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Key facts<\/h3>\n

Club: Spezia Calcio | Opening: 1919 | Capacity: 10,336 seats<\/p>\n

History and description<\/h3>\n

Stadio Alberto Picco has been the home of Spezia Calcio since 1919. The stadium was built in a rush to provide Spezia with a home for their first league season, but wasn’t finished in time.<\/p>\n

The stadium officially opened on 7 December 1919 with a league match between Spezia and SC Genova (8-0). The stadium consisted of wooden stands in English style. The stadium was named after Alberto Picco, a former player that had died in the First World War.<\/p>\n

The first concrete stand was built in 1933 when a new main stand was erected. It took until the 1960s for a first concrete curve to follow. The stadium underwent further developments in the late 1980s when another concrete curve got built and the rest of the stadium got updated, resulting in a capacity of 15,000.<\/p>\n

Few changes have been\u00a0made since though the stadium underwent some refurbishments in 2006 when the club promoted to the Serie B. Safety measures have furthermore reduced capacity to its current 10,000.<\/p>\n

How to get to Stadio Alberto Picco<\/h3>\n

Stadio Alberto Picco is located in the south-west of the small city of La Spezia near the port area. It’s a short 15-minute walk from La Spezia’s central railway station and even less from the city centre that lies in between the station and the stadium.<\/p>\n

Frequent direct trains<\/a> connect La Spezia with Genova and Pisa. In both cases the journey takes a little over an hour. There are also reasonably frequent direct trains from Milan and Florence.<\/p>\n

Address:\u00a0Via Nicol\u00f2 Fieschi, 19123 La Spezia<\/p>\n