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Unione Sportiva Triestina Calcio 1918,commonly referred toUS Triestinaor justTriestina,is anItalian footballclub based inTrieste,in the northernFriuli-Venezia Giuliaregion. Originally established in 1918, Triestina was one of the founding members ofSerie Ain 1929 and featured in Italian top flight until the late 1950s. Triestina spent the following decades in lower levels, and during that time the club was folded and re-established several times. As of the 2024–25 season it plays inSerie C,the third tier of Italian football.

Triestina
Full nameUnione Sportiva Triestina Calcio 1918S.r.l.
Nickname(s)L'Unione(The Union)
Gli Alabardati(The Halberded)
I Rossoalabardati(The Halberded Reds)
I Giuliani(The Julians)
Founded1918
GroundStadio Nereo Rocco,
Trieste,Italy
Capacity24,500
ChairmanBen Rosenzweig
Vice ChairmanChris Hutter
ManagerPep Clotet
LeagueSerie CGroup A
2023–24Serie C Group A, 4th of 20
Websitehttps:// triestinacalcio.club/
Current season

History

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From the foundation to Serie A

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The club was founded in 1918 as merger of local teams "Ponziana" and "Foot-Ball Club Trieste". The club reached Seconda Divisione (now known asSerie B) in 1924. The club successively featured in the first-everSerie Aseason in 1929, and played consecutively to the Italian top flight until 1956. During those successful times, the team also featured the likes of local Trieste nativeNereo Rocco,who played as winger for Triestina from 1930 to 1937, becoming also the first player from the team to become part of theAzzurrisquad (in 1934). Successively, Rocco returned to Triestina as a head coach in 1947, and completed the 1947–48 as Serie A runners-up, only behindTorino;this is still, as of today, the best result in history for the Trieste-based club.

Rocco then left in 1950 to be replaced by Hungarian coachBéla Guttman,who managed to save the club from relegation only in the final matchday. Another struggling season followed in 1951–52, with Triestina escaping relegation only after winning playoffs againstLuccheseandBrescia.During the 1952–53 season,Cesare Maldini[1]made his Serie A debut in a Triestina jersey. In 1953 Rocco returned to Triestina, but was sacked after 21 matchdays due to poor results. Three more mid-table seasons followed before Triestina suffered its first relegation in 1957. Successively, Triestina returned to Serie A in 1958, but were relegated in their first comeback season, which is also their last top flight campaign to date.

Nereo Rocco,legend of Trieste's football, played for Triestina in the 1930s and trained the squad in the post–World War II era

The club were successively relegated toSerie Cin 1961 once, in 1965 twice, and evenSerie Din 1971, forcing thealabardatito a local derby with "Ponziana" in 1975.[citation needed]The club returned to Serie C in 1976, and was admitted toSerie C1in 1978, and finally returned to Serie B in 1983, missing promotion to the top flight for a few seasons before being relegated in 1988. Triestina also played in second level between 1962–1965 and 1989–1991.

The first refoundation in 1994

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In 1994, the team was forced to fold, because of financial insolvency, and was re-founded by Giorgio Del Sabato. The team restarted asU.S. Triestina Calciofrom Serie D and was readmitted toSerie C2by the federation one year later. In 2001, after six seasons in Serie C2, the club won promotion to Serie C1 after playoffs; this was followed by a second consecutive promotion, this time to Serie B, both under head coachEzio Rossi.

In the 2005–06 season, Triestina changed its manager five times. The list include the tandemAlessandro Calori-Adriano Buffoni,Pietro Vierchowod,caretakerFrancesco De Falco,youth team coachVittorio RussoandAndrea Agostinelli.

In addition, Triestina's ownerFlaviano Tonellottowas forced to resign on 1 February 2006 by the magistrates because of a pending court procedure forbankruptcy,and his wife Jeannine Koevoets was named to replace him at the helm of the club. However, Tonellotto was successively ordered to leave the association because of financial troubles. The magistrates namedFrancesco De Falcoas caretaker chairman with the idea of finding somebody interested to buy the club. Curiously, in the 2005–06 De Falco, a player for Triestina in the 80's, covered three different roles in the club: director of football, manager and chairman. In April 2006 the team was purchased by theFantinelfamily, owners of a wine company in the region.

In recent years, Triestina struggled to mount a promotion campaign to end half-century absence from the Italian top flight. Triestina finished 8th in 2008–2009 season. However failed to remain in Serie B in the 2009–10 season, with a crashing 3–0 defeat toPadovaat the play-outs, and was relegated toLega Pro Prima Divisioneafter 8 years of endeavour in the second tier of Italian football, only to be readmitted to Serie B afterAnconafiled for bankruptcy.

On 21 May 2011, in the season 2010–11, after a disastrous campaign, Triestina was relegated fromSerie BtoLega Pro Prima Divisione,having returned there in 2002 after 11 seasons inSerie CandSerie D.

2012: Relegation and bankruptcy

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On 25 January 2012 the club in strong financial difficulty, has been declared bankrupt by the court of Trieste.[2][3][4]

In the season 2011–12 Triestina was relegated fromLega Pro Prima Divisione group BtoLega Pro Seconda Divisione.

