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Padova
Full name	Calcio Padova SpA
Nickname(s)	Biancoscudati (White-Shielded), Patavini (Patavins)
Founded	1910
Ground	Stadio Euganeo, Padua, Italy (Capacity 32,336)
Chairman	Marcello Cestaro
Manager	Ezio Rossi
League	Serie C1/A
2006-07	Serie C1/A, 7th
Home colours 　 Away colours

Calcio Padova is an Italian football club, based in Padua, Veneto. The club was founded in 1910. Padova currently plays in Serie C1/A, having last been in Serie A in 1996. The team's colors are red and white.

Some of the famous players who played for Padova include Kurt Hamrin, Walter Zenga, Angelo Di Livio, Alessandro Del Piero, Vincenzo Iaquinta, and Alexi Lalas.

Old Padova crest

Padova's golden days were the late 1950s, when the team, managed by Nereo Rocco, reached the heights of third place in 1958 thanks to the wing wizardry of Kurt Hamrin. Forwards Sergio Brighenti and Aurelio Milani would star as Padova remained a force in Serie A, before relegation in 1962. The rest of the 1960s would see the club in Serie B before going into a serious decline ahead of a 1980s revival.

The revival would see Padova return to Serie B in the early 1980s, and within a decade they would be serious promotion contenders. A play-off win over Cesena in 1994 saw the club return to Serie A after 32 years. After a dire start to 1994/95, Padova looked like fulfilling most experts' predictions of a swift return. They nonetheless found their form in the second half of the year and when they recorded a 1-0 win away to Juventus, they were six points clear of the drop zone. However, they eventually needed a play-off against Genoa to stave off relegation, which they won on penalties.

There would be no such luck the following year, as Padova were relegated with further relegations in 1998 and 1999. Since 2001, they have resided in Serie C1.

• 1922-23 – Northern League (group C): 1st place, qualified for semi-final round
• 1931-32 – Serie B: 2nd place, promoted to Serie A
• 1936-37 – Serie C (girone A): 1st place, promoted to Serie B
• 1947-48 – Serie B (girone B): 1st place, promoted to Serie A
• 1957-58 – Serie A: 3rd place
• 1980-81 – Serie C2 (girone B): 1st place, promoted to Serie C1
• 1980-81 – Coppa Italia Serie C: winners
• 1982-83 – Serie C1 (girone A): 2nd place, promoted to Serie B
• 1986-87 – Serie C1 (girone A): 2nd place, promoted to Serie B
• 1993-94 – Serie B: 4th place, promoted to Serie A (after play-off with Cesena)
• 2000-01 – Serie C2 (girone A): 1st place, promoted to Serie C1

No. Position Player -- GK Andrea Cano -- GK Andrea Pansera -- GK Enrico Rosellini -- DF Davide Bagarollo -- DF Federico Cavola -- DF Paolo Cotroneo -- DF David Ljung -- DF Alessandro Mastronicola -- DF Luca Rossettini -- DF Mario Stancanelli -- DF Andrea Suriano -- DF Michele Zeoli -- MF Maurizio Bedin -- MF Gaetano Calà Campana -- DF Vedin Music -- MF Alberto Carraro

No. Position Player -- MF Ivone De Franceschi (captain) -- MF Paolo Facchinetti -- MF Stefano Mazzocco -- MF Crocefisso Miglietta -- MF Diego Santos Oliveira -- MF Orazio Russo -- MF Manuel Turchi -- MF Gianpietro Zecchin -- FW Lucas Maximillian Cantoro -- FW Christian La Grotteria -- FW Maurizio Nassi -- FW Davide Sinigallia -- FW Mario Tagliente -- FW Michele Tarallo -- FW Roberto Muzzi

• Demetrio Albertini
• Nicola Amoruso
• Antonio Benarrivo
• Sergio Brighenti
• Alessandro Del Piero
• Angelo Di Livio
• Stefano Fiore
• Giuseppe Galderisi
• Giovanni Vecchina
• Kurt Hamrin
• Vincenzo Iaquinta
• Michel Kreek
• Alexi Lalas
• Cristiano Lucarelli
• Zlatan Muslimovic
• Jorge Quinteros
• Goran Vlaović
• Walter Zenga

• Béla Guttmann: 1949-50
• Nereo Rocco: 1953-59

• Official site

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Serie C1 seasons
1978-79 • 1979-80 • 1980-81 • 1981-82 • 1982-83 • 1983-84 • 1984-85 • 1985-86 1986-87 • 1987-88 • 1988-89 • 1989-90 • 1990-91 • 1991-92 • 1992-93 • 1993-94 1994-95 • 1995-96 • 1996-97 • 1997-98 • 1998-99 • 1999-00 • 2000-01 • 2001-02 2002-03 • 2003-04 • 2004-05 • 2005-06 • 2006-07 • 2007-08