S.P. Tre Penne is a multi-sports club based in the City of San Marino. It is best known for their football section. Literally meaning the "Three Feathers", the club was founded in 1956, and currently plays in Campionato Sammarinese di Calcio. The team colors are blue and white when home, and red when away.

Tre Penne
Full nameSocietà Polisportiva Tre Penne
Founded1956; 68 years ago (1956)
GroundStadio Fonte dell'Ovo, City of San Marino, San Marino
Capacity1,000
ChairmanFabrizio Selva
ManagerNicola Berardi
LeagueCampionato Sammarinese di Calcio
2023–24Campionato Sammarinese di Calcio, 3rd of 16
Websitehttp://www.trepenne.com

On 9 July 2013, Tre Penne became the first Sammarinese team to win a game in a European competition by defeating Shirak 1–0 in the second leg of their 2013–14 UEFA Champions League first qualifying round contest.[1][2]

Honours

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2011–12, 2012–13, 2015–16, 2018–19, 2022–23
1966–67, 1969–70, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1999–2000, 2016–17
2005
2013, 2016, 2017

History

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Two months after the A.C. Libertas on 11 November 1928, the team was established at the behest of the Segretario Sammarinese Fascist Party, Manlio Gozi. By the 1930s, the U.S. Sammarinese Titania was buying purely organizational characteristics; the birth of the first concept of the national associations, and promotion of the formation of Titania 4 Youth Sports Groups. On 21 August 1933, in the capital, La Serenissima was formed and Marina Belluzzi was appointed as chairman. La Serenissima was the team that represented the capital of San Marino in the first edition of the Titan Cup in 1937. The colours were already white and blue following tradition inherited from Tre Penne. The onset was initially a win 2–0 in La Castellana di Serravalle, but the final of the Cup saw them take third place. La Serenissima reformed after the war. In 1952, they started a Titan Cup.

In 1956, at the behest of a group of sportsmen of the Castle, San Marino regained its representative football status in Tre Penne; which took its name from the three peaks of Monte Titano and the colours of the Serenissima (black and white). Curiously, even Tre Penne became a sort of representative Sammarinese. In 1959, Italy gained recognition by the Regional Committee of Bologna FIGC, and then Tre Penne joined forces with Libertas. Born Libertas Tre Penne, it was chaired by the Director of the Government of Tourism, Gian Vito Marcucci, who kept the colours of the Tre Penne. Speakers from the ashes of the Federation and Libertas, Tre Penne was moulded into the sports Serenissima, today San Marino Calcio. The first success for Tre Penne still comes in the form of Representative of San Marino in 1966 when it participated in Bergonzona (Switzerland) Amateurs in the Tournament of small states. To the surprise of trainers, Sammarienese proceeded to the final and almost went unbeaten, but they ultimately lost against Austria. In 1967 they won their first Titan Cup. Tre Penne took its first steps by introducing Marco Macina, the first player to wear the jersey of San Marino as an extra-national Italian Under-16 Championship in 1982, to their team. They became the European champions in the categories, but then mill already in the ranks of militant youth of Bologna.

In the 2009-10 season, Tre Penne qualified for their first European tournament after losing in the finals of the Campionato Sammarinese playoff against Tre Fiori. The club also qualified for the Champions League for the first time in 2012 and lost to F91 Dudelange. As a result, the team received €340,000 and the money was used to improve facilities and invest in youth development.[3] The club registered their first win in European competitions on July 9, 2013, as they beat Shirak by a scoreline of 1–0, thanks in no small part to the efforts of goalkeeper Federico Valentini.[4]

European record

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Overview

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Competition Matches W D L GF GA
UEFA Champions League 8 1 0 7 3 27
UEFA Europa League 9 0 0 9 5 42
UEFA Europa Conference League 8 0 1 7 2 29
Total 25 1 1 23 10 98

Matches

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Season Competition Round Club Home Away Aggregate
2010–11 UEFA Europa League 2QR   Zrinjski 2–9 1–4 3–13
2011–12 UEFA Europa League 1QR   Rad 1–3 0–6 1–9
2012–13 UEFA Champions League 1QR   F91 Dudelange 0–4 0–7 0–11
2013–14 UEFA Champions League 1QR   Shirak 1–0 0–3 1–3
2016–17 UEFA Champions League 1QR   The New Saints 0–3 1–2 1–5
2017–18 UEFA Europa League 1QR   Rabotnički 0–6 0–1 0–7
2019–20 UEFA Champions League PR   FC Santa Coloma 0−1
UEFA Europa League 2QR   Sūduva 0–5 0–5 0–10
2020–21 UEFA Europa League PR   Gjilani 1–3
2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League 1QR   Dinamo Batumi 0–4 0–3 0–7
2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League 1QR   Tuzla City 0–2 0–6 0–8
2023–24 UEFA Champions League PR   Breiðablik 1–7
UEFA Europa Conference League 2QR   Valmiera 0–3 0–7 0–10
2024–25 UEFA Conference League 1QR   Floriana 1–1 1–3 2–4

Current squad

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As of 19 July 2024.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
3 DF   SMR Mirko Palazzi
4 DF   ITA Roberto Rosini
5 MF   ITA Luca Righini
8 MF   ITA Nicola Gai (Captain)
9 FW   ITA Riccardo Pieri
10 FW   ITA Lorenzo Dormi
11 MF   SMR Luca Ceccaroli
13 GK   ITA Alessandro Dalla Libera
14 MF   ITA Marcello Scarponi
16 GK   ITA Elia Di Giuli
18 DF   ALB Malvin Zeka
19 DF   ITA Nicolas Lombardi
20 DF   ITA Paolo Vandi
22 MF   ITA Samuele Magrotti
23 MF   ITA Fabio Giovagnoli
24 DF   ITA Antonio Barretta
No. Pos. Nation Player
26 GK   ITA Mattia Migani
27 MF   SMR Lorenzo Gasperoni
28 DF   ITA Giacomo Nigretti
29 MF   SMR Luca Cecchetti
37 DF   ITA Teodoro Cotumaccio
57 MF   SMR Giacomo Zafferani
84 MF   SMR Alex Gasperoni
MF   ITA Matteo Gaiani
DF   ITA Nicola Vecchio
DF   ITA Benjamin Boccioletti
GK   SMR Davide Colonna
MF   ITA Armando Amati
MF   SMR Simone Nanni
DF   ITA Enrico Casadei
MF   ITA Tommaso Guidi
DF   ITA Cristian Grieco

Out on loan

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Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player

Former players

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Managers

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  •   Stefano Ceci (2010–12)
  •   Morris Tamburini (2013–17)
  •   Luigi Bizzotto (2017–18)
  •   Stefano Ceci (2018–24)
  •  Nicola Berardi (2024–)

References

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  1. ^ "Tre Penne Capitale del calcio sammarinese". SMTV. 10 July 2013. Archived from the original on 15 July 2013. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
  2. ^ "UEFA". Archived from the original on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2016-07-13.
  3. ^ Porter, Chris; May, Anthony; Kiernan, Annabel (2018-10-19). Football, Community and Sustainability. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-62120-5.
  4. ^ "Shirak advance despite Tre Penne's historic win". UEFA. 9 July 2013. Archived from the original on 1 October 2014. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
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