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| Full name | Rimini Football Club | ||
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| Nickname | Biancorossi (The White-reds) | ||
| Founded | 1912; 113 years ago (1912) 1938; 87 years ago (1938) (refounded) | ||
| Ground | Stadio Romeo Neri,Rimini | ||
| Capacity | 9,768 | ||
| Owner | Alfredo Rota | ||
| Chairman | Alfredo Rota | ||
| Manager | Filippo D'Alesio | ||
| League | Serie C Group B | ||
| 2024–25 | Serie C Group B, 9th of 20 | ||
| Website | https://www.riminifc.it/ | ||
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Rimini Football Club 1912 is anItalian association football club based inRimini, Emilia-Romagna that plays in the third-tierSerie C.
The original club was founded in 1912.
Their home ground is the 9786-seatStadio Romeo Neri.
The club was firstly founded asLibertas Rimini in 1912 and four years later became independent asRimini Football Club.[1]Before the introduction of the classic red and white shirts, the club decided to use green and white kits for its first official match against Vis Pesaro.The 1929–30 season saw the building of the stadium still used by the club today;Stadio Romeo Neri. The club name was changed toRimini Calcio in 1938 after a bankruptcy.
Rimini competed in regional leagues (the equivalent of the modern daySerie C system) for many years of their existence. They were unable to gain promotion toSerie B until 1976.
During the 1970s the club spent three seasons in Serie B, finishing in the bottom half of the table; they were relegated in 1978–79, but achieved promotion straight back up the following season. Rimini were relegated again during 1981–82, this time however, they did not achieve promotion back up straight away. Rimini spent the next twenty-four seasons in theSerie C league system, dropping as low asC2/C at one point.
However, the 2000s proved to be a brighter time for Rimini; they reached the C2/B playoffs six successive times before gaining promotion toC1/A. In 2004–05, they becameSerie C champions (as well asSerie C1 Super Cup winners) and returned toSerie B for the first time since the early 1970s.
On 9 September 2006, Rimini gained the national news after having gained a shocking 1–1 home draw againstJuventus FC, with Argentine attacking midfielderAdrián Ricchiuti scoring the equaliser, despite a sending off for Rimini midfielderDomenico Cristiano soon after the 1–0 Juventus lead.[2] They even reached the top ofSerie B by early 2007, but at the end of that season they were ranked 5th behindJuventus,Napoli,Genoa andPiacenza.
Two years later, Rimini Calcio has been relegated toLega Pro Prima Divisione after losing the play-out against the formerAncona.
In the season 2010–11 it would have to play again in the Italian 3rd level championship, but in the spring of 2010 the former ownership left, and nobody took over in the society.
In the summer of 2010 the club was refounded asA.C. Rimini 1912, that began life inSerie D, the 5th tier of Italian football. That year, the club won the national play-off finals againstTurris on penalties after a 0–0 draw, being promoted toLega Pro Seconda Divisione (4th tier).[3] At the end of 2011–12 season, Rimini lost the play-off semifinals againstCuneo. The following season was rather complicated for the club, because Rimini had to win two relegation play-off rounds to keep its place in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione. The fall to Serie D came one year after, when 9 of 18 teams were relegated (third and fourth tier were unified into a single league after that edition). In the meanwhile, Fabrizio De Meis assumed the ownership of the club in place of Biagio Amati, who resigned.[4]
Eleven months after the relegation, Rimini came back toLega Pro after winning the group D of2014–15 Serie D. In that season, the team collected 86 points, and the striker Manuel Pera scored 30 goals. At the end of2015–16 Lega Pro, after a season influenced by serious economic problems, A.C. Rimini 1912 could not take part to the following championship due to its debts.[5][6]
In summer 2016, the club was refounded asRimini Football Club 1912 and competed inEccellenza Emilia-Romagna for the 2016–17 season[7] and inSerie D for the 2017–18 season, both of them ended with a promotion.
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