Editing Alcamo (section)

== Sport ==
{{see also|Basket Alcamo}}
[[File:A.S.D. Alcamo 1928.jpg|thumb|left|Alcamo football team during a match in 1928.]]
The most popular and practised sport in Alcamo, as in most Italian towns, has always been soccer; the greatest team is the [[Unione Sportiva Dilettantistica Alcamo|Alcamo team]], which was in the past a protagonist in some football seasons in [[League C]] (Italian Serie C), for its victories against [[Bari]] and [[Crotone]], and in [[League D]]. Apart various regional trophies, it has won the [[Coppa Italia Dilettanti]] in 1996 and the subsequent Supercoppa Italiana Dilettanti. Together with the golden period in League C, these were the most notable pages of the football history in Alcamo.{{citation needed|date=October 2020}} A recent{{when|date=October 2020}} society crisis has caused bankruptcy and the team which played in League D had to restart from the [[First Category League]]. Today it competes in the [[regional Eccellenza championship]] following the 2010 refoundation.
The activity of juvenile soccer is very active, and the Adelkam football school emerges among the various youth teams because it has launched different football players and has won a lot of national and international competitions. Alcamo is also the principal centre of the ''Costa Gaia International Trophy'', a youth football kermess in which a lot of titled teams take part and where many great players of the bigger championships have been the protagonists.

[[File:Basket Alcamo vs CUS Cagliari 1.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|[[Basket Alcamo]] against [[CUS Cagliari Pallacanestro]].]]
Basketball is also popular, today with better results than football anyway.{{citation needed|date=October 2020}} The female team [[Basket Alcamo]] (Gea Magazzini) which has obtained important results in its history (a long participation in [[Serie A1 (women's basketball)|A1 League]] and the final match in the [[Ronchetti Cup]]), has played in the [[A2 League]] for eleven years, and has regained the major league in the season 2011–2012. The male team has also obtained good results, but not at the same levels.

The local handball team, [[Pallamano Alcamo]] plays its home matches at the ''Palasport Enzo D'Angelo''.

=== Sport facilities ===

The town has got several sport facilities, the most important are the stadium Lelio Catella (with a capacity of about 10,000 people) for football and athletics, the ''Palazzetto dello Sport (sports hall) Tre Santi'' for Basket and the ''Palasport Enzo D'Angelo'' (an indoor stadium) for handball.

There is a private swimpool open to public use (La Fenice) where young boys (who have won National prizes) train regularly. In the same facility there is an ice-skating rink.
When Alcamo football team played in League C, the home matches were played at stadium Don Rizzo, which together with Sant'Ippolito stadium, is now used by juvenile and minor teams.

=== Sports personalities ===

* [[Gino Colaussi]] (1914–1991), national football player and trainer for Alcamo team
* [[Charley Fusari]] (1924–1985), US [[Boxer (boxing)|boxer]]
* [[Cynthia Cooper-Dyke|Cynthia Cooper]] (1963), ex player for Basket Alcamo
* [[Jean Alesi]] (1964), ex French car-racer
* [[Antonino Asta]] (1970), ex football player and trainer.
* [[Lisa Leslie]] (1972), ex player for Basket Alcamo
* [[Giuseppe Scurto]] (1984), ex football player and trainer.
* [[Giacomo Di Donato]] (1988), ex football player