Brescia Calcio


Brescia Calcio, commonly referred to as Brescia, was an Italian football club based in Brescia, Lombardy. The team last played in Serie B, the second tier of Italian football.
The club held the record for the total number of seasons and consecutive seasons in Serie B, which they won four times. Their best finish in Serie A came in the 2000–01 season when they placed eighth. At the beginning of the 21st century, led by 1993 Ballon d'Or winner Roberto Baggio, the club also qualified for the UEFA Intertoto Cup twice, reaching the final in 2001 but being eliminated on the away goals rule by Paris Saint-Germain. During this era, Pep Guardiola, former FC Barcelona captain and later a highly decorated manager, and Andrea Pirlo, a product of Brescia Calcio's youth sector who went on to win numerous trophies with AC Milan and Juventus, also played for the club.
The team's colours were blue and white. Its home ground was the 19,550-seater Stadio Mario Rigamonti. Brescia had a long-standing rivalry with Atalanta from nearby Bergamo.
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History

The team was founded in 1911 as Brescia Football Club, joining the Terza Categoria division the same year. In 1913, Brescia was promoted to the First Division for the first time. Founding members of Serie A in 1929-30, Brescia would play there for six of the next seven seasons. The club have since fallen out of the top two divisions only three times: in 1938, when they spent a single season in Serie C; in 1982, when they spent three seasons there; and 2025, after a controversial administrative relegation for alleged financial infringements. As of 2025, only 11 Italian clubs have played fewer seasons outside the top two divisions of Lega Calcio, the Italian football league system, than Brescia ; and no club has spent more seasons in Serie B than Brescia.
Brescia won the Anglo-Italian Cup in 1994, the biggest achievement in their history to date. The club gained greater prominence in 2000 after signing former FIFA World Player of the Year Roberto Baggio, who led Brescia to a seventh-place finish in the 2000–01 season, thus qualifying for the UEFA Intertoto Cup. Brescia then reached the finals, where they lost to Paris Saint-Germain via the away goals rule, drawing 0-0 away in the first leg and 1–1 at home in the second leg. Baggio spent four years at Brescia before retiring in 2004, during which time Brescia became widely known as "Baggio's Brescia". During Baggio's four-year spell with Brescia, the club recorded its longest stay in Serie A; in the very first season after Baggio's retirement, Brescia were relegated on the final day. They returned after beating Torino 2-1 on aggregate in the 2009–10. In the 2010–11 season, however, they were relegated back to Serie B. In the 2014–15 season, they were relegated to Lega Pro after finishing second from last. However, after Parma's declaration of bankruptcy and demotion to Serie D, Brescia was among the teams selected to replace them in Serie B. A new promotion to Serie A was secured in the 2018–19 season, with two games to spare, but the team got relegated in the next season.
In the 2024–25 season, Brescia avoided relegation places in Serie B by one point, only to be penalised with a four-point deduction. The club subsequently declared bankruptcy after their president, Massimo Cellino, failed to settle approximately €3β€―million in debts. On 7 June 2025, Brescia announced that it would not participate in the 2025–26 Serie C season, due to ongoing financial strain, and on 3β€―Julyβ€―2025, the Italian Football Federation officially confirmed that Brescia had been excluded from professional football, failing to receive a licence for Serieβ€―C. After that, the club fully dissolved.

Colours and badge

Colours and kit

The first Brescia kit in 1911 was blue with a thick white vertical stripe down the middle, a design which returned for the club's centenary season in 2011. The first appearance of a white "V" was in 1927, added so that the team could use Stadium, the newly built home of another team, Virtus. This style remained until 1940 when the "V" was removed and a plain blue shirt was used.
Substantial changes after World War II saw the shirt become plain white with blue shorts. This was short-lived and, in 1954, the plain blue shirt returned. The white "V" also returned eventually in 1961 as a show of goodwill by the new chairman at the time.
The "V" disappeared again in 1969, replaced by a diagonal white sash, then returned, but much smaller, in 1974 for two years. The "V" was situated over the heart with the inclusion of the lioness, the symbol of the city of Brescia. The shirt remained plain blue until 1991, when the "V" returned and has been used ever since.

Badge

The first badge appeared on Brescia kits in the 1980s; a blue crest with a golden outline featuring a lion. The city of Brescia is known as Leonessa d'Italia after ten days of popular uprising that took place in the city in the spring of 1849 against Austrian rule.
The crest was changed for the centenary of Brescia Calcio in 2011, incorporating a gold shield and laurel branches to celebrate the club's 100th anniversary, and updating the lettering to use a font in the style of the period when the team was founded. The lion was also updated in order to fix some errors in heraldic iconography, and to create a more toned and ferocious look.

Stadium

The first ground at which football was played in Brescia was Campo Fiera, where, in 1905, the English workers at the Tempini plant played on their breaks.
In 1911, in the wake of enthusiasm following the foundation of the new club, a fenced ground was built shortly after on Via Milano.
In 1920 came the opening of the new ground on Via Cesare Lombroso, Brescia, which was used by the team until 1923. In 1923, the team moved into a larger, more modern facility located at Porta Venezia, built for the town's sports club Virtus and simply called "Stadium".
It was in 1956 that the municipality had the idea to move the club to a stadium more suited to host Serie B matches, and began renovating the stands at the existing ground at Via Giovanni Novagani. This was completed in 1959 and Brescia began to play their home games in the newly-christened Stadio Mario Rigamonti.
Over the years, the stadium has undergone several refurbishments, the most significant of which was in 2007 with the installation of new security measures.

Honours

Serie B:

Other Titles

Coppa dell'Amicizia:

Shirt sponsors and manufacturers

PeriodKit manufacturerShirt sponsor
1978–79UmbroNone
1979–1981Tepa SportNone
1981–82UmbroInoxriv
1982–83Watergate
1983–1986GazelleFin-Eco
1986–1988GazelleWuhrer
1988–89GazelleWatergate
1989–90GazelleUNICEF
1990–91Bontempi SportNone
1991–1994UhlsportCAB
1994–95ABMCAB
1995–96ABMPolenghi
1996–97ABMBrescialat
1997–98ErreΓ Ristora
1998–2001GarmanRistora
2001–2002GarmanBanca Lombarda
2002–2004UmbroBanca Lombarda
2004–2005KappaBanca Lombarda
2005–2006KappaBanca Lombarda
2006–2007ASICSBanca Lombarda
2007–2009ASICSUBI Banca – Bregoli
2009–2010MassUBI Banca – Bresciani
2010–2011MassUBI Banca – Technologic – Falar – Tescoma
2011–2012MassUBI Banca – Sama
2012–2013GivovaUBI Banca – Sama
2013–2014AdidasUBI Banca – Tescoma
2014–2015JomaUBI Banca – Falar
2015–2017AcerbisUBI Banca
2017–2018AcerbisUBI Banca
2019–2025KappaUBI Banca