2025–26 Serie C

2025–26 Serie C

The 2025–26 Serie C, officially known as Serie C Sky Wifi for sponsorship, is the twelfth season of the unified Serie C division, the third tier of the Italian football league system.

Changes

2025–26 Serie C

The league will be composed of 60 teams, geographically divided into three groups. The group composition will be decided and formalized by the Serie C league committee between July and August. Inter Milan have shown interest in adding their U23 team, but the change requires the approval of the league and an available spot, whereas Lucchese opted not to apply for a league spot instead.

The following teams have changed divisions since the 2024–25 season:

To Serie C

• Salernitana, after 10 years of absence • Brescia (excluded) • Cittadella, after 9 years of absence • Cosenza, after 7 years of absence

• Bra (Group A winners) • Ospitaletto (Group B winners) • Dolomiti Bellunesi (Group C winners) • Forlì (Group D winners) • Livorno (Group E winners) • Sambenedettese (Group F winners) • Guidonia Montecelio (Group G winners) • Casarano (Group H winners) • Siracusa (Group I winners) • Ravenna (Wild-card as play-off winners)

From Serie C

• Padova (Group A winners) • Virtus Entella (Group B winners) • Avellino (Group C winners) • Pescara (Play-off winners)

• Union Clodiense Chioggia • Caldiero Terme • Milan Futuro • Lucchese (folded) • Sestri Levante • Legnago Salus • Messina • Turris (retired) • Taranto (retired) • SPAL (excluded)

According to the Italian Football Federation regulations, retired and folded clubs are included and counted among the ordinary seasonal relegations, while excluded clubs must be replaced, in order:

• by a Serie A reserve team; • by a Serie D playoff winner.

Between June and July 2025, Brescia and SPAL's applications were rejected by the COVISOC (the Italian Football Federation's office responsible for evaluating the financial state of professional clubs). As a consequence, it was widely expected Inter Milan's Under-23 team and Ravenna to be admitted to the league.

Also, on 17 July 2025, Feralpisalò chairman and owner Giuseppe Pasini formally confirmed his club would rename to Union Brescia and relocate to the city of Brescia.

On 24 July 2025, the Serie C Federal Council ratified the exclusion of Lucchese, SPAL, and Brescia, approved the reinstatement of Pro Patria, and confirmed the admission of Inter Milan Under-23 and Ravenna.

On 28 November 2025, the Italian Football Federation formally excluded Rimini from the league with immediate effect following the club's liquidation.

Group A (North)

Stadia and locations

11 teams from Lombardy, 5 teams from Veneto, 2 teams from Piedmont, 1 team from Friuli-Venezia Giulia and 1 team from Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol.

Club	City	Stadium	Capacity
AlbinoLeffe	Albino and Leffe	AlbinoLeffe Stadium (Zanica)	1,791
Alcione Milano	Milan	Ernesto Breda (Sesto San Giovanni)	3,523
Arzignano Valchiampo	Arzignano	Tommaso Dal Molin	1,690
Cittadella	Cittadella	Piercesare Tombolato	7,623
Dolomiti Bellunesi	Belluno, Feltre and Sedico	Omero Tognon (Fontanafredda)	3,295
Giana Erminio	Gorgonzola	Città di Gorgonzola	3,766
Inter Milan U23	Milan	Brianteo (Monza)	17,102
Lecco	Lecco	Rigamonti-Ceppi	5,508
Lumezzane	Lumezzane	Tullio Saleri	4,150
Novara	Novara	Silvio Piola (Novara)	17,875
Ospitaletto	Ospitaletto	Comunale Gino Corioni	9,000
Pergolettese	Crema	Giuseppe Voltini	4,095
Pro Patria	Busto Arsizio	Carlo Speroni	5,000
Pro Vercelli	Vercelli	Silvio Piola (Vercelli)	5,526
Renate	Renate	Mino Favini (Meda)	2,500
Trento	Trento	Briamasco	3,000
Triestina	Trieste	Nereo Rocco	26,566
Union Brescia	Brescia	Mario Rigamonti	19,550
Vicenza	Vicenza	Romeo Menti	17,163
Virtus Verona	Verona	Gavagnin-Nocini	1,500