On 19 June 2012 the club was finally declared bankrupt and the team was disbanded.[5]

Stefano Mario Fantinel, former chairman of the club, was suspended from football activities for 5 years after the prosecutor found accounting irregularities of the club.[6]In July, three more months were added due to player transfer irregularities.[7]Fantinel was also suspended for 3 months in2006–07 Serie B,also causing the club 1 point, for irregularities on preparing quarterly management report on 30 March 2006.[8]

Unione Triestina 2012 / U.S. Triestina Calcio 1918

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On 31 July 2012 a new companyUnione Triestina 2012 S.S.D. a. r.l.[9]was founded, that restarted fromEccellenzathanks toArticle 52 of N.O.I.F.[10]The sports title was later transferred to another "limited company in amateur sport" (Italian:Società Sportiva Dilettantistica a responsabilità limitata)U.S. Triestina Calcio 1918 s.s.d. a. r.l.in 2016.[11]After the promotion toSerie Con 4 August 2017,[12]the company dropped the legal suffix "amateur sport" from the name.

Colors and badge

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The club's badge features a whitespontoonorhalberd—from where the club gets the nicknameGli Alabardati(The Halberded)—on a red background. This is inspired by the coat of arms and flag of the city ofTrieste.Other features of the badge include a shining white star and the wordsU. S. Triestina.After this badge, the team's colours both home andawayare red and white.

Honours

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Divisional movements

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Series Years Last Promotions Relegations
A 26 1958–59 - 2 (1957,1959)
B 22 2010–11 1 (1958) 5 (1961,1965,1988,1991,2011)
C
+C2 		29
+6		 2023–24 4 (1962,1983,1989,2002)
1 (2001 C2)		 4 (1971,1974,1994✟,2012✟)
81 out of 90 years of professional football in Italy since 1929
D 8 2016–17 4 (1972,1976,1995,2017) never
E 1 2012–13 1 (2013) never

Current squad

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As of 21 November 2024[13]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK NED Kelle Roos
3 DF NED Teun Bijleveld
4 MF ITA Andrea Vallocchia
5 DF ITA Domenico Frare(on loan fromCittadella)
6 DF ITA Andrea Moretti
7 FW CUW Jaron Vicario
8 MF NED Rayan El Azrak
9 FW FIN Eetu Vertainen
10 DF SVN Aljaž Struna
11 MF HAI Christopher Attys
12 GK ITA Francesco Borriello
13 MF MAR Sofian Kiyine
14 MF ITA Umberto Germano
15 MF FRA Omar Correia
No. Pos. Nation Player
17 MF ISL Kristófer Jónsson
21 DF ITA Mattia Tonetto
22 GK MLI Madou Diakité
23 MF ITA Marco Ballarini(on loan fromUdinese)
30 MF ITA Christian D'Urso
33 DF ITA Nicholas Rizzo
42 MF KOS Idriz Voca
44 DF ITA Alessandro Bianconi
46 MF POR Braima Sambú
72 DF SVN Daniel Pavlev
73 FW LVA Raimonds Krollis(on loan fromSpezia)
77 FW ISL Stígur Thórdarson
99 FW ITA Marco Olivieri
— DF ITA Matteo Anzolin

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
— GK SVN Kristjan Matošević(atJuve Stabiauntil 30 June 2025)
— MF TUR Teoman Gündüz(atLeccountil 30 June 2025)
— MF ITA Aaron Kacinari(atTulsauntil 30 November 2024)
No. Pos. Nation Player
— FW FRA Jean-Guy Akpa Akpro(atCrotoneuntil 30 June 2025)
— MF SVN Mladen Mutavčić(atBrian Lignanountil 30 June 2025)

Former managers

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See also:Category:US Triestina Calcio 1918 managers

References

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  1. ^"Calcio: Notizie, risultati in tempo reale, classifiche live e Calciomercato".
  2. ^"Calcio: Notizie, risultati in tempo reale, classifiche live e Calciomercato".
  3. ^"TORO NEWS".toronews.net.Archived fromthe originalon 14 May 2014.
  4. ^"Yahoo Sport- Il Sito Dove Seguire i Grandi Eventi di Sport".
  5. ^"Piacenza e Triestina ufficialmente fallite".19 June 2012.
  6. ^""C.U. N°64/TFN – Sezione Disciplinare (2015–16)"(PDF).Tribunale Federale Nazionale – Sezione Disciplinare(in Italian). FIGC. 24 March 2016.Retrieved2 September2016.
  7. ^"C.U. N°7/TFN – Sezione Disciplinare (2016–17)"(PDF).Tribunale Federale Nazionale – Sezione Disciplinare(in Italian). FIGC. 22 July 2016.Retrieved2 September2016.
  8. ^"C.U. N°1 (2006–07)"(PDF)(in Italian). Lega Calcio. 1 July 2006.Retrieved2 September2016.
  9. ^Written at Rome."Costituita la nuova Triestina".L'Arena(in Italian). Verona. Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata (ANSA). 31 July 2012.Retrieved26 September2017.
  10. ^"La Triestina deve ripartire dall'Eccellenza regionale".7 August 2012.
  11. ^"Comunicato Ufficiale N°394/A (2015–16)"(PDF)(Press release) (in Italian). Italian Football Federation (FIGC). 23 May 2016.Retrieved26 September2017.
  12. ^"Lega Pro a 56 squadre. Ripescata la Triestina, respinte le domande di Rende e Rieti"(Press release) (in Italian). FIGC. 4 August 2017.Retrieved4 August2017.
  13. ^"Team".Triestina1918.it.Retrieved21 November2024.
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