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| Full name | Società Sportiva Calcio Bari SpA[1] | ||
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| Nickname(s) | I Galletti (The Cockerels) I Biancorossi (The White and Reds) | ||
| Founded | 15 January 1908 as Bari Foot-Ball Club 16 January 1924 as Foot-Ball Club Bari 27 February 1928 as Unione Sportiva Bari 16 July 2018 as Società Sportiva Calcio Bari | ||
| Ground | Stadio San Nicola | ||
| Capacity | 58,270 | ||
| Owner | Filmauro S.r.l. | ||
| Chairman | Luigi De Laurentiis Jr. | ||
| Manager | Moreno Longo | ||
| League | Serie B | ||
| 2023–24 | Serie B, 17th of 20 | ||
| Website | sscalciobari.it | ||
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Società Sportiva Calcio Bari,[2] commonly referred to as Bari, is an Italian football club based in Bari, Apulia. Bari currently plays in the Serie B. The team finished the 2021–22 season in first place in Serie C and earned promotion to Serie B for the 2022–23 season.
Bari was originally founded in 1908 and reestablished several times, most recently in 2018. The club spent many seasons bouncing between the top two divisions in Italian football, Serie A and Serie B. The club was formerly known as A.S. Bari or F.C. Bari 1908 as well as other names, due to re-establishing. Bari usually plays in all-white with red detailing.
Statistically, Bari is the most successful club from the Apulia region in terms of all-time Serie A records. The club is among the elite in Southern Italian football and is ranked 17th in the all-time Serie A records. The club won the Mitropa Cup in 1990.
- ^ "La SSC Bari diventa società per azioni. Luigi De Laurentiis amministratore unico" (in Italian). BariViva.it. 14 June 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
- ^ "Il calcio a Bari ripartirà ufficialmente con Aurelio De Laurentiis". Fox Sports (Italy) (in Italian). 31 July 2018. Retrieved 13 August 2018.