US Ancona 1905

US Ancona
	US Ancona
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Basic data
Surname	Unione Sportiva Ancona 1905
Seat	Ancona
founding	1905
Colours	Red White
president	Fiorello Gramillano
Website	anconacalcio.it
First soccer team
Head coach	Giovanni Cornacchini
Venue	Stadio del Conero
Places	26,000
league	Lega Pro / B
2015/16	4th Place
home	Away

The Unione Sportiva Ancona 1905 (until 2010 Associazione Calcio Ancona ) is an Italian football club from Ancona , the capital of the Marches .

The club colors are red and white. The club's stadium is the Stadio del Conero , with space for 26,000 spectators. The association has been operating under the name 'Unione Sportiva Ancona 1905' since 2010. In the 2011/12 season the club will play in Serie D , the fifth highest league level in Italian football.

history

Logo of AC Ancona (until 2010)

After the club was founded, the club first took part in regional championships under the name US Anconitana until it was promoted to the Prima Divisione in the 1926/27 season. In 1927/28 the US Anconitana merged with Stamura and founded the Società Sport Ancona, but the merger with Stamura only lasted one year. After a year, Stamura left the SS Ancona. On July 12, 1932, the SS Ancona merged with the Emilio Bianchi team , and the newly formed team was now called Anconitana-Bianchi . The club kept this name until the 1981/82 season, when it first took part in a championship under the name Ancona Calcio. After the 2009/2010 season spent in Serie B, the club waived re-registration and was then relegated several times before it was registered for the first time in a competition for the Lega Nazionale Dilettanti . However, since the club did not field a team, he was deleted after four matchdays by the FIGC and replaced with the SS Piano San Lazzaro. In 2010, the association was re-established as Unione Sportiva Ancona 1905 srl , when the Società Sportiva Piano San Lazzaro was initially renamed SSD Unione Sportiva Ancona 1905 and the association's headquarters were relocated to Ancona. In the 2010/2011 season, the club played its first season under the new name in the Eccellenza Marche competition ; in August 2011 the name was changed to Unione Sportiva Ancona 1905 Srl

Recent development

For the 2003/04 season the club was relegated in the Serie A on, but reached here only 13 points, an increase in the last to Serie B from. In the summer of 2004 Ancona Calcio 1905 went bankrupt. The club was then re-established under the current name AC Ancona and had to start over in the fourth-class C2 series . In 2007, the sports center of the Italian Bishops' Conference took an 80% stake in the club, with the remaining 20% held by other financially strong Catholic investors. AC Ancona is now to receive a code of ethics that obliges players to do charitable work after a foul, or to donate part of the ticket proceeds to charity. The introduction of this code brought the association an audience with the Pope. For the 2007/08 season, the club rose by finishing second in Serie C1 / B back to Serie B and secured relegation in 2008/09 through the play-out games. In the following year, the league was again preserved. In August 2010, the club was excluded from the game due to financial difficulties, which meant that the relegated US Triestina was allowed to remain in the second highest division. Since the club could not raise the required guarantee of 800,000 euros and the arrears of 2.4 million euros were not paid, the exclusion from all professional leagues and the classification in the sixth class Eccellenza followed . In the 2014/15 season, US Ancona will compete in Group B of the Lega Pro.