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| Full name | Unione Sportiva Lecce S.p.A. (Sports Union Lecce S.p.A.) | |||
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| Ground | Stadio Ettore Giardiniero - Via del mare | |||
| Capacity | 31,533[1] | |||
| Owner | Saverio Sticchi Damiani (majority) Alvin Sariaatmadja (minority)[2] | |||
| President | Saverio Sticchi Damiani | |||
| Manager | Luca Gotti | |||
| League | Serie A | |||
| 2023–24 | Serie A, 14th of 20 | |||
| Website | uslecce.it | |||
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Unione Sportiva Lecce, commonly referred to as Lecce (Italian pronunciation: [ˈlettʃe]), is a professional Italian football club based in Lecce, Apulia. The club play in Serie A in the 2023–24 season, the top level of the Italian football pyramid. Lecce plays its home games at Stadio Via del Mare, which has a capacity of 31,533 spectators.
The club was formed in 1927 upon an idea of 1908 and has spent a large part of their recent history bouncing between Italy's second division and Serie A, where the team debuted in the 1985–86 season. Its best Serie A finish is the ninth place obtained in the 1988–89 season. The club is 27th in the Serie A all-time table and is the second club from Apulia with appearances in the first two tiers of Italian football, with 16 Serie A seasons and 29 Serie B seasons.
Lecce won a Serie B title in 2022 and 2010, a Coppa Italia Serie C in 1975 and an Anglo-Italian Cup Semiprofessionals in 1976.
Lecce players and fans are nicknamed salentini or simply giallorossi or lupi.
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