Fortitudo Agrigento

Fortitudo Agrigento
Nickname	I Giganti
Leagues	Serie A2
Founded	1969
Arena	PalaMoncada
Capacity	3,200
Location	Agrigento, Italy
Team colors	White e Light blue
Main sponsor	Moncada
President	Salvatore Moncada
Head coach	Franco Ciani
Website	fortitudoagrigento.it
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Fortitudo Agrigento is an Italian professional basketball team based in Agrigento, Sicily. Founded in 1969, the side plays in the second division Serie A2 as of the 2015-16 season.

History

Before the creation of Fortitudo Agrigento, there were many different teams in Agrigento. In 1968 one of these local teams achived the promotion to Serie C, but due to financial difficulties it had to left the league soon.

In 1969 was founded the Fortitudo Agrigento that started from the 7th-tier League, "Promozione", of the Italian basketball league system.

During the 1988-89 season Fortitudo achived the first promorion to Serie B beating Porto Empedocle, Cefalù, Catania and many other popular teams.

The next season is worst than the previos one. Fortitudo was relegated again to Serie C. So they decided to rebuilt part of the team of the 1988-89 season and a new Manager. At the end of the season Agrigento was again in Serie B.

From the 2007-08 season, Fortitudo Agrigento has been able to achived a series of promotions consecutively until the promotion to Serie A2 in 2012.

External links

• Official website Template:It icon