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Cagliari Calcio, commonly referred to as Cagliari (Italian: [ˈkaʎʎari] ), is an Italian football
club based in Cagliari, Sardinia, that plays in Serie A, the first tier of Italian [Link] club
currently plays home matches at the 16,416-seat Unipol [Link] in 1920, they won
their first and only Scudetto in 1969–70, when they were led by the Italian national team's
all-time leading scorer, Gigi [Link] triumph was also the first by a club from south of
[Link] club's best European performance was in the 1993–94 UEFA Cup, reaching the
semi-finals before losing to eventual winners [Link] with the flag of its city,
Cagliari's colours are blue and [Link] club badge incorporates the flag of Sardinia.==
History ==
=== Before Serie A ===
Cagliari became the first ever out-right champions of Serie C during the 1951–52 season;
prior to that in the league, the championship was shared amongst more than one [Link]
spent the 1950s from then on in Serie B, losing a promotion play-off in [Link]
descending to Serie C in the early 1960s, Cagliari's rise would be meteoric, eventually
achieving promotion to Serie A in 1964.=== First Serie A adventure: 1964–1976 ===
The squad for the Rossoblu's debut season in Serie A featured players like defender Mario
Martiradonna, midfielders Pierluigi Cera, Nené and Ricciotti Greatti, and forward Gigi Riva.A
poor first half of the season, however, saw Cagliari in last place with nine points at the
halfway [Link] astonishing second half of the season saw Cagliari defeat the likes of
Juventus and Milan and finish in seventh place with 34 [Link] seasons later, Riva
finished as Serie A's top scorer for the first time while Cagliari finished with the league's
best defensive [Link] the summer of 1967, Cagliari played a season in North
America as part of a fledgling league called the United Soccer [Link] league
included teams from Europe and South America set to play in American and Canadian cities,
with each club bearing a local [Link] played as the Chicago Mustangs, and finished
joint second in the league's Western Division with 13 points, two behind the division
champion and eventual league champion Los Angeles [Link] league's leading scorer
was Chicago/Cagliari's Roberto Boninsegna, who scored ten goals while playing in 9 of the
team's 12 [Link] first emerged as serious Serie A title contenders in 1968–69 with a
three-horse race involving them, Fiorentina and [Link] would win the league, but
the following season would bring ultimate [Link] Angelo Domenghini joining the side,
Cagliari would win the title in 1970 with only two games lost, 11 goals conceded (the fewest
in any major European league to date) and Riva as league top scorer once [Link] like
Albertosi, Niccolai, Boninsegna, Gori, Cera, Domenghini and Riva played in Italy's 1970
World Cup final [Link] 1970s would see a gradual decline (though were title contenders
two years after their one and only Scudetto win).Cagliari were finally relegated in 1976,
with Riva's career having effectively ended during that season.=== Up and down again:
1976–87 ===
After relegation, Cagliari lost a play-off for promotion the following season and would
return to Serie A in [Link] like Franco Selvaggi, Mario Brugnera (a survivor of the
1970 team) and Alberto Marchetti ensured a respectable four-year stay in the top flight
before a second relegation in [Link] 1980s would then prove to be a darker time
compared to the previous two decades with relegation to Serie C1 in 1987.=== There and
back: 1987–2000 ===
Cagliari spent two seasons in Serie [Link] the first one it barely avoided relegation in Serie
[Link] 1988, Claudio Ranieri was appointed coach, and led the team to two successive
promotions, to Serie B in 1989 and to Serie A in [Link] first two seasons back in Serie A
saw Cagliari fight relegation, with safety being achieved by excellent second half [Link]
the 1992–93 season would see Cagliari fight for a European place and succeed under the
management of Carlo [Link] following season saw a best-ever run to the semi-finals
of the UEFA Cup, taking out Juventus in the quarter-finals before being eliminated 5–3 on
aggregate by compatriots Internazionale, having won the first leg 3–2 at [Link] next few
years would see Cagliari return to mid-table anonymity, before a struggle in 1996–97 saw
Cagliari relegated after losing a play-off to [Link] more they bounced back after just
one year, but their next stay in Serie A lasted just two seasons.=== Once and again: 2000
onwards ===
Cagliari spent the next four seasons in Serie B, until in 2003–04 with Sardinian-born
veteran striker Gianfranco Zola, the team won [Link] 2005–06, the first season
without Zola, the team changed their manager three times before Nedo Sonetti, appointed in
November, was able to save the team from relegation, especially thanks to the excellent goal
contribution from Honduran striker David [Link] from finishing 9th in 2008–09
season, Cagliari regularly finished in the bottom half of Serie A under a sequence of
managers, before being relegated in 2014–[Link] gained promotion back the following
season as champions of Serie [Link] 2014, the company passed, after 22 years of Massimo
Cellino's presidency, into the hands of Tommaso Giulini, president and owner of Fluorsid, a
multinational in the chemical [Link] took place in the first season, but the team
won the Serie B championship in 2016, returning permanently to the top division, albeit
always finishing in the second half of the table.
