and third tier of the Italian competitions. At the reopening of a refurbished Kantrida (then renamed Stadio del Littorio) in 1935, Fiumana hosted AS Roma, and in June 1941, it became champion of the newly created Italian Serie C. Serie C's last season before the fall of fascist Italy in 1943 saw Fiumana end in third place. The players, mostly from workers families, leaned heavily toward the partisan movement, often joining it out right, and didn't take part in the Italian Social Republic championships and the Adriatic Littoral championship set up by the German occupational force. Nonethelss it will keep playing several matches with other local clubs and against sides organised or brought in by the German occupational authorities. Worth mentioning are the excessive celebrations for some victories against the German sides that brought several players to be imprisoned and sent to various concentration camps in German, and a last ceremonial game between the old legends of Olympia and Gloria that was held on June the 15th 1944 while allied planes were bombing the city's surroundings. Most Fiumana players will join the partisan movement and help the Yugoslav liberation movement, with many ending up in imprisonment and being sent to concentration camps for their sympathies. 1943–1954 Following the liberation of the city from the Nazi occupation and the subsequent occupation by Yugoslav troops, and due to the uncertain future status of the city during the long Paris peace conference, the club resumed its activities in the post-war period under the slightly rebranded name of Rappresentativa Sindacale Fiumana. It went on playing several games against the most notable teams of the newly constituted Yugoslav state, beating Dinamo Zagreb 4–2, Akademičar Zagreb 7–2 and Metalac Beograd 2–0. During the interim post-war year, and prior to the first edition of the Yugoslav First League, R.S. Fiumana played against some of its future Balkan rivals. The authorities also set up an unofficial city tournament among factories named after Fiumana's late captain Giovanni Maras, who died heroically in partisan combat on the nearby Mount Risnjak. Despite Maras and most of his colleagues' partisan allegiance and the many hardships endured by them in Nazi concentration camps, the name Fiumana came soon to be considered too Italian for a city that the Yugoslav occupational authorities were trying to annex by force before the official peace treaty could be signed. As in most other cities in Yugoslavia, in