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After returning to [[Serie A]] in the [[Serie A 1991-92|1991–92]] season, ''Foggia dei Miracoli'', as they were known, proved to be competitive with any opponent and was appreciated by the press because of the attractive football they played.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}} The term ''Zemanlandia'' was then coined to indicate the style created by Zeman, and became strictly associated to the Foggia team of the 1990s. The Foggia team also featured star players, especially attacking trio of [[Giuseppe Signori]], [[Francesco Baiano]] and [[Roberto Rambaudi]], as well as Russian star [[Igor Shalimov]]. That season, Foggia achieved the amazing{{tone inline|date=January 2024}} feat of scoring 58 goals while also conceding 58. Foggia soon lost many of these quality{{tone inline|date=January 2024}} players, including their three key forwards, and had to replace them with young talent. The club completed three Serie A campaigns finishing mid-table. In [[Serie A 1993-94]], Foggia's football continued but the depleted squad was no longer as competitive and the club was relegated back to [[Serie B]] in 1995.
Zeman left to join [[S.S. Lazio|Lazio]] at the end of that season, marking the end of ''Zemanlandia'' whilst the club was beset with financial problems. The Foggia glory days{{tone inline|date=January 2024}} had come to an end.
====Decline, Serie C and Zeman's return====
Following the drop, Foggia spent two seasons in [[Serie B]] achieving mid-table finishes, before another relegation followed at the end of the [[Serie B 1997-98|1997–98]] season. They did not fare any better down in [[Serie C1]], with another successive relegation to [[Serie C2]].
Playing football in Italy's fourth tier was far less glamorous{{tone inline|date=January 2024}}{{according to whom|date=January 2024}} than the Zemanlandia days but the club set itself on the long road back{{tone inline|date=January 2024}} in 2002–03, when led by coach [[Pasquale Marino]] and key players [[Roberto De Zerbi]] and [[Michele Pazienza]], they were promoted back to [[Serie C1]].
After the 2003–04 season, in which they finished mid-table but with good signs{{clarify|date=January 2024|reason=what 'good signs'?}} for the following year, Foggia were hit with financial problems and lost the coach Marino and all the best players.
===Second U.S. Foggia===
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The news sent the fans into despair{{tone inline|date=January 2024}} but Giuseppe Coccimiglio took over the reins of the club and gave confidence to the new club which assumed the team's historic name, '''Unione Sportiva Foggia''', and was able to keep their place in the league, thanks to Comma 3 of the [[Article 52 of N.O.I.F.]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.figc.it/Assets/contentresources_2/ContenutoGenerico/34.$plit/C_2_ContenutoGenerico_4768_lstAllegati_Allegato0_upfAllegato.pdf|title=C.U. N°199/A (2003–04)|date=30 June 2004|access-date=11 July 2015|first=Franco|last=Carraro|work=Presidente Federale|publisher=FIGC|language=it}}</ref>
After two more seasons finishing in mid-table, during which there were five coaching changes, Coccimiglio was criticised for not paying players' wages, a situation which created instability. After complex negotiations, the company passed into the hands of a team of local entrepreneurs led by Tullio Capobianco.
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