Football Club Aprilia Racing Club is an

Italian football Football ( it, calcio ) is the most popular sport in Italy. The Italy national football team is considered to be one of the best national teams in the world. They have won the FIFA World Cup four times (1934, 1938, 1982, 2006), trailing only ...

club based in

Aprilia Aprilia is an Italian motorcycle manufacturer founded immediately after World War II in Noale, Italy, by Alberto Beggio. The company started as a manufacturer of bicycles and moved on to manufacture scooters and small-capacity motorcycles. ...

, Latina,

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. As of 2018–19 season, Aprilia was participating in

Serie D The Serie D () is the top level of semi-professional football in the country. The fourth tier of the Italian league system, the competition sits beneath the third professional league, Serie C. It is administered by the Lega Nazionale Dilettant ...

. In 2018, F.C. Aprilia merged with

S.S. Racing Club Fondi S.S. Racing Club Fondi was an Italian football club, based in Fondi, Lazio. The club previously known as Unicusano Fondi and Fondi Calcio. In 2018, the club merged with F.C. Aprilia. History On 15 August 1922 Associazione Sportiva Fondana wa ...

to form the current club.

Predecessors

Associazione Calcio Aprilia was founded in 1971. The club folded in 2009 after last played in

Eccellenza Lazio Eccellenza Lazio is the regional Eccellenza football division for clubs in Lazio, Italy. It is competed amongst 36 teams, in two different groups (A and B). The winners of the Groups are promoted to Serie D. The club who finishes second also have ...

and selling its sports title to form , despite at the same time, investor also bought another sports title to form the phoenix club of Aprilia.

History

F.C. Rondinelle Latina

In 2009, investor acquired a sports title in

to found F.C. Rondinelle Latina. The sports title was sold by F.C. Latina after the club was merged with U.S. Virtus Latina to form

U.S. Latina Calcio Latina Calcio 1932, commonly referred to as Latina, is an Italian football club based in Latina, Lazio. They currently play in the . History The club was founded in 1932 as ''Unione Sportiva Latina Calcio'' and subsequently re-established se ...

. Despite Rondinelle Latina was named after Latina, the club played in Stadio Quinto Ricci, Aprilia. On 26 May 2010 the club changed the name to F.C. Aprilia.

F.C. Aprilia

At the end of the

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season the club won group G of

and was promoted to

Lega Pro Seconda Divisione Lega Pro Seconda Divisione was the fourth highest football league in Italy, the lowest with a professional status. Usually it consisted of 36 teams, but in the 2011–12 season, there were 41 teams divided geographically into two divisions of ...

. The debut in the Lega Pro Seconda Divisione for the 2011–2012 season was very satisfying finishing fifth and securing a place in the playoffs for promotion to

Lega Pro Prima Divisione Lega Pro Prima Divisione was the third highest football league in Italy. It consisted of 33 teams, divided geographically into two divisions of 16 and 17 teams for group A and B respectively. Until 2008 it was known as Serie C1. Before the 1978 ...

, losing in the semi-final to Chieti.

F.C. Aprilia Racing Club

The club changed its denomination to F.C. Aprilia Racing Club in 2018, after Antonio Pezone, former owner of Racing Roma and Racing Fondi, merging the latter with F.C. Aprilia.

Crest

The club used the coat of arms of the city and ''comune'' as the main element of the club logo. However, it used the former version of the coat of arms, which the crown in the coat of arms was changed.

References

External links

* Football clubs in Italy Serie C clubs Football clubs in Lazio Association football clubs established in 2009 2009 establishments in Italy Province of Latina {{Italy-footyclub-stub