Italy national football C team are the Italy national football team representative teams of Serie C (in the past Lega Pro Prima Divisione and Seconda Divisione). It is controlled by the Lega Italiana Calcio Professionistico and consist of U19, U20 and U21 team.
The Italy national football team has officially represented Italy in association football since their first match in 1910. The squad is under the global jurisdiction of FIFA and is governed in Europe by UEFA—the latter of which was co-founded by the Italian team's supervising body, the Italian Football Federation (FIGC). Italy's home matches are played at various stadiums throughout Italy, and their primary training ground is located at the FIGC headquarters in Coverciano, Florence.
Lega Italiana Calcio Professionistico is the governing body that runs Serie C, the third highest football division in Italy. Its headquarters are in Florence. The unification of the Lega Pro Prima Divisione and the Lega Pro Seconda Divisione as Lega Pro Divisione Unica in 2014 reintroduced the format of the original Serie C that existed between 1935 and 1978. On 25 May 2017 the Lega Pro assembly unanimously approved the return to the original name of the competition to Serie C.
Lega Pro Prima Divisione was the third highest football league in Italy. It consisted of 33 teams, divided geographically into two divisions of 16 and 17 teams for group A and B respectively. Until 2008 it was known as Serie C1.
The under-20 team is the B team of Italy national under-20 football team and the U21 team is the C team of Italy national under-21 football team, they also served as feeder team of the main team in the youth teams pyramid.
Italy national under-20 football team is the national under-20 football team of Italy and is controlled by the Italian Football Federation.
The Italy national under-21 football team is the national under-21 football team of Italy and is controlled by the Italian Football Federation.
Some players also capped for the main team after played for the Lega Pro team and some players call-up to the Lega Pro team after played for Italy national under-19 football team.
The Italy national under-19 football team is the national under-19 football team of Italy and is controlled by the Italian Football Federation.
The team also compete against representative teams of Group A, B and C of Seconda Divisione in annual Lega Pro Quadrangular Tournament, however it was cancelled in 2011–12 season, as there are only 4 groups from the two divisions of Lega Pro.
Lega Pro Seconda Divisione was the fourth highest football league in Italy, the lowest with a professional status. Usually it consisted of 36 teams, but in the season 2011–12 the teams were 41 divided geographically into two divisions of 20, 21. Group A covers northern and north central Italy, Group B south central and southern Italy.
In recent season the regulation defined the team was exclusive to Lega Pro owned players, players on loan from Serie A and B were excluded. [1] [2]
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Gammone Scaccabarozzi | (Report) | Barmen Kastrati |
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Vita Montini | (Report) | Plos |
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Lega Pro used entire squad of born 1991 or after in 2011–12 season [3]
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9 Dionisi 47 60 Sarno 55 Oliveiri | (Report) | 76 Edwards 81 Price |
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41 Perovuo 65 Hetemaj | (Report) | 85 pen Vincenzo Pepe |
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36 Dionisi 71 Statella | (Report) | 58 Simpson 82 James Constable |
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Jongsma Vink | (Report) | Lunardini |
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4 Andy Bishop 78 Chris Blackburn 85 Craig Mackail-Smith | (Report) |
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