2013–14 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione

The 2013–14 Seconda Divisione season is the thirty-sixth and final football league season of Italian Seconda Divisione since its establishment in 1978, and the sixth since the renaming from Serie C to Lega Pro.

Seconda Divisione
Season2013–14

It is divided into two phases: the regular season, and the playoff phase.

The league currently is composed of 36 teams divided into two divisions (Girone A and B) divided geographically.

The first eight teams in each girone, plus one team winning the relegation playoff round from each division will remain in Lega Pro. The last six teams in each girone, plus three relegation play-out losers from each division will be relegated to Serie D. In all, eighteen teams will remain in Lega Pro, and eighteen teams will be relegated to Serie D.

Start of season

Given a normal season where there are no team failures and special promotions, Lega Pro Seconda Divisione would feature 6 teams that had been relegated from Lega Pro Prima Divisione, 9 teams that had been promoted from Serie D, and 21 teams had played in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione the year before. Due to seven bankruptcies and non-admissions in Lega Pro Prima Divisione (one vacancy), Lega Pro Seconda Divisione (six vacancies) and Serie D (one vacancy: Sambenedettese of Girone F) the 2013–14 season is to feature only 2 teams that played in 2012–13 Lega Pro Prima Divisione, 13 teams that played in 2012–13 Serie D and 21 teams that played in 2012–13 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione. The league admitted seven teams to fill vacancies created. These teams are:[1]

  • Gavorrano which finished 15th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione B, originally relegated for losing in the playoffs.
  • Aversa Normanna which finished 17th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione B, originally relegated for finishing at the penultimate place.
  • Virtus Verona which finished 4th in Serie D Girone C, and was the playoff winner.
  • Real Vicenza which finished 5th in Serie D Girone C.
  • Casertana which finished 4th in Serie D Girone G, and was the playoff runner-up.
  • Foggia which finished 5th in Serie D Girone H.
  • Cosenza which finished 2nd in Serie D Girone I.

Also, SPAL was promoted through a merger with Giacomense.

Girone A

Teams

Teams from Emilia-Romagna, Liguria, Lombardy, Piedmont, Sardinia & Veneto

Location of teams in Girone A 2013–14
Location of teams in Girone A 2013–14
Club City Stadium Capacity 2012–13 season
Alessandria Alessandria Giuseppe Moccagatta 5,827 8th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A
Bassano Virtus Bassano del Grappa Rino Mercante 2,952 4th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A
Bellaria Igea Bellaria-Igea Marina Enrico Nanni 2,500 13th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A
Bra Bra Attilio Bravi 1,000 1st in Serie D Girone A
Castiglione Castiglione delle Stiviere Ugo Lusetti 2,500 7th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A
Cuneo Cuneo Fratelli Paschiero 4,000 14th in Lega Pro Prima Divisione A
Delta Porto Tolle Porto Tolle Comunale 3,000 1st in Serie D Girone C
Forlì Forlì Tullo Morgagni 3,466 10th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A
Mantova Mantova Danilo Martelli 14,884 9th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A
Monza Monza Brianteo 18,568 5th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A
Pergolettese Crema Giuseppe Voltini 4,100 1st in Serie D Girone B
Real Vicenza Vicenza Romeo Menti 12,200 5th in Serie D Girone C
Renate Renate
(playing in Meda)		 Città di Meda 3,000 6th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A
Rimini Rimini Romeo Neri 7,442 14th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A
Santarcangelo Santarcangelo di Romagna Valentino Mazzola 3,000 12th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A
SPAL Ferrara Paolo Mazza 19,000 11th Lega Pro Seconda Divisione/A
(as Giacomense)
Torres Sassari Vanni Sanna 7,480 1st in Serie D Girone G
Virtus Verona Verona
(playing in Legnago)		 Mario Sandrini 2,152 4th in Serie D Girone C

League table
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation
1 Bassano Virtus (C, P) 34 20 9 5 62 35 +27 69 Promotion to Divisione Unica
2 Renate (P) 34 15 12 7 43 26 +17 57[lower-alpha 1]
3 Alessandria (P) 34 16 9 9 58 39 +19 57[lower-alpha 1]
4 Monza (P) 33 15 9 9 56 41 +15 54
5 Santarcangelo (P) 34 13 14 7 44 26 +18 53[lower-alpha 2]
6 SPAL (P) 34 13 14 7 52 42 +10 53[lower-alpha 2]
7 Real Vicenza (P) 34 15 7 12 51 48 +3 52[lower-alpha 3]
8 Mantova (P) 34 13 13 8 57 46 +11 52[lower-alpha 3]
9 Forlì (O, P) 34 14 7 13 53 45 +8 49 Qualification for Relegation play-off
10 Delta Porto Tolle (R) 34 12 12 10 45 35 +10 48
11 Cuneo (R) 34 11 14 9 43 32 +11 47[lower-alpha 4]
12 Torres (P) 34 12 11 11 40 44 −4 47[lower-alpha 4] Admitted to Lega Pro[lower-alpha 5]
13 Rimini (R) 34 11 13 10 38 38 0 45[lower-alpha 6] Relegation to Serie D
14 Virtus Verona (R) 34 10 14 10 35 32 +3 44
15 Pergolettese (R) 34 7 15 12 27 35 −8 36
16 Castiglione (R) 34 6 12 16 37 54 −17 30
17 Bellaria Igea (R) 34 4 4 26 24 79 −55 15[lower-alpha 6]
18 Bra (R) 34 3 3 28 29 96 −67 12
Updated to match(es) played on 4 May 2014. Source: Lega Pro
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. REN 0–0 ALE; ALE 0–3 REN
  2. SAN 2–0 SPAL; SPAL 1–0 SAN
  3. RVI 4–1 MAN; MAN 0–0 RVI
  4. TOR 1–3 CUN; CUN 0–1 TOR
  5. Re-admitted to fill vacancy
  6. Bellaria Igea and Rimini were docked 1 point.

