The club was founded in 1931 as
Associazione Calcio Licata by a few local students who discovered the game of association football thanks to some
Swedish sailors who worked in the area; the official team colours, in fact, refer to the
flag of Sweden. The club was renamed
Polisportiva Licata in 1967. The first appearance of Licata in a professional league, is dated in 1982 within
Serie C2. During the 1984–85 season, Licata, coached by a young
Zdeněk Zeman, won Serie C2 and was promoted to Serie C1, despite a team composed almost entirely by players from the youth squad. In 1988, with
Aldo Cerantola as coach, Licata won also Serie C1/B, and was promoted to
Serie B for the first time in the club's history. During its first season in the Italian second division, with
Giuseppe Papadopulo as a coach, then replaced by
Francesco Scorsa, Licata ended in ninth place; finishing above
Parma. They also achieved the honor of playing a
Coppa Italia match at the
Stadio San Siro against
AC Milan. The following season however, Licata were relegated to Serie C1 after finishing in 18th position. A couple of seasons later, in 1991–92 they were relegated down to
Serie C2. They were then relegated in the 1992–94 season, and were set to compete in the CND league, but slow decay for the Sicilian club was complete and they became bankrupt in 1994.
Refoundations A new club,
Licata AC, was then founded and admitted to the regional
Eccellenza league. But in 1996, after having daringly avoided relegation, Licata AC did not register to Eccellenza and was cancelled too; a new team,
Santos Licata (then
Nuovo Licata, that finally switched to the current denomination), started from
Promozione (7th level in the
Italian football league system). During the 2005–06 season, Licata won the round A of Sicilian Eccellenza, consequently returning to
Serie D for the first time for a decade. In the season 2010–11 it was promoted from
Eccellenza Sicily group A to
Serie D. A new club was created in 2014 after another bankruptcy. ==Colors and badge==