Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica AVC Vogherese 1919 (briefly Vogherese or Voghera) is an Italian football club, based in the town

Voghera image:Voghera Castle.jpg, The Castle of Voghera in a 19th-century etching. Voghera (Emilian dialect, Vogherese dialect of Emilian: ''Vughera''; Latin language, Latin: ''Forum Iulii Iriensium'') is a town and ''comune'' in the Province of Pavia i ...

, Lombardy that plays in

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. It plays at Voghera's Stadio Comunale Giovanni Parisi, with a capacity of 4,000 seats. The team colors (e.g. uniforms and badge) are red and black, as is its nickname "Rossoneri" (literally "the red and blacks").

Foundation

Associazione Vogherese Calcio was founded on 26 November 1919 at the ''Trattoria Pistone''. After a dozen championships between second and first division, in 1930 Vogherese lost the playoff for promotion to Serie B in Piacenza for three goals to two. In 1932, the Italy national team played a winning friendly in Voghera, by six to two. In the late 1930s until 1942 the Vogherese were called ''V.I.S.A. Voghera'', only to return to ''A.V.C. Vogherese'' in championship 1942–43. Between 1945 and 1948 was the peak for football in Voghera with three consecutive seasons in

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 ...

. Then the relegation to

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in the 1950s, in 1959 the company experienced a severe financial crisis that led to the cessation of sport.

Refoundation

To continue the football tradition of A.C. Voghera, the ''Associazione Ragazzi Cairoli'', founded in 1948 took the place of Vogherese, recovering only in 1994 the name of the bankrupt company, competing in amateur tournaments Lombard until its return to

. At the end of the 1980–81 season it was promoted to the Serie C2, remaining so until the 1987–88 season. Demoted in Serie D, the team would still play between this league and Serie C2: it was relegated from C2 at the end of the 1998–99 season. Although the team finished the season in third place and managed to win the playoffs, it was not enough to get the repechage to Serie C2. In the 2010–11 season, Voghera gained access to the

promotion play-off, advancing through the group stage to the semifinals, where it was eliminated by

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Liquidation and following refoundations

In summer 2013, the club was not able to enter

2013–14 Serie D The 2013–14 Serie D was the sixty-sixth edition of the top level Italian non-professional football championship. It represented the fifth tier in the Italian football league system. It consisted of 161 teams, after the exclusion of Nardò and ...

and so was subsequently liquidated. The first attempt to re-start the activity took place in 2015, when three football clubs based in Voghera (Nord Voghera, Torrevillese and Orione) united in a new company called Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Voghera, which joined the

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in 2015-2016 and was promoted to

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in 2017–2018. However, just one year later, the club again filed for bankruptcy, withdrawing from the championship in winter 2018. After some months, businessman Oreste Cavaliere took over A.S.D. OltrepòVoghera (another club based in Voghera, playing its football in Eccellenza), renaming it Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica AVC Vogherese 1919 and re-starting the "rossoneri" history.

External links

Official website
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