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| Full name | Brescia Calcio S.p.A. | |||
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| Nickname(s) | Le Rondinelle (The Little Swallows) I Biancazzurri (The White and Blues) La Leonessa (The Lioness) | |||
| Founded | 1911 | |||
| Ground | Stadio Mario Rigamonti, Brescia, Italy | |||
| Capacity | 19,500 | |||
| Owner | Massimo Cellino | |||
| President | Massimo Cellino[1] | |||
| Head coach | Rolando Maran | |||
| League | Serie B | |||
| 2023–24 | Serie B, 8th of 20 | |||
| Website | bresciacalcio | |||
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Brescia Calcio, commonly referred to as Brescia (Italian pronunciation: [ˈbreʃʃa ˈkaltʃo]), is an Italian football club based in Brescia, Lombardy, that currently plays in Serie B, the second tier of Italian football.
The club holds the record for total number of seasons (64) and consecutive seasons (18, from 1947–48 to 1964–65) in Serie B, which they have won four times. Their best finish in Serie A came in the 2000–01 season when they placed eighth. At the beginning of the 21st century, led by the 1993 Ballon d'Or winner Roberto Baggio, the club also qualified for the Intertoto Cup twice, reaching the final in 2001 but being defeated on away goals by Paris Saint-Germain. During this era, Pep Guardiola, former FC Barcelona captain and later a highly decorated manager, also played for the club.
The team's colours are blue and white. Its stadium is the 19,550-seater[2] Stadio Mario Rigamonti. They have a long-standing rivalry with Atalanta from nearby Bergamo.[3][4]
- ^ Organigramma Brescia Calcio
- ^ "Stadio Rigamonti". bresciacalcio.it. Archived from the original on 18 August 2022. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
- ^ War, Pigs and Rabbits: Atalanta and Brescia meet 13 years later, Conor Clancy, Forza Italian Football, 29 November 2019. Retrieved 2 June 2022
- ^ Brescia v Atalanta: the Italian derby built on a 900-year-old feud, Martino Simcik Arese, The Guardian / Copa 90, 7 February 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2022