Coppa Italia Serie C [R]
 

This competition is so hard to keep track of, I'm just going to do it here. Most of the first legs of the round of 32 were played today, but I haven't found the complete results posted anywhere yet.

In parentheses are whether the team is in Serie C1 or C2 and which group they are in (A=west or B=east in Serie C1; A=north, B=central, C=south in Serie C2). A group stage including all of the teams has already been played to narrow the original field to 26 teams, who now join the 6 Serie C teams who took part in the regular Coppa Italia group stages. I believe Napoli was admitted to the league too late to be included in the competition.

Played today (Nov 3)
Biellese (C2/A) 1 Pavia (C1/A) 2
Castelnuovo Garfagnana (C2/B) 0 Spezia (C1/A) 0
Cisco Lodigiani (C2/B) 0 Teramo (C1/B) 2
Cremonese (C1/A) 2 Rimini (C1/B) 2
Gualdo (C2/B) 1 Pisa (C1/A) 1
Manfredonia (C2/C) 2 Lanciano (C1/B) 2
Massese (C2/B) 1 Lucchese (C1/A) 2
Melfi (C2/C) 1 Acireale (C1/A) 2
Prato (C1/A) 3 San Marino (C2/B) 1
Pro Patria (C1/A) 3 Cittadella (C1/B) 3
Sassari Torres (C1/A) 3 Avellino (C1/B) 2

To be played Nov 4
Padova (C1/B) 1 Como (C1/A) 1
Vittoria (C1/A) 3 Gela (C2/C) 1

To be played Nov 10
Frosinone (C1/A) 3 Benevento 0 (C1/B)
Lumezzane (C1/A) 4 Spal (C1/B) 1
Novara (C1/A) 2 Ivrea (C2/A) 2

Re: Coppa Italia Serie C [R]
 

Not that it would have made a difference anyway!

We need to focus on the league...

Re: Coppa Italia Serie C [R]
 

Well, it's just like the regular Coppa Italia in that teams with larger ambitions, such as Napoli, don't really give a hoot about it. But there are many smaller clubs for whom winning this trophy is one of the best honors they can hope to achieve. Additionally, the two finalists earn qualification into the group stages of next year's "real" Coppa Italia. Granted, that typically gets them three losses in August to Serie B teams - maybe even to a just-promoted Serie A team, if they're lucky. But it's something.

BTW, I've been scouring the teams' sites for results and have posted them in the original post. And I've noticed another similarity to the regular Coppa - not much in the way of surprises taking place.

Re: Coppa Italia Serie C [R]
 

Posted today's two results in the original post above. BTW, I saw one report of attendance at one of these matches as being 100. Another characteristic this competition shares with the regular Coppa Italia - fan apathy.

Re: Coppa Italia Serie C [R]
 

3 more matches played today (results posted above) to finish off the slate of 1st legs. The only potentially surprising result was Serie C2's Ivrea getting a 2-2 draw at C1 team Novara and maybe having a chance to advance if they can duplicate the good performance at home in two weeks.

Re: Coppa Italia Serie C [R]
 

That's awesome. Frosinone are currently in 5th place with a game in hand in C1. If they win that game they jump to third place. Not too bad for a team that's wallowed in the depths of Italian football. They've got good management that's willing to spend money to get them to Serie B, which they've never been in. Their only problem is the size of their stadium.

Looks like it'll be an interesting season for the gialloblu. They've got a great site as well http://www.frosinonecalcio.com/calciocentral.htm

Re: Coppa Italia Serie C [R]
 

The first ritorno in the round of 32 was played on Thursday with Pavia defeating Biellese 2-0 to finish off their aggregate tie, 4-1. The remaining matches in this round are all scheduled for next Wednesday.

Re: Coppa Italia Serie C [R]
 

Hooray, la Gazzetta actually published today's finals, so I don't have to pore through all the websites:-

Como 2 Padova 0 (3-1)
Ivrea 2 Novara 2 (4-4: Ivrea wins on penalty kicks)
Cittadella 1 Pro Patria 1 (4-4: Cittadella wins on away goals)
Spal 2 Lumezzane 0 (3-4)
Rimini 1 Cremonese 0 (3-2)
Spezia 3 Castelnuovo 0 (3-0)
Lucchese 2 Massese 2 (4-3)
Pisa 1 Gualdo 1 (2-2: Gualdo wins on penalty kicks)
San Marino 3 Prato 5 (4-8)
Benevento 0 Frosinone 2 (0-5)
Teramo 0 Lodigiani 1 (2-1)
Avellino 2 Torres 0 (4-3)
Gela 2 Vittoria 1 (3-4)
Acireale 4 Melfi 1 (6-2)

Two upsets with C2 teams Ivrea and Gualdo both squeaking through on PKs. One more game remains to be played with Lanciano hosting Manfredonia tomorrow on a score of 2-2.

The matchups for the Round of 16 are:

Pavia vs Ivrea
Como vs Cittadella

Lumezzane vs Rimini
Spezia vs Lucchese

Gualdo vs Prato
Frosinone vs Teramo

Manfredonia or Lanciano vs Avellino
Vittoria vs Acireale

Read the above as a bracket ie winner of Pavia/Ivrea will play winner of Como/Cittadella in the quarterfinals, and so on.

The schedule the rest of the way:-

Round of 16 - Jan 19, Feb 2
Quarterfinals - Feb 23, Mar 16
Semifinals - Mar 30, April 13
Finals - April 28, May 5

Re: Coppa Italia Serie C [R]
 

Manfredonia defeated Lanciano 1-0 (3-2 on aggregate) to complete the round of 32 last Thursday, so one more Serie C2 team enters the next round.

Re: Coppa Italia Serie C [R]
 

They supposedly held a "draw" today, but the matchups were already determined as listed above, so this draw must've been just to determine who plays at home first. These are the first-leg matchups (home team first):-

Ivrea vs Pavia
Como vs Cittadella
Lumezzane vs Rimini
Lucchese vs Spezia
Prato vs Gualdo
Teramo vs Frosinone
Manfredonia vs Avellino
Vittoria vs Acireale

The ties take place Jan 19 and Feb 2.