A.S.D. Due Torri

Due Torri
Full name	Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Due Torri
Founded	1973
Ground	Enzo Vasi Municipal Stadium; Piraino, Sicily
Capacity	3,800
League	Prima Categoria
2017–18	Prima Categoria Sicilia / C
	Home colours
	Home colours

Last updated October 04, 2019

A.S.D. Due Torri is a soccer club based in Piraino, Sicily, Italy. It currently plays in Italy in Prima Categoria.

Piraino is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 130 kilometres (81 mi) east of Palermo and about 60 kilometres (37 mi) west of Messina.

Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 20 regions of Italy. It is one of the five Italian autonomous regions, in Southern Italy along with surrounding minor islands, officially referred to as Regione Siciliana.

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a European country consisting of a peninsula delimited by the Alps and surrounded by several islands. Italy is located in Southern Europe, and it is sometimes considered as part of Western Europe. The country covers a total area of 301,340 km² (116,350 sq mi) and shares land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, and the enclaved microstates of Vatican City and San Marino. Italy has a territorial exclave in Switzerland (Campione) and a maritime exclave in the Tunisian Sea (Lampedusa). With around 60 million inhabitants, Italy is the fourth-most populous member state of the European Union.

History

Founding

The club was founded in 1973.^[1]

Serie D

During the 2012–13 season, the team was promoted for the first time, from Eccellenza Sicilia / B to Serie D, to fill vacant positions that had been created.

Eccellenza is the fifth level of Italian football. It is a regional league, composed of 28 divisions divided geographically. All 20 regions are represented by at least one division except for Piedmont and Aosta Valley which share 2 divisions. Veneto, Tuscany, Sicily, Lazio, Emilia-Romagna and Campania also have 2 divisions each, while the region of Lombardy has 3 divisions.

Serie D highest Italian non-professional association football league

Serie D is the top level of the Italian non-professional football association called Lega Nazionale Dilettanti. The association represents over 12,000 football players and 400 football teams across Italy. Serie D ranks just below Serie C, and is thus considered the fourth-ranked league in the country. It is organized by the Roman Comitato Interregionale, a "league in the league" inside the LND.

The club was expelled from the Italian Football Federation in January 2017 after failing to show up for four consecutive games in the 2016–17 Serie D.^[2]

The 2016–17 Serie D was the sixty-ninth edition of the top level Italian non-professional football championship. It represents the fourth tier in the Italian football league system. A total of 162 teams, divided on geographical grounds into 9 groups of 18 teams each, competed. Compared to the previous season there were nine teams less, as no team was admitted "supernumerary".

A phoenix club was successively formed and admitted to the amateur regional Prima Categoria league.^[3]

Prima Categoria is a level of football in Italy. It is the seventh level in the Italian football league system and is organized by the National Amateur League by the Regional Committees. Each individual league winner within the Prima Categoria level progresses to their closest regional league in the Promozione level. Depending on each league's local rules, a number of teams each year are relegated from each league, to the eighth level of Italian football, the Seconda Categoria.

Colors

The team's color is red.

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References

↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-10-29. Retrieved 2013-08-19.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
↑ "Serie D Girone I, arriva l'ufficialità: Due Torri escluso dal campionato" (in Italian). Tutto Calcio Campano. 20 January 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
↑ "Piraino – Il Due Torri, pronto a tornare protagonista, ripartendo dalla prima categoria!" (in Italian). La Settimana Sportiva. 19 September 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2018.

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[1] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-10-29. Retrieved 2013-08-19.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[2] "Serie D Girone I, arriva l'ufficialità: Due Torri escluso dal campionato" (in Italian). Tutto Calcio Campano. 20 January 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2018.

[3] "Piraino – Il Due Torri, pronto a tornare protagonista, ripartendo dalla prima categoria!" (in Italian). La Settimana Sportiva. 19 September 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2018.