Lega Pro
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Lega Italiana Calcio Professionistico | |
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Abbreviation | LICP |
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Predecessor | Lega IV Serie |
Founded | 1959 |
Headquarters | Florence |
Region served | Italy |
Products | Serie C Coppa Italia Serie C Campionato Primavera 3 |
Membership | 60 clubs |
President | Matteo Marani |
Parent organization | FIGC |
Website | LegaPro.com |
The Lega Italiano Calcio Professionistico (Italian for Professional Football Italian League), commonly known as Lega Pro[1] (Pro League), is the governing body that runs the third tier of professional football competitions in Italy, the Serie C. It used several names in the past, including Lega Professionisti Serie C. It is a full member of European Leagues.[2]
History
[edit]The league was created in 1959 as Lega Nazionale Semiprofessionisti by the FIGC Commissioner Bruno Zauli on the base of the old Lega IV Serie. The League managed three Serie C and six Serie D groups with 162 clubs.[3] The league was intermediate between professionals and amateurs. Former C clubs protested for their lost Lega Calcio membership, and they spent the following twenty years to regain a professional status. The league, led by Artemio Franchi, was expanded in 1967 to 222 clubs. A new reform in 1978 abolished the Serie D and divided the C into two fully professional championships, the Serie C1 and the Serie C2, with 108 members in six groups. The new name was Lega Nazionale Serie C, and its status became professional. After 2000 the Serie C2 was reduced and later abolished in 2014, to give way to a Serie C in three groups.
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- Lega Serie A
- Lega Serie B
- Lega Pro
- Lega Nazionale Dilettanti
- Lega Calcio
- defunct
- Lega Alta Italia
- defunct
- Direttorio Divisioni Superiori
- defunct
- Direttorio Divisioni Inferiori Nord
- defunct
- Lega Nord
- defunct
(Categoria Leagues)
- Leagues
- Campionato Primavera 1
- Campionato Primavera 2
- Campionato Primavera 3
- Campionato Juniores Nazionali
- Coppa Italia Primavera
- Supercoppa Primavera
- Torneo di Viareggio
- Totonero 1980
- Totonero 1986
- Italian Law 91/1981, Article 18B
- financial doping scandals
- Anglo-Italian Cup
- Caso Genoa
- Calciopoli
- 2011–12 Italian football match-fixing scandal
- 2015 Italian football match-fixing scandal
- Article 52 of N.O.I.F.
- Scudetto
- Capocannoniere
- Italian Football Confederation
- Scudetto of the Pistols