Personnel and sponsors

Club	Manager	Captain	Kit maker	Shirt sponsor(s)
Main
AlbinoLeffe	Giovanni Lopez	Simone Potop	Acerbis	Isocell
Alcione Milano	Giovanni Cusatis	Giorgio Galli	Adidas	Banca del Fucino
Arzignano Valchiampo	Giuseppe Bianchini	Andrea Boffelli	Jako	C.G.R.D. Chemicals
Cittadella	Manuel Iori	Alessio Vita	Erreà	Sirmax
Dolomiti Bellunesi	Andrea Bonatti	Salvatore Burrai	Adidas	Sportful
Giana Erminio	Vinicio Espinal	Daniele Pinto	Macron	Bamonte
Inter Milan U23	Stefano Vecchi	Giuseppe Prestia	Nike	Betsson.sport
Lecco	Federico Valente	Matteo Battistini	Legea	Cantine Pirovano
Lumezzane	Emanuele Troise	Cesare Pogliano	Acerbis	Camozzi
Novara	Andrea Zanchetta	Davide Bertoncini	Erreà	Igor Gorgonzola
Ospitaletto	Andrea Quaresmini	Michel Panatti	Acerbis	Nova Sider Forgital
Pergolettese	Giacomo Curioni	Mariano Arini	Joma	Bowling Pegaso
Pro Patria	Leandro Greco	Davide Ferri	Macron	Hupac
Pro Vercelli	Michele Santoni	Gianmario Comi	Fourteen	None
Renate	Luciano Foschi	Simone Auriletto	Kappa	Yale Lift Truck Technologies
Trento	Luca Tabbiani	Andrea Trainotti	Acerbis	Trentino
Triestina	Geppino Marino	Artur Ioniță	Kappa	None
Union Brescia	Aimo Diana	Davide Balestrero	In-house	A2A
Vicenza	Fabio Gallo	Filippo Costa	Hummel	Diesel
Virtus Verona	Luigi Fresco	Leonardo Zarpellon	Erreà	Argosped (Home) / VivColor (Away)

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Vicenza (C, P)	32	24	6	2	56	20	+36	78	Promotion to Serie B and qualification for Supercoppa di Serie C
2	Union Brescia	32	16	10	6	43	21	+22	58	Qualification for the national play-offs second round
3	Trento	32	14	12	6	48	34	+14	54	Qualification for the national play-offs first round
4	Lecco	32	15	9	8	36	26	+10	54	Qualification for the group play-offs second round
5	Renate	32	14	11	7	42	28	+14	53	Qualification for the group play-offs first round
6	Cittadella	32	15	8	9	40	34	+6	53
7	Alcione Milano	32	14	8	10	31	19	+12	50
8	Lumezzane	32	11	11	10	34	33	+1	44
9	Inter Milan U23	32	10	12	10	35	34	+1	42
10	Giana Erminio	32	11	9	12	29	33	−4	42
11	Novara	32	7	20	5	32	29	+3	41
12	Pro Vercelli	32	12	5	15	35	46	−11	41
13	AlbinoLeffe	32	10	10	12	40	42	−2	40
14	Ospitaletto	32	8	13	11	35	38	−3	37
15	Arzignano	32	10	7	15	40	45	−5	37
16	Dolomiti Bellunesi	32	9	8	15	32	51	−19	35	Qualification for the relegation play-outs
17	Pergolettese	32	8	9	15	30	42	−12	33
18	Virtus Verona	32	3	13	16	29	47	−18	22
19	Pro Patria	32	3	10	19	24	56	−32	19
20	Triestina (R)	32	7	7	18	34	47	−13	5	Relegation to Serie D

Group B (Centre)

Stadia and locations

4 teams from Emilia-Romagna, 4 teams from Tuscany, 3 teams from Marche, 3 teams from Umbria, 2 teams from Piedmont, 1 team from Abruzzo, 1 team from Lazio, 1 team from Molise and 1 team from Sardinia.

Club	City	Stadium	Capacity
Arezzo	Arezzo	Città di Arezzo	13,128
Ascoli	Ascoli Piceno	Cino e Lillo Del Duca	11,326
Bra	Bra	Giuseppe Sivori (Sestri Levante)	1,574
Campobasso	Campobasso	Antonio Molinari	25,000
Carpi	Carpi	Sandro Cabassi	5,510
Forlì	Forlì	Tullo Morgagni	3,500
Gubbio	Gubbio	Pietro Barbetti	4,939
Guidonia Montecelio	Guidonia Montecelio	Comunale di Guidonia Montecelio	2,900
Juventus Next Gen	Turin	Giuseppe Moccagatta (Alessandria)	5,827
Livorno	Livorno	Armando Picchi	14,312
Perugia	Perugia	Renato Curi	23,625
Pianese	Piancastagnaio	Comunale di Piancastagnaio	1,500
Pineto	Pineto	Pavone-Mariani	1,500
Pontedera	Pontedera	Ettore Mannucci	2,700
Ravenna	Ravenna	Bruno Benelli	12,020
Rimini	Rimini	Romeo Neri	9,768
Sambenedettese	San Benedetto del Tronto	Riviera delle Palme	13,786
Ternana	Terni	Libero Liberati	14,995
Torres	Sassari	Vanni Sanna	6,145
Vis Pesaro	Pesaro	Tonino Benelli	4,898

