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The club has spent much of its history in Serie B, gaining promotion to Italy&#39;s top league Serie A five times. They currently compete in Serie A after climbing back up the football pyramid.<BR><BR>The club has achieved moderate success in the top league, the highest position ever reached by the club is 8th in Serie A twice, both during the early 1960s. The farthest Catania have progressed in cup competitions is the final of the Coppa delle Alpi.<BR><BR>The 2006&#8211;07 season saw Catania in Serie A for its first appearance in 22 years. In their first season back Catania began well, though they recorded a couple of heavy defeats, their home form saw them peak as high as 4th after 20 games.<BR><BR>Their return season changed drastically on 2 February 2007, due to the 2007 Catania football violence incident. It happened during the Sicilian derby with Palermo, policeman Filippo Raciti was killed during football-related violence caused by Catania ultras outside the Massimino stadium. The event led FIGC commissioner Luca Pancalli to cancel all football-related events in the country for a period of time; including league and national team matches. Catania chairman and owner Antonino Pulvirenti announced his willingness to leave the football world, stating it was not possible to go on producing football in Catania.<BR><BR>After the Italian football league restarted, Catania continued on but dropped in form largely. In truth their slump in form had started just before the derby incident and all together they failed to win for twelve games in a row, before beating Udinese 1&#8211;0 in late April 2007, they eventually finished 13th.<BR><BR>The following season, with Marino leaving for Udinese and Silvio Baldini taking charge of the team, proved to be much harder. Poor results in the league table were however coupled with impressive performance in the Coppa Italia, where Catania reached a historical place in the semi-finals, then lost to Roma. Meanwhile, Baldini resigned from his post on 31 March 2008, being replaced by Walter Zenga in a somewhat surprise appointment (at least due to Zenga&#39;s lack of expertise at the Serie A level). Despite this, Zenga managed to lead the rossazzurri off the relegation zone, saving his side from falling down to Serie B in a heated final week game, a 1&#8211;1 home tie to Roma, with an equaliser goal scored by Jorge Andr&#233;s Mart&#237;nez at the 85th minute. Zenga was successively confirmed in charge of the team for the upcoming 2008&#8211;09 season.<BR><BR>On 5 June 2009 Walter Zenga left Catania to be the manager at arch-rival Palermo. He was replaced by Gianluca Atzori, a relative coaching neophyte with just one year&#39;s experience at Lega Pro Prima Divisione team Ravenna. Atzori was noted for using an attacking 4-3-3 formation at Ravenna and was expected to continue a similar approach with the Elefanti.<BR><BR>On 8 December 2009 Sinia Mihajlovic was appointed new head coach of Catania, taking over from Gianluca Atzori. He signed a contract until June 2011 with the Elefanti. Arriving at the club that was dead last in the Serie A standings, Mihajlovi\u0107 debuted with a loss versus Livorno. However, the following week, his team pulled off a stunning upset by beating heavily favoured Juventus away in Turin with a 2&#8211;1 scoreline.<\/P>","D5AF1249DEAE15446FB07F95BE07BAC61FCF1CF21901A599":"1","D5AF1249DEAE15440A9E01742A8A4E92":"0","0284C3E6252CDEEA":"Maurizio Pellegrino","e_index":1};