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…

Coppa Italia Serie D Winners: 2009–10