The playoff match took place at Stadio Renzo Barbera, Palermo, attended by 12,000 people, the majority of whom were Mazara supporters.

Since Mazara ended the season with the same number of points as Sancataldese, they were forced to play a single-legged relegation playoff.

Affected by heavy financial struggles, Mazara's team comprised young and inexperienced players in the 1999–2000 Serie D season.

With a new property, the club returned to Eccellenza in 2005–2006 under coach Filippo Cavataio, a native of Mazara and a former centre back of several Serie C teams.

However, in January 2009, the club unwillingly gained national news coverage due to a key home game against first-placed Villabate.

[1][2] The Sicilian Football Federation then announced that the match was to be replayed on 10 March; Mazara won the game 2–0 and established themselves in first place.

[3] On 22 March, after a 4–0 home win against Marsala in a local derby, Mazara mathematically ensured first place in the league table.

[4] The club's comeback season to Serie D was hailed by financial problems, mostly caused by the move from a regional league to a national one.

He was banned from the league for ten months in February 2010 because he greeted two club staff members under criminal investigation.

In their first season back in Eccellenza, Mazara clearly stated their intent to return immediately to Serie D by acquiring several top players, including former Torino striker Akeem Omolade.

The 2013–14 season was particularly disastrous: Mazara narrowly escaped relegation through playoffs, which were decided by a last-minute extra-time draw against Rocca di Caprileone.

New leader Elio Abbagnato (former club chairman from 1989 to 1991, and father-in-law of former Italy international Federico Balzaretti) appointed former Serie A player Tommaso Napoli as Mazara's new manager.

They ended the national phase, which offered an additional Serie D spot to the competition winners, as runners-up, losing to Unione Sanremo in the final.

Mazara plays its home matches at Stadio Nino Vaccara, a small stadium along the local Mazaro river.

Originally a dirt floor stadium without seats, Stadio Nino Vaccara undertook a massive restructuring in the early 2000s, implementing a synthetic field and a numbered seats-only grandstand with a roof.

[9] Outside the stadium, right beside the main entrance, murals depict fishermen and fishing boats characteristic of Mazara del Vallo.