Personnel and sponsors

<table><thead><tr><th>Club</th><th>Manager</th><th>Captain</th><th>Kit maker</th><th>Shirt sponsor(s)</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Main</td></tr><tr><td>Arezzo</td><td>Cristian Bucchi</td><td>Marco Chiosa</td><td>Rever</td><td>UnoAErre</td></tr><tr><td>Ascoli</td><td>Francesco Tomei</td><td>Marcos Curado</td><td>Kappa</td><td>Portobello</td></tr><tr><td>Bra</td><td>Fabio Nisticò</td><td>Stefano Tuzza</td><td>Kappa</td><td>Bragas</td></tr><tr><td>Campobasso</td><td>Luciano Zauri</td><td>Vito Leonetti</td><td>Diaza</td><td>Universo Ceramiche</td></tr><tr><td>Carpi</td><td>Stefano Cassani</td><td>Matteo Cortesi</td><td>Macron</td><td>Texcart FiftyNine</td></tr><tr><td>Forlì</td><td>Alessandro Miramari</td><td>Riccardo Gaiola</td><td>Ready Sport</td><td>ER Lux</td></tr><tr><td>Gubbio</td><td>Domenico Di Carlo</td><td>Andrea Signorini</td><td>Legea</td><td>Colacem</td></tr><tr><td>Guidonia Montecelio</td><td>Ciro Ginestra</td><td>Andrea Cristini</td><td>Givova</td><td>Magazzini Maury's</td></tr><tr><td>Juventus Next Gen</td><td>Massimo Brambilla</td><td>Simone Guerra</td><td>Adidas</td><td>Jeep</td></tr><tr><td>Livorno</td><td>Alessandro Formisano</td><td>Federico Dionisi</td><td>Macron</td><td>Platinum-e Gas e Luce</td></tr><tr><td>Perugia</td><td>Piero Braglia</td><td>Giovanni Giunti</td><td>Frankie Garage</td><td>None</td></tr><tr><td>Pianese</td><td>Alessandro Birindelli</td><td>Luca Simeoni</td><td>Mizuno</td><td>Stosa Cucine</td></tr><tr><td>Pineto</td><td>Ivan Tisci</td><td>Stefano Amadio</td><td>Erreà</td><td>Liofilchem</td></tr><tr><td>Pontedera</td><td>Leonardo Menichini</td><td>Gabriele Perretta</td><td>Erreà</td><td>Freezanz</td></tr><tr><td>Ravenna</td><td>Marco Marchionni</td><td>Paolo Rrapaj</td><td>Nike</td><td>Cipriani</td></tr><tr><td>Rimini</td><td>Filippo D'Alesio</td><td>Gabriele Bellodi</td><td>Givova</td><td>None</td></tr><tr><td>Sambenedettese</td><td>Ottavio Palladini</td><td>Umberto Eusepi</td><td>Kappa</td><td>Giudici Polidori</td></tr><tr><td>Ternana</td><td>Fabio Liverani</td><td>Marco Capuano</td><td>Macron</td><td>None</td></tr><tr><td>Torres</td><td>Michele Pazienza</td><td>Giuseppe Mastinu</td><td>Footure Lab</td><td>Sardegna</td></tr><tr><td>Vis Pesaro</td><td>Roberto Stellone</td><td>Manuel Di Paola</td><td>Macron</td><td>LC Mobili</td></tr></tbody></table>

