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| Full name | Associazione Calcio Cantù Gruppo Sportivo San Paolo Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica | ||
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| Founded | 2000 | ||
| Ground | Stadio Comunale, Cantù,Italy | ||
| Capacity | 1,000 | ||
| Chairman | Gennaro Novelli | ||
| Manager | Giuliano Lodini[1] | ||
| League | Eccellenza Lombardy | ||
| 2011–12 | Serie D/A, 18th | ||
Associazione Calcio Cantù Gruppo Sportivo San Paolo Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica is anItalian association football club, based inCantù, Lombardy. Cantù San Paolo will play inEccellenza.
A.C. Cantù G.S. San Paolo A.S.D. was founded in the summer of 2000, with the merger betweenA.C. Cantù (founded in 1910 and playing inSeconda Categoria Lombardy) andG.S. San Paolo (founded in 1985 and playing inPrima Categoria Lombardy).[2] The team took part in thePrima Categoria and its second attempt to conquer thePromozione.
In the 2008–2009 season, Cantù San Paolo was promoted to Serie D by beating Fondi 2–1 in the national play-off final. In the 2011–2012 season, it was relegated toEccellenza.[3][4]
The origins of football in Cantù go back to 1910, whenClub Sportivo Canturino was founded. The field of play and training was the stage of Milan. After playing for three years with the teams at Como Ulice, which was affiliated to the two dispute FIGC and the Quarta Divisione championship, gaining a second place in 1924–1925, which earned him admission to the Terza Divisione in 1925–1926.
It got the best placement in the season 1926–1927, finishing in second place with three points from Seregno, but suddenly stopped the activity, remaining idle for a season. In season 1928–1929, under the name Dopolavoro Cantù, they burned all stages: in the space of three seasons, they played inPrima Categoria (1932–1933).
It retired at the end of the 1933–1934 First Division championship for financial reasons, until reappearing in the Lombardy regional championships with the return of young people after the end of the war in Ethiopia. It then started affiliating with the new name ofAssociazione Calcio Cantù.
The forties are the golden era of football in the town of Brianza. The team, on a regular grenade, disputes theSerie C, participating in the Cup three times in Italy. The best result was achieved in the domestic cup in the 1939–1940 season, when it was eliminated from theBiellese to the third qualifying round after overcoming Codogno andCaratese.
In 1960, the team, due to economic failures, was forced to abandon the competitive activity.
The following year, he founded a new club, theFootball Club Cantù, whose playing field is always on the green rectangle of Milan. The sailing team championships in thePrima Categoria andSeconda Categoria (current leaguesPromozione andEccellenza) have been held for many years.
In 1971, the Mobil Girgi company, engaged in the furnishing sector, took over the company, which became F.C. Arredi Girgi Cantù, and paved the way for the return of Cantù to competitive football levels. In the season 1972–1973, they won thePrima Categoria and were promoted toSerie D.
During the first year of Serie D (1973–1974), Cantù finished 13th, with two points more than the relegation places. The next year (season 1974–1975), the team was fired from the championship duel with Pro Patria and freedom for promotion toSerie C; finally, the promotion was lost. Direct comparisons both ended in a draw, fatal to the team's 1–0 defeat. Cantù was promoted on May 14 in Lodi during the recovery against the Fanfulla, which gave mathematics the chance to promotion for Cantù. They then separated by three points, with two matches to play. The following season was the last in Serie D: the second-lowest disappointing season, and it initiated the decline of society. The only positive of this disappointing season was the debut of a player who then won the Scudetto with the Inter shirt: Gianfranco Matteoli.
From that moment, because of the abandonment of the familyGirgi for political conflicts, Cantù began an inexorable decline. It led to sinking to the bottom in just a few years, playing so many leagues between thePrima Categoria andSeconda Categoria.
G.S. San Paolo was founded in 1985, and towards the end of the nineties, it even surpassed the glorious city society ofA.C. Cantù, playing inPrima Categoria.
The team's colors are all-dark red.
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