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Venue - Aviva Stadium, Dublin
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Unione Calcio Sampdoria, commonly known as Sampdoria (and nicknamed I Blucerchiati, La Samp, Il Doria), is an Italian professional football club based in Genoa, and playing in the Serie A. The Ginnastica Sampierdarenese was founded in 1891, opening its football section in 1899. Also around this time, a club named Society Andrea Doria was founded in 1895. After World War II, both clubs were competing in Serie A; in a reverse of pre-war situations, Andrea Doria were now the top club out of the two. On 12 August 1946, however, a merger took place that would stick for the two teams, together they formed Unione Calcio Sampdoria.
In 1979, the club, then playing Serie B, was acquired by oil businessman Paolo Mantovani (1930–1993), who invested in the team to bring Sampdoria to the top flights. In 1982, Sampdoria made their Serie A return and won their first Coppa Italia three years later. In the following years, Sampdoria won a total of 3 Coppa Italia, a Supercoppa Italiana, a Cup Winners' Cup, a Serie A title, and reached the final of the last European Cup vs Barcelona at Wembley Stadium in 1992.
Over the years, Sampdoria have hosted a number of great players, including the likes of: Luis Suárez Miramontes, Ruud Gullit, Pietro Vierchowod, Ernst Ocwirk, Graeme Souness, Toninho, Jürgen Klinsmann, Clarence Seedorf, Nacka Skoglund, Juan Sebastián Verón, Romeo Benetti, Gianluca Vialli, Beppe Signori, Walter Zenga and Ariel Ortega. Sampdoria's biggest rivals are Genoa Cricket and Football Club, against whom they play the Derby della Lanterna (Derby of the Lantern). When Sampdoria were relegated from Serie A in 2011, more than 30,000 Genoa C.F.C. supporters staged a mock funeral procession through the streets of the city carrying a coffin draped in blue. Sampdoria play their home games at the Stadio Comunale Luigi Ferraris.
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