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The Associazione Sportiva Andria BAT is an Italian football club from the Apulian town of Andria, the current in the Excellenza Puglia, the sixth Italian league stage plays.

History

Associazione Sportiva Andria BAT was founded in 1971, but not under the present name, but under the name Fidelis Andria. This name kept the club at 34 years before he broke up due to financial problems and a short time later refounded as AS Andria BAT.

After the founding of Fidelis Andria, the club has been classified by the Italian Football Federation in the highest regional league of the Bari region. There you played for five years before 1976, the rise in the Prima Categoria, then the sixth- highest division in the Italian football, succeeded. However, the club were relegated two years later. DC the following season they finished second in the Seconda Categoria again and climbed again. This time, Fidelis Andria has established itself in the Prima Categoria and made 1984 even move up to the C2 series. After another five years in the fourth division the club made ​​the jump into the Serie C1, the current Lega Pro Prima Divisione, so the third league. Again Fidelis Andria achieved good results and one rose, two years later, in 1992, for the first time in Serie B on. In the first season the club was 16 and defeated the descent only with happiness, while SPAL, FC Bologna, Taranto Sport and Ternana Calcio met. In the following season even managed a ninth place. Two years later, however, Fidelis Andria had to descend again from the B series, after the club table Fourth last was. DC the following year but managed to rise again with a first place in Serie C1 before the AC Ancona, who rose also. However, it was immediately followed by the descent after only one year. Since then, the club could not ascend to the second highest Italian league and is still playing today in the Lega Pro Prima Divisione, while also temporarily took the team from Andria in the Seconda Divisione respectively Lega Pro Series C2. In 2009, the jump was successful in the second division almost again after the AS Andria BAT the play-off matches in which the Second to Fifth everyone Lega Pro Prima Divisione Squadron participates, had achieved. There, however, the club failed to Gela Calcio.

After a few more years in the middle of the third Italian football league in the AS Andria BAT suffered in the 2012/13 season relegation in the Lega Pro Seconda Divisione fourth-rate. After they finished 13th place in the table in the Girona B, we moved into the play- games against the previously placed in 14th SS Barletta Calcio club the short straw and had to join the fourth in the league. Since the club but the participation in the professional operation did not enter, followed by the 2013/14 season, a new start in the sechstklassigen Excellenza Puglia.

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