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| Full name | L.R. Vicenza S.p.A. | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Biancorossi, Lanerossi/Lane, Nobile provinciale, I Berici | ||
| Founded | 9 March 1902 | ||
| Ground | Stadio Romeo Menti | ||
| Capacity | 12,000[1] | ||
| Owner |  OTB Group S.p.A. | ||
| Chairman | Stefano Rosso | ||
| Head coach | Stefano Vecchi | ||
| League | Serie C Group A | ||
| 2023–24 | Serie C Group A, 3rd of 20 | ||
| Website | http://lrvicenza.net/ | ||
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L.R. Vicenza S.p.A. (acronym for Lanerossi Vicenza), better known as Vicenza, is an Italian football club based in the city of Vicenza. It plays in Serie C, the third division of the Italian football league.
Founded on 9 March 1902, as Associazione del Calcio in Vicenza, it's the oldest football club in north-eastern Italy as well as in the Triveneto and Veneto regions. It has played 30 Serie A championships (20 of which were consecutive between 1955–1956 and 1974–1975): it therefore occupies 19th place in the ranking of teams with the best sporting tradition of clubs that have played in Italy's top league while placing in 18th place in the perpetual ranking. The IFFHS lists it among the 15 best Italian teams of the 20th century.
Domestically it boasts the victory of an Italian Cup (1996–1997) and of the Italian Cup Serie C in 1981–1982 and 2022–2023, while the best result at international level is reaching the semi-final of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (1997–1998); it also counts reaching the final in the 1910–1911 First Division championship , where it was defeated by Pro Vercelli, and a second place behind Juventus in the 1977–1978 Serie A championship , in which it achieved the best result ever by a newly promoted club in the single-round era .
The club was reformed in 2018, following Vicenza Calcio's bankruptcy, thanks to the moving and name change of Bassano Virtus (then owned by OTB Group) from Bassano to Vicenza. L.R Vicenza is now the heir, and de facto continuation, of the sporting tradition that began on 9 March 1902 with the founding of Associazione del Calcio in Vicenza which later became Lanerossi Vicenza from 1953 to 1989 and finally Vicenza Calcio, before going bankrupt in 2018.
- ^ "Stadio "ROMEO MENTI" | Vicenza Calcio | Official Website". Archived from the original on 29 June 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2015.