S.S. Rende
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| Full name | Società Sportiva Rende | ||
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| Founded | 1968 (Rende Calcio) 2007 (S.S. Rende) |
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| Ground | Stadio Marco Lorenzon, Rende, Italy (Capacity: 6,000) |
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| Chairman | Mario Pellicori | ||
| Manager | Antonio Aceto | ||
| League | Promozione Calabria | ||
| 2007–08 | Prima Categoria Calabria, 1st | ||
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Società Sportiva Rende are an Italian association football club, based in Rende, Calabria, currently playing in the regionally-based amateur Promozione league. The team's colors are red and white.
[edit] History
The club was founded in 1968 under the name Sesso Rende. The club's first coach was the late Mario Portone, who afterward became the mayor of the Calabrian city, and managed to win promotion to Serie C2 for their first time in 1978, and then even Serie C1 one year later. Rende played a consecutive five Serie C1 seasons before being relegated back to Serie C2 in 1984, and Serie D in 1987. In 1992 the club relegated again, this time to Eccellenza Calabria, and returned to Serie D only in 1997.
Rende were relegated to Eccellenza again in 2000, but two consecutive promotions from 2003 to 2005 led the club back into professionalism, spending a total two seasons into Serie C2, and also playing in the Coppa Italia, losing 4–0 to Lazio in a one-legged round in Rome.
In 2007 the club moved to Cosenza and merged with local club A.S. Cosenza Calcio forming Fortitudo Cosenza. Following the relocation, minor local club Santo Stefano accepted to inherit the title from Rende Calcio, switching their denomination to Società Sportiva Rende. The club won Prima Categoria in 2008 and is now playing Promozione.
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