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The history of Piacenza Foot-Ball Club S.p.A. (usually denominated as Piacenza Calcio) has covered 93 years of the football from the club based in Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna. It was an Italian association football club founded in 1919. In 2012 the club was declared bankrupt and the team was disbanded. A successor, Piacenza Calcio 1919, former known as Lupa Piacenza and A.C.D. LibertaSpes, had licensed to the brand of the club since 2012.
The club won the Anglo-Italian Cup in 1986. The highest they have ever finished in their home league is 12th in Serie A, which they have achieved twice in 1997/1998 and 2001/2002. They spent much of their history in the lower divisions, suffering relegation in four of their first six Serie B seasons. They first reaching Serie A in the early nineties, and have been relegated to Lega Pro Prima Divisione.
Piacenza has been known in the past for its strong reluctance to use foreign players, using a team made up exclusively of Italians for most of its Serie A seasons.