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| Full name | Associazione Sportiva Dilettanistica Viareggio Calcio | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nicknames | Le Zebre (The Zebras) Bianconeri (The Black and Whites)[1][2] | ||
| Founded | 1919 (as Viareggio Calcio) 1939 (refounded as A.S. Viareggio Calcio) 1994 (refounded as A.C. Viareggio) 2003 (refounded as F.C. Esperia Viareggio) 2014 (refounded as S.S.D. Viareggio 2014) 2020 (refounded as Viareggio Calcio) | ||
| Ground | Stadio Torquato Bresciani | ||
| Capacity | 7,000 | ||
| Chairman | Domenico Filippelli | ||
| Manager | Andrea Macchetti | ||
| League | Seconda Categoria Group B | ||
| 2020–21 | Covid-suspended | ||
Associazione Sportiva Dilettanistica Viareggio Calcio, usually referred to simply asViareggio, is an Italianfootball club located inViareggio, Tuscany.
Viareggio Calcio, as of 2021–22 season, plays in Tuscan Second Category.[3]
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Esperia was a football club founded inViareggio in 1911.
Viareggio Calcio was founded in 1919 by a merger of 6 football clubs: Esperia, Libertas, Vigor, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Aquila and Celeritas.[4] The club was re-founded in 1939 asA.S. Viareggio Calcio and again asA.C. Viareggio in 1994.[5]
Viareggio played inSerie B between 1933–1937 and 1946–1948.[citation needed] Viareggio also spent several seasons inSerie C, notably from 1990 to 1994 and from 1997 to 2002.[citation needed]
In 2000s the club was acquired by theEuropean School of Economics from Bruno Fanciullacci.[1] The club then known asA.C. E.S.E. Viareggio.[6]
A.C. E.S.E. Viareggio was dissolved due to bankruptcy in June 2003.[6] The former chairman of the club Vincenzo Lombino (alias: Marvin Tracy) was charged for withdrawing money from the club with false invoices.[7] The school itself was involved in an alleged money laundering scandal.[8]
After the defunct of A.C. Viareggio,Esperia Viareggio became a successor of the club. The founding chairman of Esperia Viareggio was Mirko Lippi,[9] but was soon replaced by Stefano Dinelli, which was the chairman from 2003 to circa 2014.[10] However, the new club did not acquire the assets of the old club.[9] It was reported that former A.C. Viareggio chairman Bruno Fanciullacci had acquired the assets of the old club by auction.[1] The name "Esperia Viareggio" is a homage to the first team founded in the city, Esperia 1911.
It was reported that the Comitato Regionale Toscana, the organizer ofEccellenza Tuscany, had accepted the application of Lippi's Esperia Viareggio as a phoenix club, instead of Fanciullacci's Viareggio.
Promoted in 2006 after having wonEccellenza Tuscany andCoppa Italia Dilettanti,[11] Esperia Viareggio gained its second consecutive promotion on 22 April 2007 by winning Group E ofSerie D four matches before the end of the season.
At the end of the2008–09 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione season, the club was admitted toLega Pro Prima Divisione for the first time[according to whom?] in its history.
Long serving players retired including Samuele Barsotti and Giuseppe Costantino in 2010 and Michele Fusi in 2009. Alberto Reccolani also left the club. In 2009–10 and 2010–11 the team finished the season in the relegation places, but managed to win play-offs to remain in the Lega Pro Prima Divisione. In 2010–11 the only defenders on a long-term contract were Lorenzo Fiale andSergio Carnesalini, whilst others were borrowed from other teams. The starting goalkeeperCarlo Pinsoglio was loaned from Juventus and called up to theItaly national under-21 football team during his stay with club. In 2014 the club was excluded from the new third-tierLega Pro for economic reasons.
However, Esperia Viareggio was later admitted to 2014–15Terza Categoria season.[12]
In August 2014, thanks to thearticle 52 of N.O.I.F., a new club was admitted toEccellenza Tuscany as a successor.[13][14]
After its predecessorF.C. Esperia Viareggio, which was excluded from professional leagues in 2014, "Viareggio 2014" applied as its successor and was admitted inEccellenza Tuscany. However, Esperia Viareggio continued to play inTerza Categoria from 2014 to 2017.
The club's main colors are white and black, serving as inspiration for the club's nickname,[Le] Zebre,[10] which stands for "The Zebras."
The logo of now defunct Esperia Viareggio, featured zebra stripe and ananchor.[15] In 2012–13 season,Burlamacco, a local crown figure, was also added to the jersey.[4]
Esperia Viareggio wore a temporarily logo "Viareggio Ricorda" in 2009, as a memorial ofViareggio train derailment.[4][16]
S.S.D. Viareggio 2014 had a similar logo background as the logo of now defunct F.C. Esperia Viareggio, but had 2014, the year of foundation on it. The logo also featured an anchor, but resemble to the crest ofthe city.
Viareggio 2014 also used a temporarily logoIl Mondo che vorrei in 2015 as a memorial of Viareggio train derailment.[17]
A.C. Viareggio played their home matches onStadio Torquato Bresciani [it], which also known as Stadio dei Pini.[18] Their successors, Esperia Viareggio and Viareggio 2014, also used that stadium until 2018.[19]
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I colori sociali sono il bianco e il nero, il simbolo che appare nel logo ufficiale è l'ancora, altro simbolo è la zebra, per cui i Viareggini sono chiamati con l'epiteto di Zebre.
