A quick background:

Sorrento play their football in the regionalised Italian national league system ('Campianato Nazionale') called Serie D. There are 9 regions in Serie D (all containing 18 teams), with Sorrento being in 'Girone G.' The next step up from here is Serie C which is actually split into 5 parts (also containing 18 teams each); Serie C1 is the upper level (itself consisting of 2 zones - Girone A & B), while Serie C2 is the lower level (consisting of Girone A, B, & C.). All of Serie C is known as the Professional League. Above this level is the National Professional League system of Serie A (20 clubs) and Serie B (22 clubs). Serie A is often simply referred to as the 'Football League'. There are actually a further 5 divisions below Sorrento's level in Serie D and these divisions are called Eccelenza, Promozione, Prima Categoria, Seconda Categoria and Terza Categoria.

A quick history:

Sorrento are a post-war team formed in 1945. The first 20 years or so was spent bouncing up and down the Promozione division until, finally, in the 1967-68 season Sorrento finished top and entered the Serie D system for the first time in its history. It wasn't a long stay though as Sorrento won the Girone G Championship at the first attempt and famously got promoted to Serie C (Girone C) for the 1969-70 season - finishing a highly creditable 4th.

1970-71 however saw Sorrento claim its first Serie C title with a haul of 51 points, 1 point clear of Salernitana, and promotion to Serie B for 1971-72. Life was tough in Serie B however (it contained the likes of Lazio, Palermo, Bari, and Brescia), and Sorrento finished in the bottom 3 and were relegated. Spending the 1970s in Serie C mid-table obscurity, the end of the 1977-78 season saw Serie C get split into its two levels present today and Sorrento were one of eight teams to be dropped into Serie C2 for 1978-79.

More glory came in 1985-86 when Sorrento finished as runners-up to Licata in the Serie C2 Girone D division, and moved back up into Serie C1. This season proved to be a disaster though and Sorrento finished rock bottom and were relegated once more.

The fall didn't stop there though and Sorrento found itself back in the minor Promozione division in 1991-92, a system it had left in the 1960s. It wasn't until the 1998-99 season that Sorrento forced its way back into Serie D. 2003-04 was one of the better seasons for Sorrento, but just missed out by one point on a possible Serie C play-off match, and finished 6th.

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