École de Football Saint-Christophe (usually referred to as Saint-Christophe) is an Italian association football club, based in Saint-Christophe,

Aosta Valley The Aosta Valley ( ; ; ; or ), officially the Autonomous Region of Aosta Valley, is a mountainous Regions of Italy#Autonomous regions with special statute, autonomous region in northwestern Italy. It is bordered by Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Fr ...

. Saint-Christophe plays in

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History

Foundation

The club is the main football team of sports club ''Unione Polisportiva Saint-Christophe A.S.D.'' that was founded in 1971 as ''Saint-Christophe Calcio'' and includes also sections of athletic and tennis. In summer 2010, the club, that had just been promoted for the first time from

Eccellenza Piedmont and Aosta Valley Eccellenza Piedmont-Aosta Valley () 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). The winners of the Groups are promot ...

Serie D The Serie D () is the highest level of semi-professional football in Italy, and the fourth tier of the Italian national league system. It sits beneath the third and lowest fully professional league, Serie C, and feeds in to it through promotion ...

, changed its name to the current one, in memory of the former main team in the region, Valle d'Aosta Calcio, that just went bankrupt. In the 2010–11 season the club gains access to the promotion play-off for

Lega Pro Seconda Divisione Serie C2 was the fourth highest football league in Italy, the lowest with a professional status. History Before the 1978–79 season, there were only three professional football leagues in Italy, the third being Serie C. The league menaging ...

, where it is beaten and eliminated by

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with the result of 3–1 in the last match of "Triangular 2" in the third round. In the

2011–12 Serie D The 2011–12 Serie D was the sixty-fourth edition of the top level Italian non-professional football championship. It represented the fifth tier in the Italian football league system. It consisted of 168 teams divided into six 18-team divisions a ...

season, Vallée d'Aoste was promoted for the first time to

. The club changed its name to the current one in order to represent the whole Aosta Valley. The club was dissolved in 2016 and newly founded in 2023 as ''École de Football Saint-Christophe'', starting from

Terza Categoria The Terza Categoria is the lowest level of amateur football in Italy. It is the ninth level in the Italian football league system. Each individual league winner within the Terza Categoria level progresses to their closest regional league in the ...

Colors and badge

The team's colors are white and claret.

References

Football clubs in Italy Football clubs in Piedmont and Aosta Valley Association football clubs established in 1971 1971 establishments in Italy {{Italy-footyclub-stub