FC Malcantone Agno

The Football Club Malcantone Agno was a Swiss football club. He was in the church Agno, located in the district of Lugano, Canton Ticino. In his last season the club was a member of the second division of Switzerland, called the Challenge League.

History

The club was founded on July 1, 1955, and merged in 2004 with the AC Lugano, the successor organization of the previously bankrupt in FC Lugano.

The club wore out its home games at the Centro Sportivo Passera, which offered 1,280 spectators place. In the second division season 2003/ 04 but was missed in the formerly used by the FC Lugano Stadio Cornaredo from Lugano in only four kilometers away, which is 15,000 spectators, including 5,000 sums to seats on a modern, architecturally appealing Tribune.

The FC Malcantone Agno rose after the end of the season 1997/98 under coach Silvano Gaffuri first time in the third-class first league. After a ninth place in the first season, the Red - Whites could but since the game 1999 /2000 - they finished fourth - under the Croatian -Swiss coach Vladimir Petkovic among the better teams establish. The following year the team from Lake Lugano was sixth and stood after the 2001/ 02 season, even on the first place. Two defeats, 0:1 and 2:3, in the promotion play against the Zurich SC Young Fellows Juventus but was offset by the rise in the second division.

In the following season, it was enough for the team again for first place in the first league. This time there was indeed at the promotional games in the first leg, a 0-1 defeat against FC La Chaux -de-Fonds, but at home with a 3-1 victory was more than made ​​up for.

Also in the second division in Ticino were successful. Alberto Regazzoni and Yane Bugnard each scored eleven goals for the team of coach Petković, also there was a future goalkeeper between the posts, and with Regis Rothenbühler a former national player in the defense in with Germano Vailati. The fourth place in the final evidence of satisfactory performance of the riser.

After the end of this season but ended the history of FC Malcantone Agno. The club merged with the trading as AC Lugano bankrupt former champion team FC Lugano. Vladimir Petković was coach of the new entity, which mainly sees himself in the tradition of Lugano community neighbors.

From the relatively short, and at the end also quite successful tradition of the small association of Agno the integration of the club crest at the bottom of the coat of arms of the new overall association, the otherwise documented the superiority of Fusionspartnes remains.

In the first year of the new association, which occupied the site of the second division FC Malcantone Agno, was this 8th

The last president of the association was Giuseppe Morotti, who was president of the new overall club AC Lugano to the association as well.

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Known player

  • Switzerland Alberto Regazzoni
  • Switzerland Germano Vailati
  • Switzerland Marco Padalino
  • Switzerland Yane Bugnard
  • Brazil Paulinho

Coach

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