Fortitudo Cosenza
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| Full name | Cosenza Calcio Srl |
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| Nickname(s) |
Lupi (Wolves) Rossoblù (Red-blues) Silani ("silans", for the name of mountain's and wood's land where is the city, "Sila") |
| Founded | 2007 (as Fortitudo Cosenza) 2011 (as Nuova Cosenza Calcio) |
| Ground |
Stadio San Vito-Gigi Marulla, Cosenza, Italy |
| Capacity | 24,479 |
| Chairman | Eugenio Guarascio |
| Manager | Stefano De Angelis |
| League | Lega Pro/C |
| 2015–16 | Lega Pro/C, 5th |
Cosenza Calcio Srl is an Italian football club, based in Cosenza, Calabria. Currently the team plays in Lega Pro, the third tier of Italian football.
Found in 2011 as Nuova Cosenza Calcio (P.IVA 03148850781) as the phoenix club of Cosenza Calcio 1914 S.r.l. by using Article 52 of N.O.I.F., Nuova Cosenza and Cosenza 1914 Srl were spiritual successor of the original Cosenza Calcio 1914 SpA which folded in 2005. However, Cosenza 1914 Srl acquired its sports title from Rende Calcio in 2007, and the sports title of the original club had ceased to be exist in 2005.
The club was founded in 1914 as Società Sportiva Fortitudo and renamed as Cosenza Calcio 1914 in 1920 and enjoyed a long time in the professional leagues, spending several years in the Serie B. They also won the Anglo-Italian Cup in 1983. In 2003, Cosenza 1914 was expelled from professional league.
In 2003 an illegitimate phoenix club was found as A.S. Cosenza F.C.. In 2004, old Cosenza won the appeal and was admitted to 2004–05 Serie D. Thus that season there was a derby. In 2005 new Cosenza switched its denomination into A.S. Cosenza Calcio, after the fall of old Cosenza.
In 2007, A.S. Cosenza Calcio gave up its Serie D membership, but all the team players later joined new club Fortitudo Cosenza, born as relocation of Rende Calcio, a team from the neighbouring city of Rende which was relegated to Serie D in 2006–07 season and moved to Cosenza soon after. The new club quickly managed to win the Serie D/Girone I championship in 2007–08, ensuring a place back into the Lega Pro Seconda Divisione (the renamed Serie C2) for the 2008–09 season.
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