AC Bellinzona
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| Basic data | |||
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| Surname | Associazione Calcio Bellinzona | ||
| Seat | Bellinzona , Switzerland | ||
| founding | January 13, 1904 | ||
| president | Paolo Righetti | ||
| Website | acbellinzona.ch | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach | Luigi Tirapelle | ||
| Venue | Stadio Comunale | ||
| Places | 5,000 | ||
| league | Promotion League | ||
| 2018/19 | 3rd place | ||
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The Associazione Calcio Bellinzona is a football club from the city of Bellinzona in Ticino . The club, founded in 1904, has been playing in the Promotion League , the third highest Swiss league , since the 2018/19 season .
Club history
The club was founded in 1904 as the Football Club Bellinzona . In the following year, FC Bellinzona split into FC Ticino and FC Elvezia. In 1906 the two clubs merged again and gave birth to FC Juventus, which in 1909 again took the name FC Bellinzona. In 1913 he was accepted into the Swiss Football Association . The club took its current name, AC Bellinzona, after the merger with AC Daro in 1926.
The greatest success in the club's history was winning the Swiss Football Championship in 1948 . In addition, AC Bellinzona made it to the cup finals three times. In the 2007/08 season , AC Bellinzona won the barrage first leg for promotion against FC St. Gallen 3-2. AC Bellinzona won the second leg 2-0 and thus rose to the Super League with a total score of 5-2. At the end of the 2010/11 season , AC Bellinzona was relegated to the Challenge League. The Barrage second leg against Servette FC Genève ended after a 1-0 win in Bellinzona with 3-1, total score 3-2 for Servette FC.
On April 22, 2013, the bankruptcy of AC Bellinzona, which was in debt with CHF 8.5 million, opened. In mid-May 2013, the Ticino appellate court revoked the bankruptcy. For the 2013/14 season, the club was only granted a license for the 1st league promotion , which meant relegation had to be accepted. Estimated debts of EUR 3.3 million would have had to be repaid by August 9, 2013 to prevent bankruptcy.
On September 17, 2013, the bankruptcy court took the teams from the championship operation, whereby the AC Bellinzona was led at the bottom of the table and all points were canceled. The corporation including the professional team were dissolved.
In March 2014, the Ticino Football Association accepted a request that AC Bellinzona could start over in the 2nd division , the highest regional league, instead of the 5th division for the 2014/15 season . For this purpose, the number of participants was temporarily increased to 15 for one season.
After two promotions, AC Bellinzona has been playing in the first division since the 2016/17 season . After missing the next promotion to the Promotion League in 2017 , this was achieved a year later after victories against the Black Stars Basel and Red Star Zurich .
successes
- 1 × Swiss champion : 1947/48
- Swiss Cup : Finalist 1961/62 , 1968/69 , 2007/08
- 3 × NLB champions : 1975/76 , 1979/80 , 1999/00
- Promotion to the NLA : 1943/44 , 1963/64 , 1966/67 , 1975/76 , 1979/80 , 1985/86 , 2007/08
- 3 × champions of the 1st division : 1943/44 , 1998/99 , 2017/18
- UEFA Cup : Reaching the first main round in 2008/09
Eternal table
The AC Bellinzona is currently in 18th place in the all-time table of the highest football league in Switzerland .
European Cup balance
In the 2008/09 season, AC Bellinzona celebrated its international premiere. As a cup finalist in 2008, they were eligible to start the UEFA Cup, as the cup winners FC Basel had already qualified as champions for the Champions League. The home games of the qualifying round were played by the Ticino in the nearby Lugano Stadio di Cornaredo , the home ground of arch-rivals AC Lugano , as their own Stadio Comunale did not meet UEFA standards. In the first main round they switched to St. Jakob-Park in Basel because of the expected larger audience.
In the first main round, AC Bellinzona ended up against the Turkish top club Galatasaray Istanbul .
| season | competition | round | opponent | total | To | Back |
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| 2008/09 | Uefa cup | 1st qualifying round |
 FC Ararat Yerevan
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4: 1 | 1: 0 (A) | 3: 1 (H) |
| 2nd qualifying round |
 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
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( a ) 4: 4 | 2: 3 (A) | 2: 1 (H) | ||
| 1 round |
 Galatasaray Istanbul
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4: 6 | 3: 4 (H) | 1: 2 (A) |
Overall record: 6 games, 3 wins, 3 defeats, 12:11 goals (goal difference +1)
Former players
Other players can be found in the category: Soccer players (AC Bellinzona) .
Stadion
The Stadio Comunale holds 5,000 spectators, 600 of which are seated. The stadium was adapted for the Super League so that AC Bellinzona is eligible to play.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article «Opening of bankruptcy against AC Bellinzona» . Tages-Anzeiger of April 22, 2013. Accessed April 22, 2013.
- ↑ Challenge League: Bellinzona avoids bankruptcy for the time being
- ↑ «Sometime is good. And that's it »
- ↑ Despite the threat of bankruptcy: 1st league plans with AC Bellinzona
- ↑ AC Bellizona definitely at the end
- ↑ ACB in seconda lega regional (in Italian)
- ↑ a b Bellinzona on a European tour
- ↑ UEFA Cup 2008/2009 - Qualification: 2nd qualifying round - Tables & results at t-online.de ( Memento from December 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ UEFA Cup 2008/2009 - preliminary round: 1st round - tables & results at t-online.de Sport ( Memento from June 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive )