Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Fanfulla is an Italian association football club located in Lodi,

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. The club name comes from

Bartolomeo Fanfulla Bartolomeo Fanfulla was an Italian condottiero. His parents, Domenico Alon and Angela Folli, gave him multiple names: Giovanni or Giovanni Battista (in honour of the Evangelical preacher), Bartolomeo (in honour of Bartolomeo Colleoni) and Tito (i ...

from Lodi, one of 13

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knights who defeated the French in the

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in 1503. For this reason the Lodi team is also called ''Guerriero'' (warrior in Italian) by its supporters. In 1974 the club was awarded the Gold Star for sports merits. Fanfulla, one of the oldest football and sports clubs in Italy, was founded on 18 October 1874 as a

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under the denomination ''Società Lodigiana di Ginnastica e Scherma'' (Lodi club of gymnastics and

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), and its football department was founded in 1908. Fanfulla played 13

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 ...

leagues during the 1940s and the 1950s, and now plays in fourth-tier

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. Its colors are black and white.

Honours

Coppa Italia Serie C Coppa Italia Serie C (), formerly named Coppa Italia Lega Pro, is a straight knock-out based competition involving teams from Serie C in Italian football first held in 1972. Format There are a total of six rounds in the competition. It begins i ...

: 1 **Winners: 1983–84

Notes

A.C. Fanfulla 1874 Football clubs in Italy Football clubs in Lombardy Association football clubs established in 1874 Serie B clubs Serie C clubs Serie D clubs 1874 establishments in Italy ASD Fanfulla Coppa Italia Serie C winning clubs {{Italy-footyclub-stub