Treviso Foot Ball Club 1993, commonly known as Treviso, is an Italian

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club based in

Treviso Treviso ( , ; vec, Trevixo) is a city and ''comune'' in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Treviso and the municipality has 84,669 inhabitants (as of September 2017). Some 3,000 live within the Veneti ...

Veneto Veneto (, ; vec, Vèneto ) or Venetia is one of the 20 regions of Italy. Its population is about five million, ranking fourth in Italy. The region's capital is Venice while the biggest city is Verona. Veneto was part of the Roman Empire unt ...

, which competes in

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 A ...

, the fifth tier of

Italian football Football ( it, calcio ) is the most popular sport in Italy. The Italy national football team is considered to be one of the best national teams in the world. They have won the FIFA World Cup four times (1934, 1938, 1982, 2006), trailing only ...

. ''Football Club Treviso'' was originally founded in 1909, while the current society dates back to 2021. The team has been playing its home matches in the 10,000-seat

Stadio Omobono Tenni Stadio Omobono Tenni () is a football stadium in Treviso, Italy. It is currently the home of Treviso F.B.C. 1993. The stadium was built in 1933 and holds 10,001. After the inauguration in 1933, a friendly match between Treviso F.B.C. and Udines ...

since 1933.

History

Foundation and early years

The club was founded in 1909 as Football Club Treviso and never played in the top flight of Italian football, always taking part in the lower national divisions, from

Serie B The Serie B (), currently named Serie Balkrishna Industries, BKT for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It has been operating for over ninety years since the 1929–30 ...

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, with a sixth place in the 1950–51 Serie B table, under head coach Nereo Rocco, as its best result. In 1993 the club was shut down because of financial troubles.

1990s and 2000s: from amateur to Serie A

In summer 1993 a new club was admitted to Serie D, as F.B.C. Treviso 1993. The club experienced a remarkable line of three consecutive promotions from 1994 to 1997 under coach

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which brought Treviso to Serie B, over 40 years after its last appearance in the second-highest Italian league. Treviso was relegated to

Serie C1 Lega Pro Prima Divisione was the third highest football (soccer), football league in Italy. It consisted of 33 teams, divided geographically into two divisions of 16 and 17 teams for group A and B respectively. Until 2008 it was known as Serie C1 ...

in 2001, but returned to Serie B in 2003. In 2005, Pillon returned to Treviso and the team gained a respectable fifth place and a spot in the promotion playoffs but lost out to

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. However, in August 2005, after both

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and

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were relegated out of

Serie A The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Coppa ...

, respectively for fraud and financial troubles, Treviso and

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were arbitrarily promoted in Serie A as replacements. In 2005–06, Treviso played in Italian Serie A for the first and, as so far, only time since its foundation. The team was coached by

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, then replaced by

Alberto Cavasin Alberto Cavasin (born 9 January 1956) is an Italian football manager and former player. Playing career Cavasin, a right back, started his professional career in 1973 for Treviso; he then played for a number of Serie A, B and C clubs, with so ...

. The team was initially forced to play their Serie A home games at the Stadio Euganeo, in the nearby city of

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, because of the inadequacy of their home stadium, considered inadequate for Serie A matches owing both to security and capacity issues by the

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 ...

. However, a special legal dispensation was approved by the Italian parliament to allow Treviso to play at their home ground. Treviso's Serie A stay was short-lived. In bottom place for nearly the entire 2005–06 season, they were officially relegated to Serie B for the '06–'07 campaign following a 3–1 loss to

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on 9 April 2006. While it initially appeared that Treviso would avoid relegation despite finishing 20th as a result of forced relegations arising elsewhere as a consequence of the Serie A match-fixing scandal, Treviso were eventually relegated to Serie B on 25 July 2006 when S.S. Lazio and

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's penalties were reduced by the Italian appeals court and those teams remained in Serie A. Back in Serie B Treviso started to face financial problems, with a net loss of €4.17 million in the 2006–07 season. The club had re-capitalized for over €7.5 million, but the net result was still €1.32 million in the 2007–08 season, with some notional selling profit for

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(who returned to Treviso for the same price, €900,000) and

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(in a cash-plus player deal), as well as selling youth product

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and

Riccardo Bocalon Riccardo Bocalon (born 3 March 1989) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a striker for club Mantova. Career Treviso Born in Venice, Veneto, Bocalon started his career with Treviso. In January 2008, he was signed by Internazio ...

for €900,000 each in cash-plus-play deal (residual 50% rights of

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and

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(€1.05M in total). Financial irregularities also made FIGC penalize Treviso for 4 points in total, but 3 of them were removed by CONI. Furthermore, rising star

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left Treviso in January 2009 and the club lacked funds to reinforce the team since the start of 2008–09. The only deal that received cash from selling was Alessio Sestu (50% for €400,000). The club ultimately went bankrupt in the summer of 2009, after it suffered relegation from Serie B that same year.

2009 refoundation

A new club named A.S.D. Treviso 2009 was founded as a successor club, and was admitted to play in the

Eccellenza Veneto Eccellenza Veneto is the regional Eccellenza football division for clubs in Veneto, Italy. It is competed amongst 32 teams, in two different groups (A and B). The winners of the Groups are promoted to Serie D. The club who finishes second also hav ...

which at the time was the 6th tier of Italian football, in the summer of 2009. In the 2010–11 season, Treviso was promoted from

group C to Lega Pro Seconda Divisione and was renamed Football Club Treviso. In the next it was promoted to

Lega Pro Prima Divisione Lega Pro Prima Divisione was the third highest football league in Italy. It consisted of 33 teams, divided geographically into two divisions of 16 and 17 teams for group A and B respectively. Until 2008 it was known as Serie C1. Before the 1978 ...

. In the 2012–13 season the club was relegated to Lega Pro Seconda Divisione, and then excluded again. The club was successively refounded as A.C.D. Treviso in the summer 2013, restarting from

Promozione The Promozione (, "promotion") is the sixth level in the Italian football league system. Each individual league winner within the Promozione level progresses to their closest regional league in the Eccellenza level. Depending on each league's lo ...

. The club achieved promotion to

following the 2013–14 season, winning the promotion playoffs. In 2021, the club changed its name to Treviso F.B.C. 1993 and was promoted to

Colors and badge

Treviso's official colours are light blue and white.

Honours

* Supercoppa di Lega Serie C1: ** Winners (1): 2003 *

: ** Winners (2): 1996–07, 2002–03 * Lega Pro Seconda Divisione: ** Winners (2): 1995–96 (As Serie C2), 2011–12 *

: ** Winners (3): 1974–75, 1994–95, 2010–11 * Promozione Veneto: ** Winners (1): 2020–21 *

Coppa Italia Dilettanti The Coppa Italia Dilettanti ( Italian for: Italian Amateurs Cup) is an annual knock-out competition for teams from the fifth and sixth levels of Italian football: the Eccellenza and the Promozione. All ties except for the final, which is held at t ...

: ** Winners (1): 1992–93

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Treviso Football clubs in Italy Football clubs in Veneto Sport in Treviso Association football clubs established in 1909 Italian football First Division clubs Serie A clubs Serie B clubs Serie C clubs Serie D clubs Eccellenza 1909 establishments in Italy Phoenix clubs (association football) 2009 establishments in Italy