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| Full name | Pisa Sporting Club S.r.l. | |||
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| Nickname(s) | I Nerazzurri (The Black and Blues). | |||
| Founded | 1909 | |||
| Ground | Arena Garibaldi | |||
| Capacity | 25,000[1] | |||
| Owner | Alexander Knaster | |||
| Chairman | Giuseppe Corrado | |||
| Manager | Filippo Inzaghi | |||
| League | Serie B | |||
| 2023–24 | Serie B, 13th of 20 | |||
| Website | pisasportingclub | |||
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Pisa Sporting Club, commonly referred to as Pisa, is an Italian football club based in Pisa, Tuscany. The team currently plays in Serie B.
The club was founded in 1909 as Pisa Sporting Club and refounded in 1994 as Pisa Calcio (and registered in Eccellenza, the regional football division in Italy), after the cancellation of the former because of economical troubles. It was excluded again from Italian football in 2009, after the property failed to collect enough money to pay off the club's debts.[2] In summer 2009 it was refounded with the denomination A.C. Pisa 1909.
Pisa won two Mitropa Cups, in 1986 and 1988. They play their home matches at Arena Garibaldi – Stadio Romeo Anconetani, named after Romeo Anconetani, the chairman who brought and led the club in Serie A during the 1980s. In 2016, Giuseppe Corrado bought the club and planned the new Pisa stadium. In January 2021, billionaire Alexander Knaster acquired a 75% stake in the club.[3]
- ^ "ARENA GARIBALDI – STADIO ROMEO ANCONETANI" (in Italian). Pisa Calcio. Archived from the original on 10 February 2012. Retrieved 9 May 2011.
- ^ "COMUNICATO UFFICIO STAMPA PISA CALCIO" (in Italian). Pisa Calcio. 10 July 2009. Archived from the original on 13 July 2009. Retrieved 10 July 2009.
- ^ "Serie B's Pisa is latest Italian club to move into foreign ownership". 25 January 2021.