Full name | Associazione Calcio Cantù Gruppo Sportivo San Paolo Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica |
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Founded | 2000 |
Ground |
Stadio Comunale, Cantù, Italy |
Capacity | 1,000 |
Chairman | Gennaro Novelli |
Manager | Giuliano Lodini |
League | Eccellenza Lombardy |
2011–12 | Serie D/A, 18th |
Associazione Calcio Cantù Gruppo Sportivo San Paolo Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica is an Italian association football club, based in Cantù, Lombardy. Cantù San Paolo will play in Eccellenza.
A.C. Cantù G.S. San Paolo A.S.D. was founded in the summer 2000 with the merger between A.C. Cantù (founded in 1910 and playing in Seconda Categoria Lombardy) and G.S. San Paolo (founded in 1985 and playing in Prima Categoria Lombardy). The team took part in the Prima Categoria and its second attempt to conquer the Promozione.
Mark Ronchetti grenade on the bench arrives which at the second attempt leads the team in Eccellenza. The first vintage in the new category ends with a last-minute salvation: the player Brianza Como, with a goal almost at the end, does the play-off win against play-out Giana Erminio Gorgonzola. Stores a negative season that has never seen Cantù players, opens a new ambitious project, one for winning promotion to Serie D. The team is in form throughout the tournament but reached the top of the list in Merate, the Brianza can no longer win, falling into crisis. Dreams are broken in the regional final, won by 2–0 by the Voluntas Osio Sotto in Bergamo.
In the 2008–09 season Cantù San Paolo was promoted in Serie D by beating in national play-off final Fondi for 2–1. In the season 2011–12 it was relegated to Eccellenza.
The origins of football in Cantù go back to 1910 when was founded Club Sportivo Canturino. Field of play and training was on the stage of Milan. After playing for three years with the teams at Como Ulice, is affiliated to the two dispute FIGC and the Quarta Divisione championship, gaining a second place in 1924–25 which earned him admission to the Terza Divisione for 1925–26.
Gets the best placement in the season 1926–27, finishing in second place with three points from Seregno, but suddenly stops the activity remaining idle for a season. In season 1928–29 under the name Dopolavoro Cantù burns all stages: in the space of three seasons come to play in Prima Categoria (1932–1933).
It retired at the end of the 1933–34 First Division championship for financial reasons, reappeared in the Lombardy regional championships with the return of young people after the end of the war in Ethiopia, affiliating with the new name of Associazione Calcio Cantù.