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Mazara

Full name

Gruppo Sportivo
Mazara 1946

Nickname(s)

Gialloblu, Canarini

Founded

1946 (U.S. Mazara)
1996 (G.S. Mazara 1946)

Ground

Stadio Nino Vaccara
Mazara del Vallo, Italy

Capacity

3,000

Chairman

Giuseppe Maniscalco

Manager

Filippo Cavataio

League

Eccellenza - Sicily A

2005-06

Promozione - Sicily D, 1st





Home colours





Away colours

Gruppo Sportivo Mazara 1946 is an Italian football team from Mazara del Vallo, Sicily, which currently plays in the Sicilian Round A of Eccellenza division.

The official team colours are canary yellow and blue. The team is nicknamed gialloblù (referring to the team colours) or, more commonly, canarini (canaries, referring to the sole shade of yellow).

Mazara plays its home matches in Stadio Nino Vaccara, a small stadium curiously located right along the Mazaro river. Stadio Nino Vaccara undertook a massive restructuring in the early 2000s, with a synthetic field replacing the old dirt floor and a numbered seats-only grandstand with a roof.

1 History
- 1.1 Foundation and early years
2 Colours and badge
3 Notable former players
4 Notable former managers
5 External links

[edit] History

[edit] Foundation and early years

First traces about football in Mazara are dated 1946. However, a team to represent the city of Mazara del Vallo, Unione Sportiva Mazara, was founded only in 1957/1958, and took part in the Promozione league. Mazara took part to Serie D in 1960/1961, but relegated in 1963/1964. Successively, Mazara played a single Serie D season in 1971/1972, but immediately relegated. Mazara finally returned to Serie D in 1976/1977, after having won 1-0 a promotion playoff, played at Stadio Renzo Barbera, Palermo, to Canicattì. The single playoff match featured an attendance 12,000, mostly from Mazara.

In 1985 Mazara, under coach Ignazio Arcoleo, won Serie D gaining its first Serie C2 promotion; however, this was then cancelled by the Football Federation because of alleged matchfixing, and bitter rivals Trapani were promoted at canarini's place. Successively, Mazara barely missed promotion on several occasions: the club placed second in 1988/1989, just one point behind winners Acireale; in 1990/1991, third behind Gangi (who then lost playoff to Matera); in 1993/1994, seventh placed after having led the table for almost all the first half of the season.

After almost twenty Serie D seasons, in 1994/1995 Mazara, under serious financial troubles, relegated to Eccellenza, where another local team, Gruppo Sportivo Mazara 2000, was already playing. Mazara 2000 was a minor, young team who quickly climbed the football pyramid up to Eccellenza, whereas US Mazara appeared to be an old team under decline. Both teams played Eccellenza in 1995/1996, challenging each other in the league, in a new, yet somewhat strange, local derby. US Mazara classified fourth in the end, whereas Mazara 2000 obtained a good seventh place. US Mazara, who was under growing economic difficulties, agreed for a merge with Mazara 2000, and Gruppo Sportivo Mazara 1946 was founded.

The new team included almost all the best players from the two old clubs; this caused the first appearance for Mazara 1946, in 1996/1997, to be very successful, as the team managed to win hands down the Eccellenza league and return to Serie D. The first Serie D season for the new club ended in a hard saving, just one point above the relegation places. 1998/1999 was even harder, as Mazara ended the season with the same points as Sancataldese, therefore being forced to play a single-match relegation playoff. The playoff, played in Termini Imerese, ended in a 1-0 win for Mazara, and the canarini once again saved from relegation.

Under heavy financial troubles, Mazara played 1999/2000 Serie D with a team mostly composed of young and unexperienced players, and humiliatingly relegated to Eccellenza with just 8 points in 34 matches, obviously last-placed in the table.

Since then, Mazara experienced a declining time, even relegating to Promozione in 2003/2004 after playoffs. The club, with a new property, successfully returned to Eccellenza in 2005/2006 under coach Filippo Cavataio, a native of Mazara and a former centre back of several Serie C teams, and is now leading the table also in Eccellenza, making new hopes of a comeback to the past successes.

[edit] Colours and badge

The official team colours for GS Mazara 1946, as well as all the other major sports teams in Mazara, are canary yellow and blue, which are also the official colours of the city of Mazara del Vallo.

The official team badge is instead reminiscent of the 1996 merge between the two local and rival teams US Mazara and GS Mazara 2000: both two characteristic elements of team's logos, respectively the canary bird and the seahorse, are present on it, along with the words "GS MAZARA 1946".