Asti Calcio Football Club
S.r.l. is an
Italian association football club based in
Asti, Piedmont. The FIGC registration number of the club was 81,850.
History
Founded officially in 1932 under the name Associazione Calcio Asti (in short: A.C. Asti), the club changed its name several times in subsequent years because of
mergers with local clubs. The club participated in
Serie C
The Serie C () is the third-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie B and Serie A. The Lega Italiana Calcio Professionistico (Lega Pro) is the governing body that runs the Serie C.
The unification of the Lega Pro ...
league in the past.
In 2006, the club changed the name from A.C. Asti to A.C.D. Asti Colligiana.
The club reverted to original name A.C.D. Asti during the celebrations for the 75th year of operation in 2008. The club later incorporated as a ''
società a responsabilità limitata'' as S.D. Asti Calcio S.r.l.. Asti also partnered with
Torino F.C. in youth football in 2013.
The club finished as the 14th of the Group A in the
2014–15 Serie D
The 2014–15 Serie D was the sixty-seventh edition of the top level Italian non-professional football championship. It represented the fourth tier in the Italian football league system.
It consisted of 167 teams, including the admitted Arzachen ...
season.
At the start of
2015–16 Serie D
The 2015–16 Serie D was the sixty-eighth edition of the top level Italian non-professional football championship. It represents the fourth tier in the Italian football league system.
The phoenix club of Parma Calcio was added to this league.
...
season the club was expelled from the league by
FIGC
The Italian Football Federation ( it, Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio; FIGC), known colloquially as ''Federcalcio'', is the governing body of football in Italy. It is based in Rome and the technical department is in Coverciano, Florence.
It ...
's Co.Vi.So.D., due to the club's financial position. The club had appealed to
CONI
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's Collegio di Garanzia dello Sport, however, the court rejected the appeal and confirming FIGC's decision. In that transfer window, the club also attempted to split into two legal persons, leaving only one legal person to bear the debt.
At the same time, the club attempted to merge with Prima Categoria club A.S.D. Sandamianese Asti. It was reported that the attempt to transfer the debt was failed. Asti also changed the name to Asti Calcio F.C. S.r.l..
[ While Sandamianese became A.S.D. Pro Asti Sandamianese, and relocated from ]San Damiano d'Asti
San Damiano d'Asti is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Asti in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southeast of Turin and about southwest of Asti.
History
The area of the municipality was once occupied in the Middle Ages by ...
to Asti. Asti was admitted to Lega Nazionale Dilettanti's (LND) Promozione - Piedmont - Aosta Valley division - Group D instead in September 2015.
In May 2017, the club was penalized 2 points, to be applied to 2017–18 season. A shareholder and director of Asti, Pier Paolo Gherlone was also investigated by the FIGC. Gherlone also owned Pro Asti Sandamianese until 2017.
Asti Calcio F.C. bankrupted in 2017.
Asti's FIGC membership was finally revoked in December 2017. While the membership of the spin-off, Pro Asti Sandamianese, was also cancelled in 2019 due to inactivity.
Colors and badge
The team's colors are white and red.
Phoenix clubs
Another club, Colline Alfieri Don Bosco (FIGC registration number: 63519[) was renamed to A.S.D. Alfieri Asti as an illegitimate phoenix club. In 2019 the club was renamed to A.S.D. Asti.]Eccellenza Piedmont-Aosta Valley
Eccellenza Piedmont-Aosta Valley ( it, Eccellenza Piemonte-Valle d'Aosta) is the regional Eccellenza football division for clubs in the regions of Piedmont and Aosta Valley, Italy. It is competed amongst 36 teams, in two different groups (A and B) ...
since 2017 (as of 2019–20 season).
References
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Football clubs in Piedmont and Aosta Valley
Association football clubs established in 1932
Association football clubs disestablished in 2017
Serie C clubs
1932 establishments in Italy
2017 disestablishments in Italy
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