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or qualification
1	Arezzo	30	20	7	3	50	20	+30	67	Promotion to Serie B and qualification for Supercoppa di Serie C
2	Ascoli	31	19	8	4	55	20	+35	65	Qualification for the national play-offs second round
3	Ravenna	31	17	7	7	43	30	+13	58	Qualification for the national play-offs first round
4	Campobasso	30	13	8	9	41	35	+6	45	Qualification for the group play-offs second round
5	Pineto	30	12	9	9	39	37	+2	45	Qualification for the group play-offs first round
6	Pianese	30	10	13	7	31	28	+3	43
7	Juventus Next Gen	30	12	7	11	37	36	+1	43
8	Ternana	30	13	8	9	36	30	+6	42
9	Vis Pesaro	30	10	12	8	32	29	+3	42
10	Gubbio	30	10	12	8	26	24	+2	42
11	Livorno	31	10	7	14	33	44	−11	37
12	Guidonia Montecelio	30	8	11	11	25	28	−3	35
13	Forlì	30	9	8	13	38	44	−6	35
14	Carpi	31	8	10	13	29	40	−11	34
15	Perugia	30	7	10	13	31	37	−6	31
16	Torres	31	5	15	11	27	40	−13	30	Qualification for the relegation play-outs
17	Sambenedettese	31	6	10	15	24	33	−9	28
18	Bra	30	5	11	14	32	45	−13	26
19	Pontedera	30	3	9	18	24	53	−29	18
20	Rimini (D)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Excluded

Group C (South)

Stadia and locations

6 teams from Campania, 5 teams from Apulia, 3 teams from Sicily, 2 teams from Basilicata, 2 teams from Calabria, 1 team from Lazio and 1 team from Lombardy.

<table><thead><tr><th>Club</th><th>City</th><th>Stadium</th><th>Capacity</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Atalanta U23</td><td>Bergamo</td><td>Comunale di Caravaggio (Caravaggio)</td><td>2,180</td></tr><tr><td>Audace Cerignola</td><td>Cerignola</td><td>Domenico Monterisi</td><td>7,453</td></tr><tr><td>Benevento</td><td>Benevento</td><td>Ciro Vigorito</td><td>16,867</td></tr><tr><td>Casarano</td><td>Casarano</td><td>Giuseppe Capozza</td><td>6,500</td></tr><tr><td>Casertana</td><td>Caserta</td><td>Alberto Pinto</td><td>12,000</td></tr><tr><td>Catania</td><td>Catania</td><td>Angelo Massimino</td><td>20,881</td></tr><tr><td>Cavese</td><td>Cava de' Tirreni</td><td>Simonetta Lamberti</td><td>5,200</td></tr><tr><td>Cosenza</td><td>Cosenza</td><td>San Vito-Gigi Marulla</td><td>20,987</td></tr><tr><td>Crotone</td><td>Crotone</td><td>Ezio Scida</td><td>16,640</td></tr><tr><td>Foggia</td><td>Foggia</td><td>Pino Zaccheria</td><td>25,085</td></tr><tr><td>Giugliano</td><td>Giugliano in Campania</td><td>Alberto De Cristofaro</td><td>6,030</td></tr><tr><td>Latina</td><td>Latina</td><td>Domenico Francioni</td><td>9,310</td></tr><tr><td>Monopoli</td><td>Monopoli</td><td>Vito Simone Veneziani</td><td>6,880</td></tr><tr><td>Picerno</td><td>Picerno</td><td>Donato Curcio</td><td>1,600</td></tr><tr><td>Potenza</td><td>Potenza</td><td>Alfredo Viviani</td><td>4,977</td></tr><tr><td>Salernitana</td><td>Salerno</td><td>Stadio Arechi</td><td>20,194</td></tr><tr><td>Siracusa</td><td>Syracuse</td><td>Nicola De Simone</td><td>5,946</td></tr><tr><td>Sorrento</td><td>Sorrento</td><td>Italia</td><td>3,600</td></tr><tr><td>Team Altamura</td><td>Altamura</td><td>Antonio D'Angelo</td><td>2,800</td></tr><tr><td>Trapani</td><td>Trapani</td><td>Provinciale</td><td>7,787</td></tr></tbody></table>

