2013–14 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione Explained

Competition:	Seconda Divisione
Season:	2013–14
Prevseason:	2012–13
Nextseason:	2014–15

The 2013–14 Seconda Divisione season is the thirty-sixth and final football league season of Italian Seconda Divisione since its establishment in 1978, and the sixth since the renaming from Serie C to Lega Pro.

It is divided into two phases: the regular season, and the playoff phase.

The league currently is composed of 36 teams divided into two divisions (Girone A and B) divided geographically.

The first eight teams in each girone, plus one team winning the relegation playoff round from each division will remain in Lega Pro. The last six teams in each girone, plus three relegation play-out losers from each division will be relegated to Serie D. In all, eighteen teams will remain in Lega Pro, and eighteen teams will be relegated to Serie D.

Start of season

Given a normal season where there are no team failures and special promotions, Lega Pro Seconda Divisione would feature 6 teams that had been relegated from Lega Pro Prima Divisione, 9 teams that had been promoted from Serie D, and 21 teams had played in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione the year before. Due to seven bankruptcies and non-admissions in Lega Pro Prima Divisione (one vacancy), Lega Pro Seconda Divisione (six vacancies) and Serie D (one vacancy: Sambenedettese of Girone F) the 2013–14 season is to feature only 2 teams that played in 2012–13 Lega Pro Prima Divisione, 13 teams that played in 2012–13 Serie D and 21 teams that played in 2012–13 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione. The league admitted seven teams to fill vacancies created. These teams are:^[1]

Gavorrano which finished 15th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione B, originally relegated for losing in the playoffs.
Aversa Normanna which finished 17th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione B, originally relegated for finishing at the penultimate place.
Virtus Verona which finished 4th in Serie D Girone C, and was the playoff winner.
Real Vicenza which finished 5th in Serie D Girone C.
Casertana which finished 4th in Serie D Girone G, and was the playoff runner-up.
Foggia which finished 5th in Serie D Girone H.
Cosenza which finished 2nd in Serie D Girone I.

Also, SPAL was promoted through a merger with Giacomense.

Girone A

Teams

Club	City	Stadium	Capacity	2012–13 season
		Giuseppe Moccagatta	5,827	8th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A
	Bassano del Grappa	Rino Mercante	2,952	4th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A
Bellaria Igea	Bellaria-Igea Marina	Enrico Nanni	2,500	13th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A
Bra	Bra	Attilio Bravi	1,000
Castiglione	Castiglione delle Stiviere	Ugo Lusetti	2,500	7th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A
Cuneo	Cuneo	Fratelli Paschiero	4,000	14th in Lega Pro Prima Divisione A
Delta Porto Tolle	Porto Tolle	Comunale	3,000	1st in Serie D Girone C
Forlì	Forlì	Tullo Morgagni	3,466	10th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A
Mantova	Mantova	Danilo Martelli	14,884	9th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A
Monza	Monza	Brianteo	18,568	5th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A
Pergolettese	Crema	Giuseppe Voltini	4,100	1st in Serie D Girone B
Real Vicenza	Vicenza	Romeo Menti	12,200	5th in Serie D Girone C
Renate	Renate (playing in Meda)	Città di Meda	3,000	6th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A
Rimini	Rimini	Romeo Neri	7,442	14th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A
Santarcangelo	Santarcangelo di Romagna	Valentino Mazzola	3,000	12th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A
SPAL	Ferrara	Paolo Mazza	19,000	11th Lega Pro Seconda Divisione/A (as Giacomense)
Torres	Sassari	Vanni Sanna	7,480	1st in Serie D Girone G
Virtus Verona	Verona (playing in Legnago)	Mario Sandrini	2,152	4th in Serie D Girone C

League table

Relegation play-off

only Finals winner remains in Lega Pro
other 3 teams are relegated to Serie D

Semifinals

First legs scheduled 18 May 2014; return legs scheduled 25 May 2014

In case of a tie in the aggregate score the highest classified team advances to the final.

Finals

First leg scheduled 1 June 2014; return leg scheduled 8 June 2014

Forlì remains in Lega Pro

Girone B