The 2010–11 Lega Pro Prima Divisione season was the thirty-third football league season of Italian Lega Pro Prima Divisione since its establishment in 1978, and the third since the renaming from Serie C to Lega Pro.
It will be divided into two phases: the regular season, and the playoff phase.
The league will also be composed of 36 teams divided into two divisions of 18 teams each, whose teams will be divided geographically. Teams will play only other teams in their own division, once at home and once away for a total of 34 matches each.
Teams finishing first in the regular season, plus one team winning the playoff round from each division will be promoted to Serie B; teams finishing last in the regular season, plus two relegation playoff losers from each division will be relegated to Lega Pro Seconda Divisione. In all, four teams will be promoted to Serie B, and six teams will be relegated to Lega Pro Seconda Divisione.
Events
Start of season The league was to feature four teams relegated from Serie B in 2009–10. Triestina, Mantova, Gallipoli and Salernitana. But on July 17, 2010 Mantova and Gallipoli was excluded by the Federal Council and relegated to Serie D and Promozione respectively. Because of the exclusion of Ancona from Serie B Triestina was admitted back to fill the vacancy on August 4, 2010.
It is to feature six teams promoted from 2009–10 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione; the three division winners - F.C. Südtirol, Lucchese and Juve Stabia, and the three playoff winners - Spezia, Gubbio and Cisco Roma (later renamed Atletico Roma).
The remaining 26 teams were to come from the teams that played in 2009–10 Lega Pro Prima Divisione that were neither promoted nor relegated. Of those, Arezzo (4th in Girone A), Perugia (11th in Girone A), Rimini (4th in Girone B) and Real Marcianise (12th in Girone B) were also listed by the Covisoc organization as not having met the financial requirements to be admitted. On 17 July 2010 these teams were officially excluded from the league along with Figline (7th in Girone A) by Federal Council's decision.
On 4 August 2010, the eight vacancies created were filled by the following teams, all of which were destined to play in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione for the 2010-11 season before the call-up: Paganese, which finished 17th in Prima Divisione 2009-10 - Girone A, originally relegated for losing in the playouts. Pavia, which finished 5th and lost in the playoff semi-finals in Seconda Divisione 2009-10 - Girone A Bassano Virtus, which finished 7th in Seconda Divisione 2009-10 - Girone B Nocerina, which finished 13th in Seconda Divisione 2009-10 - Girone B Barletta, which finished 5th and lost in the playoff semi-finals in Seconda Divisione 2009-10 - Girone C Siracusa, which finished 6th in Seconda Divisione 2009-10 - Girone C Gela, which finished 7th in Seconda Divisione 2009-10 - Girone C Pisa, which finished 1st in Serie D 2009-10 - Girone D
Girone A
Teams Club City Stadium Capacity 2009–10 season Alessandria Alessandria Giuseppe Moccagatta 8,182 8th in Lega Pro Prima Divisione A Bassano Virtus Bassano del Grappa Rino Mercante 2,952 7th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione B Como Como Giuseppe Sinigaglia 15,000 12th in Lega Pro Prima Divisione A Cremonese Cremona Giovanni Zini 22,000 3rd in Lega Pro Prima Divisione A Gubbio Gubbio Pietro Barbetti 5,000 3rd in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione B Lumezzane Lumezzane Nuovo Stadio Comunale 4,150 6th in Lega Pro Prima Divisione A Monza Monza Brianteo 18,568 10th in Lega Pro Prima Divisione A Paganese Pagani Marcello Torre 3,700 17th in Lega Pro Prima Divisione A Pavia Pavia Pietro Fortunati 6,000 5th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A Pergocrema Crema Giuseppe Voltini 3,490 15th in Lega Pro Prima Divisione A Ravenna Ravenna Bruno Benelli 12,020 13th in Lega Pro Prima Divisione B Reggiana Reggio Emilia Giglio 14,138 5th in Lega Pro Prima Divisione B Salernitana Salerno Arechi 37,245 22nd in Serie B Sorrento Sorrento Italia 3,600 9th in Lega Pro Prima Divisione A SPAL Ferrara Paolo Mazza 19,000 7th in Lega Pro Prima Divisione B Spezia La Spezia Alberto Picco 10,000 2nd in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A Südtirol Brixen(playing in Bolzano) Marco Druso 3,000 1st in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A Verona Verona Marc'Antonio Bentegodi 39,211 3rd in Lega Pro Prima Divisione B
League table
Results
Play-offs
Promotion Semifinals First legs scheduled 29 May 2011; return legs scheduled 5 June 2011
Final First leg scheduled 12 June 2011; return leg scheduled 19 June 2011
Relegation First legs scheduled 29 May 2011; return legs scheduled 5 June 2011
5. If aggregate is tied, the worst placed team in regular season is relegated
Südtirol and Monza relegated to Lega Pro Seconda divisione
Girone B
Teams Club City Stadium Capacity 2009–10 season Andria BAT Andria degli Ulivi 9,140 14th in Lega Pro Prima Divisione B Atletico Roma Rome Flaminio 32,000 3rd in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione C(as Cisco Roma) Barletta Barletta Cosimo Puttilli 5,000 5th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione C Benevento Benevento Ciro Vigorito 18,975 5th in Lega Pro Prima Divisione A Cavese Cava de' Tirreni Simonetta Lamberti 15,200 10th in Lega Pro Prima Divisione B Cosenza Cosenza San Vito 24,000 11th in Lega Pro Prima Divisione B Foggia Foggia Pino Zaccheria 25,000 15th in Lega Pro Prima Divisione B Foligno Foligno Enzo Blasone 5,650 13th in Lega Pro Prima Divisione A Gela Gela Vincenzo Presti 4,400 7th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione C Juve Stabia Castellammare di Stabia Romeo Menti 10,400 1st in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione C Lucchese Lucca Porta Elisa 7,400 1st in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione B Nocerina Nocera Inferiore San Francesco 6,852 13th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione B Pisa Pisa Arena Garibaldi 17,0001st in Serie D/D Siracusa Syracuse Nicola De Simone 6,200 6th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione C Taranto Taranto Erasmo Iacovone 28,000 8th in Lega Pro Prima Divisione B Ternana Terni Libero Liberati 22,000 6th in Lega Pro Prima Divisione B Viareggio Viareggio dei Pini 4,700 14th in Lega Pro Prima Divisione A Virtus Lanciano Lanciano Guido Biondi 8,000 9th in Lega Pro Prima Divisione B
League table
Results
Play-offs
Promotion Semifinals First legs scheduled 29 May 2011; return legs scheduled 5 June 2011
Aggregate Tie: the higher seed advances
Final First leg scheduled 12 June 2011; return leg scheduled 19 June 2011
Relegation First legs scheduled 29 May 2011; return legs scheduled 5 June 2011
Supercoppa di Lega di Prima Divisione SeasonHome teamScoreAway teamVenue 2010/2011Gubbio1 - 1NocerinaStadio Pietro Barbetti,GubbioNocerina1 - 0GubbioStadio San Francesco,Nocera InferioreNocerina (group B) won 2-1 on aggregate
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