F.C. AlzanoCene 1909

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AlzanoCene

Full name

Football Club AlzanoCene 1909

Founded

1909

Ground

Stadio Carillo Pesenti Pigna,
Alzano Lombardo, Italy
(Capacity 1,900)

League

Eccellenza - Lombardy B

2006-07

Prima Categoria - Lombardy C, 7th





Home colours





Away colours

Football Club AlzanoCene 1909, best known with its short name Alzano, is an Italian football club from Alzano Lombardo, Lombardy. It was founded in 1909 and its official and colours are white and black.

The club was known in late '90s under the name Alzano Virescit Football Club 1909: the change of denomination followed a merger between Alzano Football Club, from Alzano Lombardo, and Virescit Boccaleone, a club from Bergamo which enjoyed some success in its Serie C1 period in the 1980s. The new club started from Serie D in 1993 and obtained two consecutive promotion that brought it to play Serie C1. Alzano then won Serie C1/A in 1999, placing first ahead Como. The Serie B experience for Alzano however lasted only one season, as the team relegated back to Serie C1 the next year. The club then relegated to Serie C2 in 2003 and was successively cancelled by the federation because of financial troubles. Refounded in 2004, played for three seasons in Prima Categoria. In 2007 change of denomonation for F.C. AlzanoCene 1909 followed a merger with Ardens Cene and play in Eccellenza.