Rimini Football Club 1912 is an Italian association football club based in

Rimini Rimini ( , ; or ; ) is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy. Sprawling along the Adriatic Sea, Rimini is situated at a strategically-important north-south passage along the coast at the southern tip of the Po Valley. It is ...

, Emilia-Romagna that plays in the third-tier

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. The original club was founded in 1912. Their home ground is the 9786-seat

Stadio Romeo Neri Stadio Romeo Neri is a multi-use stadium in Rimini, in the region of Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy. The stadium has a capacity of 9,768 and is largely used for football (soccer), football as the home of Rimini FC 1912. History The decision ...

History

The club was firstly founded as Libertas Rimini in 1912 and four years later became independent as Rimini Football Club. Before the introduction of the classic red and white shirts, the club decided to use green and white kits for its first official match against Vis Pesaro.The 1929–30 season saw the building of the stadium still used by the club today;

. The club name was changed to Rimini Calcio in 1938 after a bankruptcy.

Between Serie B and Serie C

Rimini competed in regional leagues (the equivalent of the modern day

system) for many years of their existence. They were unable to gain promotion to

Serie B The Serie B (), officially known as Serie 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 season. It had b ...

until 1976. During the 1970s the club spent three seasons in Serie B, finishing in the bottom half of the table; they were relegated in 1978–79, but achieved promotion straight back up the following season. Rimini were relegated again during 1981–82, this time however, they did not achieve promotion back up straight away. Rimini spent the next twenty-four seasons in the

league system, dropping as low as C2/C at one point. However, the 2000s proved to be a brighter time for Rimini; they reached the C2/B playoffs six successive times before gaining promotion to C1/A. In 2004–05, they became

champions (as well as Serie C1 Super Cup winners) and returned to

for the first time since the early 1970s.

From Serie B to Lega Pro Prima Divisione

On 9 September 2006, Rimini gained the national news after having gained a shocking 1–1 home draw against

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, with Argentine attacking midfielder Adrián Ricchiuti scoring the equaliser, despite a sending off for Rimini midfielder Domenico Cristiano soon after the 1–0 Juventus lead. They even reached the top of

by early 2007, but at the end of that season they were ranked 5th behind

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and

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.
Two years later, Rimini Calcio has been relegated to

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after losing the play-out against the former

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. In the season 2010–11 it would have to play again in the Italian 3rd level championship, but in the spring of 2010 the former ownership left, and nobody took over in the society.

A.C. Rimini 1912

In the summer of 2010 the club was refounded as A.C. Rimini 1912, that began life in

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, the 5th tier of Italian football. That year, the club won the national play-off finals against Turris on penalties after a 0–0 draw, being promoted to

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(4th tier). At the end of 2011–12 season, Rimini lost the play-off semifinals against

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. The following season was rather complicated for the club, because Rimini had to win two relegation play-off rounds to keep its place in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione. The fall to Serie D came one year after, when 9 of 18 teams were relegated (third and fourth tier were unified into a single league after that edition). In the meanwhile, Fabrizio De Meis assumed the ownership of the club in place of Biagio Amati, who resigned. Eleven months after the relegation, Rimini came back to

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after winning the group D of 2014–15 Serie D. In that season, the team collected 86 points, and the striker Manuel Pera scored 30 goals. At the end of 2015–16 Lega Pro, after a season influenced by serious economic problems, A.C. Rimini 1912 could not take part to the following championship due to its debts.

Rimini Football Club 1912

In summer 2016, the club was refounded as Rimini Football Club 1912 and competed in Eccellenza Emilia-Romagna for the 2016–17 season and in

for the 2017–18 season, both of them ended with a promotion.

Players

Current squad

Notable former players

;Players called up to national team while at Rimini * Catilina Aubameyang * Edoardo Colombo * Alessandro D'Addario * Alex Della Valle * Mirko Palazzi * Mauro Valentini * Demba Kamara *

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Notable former coaches

Honours

*Champions: 1975–76, 2004–05 **Promoted: 1979–80

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*Winners: 2024–25 Super Coppa di Lega Serie C1 *Winners: 2005 Serie C2/B *Promoted: 2002–03

*Champions: 2014–15, 2017–18 **Promoted: 2010–11

Eccellenza The Eccellenza (, "excellence") is the fifth level (since 2014–15) of Italian football.Official ...

*Champions: 2016–17

References

External links

Official website
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