A judge in Avellino has declined to validate the obligation-to-sign requirement imposed on two Avellino ultras after the disorder before the Serie B match between Avellino and Sampdoria on 9 October.
According to IrpiniaNews, the investigating judge of the Avellino Tribunal, Giulio Argenio, issued the ruling on 24 October 2026. The decision concerned two local supporters who had received stadium bans following the pre-match clashes outside Stadio Partenio-Lombardi.
What the judge decided
The two supporters had been given five-year Daspo orders with an obligation to sign, ordered by Avellino Questore Pasquale Picone. The Daspo measures were reported on 23 October, pending the judge's decision on the signing requirement.
IrpiniaNews reports that the judge did not validate the signing element of the measures. The obligation would have required the two men to report to the Questura or the nearest judicial-police office shortly before each half of Avellino's matches.
The reported reasoning was evidential. According to the account of the ruling, the available acts did not establish that the two men belonged to the group that broke through the police cordon and came into contact with Sampdoria supporters. The judge also reportedly found no evidence that the two had incited other supporters to violence.
The full text of the judge's order was not available in the reports consulted, and the reports do not state the names or ages of the two supporters.
The 9 October disorder outside Partenio-Lombardi
The measures followed clashes before the 9 October Serie B fixture at Stadio Partenio-Lombardi.
Contemporary local reports place the disorder around the exterior of Curva Nord and the visiting supporters' section, with police intervening between the two groups of fans. Irpiniaoggi described the two men concerned as young local supporters.
GenovaToday reported tensions, fireworks and smoke bombs directed at police before the match, in the area where approximately 500 Sampdoria supporters were present. Other contemporary accounts described the use of fireworks, firecrackers and smoke bombs during the disorder. At the time of that report, no injuries were known.
Daspo and the signing requirement: what was at issue
The case involved two distinct elements that are often reported together but are legally separate.
The first is the Daspo, the stadium ban prohibiting access to matches for a fixed period — in this case reported as five years. The second is the obligation to sign, an additional requirement to report to police offices around match times, which requires judicial validation.
The judge's ruling reported on 24 October concerned the second element. The available reports do not establish whether the underlying Daspo bans remained effective after the signing requirement was not validated.
What remains unclear
Several points are not resolved in the published reports. The identities of the two supporters have not been published, and the complete reasoning of the judge has not been made public beyond the summaries carried by IrpiniaNews.
It is also not clear from the reports whether further measures or appeals will follow, or whether the police investigation into the wider disorder around Curva Nord and the visiting section is continuing.
