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| Full name | Associazione Calcio Mestre | ||
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| Nicknames | l'Arancioneri (The Orange & Blacks) Il Piccolo Torino (LittleTorino) | ||
| Founded | 1927 | ||
| Ground | Stadio Francesco Baracca, Mestre,Venice, Italy] | ||
| Capacity | 2,000[citation needed] | ||
| Chairman | Stefano Serena[citation needed] | ||
| Manager | Gianpietro Zecchin | ||
| League | Serie D | ||
| 2018–19 | Eccellenza Veneto B, 2nd (promoted) | ||
| Website | www | ||
Associazione Calcio Mestre is anItalian association football club located inMestre,Venice,Veneto. It currently plays inSerie D, the fourth tier of the Italian league system. Its colours are orange and black.
The club was founded in 1927 asUnione Sportiva Mestrina.The club made their firstSerie C appearance in 1938, winning the league in 1946 and subsequently taking part to the1946–47Serie B season, on what it was the highest moment in the club's history.
In the following years, Mestrina played mostly aroundSerie C andSerie D level. In 1980 the club was renamed toAssociazione Calcio Mestre, and played in theSerie C1 andSerie C2 leagues on a regular basis.
In 1987 the club was acquired byMaurizio Zamparini, who had already boughtVenezia, in order to merge the two clubs together under a new denomination ofVenezia-Mestre Calcio and a choice of team colours that combined Mestre's orange and black with Venezia's black and green. In 1989, following the club's change of name toVenezia 1907 (thus excluding any past reference to Mestre altogether) and the club's decision to move out of the Mestre-based Stadio Francesco Baracca in 1991, attempts were made to refound the original Mestre club, withEccellenza club Malcontenta moving to the Venice suburb and changing its denomination toMalcontenta-Mestrina and finally back toMestre Calcio.
In 1995, Mestre Calcio returned to Serie D, and won a second consecutive promotion the next year, thus bringing Mestre back to professionalism already in 1996. The club were relegated in 2003 and went bankrupt afterwards. The club resumed activity fromTerza Categoria and reachedPrima Categoria in 2010. A minor club in town, calledMestrina F.C., were playing in Eccellenza at the time; due to a number of legal loopholes, the two clubs merged in 2015 to acquire the footballing rights ofMogliano-based club Union Pro, who were playing inSerie D at the time. Through all this, Mestre managed to return to Serie D for the 2015–16 season, and won promotion toSerie C in 2017 under head coachMauro Zironelli.
After the2017–18 Serie C season, Mestre attempted to enroll in the next championship at the last minute. However, anticipated new financial backers walked away from the club, citing concerns over infrastructure. After the Serie C registration was rejected, Mestre had no better option but to play the 2018–19 season inEccellenza.[1][2][3]
Mestre were immediately promoted back to Serie D on their first Eccellenza season, winning the national playoff tournament in 2019.
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Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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