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

Lega Pro/B

2014–15

Lega Pro/B, 4th

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 Lega Pro, third 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 1959-1960 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 1st february 2016

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

No.	Position	Player
**	GK	Paolo Branduani
**	GK	Nikita Contini (on loan from Napoli)
**	GK	Andrea Seveso (on loan from Atalanta)
**	DF	Daniele Gasparetto
**	DF	Tommaso Silvestri
**	DF	Nicolas Giani
**	DF	Marcello Cottafava
**	DF	Pietro Ceccaroni
**	MF	Eros Schiavon
**	MF	Andrea Beghetto
**	MF	Federico Gentile
**	MF	Lorenzo Capezzani
**	MF	Alessandro Bellemo

No.	Position	Player
**	MF	Manuel Lazzari
**	MF	Michele Castagnetti
**	MF	Alessandro De Vitis (on loan from Sampdoria)
**	MF	Davide Di Quinzio
**	MF	Luca Mora
**	MF	Francesco Posocco
**	MF	Mirco Spighi
**	FW	Luigi Grassi
**	FW	Marco Cellini
**	FW	Mattia Finotto
**	FW	Jacopo Ferri (on loan from Roma)
**	FW	Gianmarco Zigoni (on loan from Milan)

References

External links

Official Site

Lega Pro 2015–16 clubs

Girone A	AlbinoLeffe Alessandria Pavia Bassano Virtus Cremonese Südtirol FeralpiSalò Renate Mantova Torres Giana Erminio Lumezzane Savona Pordenone Cittadella Padova Virtus Entella Cuneo

Girone B	Ascoli Reggiana SPAL Arezzo Robur Siena Pistoiese Pisa Ancona L'Aquila Prato Tuttocuoio Carrarese Pontedera Santarcangelo Maceratese Pro Piacenza Lucchese Rimini

Girone C	Lecce Benevento Foggia Matera Juve Stabia Cosenza Casertana Catanzaro Ischia Fidelis Andria Akragas Lupa Roma Martina Franca Vigor Lamezia Melfi Paganese Monopoli Lupa Castelli

Lega Pro seasons

Seconda Divisione	1926–27 1927–28

Prima Divisione	1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35

Serie C	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

Serie C1	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 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08

Lega Pro Prima Divisione	2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14

Lega Pro	2014–15 2015–16

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 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 di Prima Divisione Supercoppa di Lega di Seconda Divisione 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

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 Foreign Serie A players Foreign Serie B players

Seasons	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

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