FC Malcantone Agno
FC Malcantone Agno
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| Full name | Soccer Club Malcantone Agno |
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| Founded | July 1, 1955 |
| Dissolved | unknown |
| Club colors | Red White |
| Stadion | Centro Sportivo Passera |
| Top league | Challenge League |
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The Football Club Malcantone Agno was a Swiss football club . He was based in the municipality of Agno , in the Lugano district , Canton Ticino . In its last season the club was a member of the second highest division in Switzerland, the so-called Challenge League .
history
The club was founded on July 1, 1955 and merged in 2004 with AC Lugano , the successor club to FC Lugano , which had gone bankrupt the year before .
The club played its home games in the Centro Sportivo Passera , which offered space for 1,280 spectators. In the second division season 2003-04 but it gave way to the formerly used by FC Lugano Stadio Cornaredo in just four kilometers from Lugano from which, it holds 15,000 spectators on 5,000 seats on a modern, architecturally appealing grandstand.
The FC Malcantone Agno rose after the end of the season 1997/98 under the coach Silvano Gaffuri for the first time in the third class first division . After a 9th place in the first season, the Red-Whites were able to establish themselves among the better teams from the 1999/2000 game year - they were fourth - under the Croatian-Swiss coach Vladimir Petković . In the following year, the team from Lake Lugano finished sixth and even came first after the 2001/02 season. Two defeats, 0: 1 and 2: 3, in the promotion games against the Zurich SC Young Fellows Juventus stood in the way of promotion to the second division.
In the following season it was enough for the team again to first place in the 1st division. This time there was a 0-1 defeat against FC La Chaux-de-Fonds in the promotional games in the first leg , but this was more than made up for with a 3-1 win at home.
The Ticino team also remained successful in the second highest division. Alberto Regazzoni and Yane Bugnard each scored eleven goals for the team of coach Petković, in which with Germano Vailati a future national goalkeeper was between the posts, and with Régis Rothenbühler a former national player in the defense. The fourth place in the final bill shows that the newcomer performed well.
After the end of this season, however, the story of FC Malcantone Agno also ended. The club merged with the bankruptcy estate of the former master club FC Lugano , trading as AC Lugano . Vladimir Petković became the trainer of the new structure, which sees itself primarily in the tradition of the Lugano community neighbors.
From the relatively short and ultimately quite successful tradition of the small association from Agno, the integration of the club's coat of arms remains at the lower end of the coat of arms of the new overall club, which otherwise documents the superiority of the merger partner.
In the first year of the new club, which took the second division place of FC Malcantone Agno, this was 8.
The last president of the club was Giuseppe Morotti, who was also president of the new AC Lugano club after the union.
Statistical summaries
League placements
- 1997/98: Promotion to 3rd division 1st division
- 1998/99: 9th in the 1st division
- 1999/00: 4th in the 1st division
- 2000/01: 6th in the 1st division
- 2001/02. 1st of the 1st division
- 2002/03: 1st in the 1st division, promotion
- 2003/04: 4th of the Challenge League (2nd division)
Known players
Trainer
- 1993-1999: Silvano Gaffuri
- 1999-2004: Vladimir Petković