S.P.A.L. 2013

Società Polisportiva Ars et Labor 2013 (or simply SPAL) is a professional Italian football club, based in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna. The club currently plays in the Lega Pro, having last been in Serie A in 1968. Their highest result in Serie A was fifth place in the 1959-1960 league season.

History

The history of S.P.A.L. 2013 officially started in 1907, following the bankruptcies in 2005 and 2012 of Società Polisportiva Ars et Labor 2013, based in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna. It currently plays in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione.

Società Polisportiva Ars et Labor

The club was founded in 1907 as Ars et Labor by the salesian priest Pietro Acerbis and was renamed in 1912 as Società Polisportiva Ars et Labor. It has played in serie A from 1920 to 1925 and from 1951 to 1968: their highest result in Serie A was fifth place in the 1959-1960 league season.

It was refounded in 2005 after the bankruptcy as Spal 1907.

In the summer 2012, after a new bankruptcy, was founded the new company Società Sportiva Dilettantistica Real S.P.A.L. that restarted from Serie D thanks to Article 52 NOIF of FIGC.

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