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Brescia Calcio is a football club based in Brescia, Lombardy. The club was formed in 1911 and currently plays in the Italian Serie B, having spent a large part of recent years bouncing between Serie A and the second division.
The team's colors are blue and white. Its stadium is the 27,547 seater Stadio Mario Rigamonti.
[edit] History
The team was founded in 1911 as Brescia Football Club, joining the Terza Categoria division the same year. In 1912 Brescia promoted to Serie A for its first time ever, in which played for six of the seven following season. Successively, the club played among the two top division until 1982, when Brescia relegated to Serie C1, then returning to Serie B in 1985.
Brescia Calcio won the Anglo-Italian Cup in 1994, the biggest notable achievement in their entire history to date. However, Brescia actually came to the footballing forefront only in 2000, when the previously unfancied club signed former FIFA World Player of the Year Roberto Baggio, who led Brescia to a surprising seventh place in 2000/2001 Serie A, the best result during its time in Serie A, thus qualifying for the UEFA Intertoto Cup. Successively, Brescia reached the Intertoto Cup finals, then lost to Paris Saint-Germain. Baggio spent four years at Brescia before retiring in 2004 and during those historic four years, Brescia became widely known as "Baggio's Brescia". During Baggio's four year spell with Brescia, Brescia recorded their best ever run of staying in Serie A. However, in the very next season that followed Baggio's retirement (2004/2005), Brescia were relegated from Serie A on the last day, finishing a lowly 19th.
Even former Spanish captain Josep Guardiola, Italy's national team striker Luca Toni, and current AC Milan star Andrea Pirlo (born in Brescia) had also spent time in Brescia.
[edit] Current first team squad
As of March 2007
[edit] Famous players
[edit] Retired numbers
[edit] Seasons
- 1913/14 - North League Qualifiing round Group E 5rd place
- 1914/15 - North League Qualifiing round Group E 3rd place
- 1915-19 - league suspended due to World War I
- 1919/20 - North League-Lombardia Group A runner-up, Semifinal Round Group B 5th place
- 1920/21 - North League-Lombardia Group E 3rd place
- 1921/22 - North League Group B 11th place
- 1922/23 - North League Group C 7th place
- 1923/24 - 1st division Group A 10th place
- 1924/25 - 1st division Group A 10th place
- 1925/26 - 1st division Group A 8th place
- 1926/27 - 1st division Group A 7th place
- 1927/28 - 1st division Group A 5th place
- 1928/29 - 1st division Group B runner-up
- 1929/30 - Serie A 9th place
- 1930/31 - Serie A 9th place
- 1931/32 - Serie A17th place, relegated to Serie B
- 1932/33 - Serie B runner-up, promoted to Serie A
- 1933/34 - Serie A 12th place
- 1934/35 - Serie A 10th place
- 1935/36 - Serie A bottom, relegated to Serie B
- 1936/37 - Serie B 7th place
- 1937/38 - Serie B 14th place, relegated to Serie C
- 1938/39 - Serie C, promoted to Serie B
- 1939/40 - Serie B 5th place
- 1940/41 - Serie B 3rd place
- 1941/42 - Serie B 5th place
- 1942/43 - Serie B runner-up, promoted to Serie A
- 1943-45 - league suspended due to World War II
- 1945/46 - Serie A 4th place
- 1946/47 - Serie A 18th place, relegated to Serie B group A
- 1947/48 - Serie B Group A runner-up
- 1948/49 - Serie B 5th place
- 1949/50 - Serie B 6th place
- 1950/51 - Serie B 9th place
- 1951/52 - Serie B runner-up
- 1952/53 - Serie B 4th place
- 1953/54 - Serie B 9th place
- 1954/55 - Serie B 5th place
- 1955/56 - Serie B 7th place
- 1956/57 - Serie B third place
- 1957/58 - Serie B 8th place
- 1958/59 - Serie B 13th place
- 1959/60 - Serie B 7th place
- 1960/61 - Serie B 15th place
- 1961/62 - Serie B 8th place
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- 1962/63 - Serie B 4th place
- 1963/64 - Serie B 7th place
- 1964/65 - Serie B Champion, promoted to Serie A
- 1965/66 - Serie A 9th place
- 1966/67 - Serie A 13th place
- 1967/68 - Serie A 14th place, relegated to Serie B
- 1968/69 - Serie B runner-up, promoted to Serie A
- 1969/70 - Serie A 14th place, relegated to Serie B
- 1970/71 - Serie B 5th place
- 1971/72 - Serie B 12th place
- 1972/73 - Serie B 17th place
- 1973/74 - Serie B 12th place
- 1974/75 - Serie B 9th place
- 1975/76 - Serie B 5th place
- 1976/77 - Serie B 16th place
- 1977/78 - Serie B 14th place
- 1978/79 - Serie B 8th place
- 1979/80 - Serie B third place, promoted to Serie A
- 1980/81 - Serie A 14th place, relegated to Serie B
- 1981/82 - Serie B 18th place, relegated to Serie C/1A
- 1982/83 - Serie C/1A 11th place
- 1983/84 - Serie C/1A 5th place
- 1984/85 - Serie C/1A Champion, promoted to Serie B
- 1985/86 - Serie B runner-up, promoted to Serie A
- 1986/87 - Serie A 14th place, relegated to Serie B
- 1987/88 - Serie B 8th place
- 1988/89 - Serie B 16th place
- 1989/90 - Serie B 10th place
- 1990/91 - Serie B 9th place
- 1991/92 - Serie B Champion, promoted to Serie A
- 1992/93 - Serie A 16th place, relegated to Serie B
- 1993/94 - Serie B third place, promoted to Serie A
- 1994/95 - Serie A bottom, relegated to Serie B
- 1995/96 - Serie B 16th place
- 1996/97 - Serie B first place, promoted to Serie A
- 1997/98 - Serie A 15th place, relegated to Serie B
- 1998/99 - Serie B 7th place
- 1999/00 - Serie B third place, promoted to Serie A
- 2000/01 - Serie A 8th place
- 2001/02 - Serie A 14th place, 2001 Intertoto Cup runner-up
- 2002/03 - Serie A 10th place
- 2003/04 - Serie A 11th place
- 2004/05 - Serie A 19th place, relegated to Serie B
- 2005/06 - Serie B 10th place
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[edit] References
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Luigi Corioni
Albert Brülls
Gilbert Bodart
Stephen Appiah
Branco real name Claudio Ibrahim Vaz Leal
Gilberto Martínez
Josep Guardiola
Gheorghe Hagi
Marek Koźmiński
Tal Banin
