unione sportiva livorno 1915 (formerly a.s. livorno calcio, commonly known as livorno), is a semi-professional italian football club based in livorno, tuscany.they compete in serie d, the top tier of semi-professional italian football after their promotion from the regional eccellenza tuscany league.the team's colours are dark red (amaranto in italian, from which the team nickname derives).livorno were one of the original sides of serie a, but since the 1950s have been mostly outside of the top flight due to two club refoundings in 1991 and 2021, which necessitated a start from the eccellenza.their best placement in italian serie a was second place in 1942–43 season, during which the amaranto gave life to a head-to-head competition with torino.us livorno play their home matches at the stadio armando picchi.one year later, they were defeated in the semi-final by arch-rivals pisa.in 1933, the club moved to the current stadium, originally named after edda ciano mussolini, daughter of fascist dictator benito mussolini.livorno was one of the original serie a teams.they played at top level during periods of 1929–31, 1933–35 and 1937–39.successively, livorno ended as serie a runners-up in the 1942–43 season.livorno left serie a in 1949 after seven consecutive seasons.they were relegated to serie c soon after (1951–52 season), making a return to serie b in 1955 for a single season and again from 1964 to 1972.they were relegated to serie c2 in 1982–83 and played again in the third level between 1984 and 1989.the club was then canceled in 1991, being forced to start from eccellenza; two consecutive promotions led the team back to serie c2.the club was promoted to serie c1 in 1997 and was acquired by aldo spinelli two years later.under the new property, livorno returned to serie b in 2001.livorno was promoted to serie a after finishing third in the serie b 2003–04, one of six clubs to be promoted that season.it had been 55 years since livorno's last season in the top flight, and as a result of this, most were predicting an instant return to serie b for the club.the first match in the major league was attended by italian president carlo azeglio ciampi, a livorno citizen and team supporter in his childhood.there were spells of struggle during the season, but there were many more good performances shown, and livorno finished a surprise and creditable ninth place in the league for the serie a 2004–05, also thanks to goals by striker cristiano lucarelli, who won the serie a top scorer award that season, outscoring even the likes of andriy shevchenko and adriano.the serie a 2005–06 saw livorno in sixth place after the first half of the season the team, being involved for qualification to the next uefa cup.shortly after, roberto donadoni announced his resignation after having been criticized by club's chairman aldo spinelli.donadoni was replaced by veteran coach carlo mazzone, who was only able to save a uefa cup place due to the expulsion of three teams from europe in the calciopoli scandal.mazzone then saw his team suffer a run of seven straight defeats.in may 2006, daniele arrigoni was appointed the new coach for the next season.in the serie a 2006–07 season, livorno took part in the uefa cup for the first time.the tuscan side was drawn to face the austrian team sv pasching in the first round, beating them comfortably 3–0 on aggregate.they thus qualified for the group stages being drawn in group a, along with rangers, auxerre, fk partizan, and maccabi haifa.
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unione sportiva livorno 1915 (formerly a.s. livorno calcio, commonly known as livorno), is a semi-professional italian football club based in livorno, tuscany.livorno were one of the original sides of serie a, but since the 1950s have been mostly outside of the top flight due to two club refoundings in 1991 and 2021, which necessitated a start from the eccellenza.us livorno play their home matches at the stadio armando picchi.livorno was one of the original serie a teams.successively, livorno ended as serie a runners-up in the 1942–43 season.livorno left serie a in 1949 after seven consecutive seasons.under the new property, livorno returned to serie b in 2001.livorno was promoted to serie a after finishing third in the serie b 2003–04, one of six clubs to be promoted that season.it had been 55 years since livorno's last season in the top flight, and as a result of this, most were predicting an instant return to serie b for the club.the first match in the major league was attended by italian president carlo azeglio ciampi, a livorno citizen and team supporter in his childhood.there were spells of struggle during the season, but there were many more good performances shown, and livorno finished a surprise and creditable ninth place in the league for the serie a 2004–05, also thanks to goals by striker cristiano lucarelli, who won the serie a top scorer award that season, outscoring even the likes of andriy shevchenko and adriano.the serie a 2005–06 saw livorno in sixth place after the first half of the season the team, being involved for qualification to the next uefa cup.donadoni was replaced by veteran coach carlo mazzone, who was only able to save a uefa cup place due to the expulsion of three teams from europe in the calciopoli scandal.in the serie a 2006–07 season, livorno took part in the uefa cup for the first time.