Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Boca Pietri was an Italian association football club from

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...

, Emilia-Romagna, but currently playing home games in

Vignola Vignola ( Modenese: ; Bolognese: ) is a city and ''comune'' in the province of Modena (Emilia-Romagna), Italy. Its economy is based on agriculture, especially fruit farming, but there are also mechanical industries and service companies. The c ...

, in the

province of Modena The Province of Modena ( it, Provincia di Modena) is a province in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Modena. It has an area of and a total population of about 701,000 (2015). There are 48 ''comuni'' (singular: ''co ...

History

The club was founded in 1966 as Associazione Calcio Boca. In 2002 the club merged with Felsina San Lazzaro (a team from

San Lazzaro di Savena San Lazzaro di Savena ( Bolognese: ) is an Italian ''comune'' (municipality) of some 32,000 inhabitants in the Metropolitan City of Bologna, Emilia-Romagna. Geography The town is located on the Via Emilia, a major thoroughfare for town traffic, ...

founded in 1930 as F.C. San Lazzaro), and its denomination changed to A.C. Boca San Lazzaro. The club has played Serie D/C in 2005–06, winning it and gaining the right to play 2006–07 season in

Serie C2 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione was the fourth highest football league in Italy, the lowest with a professional status. Usually it consisted of 36 teams, but in the 2011–12 season, there were 41 teams divided geographically into two divisions of 2 ...

. However, the team relegated to Serie D after just a single season, being defeated on playoffs by Sansovino, and successively even to

Eccellenza The Eccellenza (, "excellence") is the fifth level (since 2014–15) of Italian football. It is a regional league, composed of 28 divisions divided geographically. All 20 regions are represented by at least one division except for Piedmont and Ao ...

. In June 2009, A.C. Boca detached itself from F.C. San Lazzaro and acquired the league rights from newly promoted Serie D club Dorando Pietri Carpi, which was abandoned after its shareholders opted to join forces with

Carpi FC 1909 A.C. Carpi is an Italian professional football club based in Carpi, a city in the province of Modena. The club was founded in 1909, re-founded in 2000 and 2022. Carpi's colours are white and red, hence the nickname "Biancorossi". At the end of ...

. The club chose for a merger with

Prima Categoria The Prima Categoria is a level of football in Italy. It is the seventh level (since 2014–15) in the Italian football league system and is organized by the National Amateur League by the Regional Committees. Each individual league winner within t ...

outfit Vignolese to bypass Serie D relocation laws (that do not allow to move sport rights to a province from another: Boca could not move to the province of Modena from Bologna but Vignola could move to Carpi), and will play its home games in Vignola for the 2009–10 season. F.C. San Lazzaro maintained its place in 2009–10 Eccellenza. Both clubs dissolved in 2010.

Notable former managers

Alberto Zaccheroni Alberto Zaccheroni (; born 1 April 1953) is an Italian football manager, formerly in charge of the United Arab Emirates and Japan national football teams. He has managed a number of top clubs in Serie A, the high point of his career being his s ...

References

External links

Official homepage

Article about Boca San Lazzaro 2005/2006 promotion in Serie C2
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