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Unione Calcio AlbinoLeffe is an Italian association football club representing Albino and Leffe, two small towns located in Val Seriana, Lombardy. The club played in Serie B for nine consecutive years and narrowly missed promotion in Serie A at the end of the 2007–08 season. It currently plays in Serie C and has been in the Italian third tier since its relegation in 2011–12.

History

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The performance of AlbinoLeffe in the Italian football league structure since the first season of a unified Serie A (1929/30). The club's first season was 1998/99.

The club was created in 1998 as a result of the merger between former Serie C2 (fourth division) teams Albinese Calcio and Società Calcio Leffe, respectively from Albino and Leffe, two neighboring towns. In their first season, the club finished 2nd in the Serie C2 and won a promotion having defeated A.C. Prato in the Girone A Play-offs final. After rising to Serie C1 (the Italian third division), they performed at the middle of the pack, finishing 9th in 2000 and 13th in 2001.

However, in 2002, the Seriani went to the finals of the Coppa Italia Serie C, where they defeated Livorno 2–1 at home before losing 2–3 on the road. They won the tournament on the tiebreaker (most away goals scored). In league play they again finished 13th. In 2003, AlbinoLeffe, under coach Elio Gustinetti, finished second in league play before heading to the promotion play-off. There, they defeated Padua in the semifinals, then had a surprising triumph over Pisa Calcio, which pushed them up to Serie B.

The team moved from the small Martinelli Stadium in Leffe, where they used to play home matches before promotion to Serie B, to the bigger Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia located in Bergamo, the chief-town of the province where both Albino and Leffe are located. Even though AlbinoLeffe was considered to be an outsider in Serie B, which historically includes several former Scudetto winners, the team remarkably managed to avoid relegation in the last two seasons. In 2005–2006, after a great comeback in the second half of the season following the appointment of Emiliano Mondonico as new head coach, Albinoleffe ended the season in eighteenth place and managed to save itself from relegation by prevailing in the playouts against Avellino (score: 2–0, 2–3). The 2006–2007 Serie B campaign, the fourth consecutive for the small Lombard team, ended with a good tenth place, well ahead of the relegation zone.

Historically, AlbinoLeffe's home games have been characterized by very low attendance, as shown by the average 2,400 spectators per game in the 2006–07 season, the most successful in the club history.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

With local hero Gustinetti back in charge of the team and despite a lineup composed of relative unknowns, the club's 2007–08 campaign started surprisingly well, with the team leading the Serie B table for a few weeks and arousing the interest of the national media, which began providing regular coverage of the team's games. This has thus far failed to improve the club's low home attendance, however. During the season, AlbinoLeffe confirmed as a potential candidate for direct promotion to Serie A, however a string of poor results, ended with four consecutive home defeats, the final one being a 0–4 loss to Rimini, denied them the chance to achieve a place in the top two, and persuaded club chairman Gianfranco Andreoletti to sack Gustinetti, who then confirmed not to be in good relationships with the chairman, and appoint youth team coach Armando Madonna as caretaker boss for the final regular season match and the following promotion playoffs.<ref name="gustinetti_sacked">Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead link</ref> Even after a 1–0 loss to Brescia, AlbinoLeffe managed to win at home in the second leg (2–1) and qualified for the final against Lecce. In the first leg they suffered a 1–0 loss. On 15 June, the second match was played in Lecce and its result was 1–1, so AlbinoLeffe did not reach Serie A.

At the end of the 2011–12 season, it was relegated to Lega Pro Prima Divisione after 9 consecutive years in Serie B.

AlbinoLeffe following the systematic match fixing as a club controlled by Singapore-based organized crime<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> was penalized 10 points in the 2012–13 Lega Pro Prima Divisione.

Stadium and colors

From the 2003–04 Serie B season and until 2019, AlbinoLeffe played its home games at the Atleti Azzurri d'Italia stadium in the city of Bergamo. Previously they played in Stadio Carlo Martelli of Leffe.

