AC Pavia
The Associazione Calcio Pavia is an Italian football club based in Pavia. The club was founded in 1911 and plays its home matches at the Stadio Pietro Fortunati, which seats 6,000 spectators. AC Pavia currently playing in the Lega Pro Prima Divisione, the third- highest division in Italy.
History
The AC Pavia was founded in 1911 in the town of Pavia with good seventy thousand inhabitants in Lombardy. At the time of the founding of the club was called FBC Pavia, Pavia pronounced Foot Ball Club. 1928 had the club name be changed because FBC was derived from English and this did not please the fascist rulers. The club was called henceforth FC Pavia. After several name changes, including the resumption of the FBC Pavia to end the dictatorship of Mussolini, was the actual name, AC Pavia, introduced in 1960.
Still under the first name Pavia had played three years in the Prima Categoria, which at that time equaled the Italian football championship. After the descent 1922, the club spent several years in lower leagues before 1935 again reached the summit in the meantime founded Series B. There, one could hold two years before 1937, the descent into the C series came. It was not until 1953 that Pavia reappeared in the second Italian league. In the series C- season 1952/53, it was first brought in U.S. Alessandria and rose as well as those on the B series. There, in his first season with space thirteen managed to avoid relegation in the second season after promotion but you were last and were relegated along with FBC Treviso. To date, the season in 1954/55 was the last in which the AC Pavia was second-rate. After the descent, followed a short time later the crash in the amateur as well as a business. Since then, the club hovered over the past fifty years between the Serie C1, the Lega Pro Prima Divisione today, and the top regional amateur leagues. At present, the AC Pavia can be found in the Lega Pro Prima Divisione, where they had in the season 2010/11 is as climbers from the Lega Pro Seconda Divisione the thirteenth rank in Girone A and kept the class.
Achievements
- Series C: 1x (1952 /53)
- Serie C2: 2x ( 1983/84, 2002/ 03)
- Prima Divisione: 1x (1932 /33)
- Seconda Divisione: 1x (1928 /29)
Leagues affiliation
- Prima Categoria: 3 seasons
- Series B: 6 seasons
- Series C: 51 seasons
- Series D: 17 seasons
Former Players
- Massimiliano Allegri Italy
- Italy Massimo Crippa
- Italy Renzo Garlaschelli
- Italy Mario Genta
- Italy Emanuele Giaccherini
- Italy Riccardo Meggiorini
- Italy Giuseppe Sannino
- Italy Stefan Schwoch