Reggina

Reggina are southern Italy's great football romantic, a club from the toe of the Italian boot in Reggio Calabria whose amaranto (claret) shirts have been a proud flag for Calabrian football across the decades. Founded in 1914, they spent several seasons in Serie A in the late 1990s and 2000s, assembling a talented international squad including Nestor Sosa, Amoroso, and Marcos Assuncao. Their Granillo stadium, overlooking the Strait of Messina with Sicily visible across the water, provides one of Italian football's most dramatic settings, and the amaranto shirt carries all the passion of the deep south. Founded in 1914, Reggina are based in Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy, and currently compete in Serie B. They play at Stadio Oreste Granillo. The club are nicknamed Gli Amaranto (The Clarets) after their distinctive claret home colour. Major honours include multiple Serie B promotions and sustained Serie A participation in the early 2000s. Their home colours are amaranto (claret red) and black. The amaranto (claret) home shirt is Reggina's most powerful symbol, a deep red that is immediately identifiable and gives the club from Reggio Calabria one of the most distinctive kits in Italian football. The shirts from the Serie A era of the late 1990s and early 2000s, worn by the internationally recruited squad that kept the club in Italy's top flight for several consecutive seasons, are the most celebrated in Reggina's shirt history. Lotto supplied some of the most distinctive kits of that era, and the amaranto strip worn at Granillo during those golden days remains the defining image of the club at their peak.