Following Atalanta's renovation works on the stadium, the club reached a venue sharing agreement with Giana Erminio from the nearby city of Gorgonzola allowing the club to play their home matches for the 2019–20 Serie C season at the Stadio Città di Gorgonzola.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In 2021, the club opened a brand-new stadium in the town of Zanica with a capacity of 1,791 (with possibility of expansion to up to 5,500 in case of a promotion in Serie B) built next to the club's headquarters and training centre; the stadium was formally approved by the Italian National Olympic Committee in March 2019.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The stadium makes AlbinoLeffe the first Serie C team to own their home stadium. The inauguration match was played on 21 December 2021, a Serie C league game against Pro Patria.<ref name="inauguration">Template:Cite news</ref>

The club's official colors are dark blue and azure blue, also used for home matches, while the outfit worn by the players for away matches is red and yellow.

Honours

Domestic

Players

Current squad

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Club officials

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Board of directors

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Role Name
Owner Template:Flagicon Gianfranco Andreoletti
Board Members Template:Flagicon Franco Acerbis
Template:Flagicon Luciano Zenoni
Template:Flagicon Simone Farina
Template:Flagicon Adriano Capponi
Template:Flagicon Pietro Gelmi
General Manager Template:Flagicon Simone Farina
Administrative Director Template:Flagicon Valerio Sacchi
Secretary Template:Flagicon Ruben Garlini
Ticketing Director Template:Flagicon Matteo Filosa
Sporting Director Template:Flagicon Antonio Obbedio
Youth Center Director Template:Flagicon Marco Malenchini
Youth Center Coordinator Template:Flagicon Angelo Garlini
Order and Safety Director Template:Flagicon Marco Colosio
Stadium Manager Template:Flagicon Ruben Garlini
Scouting Director Template:Flagicon Roberto Vattiato
Head of Medical Staff Template:Flagicon Giacomo Poggioli
Team Manager Template:Flagicon Ivano Peracchi
Press Officer Template:Flagicon Matteo Viscardi

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Current technical staff

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Role Name
Head coach Template:Flagicon Giovanni Lopez
Assistant coach Template:Flagicon Simone Arceci
Goalkeeping coach Template:Flagicon Giuseppe Benatelli
Fitness coach Template:Flagicon Andrea Mossali

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Seasons

Season Div Pos League record Other
P W D L F A Pts
1998–99 Serie C2/A 2nd 34 16 10 8 44 35 58 <ref name="promoted through playoffs">promoted through playoffs</ref>
1999-00 Serie C1/A 9th 34 11 12 11 36 37 45
2000–01 Serie C1/A 13th 34 7 18 9 27 31 39
2001–02 Serie C1/A 13th 34 8 17 9 33 35 41
2002–03 Serie C1/A 2nd 34 17 12 5 62 36 63 <ref name="promoted through playoffs"/>
2003–04 Serie B 18th 46 13 15 18 47 59 54
2004–05 Serie B 11th 38 14 13 15 55 51 55
2005–06 Serie B 18th 38 10 16 16 38 52 46 <ref>won relegation playoffs to Avellino</ref>
2006–07 Serie B 10th 38 11 20 11 46 48 53
2007–08 Serie B 4th 38 23 9 10 67 48 78 <ref>lost promotion playoff finals to Lecce</ref>
2008–09 Serie B 9th 38 15 13 14 49 49 58
2009–10 Serie B 11th 42 14 13 15 59 56 55
2010–11 Serie B 18th 42 13 10 19 55 66 49 <ref>won relegation playoff against Piacenza</ref>
2011–12 Serie B 22nd 42 6 12 24 39 60 30 <ref>relegated to Lega Pro Prima Divisione</ref>
2012–13 Serie C1/A 6th 32 13 14 5 44 27 47
2013–14 Serie C1/A 7th 30 12 7 11 42 40 43 <ref>lost in quarterfinals of promotion playoffs to Cremonese</ref>
2014–15 Lega Pro/A 20th 38 7 11 20 27 51 32 <ref>relegated to Serie D, but reinstated in Lega Pro by Italian Football Federation</ref>
2015–16 Lega Pro/A 17th 34 4 8 22 23 57 20 <ref>relegated to Serie D for the second time, but reinstated one more time in Lega Pro by Italian Football Federation</ref>
2016–17 Lega Pro/B 9th 38 12 16 10 38 34 52
2017–18 Serie C/B 5th 34 13 10 11 36 31 49
2018–19 Serie C/B 14th 38 9 16 13 31 35 43
2019–20 Serie C/B 8th 27 10 9 8 29 24 39
2020–21 Serie C/A 7th 38 14 15 9 43 36 57

Notable former players

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Notable former managers

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References

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