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Ground Capacity
  
10,000

Manager
  
Raffaele Di Napoli

Location
  
Agrigento, Italy

President
  
Silvio Alessi

Founded
  
1939

League
  
Lega Pro

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Full name
  
Società Sportiva Akragas Città dei Templi

Nickname(s)
  
Giganti, Akragantini, Biancoazzurri, Il Gigante

Ground
  
Stadio Esseneto, Agrigento, Italy

Società Sportiva Akragas Città dei Templi, commonly referred to as S.S. Akragas, is an Italian association football club based in Agrigento, Sicily. The club was founded in 1929 and currently plays in the Lega Pro.

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The foundation

An ancestor of the club was known to have played since at least the early-1930s as Associazione Calcio Agrigento. The club had moderate success in the lower divisions of Italian football; it progressed beyond the regional Sicilian scene to Serie C for the first time for the 1939–40 season.

By the late 1940s A.C. Agrigento had fallen in stature, competing in the regional Promozione Sicily league after being relegated; their decline fully set in 1952 when the club became defunct due to financial difficulties.

Revival as Akragas

Following the previous club's closure, Akragas was revamped and a new team was set up by chairman Enzo Lauretta during 1952. The club was renamed Unione Sportiva Akragas, rather than using the Italianized version of the name, the club paid homage to the city's Magna Graecia roots. A noted figure in Sicilian football, Carmelo Di Bella was put in place as the club's first manager, while Gaspare Gallo was its first captain. To attract the attention of the supporters of defunct Agrigento, Akragas changed its colour, abandonning its violet and taking the white and blue of Agrigento.

In the 2013–14 season, Akragas barely missed out on promotion to Lega Pro in favour of Savoia, but would go on to achieve this in the next season by winning Group I of the Serie D league. They began to play in the Lega Pro after the 2015–16 season.

Colours and badge

The team plays in a light blue and white striped kit.

Current squad

As of 11 December 2016

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Non-playing staff

  • Manager: Raffaele Di Napoli
  • Technical coordinator: Sergio Almirón

    • Honours

    Serie C2:

  • Runner-up (1): 1982–83

    • Serie D:

  • Winners (3): 1980–81; 1991–92; 2014–15
  • Runner-up (2): 1958–59; 2013–14

    • Eccellenza Sicily:

  • Winners (1): 2012–13

    • Promozione Sicily:

  • Winners (3): 1956–57; 1977–78

    • Prima Categoria Sicily:

  • Runners-up (1): 1952–53

    • References

    S.S. Akragas Città dei Templi Wikipedia
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