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| Full name | Football Club Bolzano 1996 | ||
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| Nicknames | Biancorossi (The Red & White),Aquile (The Eagles) | ||
| Founded | 1931; 95 years ago (1931) asAssociazione Calcio Bolzano 1933 (refounded) 1937 (refounded) 1996 (refounded) | ||
| Dissolved | 26 May 2017; 8 years ago (2017-05-26) (merged) | ||
| Ground | Stadio Druso | ||
| Capacity | 5,539 | ||
| 2014–15 | Promozione/Bolzano, 10th | ||
| Website | https://www.fcbolzano96.it/ | ||
Football Club Bolzano 1996, commonly known asFC Bolzano or simplyBolzano (pronounced[bolˈtsaːno]), was an Italianfootballclub based inBolzano,Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. The club last competed inPromozione, the sixth tier of theItalian football league system, before merging in 2015 with Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Virtus Don Bosco, to form a new club calledASDC Virtus Bolzano.[1] After the merger, the club did not dissolve immediately, continuing to operate its youth sector until 2017.[2]
Founded as a football-only club in 1931 and known by its final name since 1996, FC Bolzano eventually expanded its activities to include other sports over the years. It was the first club fromTrentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol to compete inSerie B, the second tier of Italian football, although never during the era of around-robin tournament.[3] Until the 2022–23 season — whenFC Südtirol made its debut in Serie B — no other team from the region had matched this achievement.[3] For this reason, FC Bolzano held the most prominent footballing tradition in the region for over seventy years.[3]
