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Associazione Sportiva Bari is an Italian football club founded in 1908, they are based in Bari, Apulia. The club have spent many seasons bouncing between the top two divisions in Italian football; Serie A and Serie B, they currently play in the latter.

During 1927 the original football club representing the city was merged with a team named Liberty Bari, a year following this the new club was merged too, this time with US Ideale; hense why the foundation date is sometimes given as 1928.

Statistically Bari are the most successful club from the Apulia region, in terms of the all-time Serie A records. They are amongst the elite in Southern Italian football and ranked 17th in the all-time Serie A records for all of Italy. Notably they won the Mitropa Cup in 1990.

One of the most notably achievements in the clubs history was in the 1996 season, when their forward Igor Protti became the top striker in the Serie A with 25 goals. The club are known in the wider footballing world for spawning Antonio Cassano who was born in Bari, he shone at the club as a youngster.

Source: Wikipedia.

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