Eccellenza

Eccellenza
Founded
1991
Nation
Divisions
28 in the different Regions of Italy
Feeder To
Serie D
Relegation To
Promozione
Number of Teams
???
Cups
Coppa Italia Dilettanti
Current Champions (2006-07)
see here

Eccellenza (Italian for "excellence") is the sixth level of Italian football. It is a regional league, composed of 28 divisions divided geographically. All 20 regions are represented by at least one division except for Piedmont and Aosta Valley which share 2 divisions. Veneto, Tuscany, Sicily, Lazio, Emilia-Romagna and Campania also have 2 divisions each, while region of Lombardy has 3 divisions.

Promotion & relegation

After the regular season is completed, the first-placed team for each division is automatically promoted to Serie D.

Each division also admits one other team to participate in national playoffs that take place in late May and early June. Some divisions select the second-placed team directly, while other divisions schedule a series of divisional playoff games among the top teams in that division in order to determine the national playoff participant. Once the 28 national playoff participants are finalized, they are paired in a double-leg series, and the 14 winners participate in a second round double-leg series. The 7 winners of the second round are promoted to Serie D as well. One more place to Serie D is allowed to the winner of the "Coppa Italia Dilettanti" (Amateur Italian Cup), a year-long competition between all the national teams of both Eccellenza and Promozione (the lower division). In all, 36 teams are promoted to replace the 36 teams relegated down from Serie D.

• 28 division winners
• 7 national playoff winners
• 1 Coppa Italiana Dilettanti winner

The relegation rules are decided regionally, but there are usually three teams relegated from each division.

Teams promoted from Eccellenza

2005/2006

2006/2007

2006/2007 Division winners

	Region/Division	Winners
1	Abruzzo	Cologna Paese
2	Basilicata	Horatiana Venosa
3	Calabria	Rosarno
4	Campania - A	Caserta
5	Campania - B	Gelbison Cilento
6	Emilia-Romagna - A	Crociati Parma
7	Emilia-Romagna - B	Real Cesenatico
8	Friuli-Venezia Giulia	Sarone
9	Lazio - A	Bassano Romano
10	Lazio - B	Lupa Frascati
11	Liguria	Sestrese
12	Lombardy - A	Sestese
13	Lombardy - B	Caratese
14	Lombardy - C	Feralpi Lonato
15	Marche	Recanatese
16	Molise	Olympia Agnonese
17	Piedmont & Aosta Valley - A	Favria
18	Piedmont & Aosta Valley - B	Derthona
19	Apulia	Fasano
20	Sardinia	Tavolara
21	Sicily - A	Alcamo
22	Sicily - B	Acate-Modica
23	Tuscany - A	Gavorrano
24	Tuscany - B	Colligiana
25	Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol	Alta Vallagarina
26	Umbria	Pontevecchio
27	Veneto - A	Domegliara
28	Veneto - B	Sandonà

References

External links

• Official website of LND (Italian National Amateur League)