Football Club Legnago Salus (formerly ''Associazione Calcio Legnago Salus'') is an

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club based in

Legnago Legnago (; Venetian: ''Lenjago'') is a town and ''comune'' in the Province of Verona, Veneto, northern Italy, with population (2012) of 25,439. It is located on the Adige river, about from Verona. Its fertile land produces crops of rice, other c ...

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. It currently plays 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-highest division in the

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History

The club was founded in 1921 and changed its name many times. In 1945–46 season Legnago won its Serie C group, but lost the promotional play-off that would have given it access to the

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 ...

championship. The club played in the ''IV Serie'' (now called

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 ...

) during three different periods: from 1952 to 1954, then from 1971 to 1980, and from 1993 to 2002. In the 1971–72 Serie D season, Legnago ended the championship in second place and gained access to the promotion playoffs, then lost 1–0 to

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. The match was played at

Stadio Mario Rigamonti Stadio Mario Rigamonti is a football stadium located in Brescia, Italy. It is currently the home of Brescia Calcio. It is dedicated to Mario Rigamonti, a defender of the Grande Torino, born in Brescia, who died in the Superga air disaster in ...

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in front of 7,000 spectators. In the season 1994–95, Legnago ended in third place behind

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and

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with Gigi Manganotti as manager. On 30 November 1997 Legnago signed the record number of 1,200 spectators attending the match versus

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 ...

. After a long period in

, the club relegated to

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

in 2002 and

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one year later. In the 2006–07 season Legnago won the

league and gained promotion to

Eccellenza Lombardy Eccellenza Lombardy () is the regional Eccellenza football division for clubs in Lombardy, Italy. It is competed amongst 48 teams, in three groups (A, B and C). The winners of the Groups are promoted to Serie D. The club which finishes second also ...

. In the 2009–10 season Legnago won the

league and gained promotion to

F.C. Legnago Salus SSD

On 30 June 2011, A.C. Legnago Salus changed its denomination to F.C. Legnago Salus SSD.Il Legnago diventa un SRL – Notiziario del Calcio
/ref> In the 2011–12 season the club gained access to the semifinal of

promotion play-off, where it was eliminated by SandonàJesolo. In the 2019–20 season, Legnago ended in second place behind Campodarsego, being successively admitted to

due to the latter's renouncing to promotion.

Players

Current squad

Out on loan

References

External links

Official Website
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