence of this, the members of the F.C. Matera decided to carry out a corporate merger with the other Matera team, Pro Matera, a club active in the Interregional, giving life to Pro Matera Sport, which later became Matera Sport. In 1991 Matera won the interregional championship and then won promotion to C2 in the decisive play-off against Gangi, winning 2–0 at home and drawing 0–0 in Gangi, Sicily. Later he will also win the Jacinto Trophy, a precursor tournament to the current Amateur Scudetto (established since 1992) played between the six winners of the promotion play-offs; beating Aosta 1–0 in the final in Bovalino, Matera then became Interregional Italian Champions.