SP La Fiorita
Also written as La Fiorita.
The club
Società Polisportiva La Fiorita were founded in 1967 in Montegiardino, the smallest of San Marino's nine castelli, where the club is still based. The club is a multi-sports polisportiva best known for its football section; the football club is properly styled SP La Fiorita rather than SS La Fiorita, though it is the same institution. The home ground is the Stadio Igor Crescentini, with a capacity of 500, and the club's colours are blue, yellow and white. The chairman is Alan Gasperoni and the head coach is Thomas Manfredini; when Manfredini was appointed and whether he previously played for the club were not established from the sources read here.
Recent seasons
San Marino's Campionato Sammarinese di Calcio runs in groups (gironi) feeding into knockout and title rounds rather than a single table, which makes season-by-season points totals hard to compare directly with other leagues. La Fiorita's league finishes for individual recent seasons beyond their honours record were not established from the sources read here.
Honours and landmarks
La Fiorita have won the Campionato Sammarinese six times: 1986/87, 1989/90, 2013/14, 2016/17, 2017/18 and 2021/22. They have won the Coppa Titano, San Marino's cup, eight times, in 1985/86, 2011/12, 2012/13, 2015/16, 2017/18, 2020/21, 2023/24 and 2025/26. They have also won the Trofeo Federale three times, in 1986, 1987 and 2007, and the Super Coppa Sammarinese three times, in 2012, 2018 and 2021.
La Fiorita's European history includes three milestones for a Sammarinese club: their first competitive European draw, 0-0 at home to Linfield of Northern Ireland on 4 July 2017; their first Champions League goal, scored against Inter Club d'Escaldes of Andorra on 21 June 2022; and their first outright European win, 1-0 after extra time away to Isloch Minsk Raion of Belarus on 18 July 2024.
Notable scorelines
La Fiorita's heaviest European defeats include 0-10 aggregate losses to Spartaks Jūrmala of Latvia in the 2018/19 Europa League second qualifying round and to FC Ballkani of Kosovo in the 2022/23 Conference League second qualifying round, and a 1-10 aggregate defeat to Istanbul Başakşehir of Turkey in the 2024/25 Conference League second qualifying round. Their record win is the 1-0 extra-time victory over Isloch Minsk Raion described above, which combined with a 0-1 home defeat in the first leg to send the tie to a shootout La Fiorita won 4-2 on penalties, their first European tie win.
European record
La Fiorita's European run began in the 2012/13 Europa League, losing 0-6 on aggregate to Liepājas Metalurgs of Latvia in the first qualifying round. Subsequent early rounds brought defeats to Valletta of Malta (0-4, 2013/14), Levadia Tallinn of Estonia (0-8, 2014/15 Champions League), Vaduz of Liechtenstein (1-10, 2015/16), Debrecen of Hungary (0-7, 2016/17), and Linfield of Northern Ireland, who won 0-1 on aggregate in the 2017/18 Champions League first qualifying round after the 0-0 draw noted above. In 2018/19 they lost their Champions League preliminary-round tie 0-2 to Lincoln Red Imps of Gibraltar and then a Europa League second qualifying round 0-9 to Spartaks Jūrmala. Preliminary-round defeats followed to UE Engordany of Andorra (1-3, 2019/20) and Coleraine of Northern Ireland (2020/21).
In 2021/22 they lost 1-2 on aggregate to Birkirkara of Malta in the Conference League first qualifying round. In 2022/23 they lost their Champions League preliminary round 1-2 to Inter Club d'Escaldes of Andorra, then a Conference League second qualifying round 0-10 to FC Ballkani of Kosovo. In 2023/24 they lost 1-2 on aggregate to FC Zimbru Chișinău of Moldova in the Conference League first qualifying round.
2024/25 brought the tie-win milestone: La Fiorita beat Isloch Minsk Raion of Belarus on penalties after a 1-1 aggregate draw in the Conference League first qualifying round, before losing the second qualifying round 1-10 on aggregate to Istanbul Başakşehir of Turkey. In 2025/26 they lost 2-5 on aggregate to FK Vardar of North Macedonia in the Conference League first qualifying round.
Head-to-head notes
La Fiorita's tie with Linfield of Northern Ireland in the 2017/18 Champions League, a 0-0 home draw followed by a 0-1 defeat in Belfast, is the only recorded meeting between the two clubs in the sources read here; the two are not otherwise connected. Any rivalry with fellow San Marino clubs such as Tre Fiori, Tre Penne, Cosmos, Folgore or Virtus was not established from the sources read here.
Right now (2026/27)
Thomas Manfredini is head coach. As holders of the 2025/26 Coppa Titano, La Fiorita entered the 2026/27 UEFA Conference League in the first qualifying round, drawn against FC UNA Strassen of Luxembourg. They lost the home leg 0-2 and the away leg 0-1, going out 0-3 on aggregate. Exact dates were not established from the sources read here. Their position in the 2026/27 Campionato Sammarinese was not established from the sources read here.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SP_La_Fiorita
Researched and written for not4quarters. Where a fact could not be established from the sources read, this page says so rather than guessing.