The Home Ground of the Valencia CF football club is the Estadio Mestalla situated in the city of Valencia in Spain. It was opened on May 20th 1923. The Stadium was formerly known as Estadio Luis Casanova, and in 1994 it was renamed to its current name. This 105 x 73m grass surface court is owned and operated by Valencia CF.

The Valencia CF club plays all its league matches on this ground. The first match ever to be played on this ground was between Valencia and Levanta in May 1923. Valencia won the match by a score of 1 – 0. In 1980, the Copa del Rey finals were played here when Valencia won the tournament with the help of Mario Kempes. The 1982 World Cup saw all of Spain’s matches being held at this ground.

The Stadium has a present capacity of 55000 people. The maximum capacity that the stadium has ever seen was probably during the 1982 World Cup matches held here.

The Stadium is situated at the address Avda. De Suecia s/n. 46010 Valencia, Spain. The Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana is the main public transport available here. And there are also the Valentia Metro and other bus and rail services that can be used to get to the Stadium. For further information contact 902 01 19 19 or visit the official website at Valencia CF - Official Site.

They have also finished runners-up in the following tournaments
Super Coppa di Lega Serie D Runners-up in 2001-2002 season
Eccellenza Tuscany Runners-up in 1997-1998 season

About the Team:
Unione Sportiva Grosseto is a football club of Italy and has its headquartered in Grosetto, Italy. The club is currently playing in the Serie B of Italian League. The Unione Sportiva Grosseto was established in 1912 and is currently placed in the 13th position in Serie B league.

Some of the famous players of Unione Sportiva Grosseto are:
Andrea Giallombardo of Italy
Mirko Pieri of Italy

Current squad of Unione Sportiva Grosseto is:
Goalkeepers:
Paolo Acerbis, Alessandro Caparco, Andrea Pinzan, Eros Corradini,


Midfielders:
Carl Valeri (team captain), Leonardo Vitiello, Flavio Lazzari (loaned from Udinese), Luigi Consonni, Nicolas Cordova, Andrea Gessa, Daniele Suppa

Defenders:
Gianluca Freddi, Mariano Stendardo (loaned from Genoa), Duccio Innocenti, Agostino Garofalo, Giuseppe Abruzzese, Sandro Porchia, Nicola Mora, Daniele Federici, Salvatore Moring


Forwards:
Marco Sansovini, Thomas Pichlmann, Marco Carparelli, Gianluca Scardini, Ferdinando Sforzini (loaned from Udinese)

The Home Stadium of the Seychelles football team is the Stade Linite situated in the city of Victoria. It was inaugurated in the year 1992. In February 2007, the Stadium was given a 3rd generation artificial pitch on a One Star Field test, under a FIFA initiated program for development called ‘win Africa, with Africa’. The stadium is owned and operated by the Athletics association of Mahe.

The Seychelles football team plays all its home and international matches on thing stadium, and also the country’s league matches are held here. In October 2003, the World Cup qualifier match between Seychelles and Zambia was held here, which Seychelles lost 0 – 4.

The present capacity of the Stadium is 10000 people, though this capacity has not exceeded its limit many times in the past. It is a 105 x 68m grass surface, and was recently made into the artificial grass between 6th June 2007 and 5th June 2008. It was manufactured by Green Fields BV. There is also an athletics track running around the football pitch.

The Stadium is situated at PO Box 843, Victoria, Mahe Island, Seychelles. It is on the north-eastern part of the island, and can be accessed very easily. The nearest airport to the stadium is the Seychelles International Airport. For further details and enquiries contact the Stadium association at +248 324632, or send a fax at +248 225468 or email them at [email protected]. Tickets to matches are available at the stadium itself.

Manager:
The current manager and head coach of Unione Sportiva Grosseto FC is Stefano Pioli. He is a former Italian football player who played for many Italian clubs like Juventus and Parma as a centre back. He retired from professional football in 1998 and started his coaching career in 1999-2000 season in youth team of Bologna football club. He was appointed as the head coach of the Unione Sportiva Grosseto football club in 2007. Previously he had impressed everyone when he coached Tuscan minnows. It was announced that for 2008-2009 season he will join Piacenza as a head coach for the Serie B.

