Associazione Calcio Trento 1921 S.r.l., commonly known as AC Trento or Trento (), is an

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based in

Trento Trento ( or ; Ladin language, Ladin and ; ; ; ; ; ), also known in English as Trent, is a city on the Adige, Adige River in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol in Italy. It is the capital of the Trentino, autonomous province of Trento. In the 16th ...

Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol ( ; ; ), often known in English as Trentino-South Tyrol or by its shorter Italian name Trentino-Alto Adige, is an Regions of Italy#Autonomous regions with special statute, autonomous region of Italy, located in the ...

, who compete in

Serie C The Serie C (), officially known as Serie C NOW for sponsorship purposes, 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 ...

, the third tier of the

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. In 2014 Società Sportiva Dilettantistica Trento Calcio 1921 S.r.l. went bankrupt. The sports title was transferred to A.C. Trento S.C.S.D.

History

Foundation

The club was founded in 1921. The team took part to the 1945–46 Serie B–C season. It in the season 2010–11, from

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 ...

group B relegated, in the play-out, to

Eccellenza Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol Eccellenza Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol () is the regional Eccellenza football division for clubs in the northern Italian region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy. It is competed amongst 16 teams, in one group. The winners of the Groups are ...

. In the season 2011–12 the team was promoted from Eccellenza Trentino–South Tyrol to

after playoffs. The team was relegated again in 2013. In 2014 Trento was relegated from Eccellenza to Promozione. After the transfer of the sports title to a new company in the same year, the phoenix club won promotion back to Eccellenza in 2016. In the

2020–21 Serie D The 2020–21 Serie D was the seventy-third edition of the top level Italian non-professional Association football, football championship. It represents the fourth tier in the Italian football league system. Changes from 2019–20 A total 166 c ...

season, under the tenure of head coach Carmine Parlato, Trento were crowned Girone C champions, thus returning into professionalism after 18 years in the amateur leagues.

Colors and badge

Colors

The official colors are yellow and blue. They are also the colors of the city of

.
The home jerseys of the club include the colors yellow and blue and can be vertically striped depending on the season. The away jerseys are mostly white or black.

Badge

The badge of the club has the form of a shield. The left half of the logo in the background is blue, the other half yellow. They represent the colors of the club and the city of

. In the middle of the badge an eagle is depicted, which is also the coat of arms of

. Above the eagle is the inscription "A.C. TRENTO". The founding year "1921" is shown below the eagle.

Stadium

AC Trento plays his home games at

Stadio Briamasco Stadio Briamasco, previously known as Stadium, is a multi-use stadium in Trento, Italy. Owned by the city, it is primarily used for Association football, football and is the home ground of A.C. Trento 1921 S.S.D. The stadium is equipped with a si ...

. The stadium was opened in 1922 and has a capacity of 4,200 spectators. In the meantime, the stadium was often slightly modernized. The dimensions of the field are and it is played on natural turf pitch. It consists of north (Tribuna Nord) and south tribune (Tribuna Sud). The north tribune is mostly covered and the south tribune only half. In addition, the arena has an athletics system, which is no longer used. Two international matches of the Italy U21 team were played in the Stadio Briamasco.

Current squad

Out on loan

Fans

The First organized group was founded in

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and was called "Ultras Trento 1978". In The

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

years the group was divided into three different groups: Trento Club (that reached up to 500 subscribers), Fedelissimi Gialloblù and the Ultras.

Notable players

Daniele Balli Daniele Balli (born 16 September 1967) is a former Italian footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Career Grown up in the Empoli youth system, Balli spent his early professional years with several Serie C1 and Serie C2 teams (Trento, Mobilieri ...

Luigi De Agostini Luigi De Agostini (; born 7 April 1961) is an Italian former professional Association football, footballer. He played as a Defender (association football), defender, primarily in the role of an attacking Defender (association football)#Full-bac ...

Angelo Domenghini Angelo Domenghini (; born 25 August 1941) is an Italian football manager, and former player, who played as a forward, often as a right winger, or even as a striker. Despite his creative role, he also had a notable eye for goal, as well as exce ...

* Giuseppe Sannino *

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Attilio Tesser Attilio Tesser (born 10 June 1958) is an Italian football manager and former player, currently in charge of club Triestina. Playing career A full-back, Tesser started his playing career with Treviso. He moved to Napoli in 1978, where he play ...

Francesco Toldo Francesco Toldo (; born 2 December 1971) is an Italian retired Association football, footballer who played as a goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper. He is regarded by pundits as one of the greatest goalkeepers of his generation. In a ...

* Marco Pilato * Gianluca Piaccitali *

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colors

Notable managers

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Enzo Robotti Enzo Robotti (; born 13 June 1935) is an Italian international former footballer who played as a defender. Club career Robotti was born in Alessandria. During his club career, he played for ACF Fiorentina, A.S. Roma and Brescia Calcio. Intern ...

References

External links

Official site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Trento Football clubs in Italy Football clubs in Trentino Trento Association football clubs established in 1921 Serie C clubs Serie D clubs Phoenix clubs (association football) 1921 establishments in Italy