Personnel and sponsors

<table><thead><tr><th>Club</th><th>Manager</th><th>Captain</th><th>Kit maker</th><th>Shirt sponsor(s)</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Main</td></tr><tr><td>Atalanta U23</td><td>Salvatore Bocchetti</td><td>Simone Panada</td><td>Joma</td><td>TAO Ambiente</td></tr><tr><td>Audace Cerignola</td><td>Vincenzo Maiuri</td><td>Luca Martinelli</td><td>Adidas</td><td>Proshop (H) / Ecodaunia (A) / Mineccia Group (T)</td></tr><tr><td>Benevento</td><td>Gaetano Auteri</td><td>Mattia Maita</td><td>Nike</td><td>IVPC</td></tr><tr><td>Casarano</td><td>Vito Di Bari</td><td>Raffaele Maiello</td><td>Macron</td><td>Leo Shoes</td></tr><tr><td>Casertana</td><td>Federico Coppitelli</td><td>Federico Proia</td><td>Adidas</td><td>Pulsee Luce e Gas</td></tr><tr><td>Catania</td><td>Domenico Toscano</td><td>Francesco Di Tacchio</td><td>Erreà</td><td>SuperConveniente</td></tr><tr><td>Cavese</td><td>Fabio Prosperi</td><td>Luca Piana</td><td>Givova</td><td>Viride Group</td></tr><tr><td>Cosenza</td><td>Antonio Buscè</td><td>Tommaso D'Orazio</td><td>Adidas</td><td>None</td></tr><tr><td>Crotone</td><td>Emilio Longo</td><td>Guido Gómez</td><td>Zeus</td><td>Climamarket</td></tr><tr><td>Foggia</td><td>Delio Rossi</td><td>Vincenzo Garofalo</td><td>Givova</td><td>None</td></tr><tr><td>Giugliano</td><td>Ezio Capuano</td><td>Roberto De Rosa</td><td>Legea</td><td>Renato Mazzamauro & C.</td></tr><tr><td>Latina</td><td>Alessandro Bruno</td><td>Filippo Marenco</td><td>Ezeta</td><td>Distretti Ecologici</td></tr><tr><td>Monopoli</td><td>Alberto Colombo</td><td>Orlando Viteritti</td><td>Joma</td><td>Eco Sud Ricicli</td></tr><tr><td>Picerno</td><td>Valerio Bertotto</td><td>Emmanuele Esposito</td><td>Givova</td><td>Delle Rose Ricevimenti</td></tr><tr><td>Potenza</td><td>Pietro De Giorgio</td><td>Fabrizio Alastra</td><td>Adidas</td><td>Cargo Trasporto e Distribuzione di Energia</td></tr><tr><td>Salernitana</td><td>Giuseppe Raffaele</td><td>Roberto Inglese</td><td>Puma</td><td>Peugeot Gruppo Noviello</td></tr><tr><td>Siracusa</td><td>Marco Turati</td><td>Umberto Eusepi</td><td>Macron</td><td>Xeq Solar</td></tr><tr><td>Sorrento</td><td>Mirko Conte</td><td>Vincenzo Di Somma</td><td>Ezeta</td><td>Mediterranean Shipping Company</td></tr><tr><td>Team Altamura</td><td>Devis Mangia</td><td>Marco Crimi</td><td>Erreà</td><td>None</td></tr><tr><td>Trapani</td><td>Salvatore Aronica</td><td>Amedeo Benedetti</td><td>Macron</td><td>SportInvest</td></tr></tbody></table>

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Benevento	32	24	4	4	68	21	+47	76	Promotion to Serie B and qualification for the Supercoppa di Serie C
2	Catania	32	18	10	4	49	18	+31	64	Qualification for the national play-offs second round
3	Salernitana	32	16	9	7	39	32	+7	57	Qualification for the national play-offs first round
4	Cosenza	32	16	8	8	50	34	+16	56	Qualification for the group play-offs second round
5	Casertana	32	15	8	9	45	40	+5	53	Qualification for the group play-offs first round
6	Crotone	32	15	6	11	48	30	+18	51
7	Audace Cerignola	32	13	9	10	43	43	0	48
8	Monopoli	32	13	8	11	33	35	−2	47
9	Casarano	32	12	7	13	44	52	−8	43
10	Potenza	32	10	11	11	41	47	−6	41
11	Team Altamura	32	10	10	12	28	39	−11	40
12	Atalanta U23	32	10	8	14	45	42	+3	38
13	Cavese	32	8	11	13	32	38	−6	35
14	Latina	32	8	11	13	25	35	−10	35
15	Sorrento	32	8	9	15	34	47	−13	33
16	Picerno	32	7	11	14	36	49	−13	32	Qualification for the relegation play-outs
17	Giugliano	32	8	7	17	31	46	−15	31
18	Trapani	32	12	8	12	41	46	−5	24
19	Siracusa	32	8	6	18	39	48	−9	24
20	Foggia	32	5	7	20	25	54	−29	22	Relegation to Serie D