Aurora Seriate Calcio or simply Aurora Seriate was an Italian association football club, based in

Seriate Seriate ( Bergamasque: seˈrjaːt">Help:IPA/Lombard">seˈrjaːtref name=":0" /> ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Bergamo in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about northeast of Milan and about southeast of Bergamo. ...

Lombardy The Lombardy Region (; ) is an administrative regions of Italy, region of Italy that covers ; it is located in northern Italy and has a population of about 10 million people, constituting more than one-sixth of Italy's population. Lombardy is ...

. Aurora Seriate last played in

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 ...

History

The club was founded in 1967 and developed in the next decade within the parish dispute for several years provincial championships. In 2008, it won the championship of

Prima Categoria The Prima Categoria is the seventh level (since 2014–15) in the Italian football league system and is organized by the National Amateur League by the Regional Committees. Each individual league winner within the Prima Categoria level progress ...

and a historic promotion to

Promozione The Promozione (, "promotion") is the sixth level in the Italian football league system. Each individual league winner within the Promozione level progresses to their closest regional league in the Eccellenza level. Depending on each league's ...

. In the 2008–09 season in the

, Aurora Seriate ended in fifth place but, due to winning the Italian Cup final category, the jump to

2009–10 Eccellenza This is a list of division winners and playoff matches in the regionally organized Eccellenza 2009–2010, which is the 6th level of Italian football. Framework national summary Eccellenza Abruzzo 1. Montesilvano deducted one point. Play ...

was allowed. In Eccellenza, the first year ended in second place, behind Rudianese and losing the final of the playoffs by the later promoted Sterilgarda Castiglione. In

2010–11 Eccellenza The Eccellenza (, "excellence") is the fifth level (since 2014–15) of Italian football.Official ...

, it won the championship and the promotion to

2011–12 Serie D The 2011–12 Serie D was the sixty-fourth edition of the top level Italian non-professional football championship. It represented the fifth tier in the Italian football league system. It consisted of 168 teams divided into six 18-team divisions a ...

. Aurora Seriate officially merged with fellow Lombardy and Serie D side FC AlzanoCene on 31 May 2015 to become

Virtus Bergamo Alzano Seriate 1909 Virtus CiseranoBergamo 1909 is an Italian association football club from Ciserano, Lombardy. It was born in 2019 as a merger of ''Ciserano Calcio'' and ''Virtus Bergamo'', itself a direct heir of ''Alzano Virescit'', a club that also played Ser ...

Colors and badge

The team's colors were red and blue.

References

External links

Official Site
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