Cattolica Calcio 1923 S.G. is an Italian association football club located in

Cattolica Cattolica (; ) is a town and ''comune'' in the Province of Rimini, Italy, with 16,233 inhabitants as of 2007. History Archaeological excavations show that the area was already settled in ancient Rome, Roman times. According to one legend, Catto ...

, Emilia-Romagna. It currently plays in the

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 ...

. Its colors are red and yellow.

History

The club was founded in 1923 as Associazione Calcio Cattolica. Between 1980 and 1985 they played in

Serie C2 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 t ...

. In July 2019, A.C. Cattolica Calcio merged with the previous owners of

San Marino Calcio Associazione Camachista San Marino Calcio, better known as San Marino Calcio, is a Sammarinese professional football club based in the city of Acquaviva, that competes in the Serie D, the fourth tier of Italian football, since being promoted i ...

and were renamed as Cattolica Calcio San Marino. Despite playing in Cattolica, the club retained their headquarters in San Marino until 2020. In the 2020, SSD Marignanese (a club from San Giovanni in

Marignano The Battle of Marignano, which took place on 13–14 September 1515, near the town now called Melegnano, 16 km southeast of Milan, was the last major engagement of the War of the League of Cambrai. It pitted the French army, composed of th ...

, a town a few kilometers from Cattolica) moved their

matches to the Giorgio Calbi Municipal Stadium in Cattolica and adopted the yellow and red team colors and a new logo recalling the denomination Marignanese-Cattolica. Subsequently, in the 2021 the club was relegated to Eccellenza, changed its name to Cattolica Calcio 1923 S.G. becoming to all intents and purposes the team heir to the football tradition of the city. Following Manzanese's withdrawal from the league, the Giallorossi stayed in Serie D.

External links

Official homepage
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