unione calcio sampdoria, commonly referred to as sampdoria (italian pronunciation: [sampˈdɔːrja]), is an italian professional football club based in genoa.the club was formed in 1946 from the merger of two existing sports clubs whose roots can be traced back to the 1890s, sampierdarenese and andrea doria.both the team name and colours reflect this union, the first being a combination of the names, the second taking the form of a unique kit design, predominantly blue (for andrea doria) with white, red and black bands (for sampierdarenese) across the centre of the shirt, hence the nickname blucerchiati ('blue-circled').sampdoria play at stadio luigi ferraris, capacity 36,536, which it shares with genoa's other club, genoa cricket and football club.the fierce rivalry between the two teams is commonly known as the derby della lanterna, and has been contested in serie a for most of its history.sampdoria have won the scudetto once in their history, in 1991.the club has also won the coppa italia four times, in 1985, 1988, 1989 and 1994, and the supercoppa italiana once, in 1991.their biggest european success came when they won the cup winners' cup in 1990.they also reached the european cup final in 1992, losing the final 1–0 to barcelona after extra-time.named to honour andrea doria, a club named società andrea doria was founded in 1895, which increasingly focused itself on football training and competition.andrea doria did not participate in the first italian football championship which was organised by the italian federation of football (fif) since instead they had enrolled themselves into a football tournament which was organised by the italian federation of ginnastica.the club eventually joined the competition for the 1903 italian football championship, but did not win a game in the tournament until 1907, when they beat local rivals genoa 3–1.it was not until 1910–11 that the club began to show promise.during that season's tournament, they finished above juventus, internazionale and genoa in the piedmont-lombardy-liguria section.after world war i, sampierdarenese finally began to compete in the italian championship, after they took the place of bolzaneto's associazione del calcio ligure a pre-war club of the province of genoa (in turn, ligure was the heir of liguria foot ball club, a team founded in 1897).thus, samp and doria met in the championship for the first time; doria won in first-leg game (4–1 and 1–1), and they also finished in second place after genoa in the ligurian championship, qualifying for the national round.with the 1921–22 season, the italian top league was split into two competitions; both of the clubs in sampdoria's history were in separate competitions that year too.sampierdarenese played in the figc-run competition, whereas andrea doria played in the cci variation.sampierdarenese won the liguria section and then went on to the semi-finals, finishing top out of three clubs; this led them to the final against novese.both legs of the final ended in 0–0 draws, thus a repetition match was played in cremona on 21 may 1922.still intensely difficult to separate, the match went into extra-time with novese eventually winning the tie (and the championship) 2–1.however, sampierdarenese recriminated for the referee's conduct.after the league system in italy was brought back into one item, sampierdarenese remained stronger than andrea doria by qualifying for the league.by 1924–25, the clubs were competing against each other in the northern league; doria who finished one place above their rivals and won one match 2–1, while sampierdarenese were victorious 2–0 in the other.wearing green and black striped shirts, la dominante genova were admitted to the first ever season of serie b, where they finished third, just missing out on promotion.
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