Brindisi Football Club is an Italian association football club located in

Brindisi Brindisi ( ; ) is a city in the region of Apulia in southern Italy, the capital of the province of Brindisi, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. Historically, the city has played an essential role in trade and culture due to its strategic position ...

, in the region of

Apulia Apulia ( ), also known by its Italian language, Italian name Puglia (), is a Regions of Italy, region of Italy, located in the Southern Italy, southern peninsular section of the country, bordering the Adriatic Sea to the east, the Strait of Ot ...

in southern Italy.

History

Brindisi was founded in 1912 as ''F.B. Brindisi 1912'' and refounded in 1990 and then refounded in 2004 and then refounded in 2011 and then refounded in 2015 with the current name.

Brindisi Calcio

The team played in Serie C2 in the 2003–04 season. At the end of the year, the team went bankrupt and the new club was placed in

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

F.B. Brindisi 1912

In the 2004–05 season of

Eccellenza Apulia Eccellenza Apulia () is the regional Eccellenza football division for clubs in the Southern Italian region of Apulia, Italy. It is competed among 20 teams, in one group. The winner of the group is promoted to Serie D. The club who win play-off als ...

, Brindisi placed second, qualifying for the national playoffs. The team won its two rounds in the playoffs, thus winning promotion to

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 ...

. For the next 4 season, the team played in Serie D. In the 2008–09 season, Brindisi clinched first place in Girone H, thus gaining direct promotion to

Lega Pro Seconda Divisione Serie C2 was the fourth highest football league in Italy, the lowest with a professional status. History Before the 1978–79 season, there were only three professional football leagues in Italy, the third being Serie C. The league menaging ...

. In summer 2011, it did not appeal against the exclusion of Covisoc.

S.S.D. Città di Brindisi

The club is restarted in

with the new denomination of Società Sportiva Dilettantistica Città di Brindisi. It went bankrupt in only four years.

New Brindisi

Real Paradiso Brindisi in

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 ...

created the new Brindisi in 2015. Following the club promotion in Serie C at the end of the 2022/2023 season, they reached professional football again and dropped the "SSD" ("''Società Sportiva Dilettantistica''", which means "Amateur Sports Club" in italian) in their name, being for the first time in 33 years a fully professional football club again.

Current squad

Colors and badge

Its colors are white and blue.

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 ...

**Winners (1): 2002–03

References

External links

* Sport in Brindisi Football clubs in Apulia Association football clubs established in 1912 Serie C clubs Serie D clubs 1912 establishments in Italy Coppa Italia Serie C winning clubs {{Italy-footyclub-stub