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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 (66) and consecutive seasons (18, from 1947–48 to 1964–65) 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 FC, 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. War, Pigs and Rabbits: Atalanta and Brescia meet 13 years later, Conor Clancy, Forza Italian Football, 29 November 2019. Retrieved 2 June 2022 Brescia v Atalanta: the Italian derby built on a 900-year-old feud, Martino Simcik Arese, The Guardian / Copa 90, 7 February 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2022
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 Paris Saint Germain – Brescia Calcio : 0–0 (Match Report) ScoresPro.com and 1–1 at home in the second leg. Brescia Calcio – Paris Saint Germain : 1–1 (Match Report) ScoresPro.com 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 (2004–05), 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 (Serie C) 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 €3 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 3 July 2025, the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) officially confirmed that Brescia had been excluded from professional football, failing to receive a licence for Serie C. After that, the club fully dissolved.
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.
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 (the absence of nails, muscle weakness and weak curvature of the tail), and to create a more toned and ferocious look.
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 (then Via Naviglio), 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 (named after the Torino player, Mario Rigamonti, who died in the Superga air disaster).
Over the years, the stadium has undergone several refurbishments (construction of roofing, press room, etc.), the most significant of which was in 2007 with the installation of new security measures.
| Serie A | 13 (1932, 1936, 1947, 1968, 1970, 1981, 1987, 1993, 1995, 1998, 2005, 2011, 2020) |
| Serie B | 3 (1938, 1982, 2025) |
| Serie C | never |
| 1978–79 | Umbro | None |
| 1979–1981 | Tepa Sport | |
| 1981–82 | Umbro | Inoxriv |
| 1982–83 | Watergate | |
| 1983–1986 | Gazelle | Fin-Eco |
| 1986–1988 | Wuhrer | |
| 1988–89 | Watergate | |
| 1989–90 | UNICEF | |
| 1990–91 | Bontempi Sport | None |
| 1991–1994 | Uhlsport | CAB |
| 1994–95 | ABM | |
| 1995–96 | Polenghi | |
| 1996–97 | Brescialat | |
| 1997–98 | Erreà | Ristora |
| 1998–2001 | Garman | |
| 2001–2002 | Banca Lombarda | |
| 2002–2004 | Umbro | |
| 2004–2005 | Kappa | |
| 2005–2006 | Banca Lombarda (Banco di Brescia) | |
| 2006–2007 | ASICS | |
| 2007–2009 | UBI Banca (Banco di Brescia) – Bregoli | |
| 2009–2010 | Mass | UBI Banca (Banco di Brescia) – Bresciani |
| 2010–2011 | UBI Banca (Banco di Brescia) – Technologic (T-Logic) – Falar – Tescoma | |
| 2011–2012 | UBI Banca (Banco di Brescia) – Sama | |
| 2012–2013 | Givova | |
| 2013–2014 | Adidas | UBI Banca (Banco di Brescia) – Tescoma |
| 2014–2015 | Joma | UBI Banca (Banco di Brescia) – Falar |
| 2015–2017 | Acerbis | UBI Banca (Banco di Brescia) |
| 2017–2018 | UBI Banca | |
| 2019–2025 | Kappa |
| 2001 | Third Round | Tatabánya | 2–1 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 4–3 | |
| Final | Paris Saint-Germain | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 (away goals) | |||||
| 2003 | Second Round | Gloria Bistrița | 2–1 | 1–1 | 3–2 | Villarreal CF | 1–1 | 0–2 | 1–3 |
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