Founded in 1908, the club first entered Serie A in the 1980s. Since then they've been up and down in the league, one of the few southern clubs to surface in Serie A in recent years, injecting some welcome colour.

Team colours: bright red and yellow.

Known as: giallorossi

Official website: www.uslecce.it. Only in Italian.

Stadium

Stadio Via del Mare
Via per San Cataldo.
Capacity: 41,000

The stadium is located off the Autostrada connecting Lecce with San Cataldo, 6km from railway station. See the map on the club website.

Match Tickets

Tickets to Lecce home matches can be bought in the town at selected outlets listed on the club website (under Biglietti/ricevitorie). Tickets for some matches may also be available online at Listicket. See our advice on buying match tickets.

Lecce Travel and Tourism

Lecce is a beautiful historic town in the Salento area of southern Italy, once described as the 'Florence of the Baroque'. The town contains fine baroque churches and palaces, a Roman amphiteatre and an interesting regional museum. It's most easily reached from the UK by flying to Brindisi Airport (Ryanair budget flights). As well as wandering through Lecce's heart: the Duomo and Piazza Sant'Oronzo, and the gardens of the Villa Comunale, tourists can head off to the nearby coast or northwards to Puglia's trulli district.

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