Pro Vasto

Full name	Football Club Pro Vasto SRL
Founded	1902
Ground	Stadio Aragona, Vasto, Italy (Capacity: 5,200)
Chairman	Domenico Crisci
Manager	Pino Di Meo
League	Lega Pro Seconda Divisione B
2008–09	Serie D/F, 1st
Home colours Away colours

Football Club Pro Vasto is an Italian association football club, based in Vasto, Abruzzo. The club was founded in 1902, and its official colours are red and white.

[edit] History

Originally knows as Vastese, the club was founded in 1903, and since then spent several seasons in the Italian lower professional tiers of Serie C1 and Serie C2. The club renamed to Pro Vasto in 1952, but was cancelled in 1981 due to financial problems. A minor local team in Promozione league called Società Sportiva Incoronata took its place, and switched denomination to Associazione Calcio Vasto 82 one year later, being promoted to Serie D in 1984 only to be relegated back in 1987. After this relegation, the club changed again denomination, this time to Vastese Calcio, being promoted back to Serie D in 1988, and returning to Serie C2 in 1990 after a successful season in the Italian top amateur level.

Club crest used until 2009

Relegated from Serie C2 in 1994, the club was successively readmitted back into professionalism to fill a league vacancy, but the club declared bankruptcy only one year later. In 1997 local Promozione club Vasto Marina changed its denomination to the current one of Football Club Pro Vasto, and made two consecutive promotions to return back to Serie D in 1999, being however relegated to Eccellenza in 2000. A new property then acquired the club, immediately bringing it back into the Italian fifth tier one year later, and returning into Serie C2 in 2004. Pro Vasto was then relegated to Serie D in 2007, and played there until 2009, when the club won the league after a 2–1 win against Tolentino in the last match of the season after winning the last ten matches in a row. The club is therefore expected to take part into Lega Pro Prima Divisione in the 2009–10 season.

[edit] External links

• Official website

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