Trophies & Titles:
Unione Sportiva Grosseto FC has won
The Serie C1 in 2006-2007 season
Super Coppa di Lega Serie C1 in 2006-2007 season
Super Coppa di Lega Serie C2 2003-2004 season
Super Coppa di Lega Serie D in 1960-1961 season, 1972-1973 season, and 1994-1995 season
Promozione Tuscany in 1996-1997 season

Country:
The Unione Sportiva Grosseto is a football club of Italy, which is based in Grosetto, Italy. It is controlled by the Italian Football Association and was established in 1912. The club’s official colours are white and red and the club play their home games at the Stadio Olimpico Carlo Zecchini stadium, which is situated in Grosetto.

Home Stadium:
Stadio Olimpico Carlo Zecchini is the home stadium of the Italian club Unione Sportiva Grosseto Football Club and is situated in Grosseto, Italy. This stadium is mainly used for hosting football matches. The Stadio Olimpico Carlo Zecchini stadium was built in 1960 and has a seating capacity of about 8350 people. This grass surface stadium has dimensions of 105mx68m and is maintained by the municipality of Grosetto.

Association:
The Unione Sportiva Grosseto football club is governed and organised by the Italian Football Federation or the Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio. It was established in the year 1898, received FIFA affiliation in 1905 and UEFA affiliation in 1954. It organises the Coppa Italia, Italian football league, Italian women’s national football team and the Italian national football team. The President of the association is Giancarlo Abete.

The football club SV Wehen Wiesbaden is a German Football Club and it is based in Taunusstein, located just outside Wiesbaden, Hesse. The club was founded in the year 1926 and was called SV Wehen 1926 – Taunusstein.

The club Sv Wehen Wiesbaden uses the football stadium BRITA-Arena as its home stadium, which is also shared by the 2nd Bundesliga side, which also uses this stadium as its home ground. This stadium is situated in Wiesbaden, Germany, and it’s named after its former sponsor, a German company called Brita, which specialised in the manufacturing of water filters, and hence this stadium replaced the Stadiom am Halberg, in Taunusstein, which was the actual home ground of the SV Wehen. The stadium has a total capacity of 12,566 seats.

The BRITA-Arena was inaugurated on 11th October 2007 with a friendly match being played between SV Wehen and Borussia Dortmund, which the SV Wehen Lost 2-1. The first competitive match that was played in the stadium was on 21st October 2007 between SV Wehen and 1.FSV Mainz 05, which was won by mainz 3-1.

The tickets for the various events being held in the BRITA-Arena can be purchased at the venue or online using the link given-www.getmein.com/venues/brita-arena.html
www.seatwave.com/brita-arena-tickets/venue

Ticket prices may vary depending on the event held in the stadium. The event may be a football match or a rock concert, a cultural event, a social event or any other event. We can get to the stadium by road or by train.

Under  the CEACAFA Cup, this team has eight times won the Championship. The following are the years in which they won the CEACAFA Cup : 1973, 1976, 1977, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2003. It was the runners- up of this CEACAFA Cup also for four times.  

The team played against Benin on 12th Oct 2008 and they won with a score line of 2 - 1. Then the Niger played with this team on 5th Sept 2008 and here they lost with a score line of 3 – 1. Later on 23rd June 2008, it played with the Angola, where the match ended up as a draw with 0 – 0 score. They again played against the Angola and this time they won with a score line of 3 – 1. The latest match that this team played was against Benin on 12th Oct 2008, where they won the match with a score line of 2 – 1. The following matches that the club is going to play are: with Somalia (on 7th July 2009) and against the Tanzania (on 9th Jan 2009).  

Some of Uganda National Football Team all time famous players are Andrew fimbo mukasa Football Player - retired, Lilenti kyeyune Football Player - retired, Henry Kakooza Football Player - retired, Hassan Mubiru Football Player - retired, Tenywa Bonseu Football Player - retired, David Obua Football Player - retired and Charles Livingstone Mbabazi Football Player - retired.

The Uganda National Football Team or also called as The Cranes football team. They started playing internationally in the year 1926. It is controlled and governed by the CAF (which stands for Confederation Africaine de Football). Their FIFA code is UGA. The president of this team is Mulindwa Lawrence, Vice President is Barigye Richard, General Secretary is Masembe Charles and Treasurer is Kyeyago Jowali.

The Uganda national football team started playing in the African Nations Cup from the 1962. Under the African Nations Cup, till now they have made five league game appearances. In 1978, the team reached till the 2nd place in this tournament. It did not get into this league a couple of times like in the years 1957 and 1959. Then for the 1962, they secured 4th place in this championship. For certain years, they withdrew themselves from the tournament like in 1963, 1980,1982 and 1990.

