FC Esperia Viareggio

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FC Esperia Viareggio
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Basic data
Surname Football Club Esperia Viareggio
Seat Viareggio
founding 1919
Colours White and black
Website esperiaviareggio.it
First soccer team
Venue Torquato Bresciani Stadium
Places 7,000
league Lega Pro Prima Divisione B
2012/13 11th place
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The FC Esperia Viareggio is an Italian football club from Viareggio , a city in the region Tuscany . The club colors are white and black. The club's stadium is the Stadio Torquato Bresciani in Viareggio, with space for 7,000 spectators.

Home venue Stadio Torquato Bresciani (also called Stadio Comunale Dei Pini ) in Viareggio

history

The club was founded in 1919 as Viareggio Calcio and took part in regular league operations for the first time in the following season. The team got into the Promozione Toscana in a division of the regional amateur company and was able to qualify for the Prima Categoria a year later . After relegation to the Seconda Divisione a year later , the team spent four years in the same league. This was followed by the first name change of the club, which now took on as Unione Sportiva Viareggio . The club was represented in amateur leagues for the next six years and rose to the second highest league, Serie B , for the first time in the 1933/34 season after winning the Prima Divisione Interregionale . The club stayed in the league for three years and had to go to Serie C as bottom of the table in the 1936/37 season. A year later, the club went one step lower and was excluded from gaming for the 1938/39 season due to its bankruptcy. A year later, the re-establishment as Associazione Sportiva Viareggio Calcio followed and the team was allowed to enter the regional amateur league.

Because of the Second World War, Viareggio stayed away from all tournaments and league games from 1940 to 1945 and paused during that time. The resumption of game operations in 1945 was completed with promotion to Serie B. The team managed to stay in the league only in the first year and the league was missed in the following season. The Tuscan team was during the 1950s and 1960s, except for two short seasons, in which promotion to the third highest division was achieved, almost continuously active in the lower leagues and in the regional amateur league. Between 1968 and 1974 the team played again in Serie C and then fell back into the lower divisions for several years. The 1980s in Viareggio were marked by many years of amateur football, it was not until 1990 that qualifications for participation in a professional league succeeded when the club was promoted to the fourth highest division, the C2 series . In this, the club played for the top ranks for the next four years and only just missed promotion to the next higher league.

In 1994 there was another setback for the club when its financial difficulties became known and Viareggio then had to file for bankruptcy. In the same year, the club was re-founded as Associazione Calcio Viareggio and classified in the Eccellenza Toscana , with which the team started a new beginning in the sixth highest league level. Only three years later the team was back in professional football after being promoted to Serie C2. The Tuscan club was able to achieve relegation for four years in a row, but rose to Serie D after the 2001/02 season . In the following season it was again not possible to stop the downward trend and the club had to relegate again. In addition, the club's financial problems became known again and this was then re-established as Football Club Esperia Viareggio and classified in the regional amateur league.

After the promotion was missed in the following two years, succeeded in the 2005/06 season as the winner of the Eccellenza Toscana promotion for the Serie D and a year later with the renewed promotion, the return to a professional league. In the 2007/08 season, being fifth from bottom of the fourth-highest division, the class was only secured in the playoffs and a year later as second-placed in the Lega Pro Seconda Divisione, promotion to the next higher division was achieved.

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