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Football Club Matera, more commonly known as Matera, is an Italian football club society based in the city of Matera.
The first city club, named U.S. Matera, was founded in 1933. During its history, the team went through several bankruptcies and re-establishments. In September 2022, it retook the name and logo of FC Matera.
In 1950 Matera Calcio, despite having finished in ninth place in the previous Apulian First Division championship, was admitted for the first time to an interregional championship, the Promozione (corresponding to the current Serie D), managed by the Southern Interregional League. At the end of the season, Matera were relegated and competed in the Apulian First Division championship. Still, despite coming first in group B, they were not classified as they had been officially registered in the Apulian championship by the F.I.G.C. for proximity reasons. He was therefore admitted to the new Lucanian Promotion championship, winning it in 1953 and returning to the interregional category, which in the meantime changed its name to IV Series, where he participated for five consecutive seasons. At the end of the 1957-58 season, Matera Calcio, after relegation to the Lucanian First Category, was excluded from the federal roles, so the first city team became Libertas Matera. In 1963, from the merger between Libertas and Acli Piccianello, the FootBall Club Matera was born, which two years later won its group and the semi-finals of the Lucanian First Category championship, and became Lucanian champion of the First Category by renunciation of Libertas Invicta Potenza.
Starting from 1965, the year of the return to Serie D, the person who, succeeding Riziero Zaccagnini, would be the president of the F.B.C. appeared on the scene. Matera for 22 years, Franco Salerno, who later also became Senator of the Republic, who will bring the blue and white club in the seventies to its highest levels ever. After three years in Serie D, Matera won the championship in 1967–68 ahead of Savoia and reached Serie C for the first time, relegating to Serie D in 1975 and returning to Serie C after a year. In 1978 the restructuring of the C series took place and Matera was admitted to the newly created C1 Series.
Despite some prestigious results and a good first round that ended in 14th place in the safety zone in Serie B 1979–80 season, Matera collapsed in the second half; a double relegation from B to C2 followed, the year in which the Ballarin fire also occurred on the last day before the match between Sambenedettese and Matera. In the second half of the eighties, Matera experienced a second double relegation, moving from C2 to the Promotion championship.
As a consequence of this, the members of the F.C. Matera decided to carry out a corporate merger with the other Matera team, Pro Matera, a club active in the Interregional, giving life to Pro Matera Sport, which later became Matera Sport. In 1991 Matera won the interregional championship and then won promotion to C2 in the decisive play-off against Gangi, winning 2–0 at home and drawing 0–0 in Gangi, Sicily. Later he will also win the Jacinto Trophy, a precursor tournament to the current Amateur Scudetto (established since 1992) played between the six winners of the promotion play-offs; beating Aosta 1–0 in the final in Bovalino, Matera then became Interregional Italian Champions.
In 1992-1993 Matera finished the Serie C2 championship in third place and was returned to C1, where it returned after 12 years in the 1993–94 season. At the end of the season, however, due to administrative irregularities, Matera suffered a relegation to C2. Despite the corporate vicissitudes that led to the bankruptcy of Matera Sport and the subsequent birth of Polisportiva Matera, in the 1995–96 season the white and blue team played in a Serie C2 championship. With the new name it played another good championship in C2 before being condemned for the second time in three years to another relegation due to problems relating to the bank guarantee required for registration in the championship. Polisportiva Matera, in protest against the relegation and economic difficulties, played the 1997-98 National Amateur Championship with the junior team, finishing second to last in group H with only 6 points and ahead of only Lagonegro.
In 1998, the Materasassi Sports Association was born from the merger between Atletico Matera and Scanzano, chaired by the lawyer Vitantonio Ripoli, who acquired the right to participate in the regional Eccellenza tournament. In the 1998–99 Eccellenza Lucana championship there was therefore a derby between Materasassi and Polisportiva Matera (which in the meantime changed its name several times, coexisting with the other city until its dissolution in 2001) and in the city of Sassi it returned to play a derby forty-five years after the matches between Libertas and Matera Calcio.
In 1999–00 Materasassi, which in the previous season played at a regional level had come in third place by winning the Italian Amateur Basilicata Cup, won the Eccellenza championship and allowed Matera football to return to an interregional category after two years.
In the 2004–05 season, due to the usual lack of investors, it was the fans who guaranteed food and accommodation to the players thanks to real spontaneous collections of money which continued until the entry into the club of the two new Barbano members and Padula. Despite the economic difficulties, in the 2004–05 and 2005–06 seasons Matera somehow managed to retain Serie D thanks to victories in the play-outs.
In the summer of 2011 the club did not register for the subsequent Second Division championship and was thus excluded from the professional championships due to financial defaults. In the 2011–12 season the FIGC Provincial Committee authorizes the Football Club Matera to restart from the Third Category Provincial Championship.
In 2022–23, after an extremely difficult start under the guidance of coach Finamore, who decided to resign in the month of October, with the appoint of mister Ciullo the biancazzurri managed to climb back up the table with a series of consecutive useful results, up to hope for a place in the playoffs. The season ends in 7th place, after having largely achieved the primary objective of salvation.
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