Under the World Cup, till now this team has never entered their finals. They did not enter the league from the 1930 to 1974. In 1978, the team was not qualified to play in this cup championship. Then it withdrew itself from this tournament in 1982. Later for the 1986, 1990 and 1998 - 2010, they were again not qualified to any play football match in this tournament. For the 1994, it withdrew itself from this cup league.

Serie A: 1

     Champions: 1990-91
     Runners-up: 1921-22

Serie B: 2

     Champions: 1933-34, 1966-67
     Runners-up: 1981-82, 2002-03

Coppa Italia: 4: they won it four times.

     Winners: 1984-85, 1987-88, 1988-89, 1993-94
     Runners-up: 1985-86, 1990-91

Supercoppa Italiana: 1

     Winners: 1991
     Runners-up: 1988, 1989, 1994

The honours bagged internationally are:
UEFA Champions League

     Runners-up: 1991-92

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1

     Winners: 1989-90
     Runners-up: 1988-89

About the Team:
    The club was founded in the year 1946, August 1st. They compete in the Serie A Italiana currently.

Goalkeepers:
    Luca Castellazzi
    Antonio Mirante
    Vincenzo Fiorillo

Defender:
    Pietro Accardi
    Stefano Lucchini
     Jonathan Bottinelli
    Hugo Campagnaro
    Daniele Gastaldello

Midfielder:
    Gennaro Delvecchio
    Mirko Pieri
    Nenad Krstičić
    Massimo Bonanni
    Daniele Dessena
    Daniele Franceschini
    Marco Padalino
    Paolo Sammarco
    Angelo Palombo
    Reto Ziegler
    Marius Stankevičius

Strikers:
    Bruno Fornaroli
    Claudio Bellucci
    Emiliano Bonazzoli
    Antonio Cassano

Famous Players: (1990-2000) Fabio Quagliarella, Clarence Seedorf, Lee Sharpe, Giuseppe Signori, Hugo, Paulo Silas, Doriva, Juan Sebastián Verón, Sergio Volpi, Des Walker, Walter Zenga, Christian Zenoni, Bratislav Živković, Nenad Sakić, Zoran Jovičić, Vitali Kutuzov, François Omam-Biyik, Saliou Lassissi.    * Flag of France Alain Boghossian, (Italy) Ivano Bonetti, (Italy) Marco Branca, (Italy) Renato Buso, (Italy) Antonio Cassano, (Italy) Enrico Chiesa, (Italy) Sandro Cois, (France) Oumar Dieng, (Italy) Alberigo Evani, (Italy) Riccardo Ferri, (Italy) Francesco Flachi, (Netherlands) Ruud Gullit, (Italy) Giovanni Invernizzi, (Serbia) Vladimir Jugović, (Slovenia) Srečko Katanec, (France) Christian Karembeu, (Germany) Jürgen Klinsmann, (France) Pierre Laigle, (Italy) Attilio Lombardo, (Serbia) Siniša Mihajlović, (Ukraine) Alexei Mikhailichenko, (Italy) Vincenzo Montella, (Argentina) Ariel Ortega, (England) David Platt

Country:
    The club is located in Genoa, Italy. UC Sampdoria translates to Unione Calcio Sampdoria and its nickname is Blucerchiati. Their team symbol comprises of red-black-blue-white colours incorporated into a single design. The club was formed by the merging of two already existing clubs Sampierdarenese and Andrea Doria way back in 1946. The red-black and white-blue combination actually represents the merging of the two teams.

Home Stadium:
     The Sampdoria club has its home stadium in Stadio Luigi Ferraris,Genoa, Italy. This stadium is also referred to as Marassi; erlier this place was a private property and was converted to a stadium in the year 1909 and its name is erived from the former player and captain of Genoa, Luigi Ferraris. It can house a population of 36,536. It was renovated in the year 1989 for the 1990 World Cup. Deepdale (home of Preston North End FC) was inspired by this stadium’s structure.

Association:
     The UC Sampdoria club is governed and organised by the Italian Football Federation or the Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio. It was established in the year 1898, received FIFA affiliation in 1905 and UEFA affiliation in 1954. The President of the association is Giancarlo Abete.

Manager:
    Walter Mazzarri is the current club manager; he was born in the year 1961, October 1st. he was named the coach of Sampdoria in the year 2007, May 31st.  

Trophies & Titles: The Sampadorians have won the Scudetto once in the past, in the year 1991.