Relegation play-off
  • only Finals winner remains in Lega Pro
  • other 3 teams are relegated to Serie D

Semifinals
First legs scheduled 18 May 2014; return legs scheduled 25 May 2014
In case of a tie in the aggregate score the highest classified team advances to the final.
Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Torres (12) 1–3 (9) Forlì 1–0 0–3
Cuneo (11) 2–2(hc) (10) Delta Porto Tolle 1–2 1–0

Finals
First leg scheduled 1 June 2014; return leg scheduled 8 June 2014
Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Delta Porto Tolle (10) 4–4 (hc) (9) Forlì 3–2 1–2

Girone B

Teams

Teams from Abruzzo, Apulia, Basilicata, Campania, Lazio, Sicily, Tuscany & Umbria

Location of teams in Girone B 2013–14
Location of teams in Girone B 2013–14 (Campania)
Club City Stadium Capacity 2012–13 season
Aprilia Aprilia Quinto Ricci 2,000 3rd in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione B
Arzanese Arzano
(playing in Mugnano di Napoli)		 Alberto Vallefuoco 2,500 10th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione B
Aversa Normanna Aversa Augusto Bisceglia 2,555 17th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione B
Casertana Caserta Alberto Pinto 12,000 4th in Serie D Girone G
Castel Rigone Passignano sul Trasimeno San Bartolomeo 800 1st in Serie D Girone E
Chieti Chieti Guido Angelini 12,750 4th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione B
Cosenza Cosenza San Vito 24,479 2nd in Serie D Girone I
Foggia Foggia Pino Zaccheria 25,000 5th in Serie D Girone H
Gavorrano Gavorrano Romeo Malservisi 2,000 15th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione B
Ischia Ischia Vincenzo Mazzella 5,000 1st in Serie D Girone H
Martina Franca Martina Franca Gian Domenico Tursi 5,000 12th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione B
Melfi Melfi Arturo Valerio 4,100 8th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione B
Messina Messina San Filippo 37,895 1st in Serie D Girone I
Poggibonsi Poggibonsi Stefano Lotti 2,513 7th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione B
Sorrento Sorrento Italia 3,600 15th in Lega Pro Prima Divisione A
Teramo Teramo Gaetano Bonolis 7,498 6th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione B
Tuttocuoio San Miniato
(playing in Santa Croce sull'Arno)		 Libero Masini 3,344 1st in Serie D Girone D
Vigor Lamezia Lamezia Terme Guido D'Ippolito 4,000 13th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione B

League table
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation
1 Messina (C, P) 34 15 12 7 43 33 +10 57[lower-alpha 1] Promotion to Divisione Unica
2 Casertana (P) 34 15 12 7 38 28 +10 57[lower-alpha 1]
3 Teramo (P) 34 15 10 9 48 34 +14 55[lower-alpha 2]
4 Cosenza (P) 34 15 10 9 38 29 +9 55[lower-alpha 2]
5 Foggia (P) 34 13 12 9 50 40 +10 51[lower-alpha 3]
6 Melfi (P) 34 12 15 7 39 31 +8 51[lower-alpha 3]
7 Ischia (P) 34 11 15 8 31 29 +2 48
8 Vigor Lamezia (P) 34 12 10 12 37 39 −2 46
9 Sorrento (R) 34 13 6 15 40 36 +4 45 Qualification for Relegation play-off
10 Tuttocuoio (O, P) 34 11 11 12 41 38 +3 44
11 Aversa Normanna (P) 34 11 10 13 36 40 −4 43[lower-alpha 4] Admitted to Lega Pro[lower-alpha 5]
12 Arzanese (R) 34 10 13 11 41 46 −5 43[lower-alpha 4] Qualification for Relegation play-off
13 Martina Franca (P) 34 10 12 12 36 36 0 42 Admitted to Lega Pro[lower-alpha 5]
14 Aprilia (R) 34 10 11 13 41 50 −9 41 Relegation to Serie D
15 Chieti (R) 34 10 11 13 34 35 −1 40[lower-alpha 6]
16 Poggibonsi (R) 34 8 12 14 31 41 −10 36
17 Castel Rigone (R) 34 10 4 20 39 56 −17 34 Folded after relegation[lower-alpha 7]
18 Gavorrano (R) 34 6 12 16 24 48 −24 30 Relegation to Serie D
Updated to match(es) played on 4 May 2014. Source: Lega Pro
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. CAS 1–1 MES; MES 2–1 CAS
  2. TER 3–0 COS; COS 1–1 TER
  3. MEL 0–0 FOG; FOG 2–2 MEL
  4. ARZ 0–1 AVN; AVN 1–1 ARZ
  5. Re-admitted to fill vacancy
  6. Chieti was docked 1 point.
  7. Castel Rigone folded after it decided not to play in Serie D.

Relegation play-off
  • only Finals winner remains in Lega Pro
  • other 3 teams are relegated to Serie D

Semifinals
First legs scheduled 18 May 2014; return legs scheduled 25 May 2014
Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Arzanese (12) 4–3 (9) Sorrento 4–0 0–3
Aversa Normanna (11) 1–3 (10) Tuttocuoio 1–1 0–2

Finals
First leg scheduled 1 June 2014; return leg scheduled 8 June 2014
Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Arzanese (12) 1–1 (hc) (10) Tuttocuoio 0–0 1–1

References
  1. Il Consiglio Federale (5 August 2013). "C.U. N°44/A (2013–14)" (PDF) (in Italian). FIGC. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
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