Asti Calcio Football Club S.r.l. is an Italian association football club based in

Asti Asti ( , , ; pms, Ast ) is a '' comune'' of 74,348 inhabitants (1-1-2021) located in the Piedmont region of northwestern Italy, about east of Turin in the plain of the Tanaro River. It is the capital of the province of Asti and it is deeme ...

, 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

merger Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are business transactions in which the ownership of companies, other business organizations, or their operating units are transferred to or consolidated with another company or business organization. As an aspect ...

s 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 ...

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 ''Società a responsabilità limitata'' (S.r.l. or srl) is a kind of legal corporate entity in Italy, which literally means (but is not entirely equal to) limited liability company. It has a similar form to ''società sportiva dilettantistica a ...

'' as S.D. Asti Calcio S.r.l.. Asti also partnered with

Torino F.C. Torino Football Club (), commonly referred to as Torino or simply Toro, is an Italian professional football club based in Turin, Piedmont. They currently play in Serie A. Founded as ''Foot-Ball Club Torino'' in 1906, Torino are among the m ...

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

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's Co.Vi.So.D., due to the club's financial position. The club had appealed to

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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 The Province of Asti ( it, Provincia di Asti, Piedmontese: ''Provincia d’Ast'') is a province in the Piedmont region of northern Italy. Its capital is the city of Asti ...

to Asti. Asti was admitted to

Lega Nazionale Dilettanti The Lega Nazionale Dilettanti (National Amateur League) is the league which rules amateur football of Italian Football Federation (FIGC) in Italy. Founded in 1959 in Rome, it has many leagues inside: a national league, the Inter-regional Committ ...

's (LND)

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 ...

- 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 A.S.D. Asti, known as Asti and formerly A.S.D. Alfieri Asti or A.S.D. Colline Alfieri Don Bosco (Colline Alfieri D.B. or just Colline Alfieri), is an Italian football club based in Asti, Piedmont. FIGC registration number of the club is 63,519. ...

. The club has no relation to yet another club, Don Bosco Asti. The club played in

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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