Calcio Lecco 1912

Calcio Lecco 1912 is an Italian football club, based in Lecco, Lombardy.

Lecco currently plays in serie D, having last been in Serie A in 1967.

History

The club was founded in 1912.

It played 3 seasons (1960–1962, 1966–1967) in Serie A and 10 seasons (1956–1960, 1962–1966, 1967–1968, 1972–1973) in Serie B.

In 2004–05 Serie D season, Lecco won the playoff of Group B. On 16 August Lecco was promoted to 2005–06 Serie C2 to replace the vacancies.

In the 2011–12 season it was relegated from Lega Pro Seconda Divisione/A to Serie D.

Colors and badge

The team's colours are blue and dark blue.

Honours

Former players

Lecco

Lecco (Italian pronunciation: [ˈlekko],locally: [ˈlɛkko];Lombard: Lecch [lɛk]) is a city of 48,131 inhabitants in Lombardy, northern Italy, 50 kilometres (31 mi) north of Milan, the capital of the province of Lecco. It lies at the end of the south-eastern branch of Lake Como (the branch named Lake of Lecco / Lago di Lecco). The Bergamo Alps rise to the north and east, cut through by the Valsassina of which Lecco marks the southern end.

The lake narrows to form the river Adda, so bridges were built to improve road communications with Como and Milan. There are four bridges crossing the river Adda in Lecco: the Azzone Visconti Bridge (1336–1338), the Kennedy Bridge (1956) and the Alessandro Manzoni Bridge (1985) and a railroad bridge.

Its economy used to be based on industry (iron manufacturers), but now it is mainly tertiary.

Lecco was also Alpine Town of the Year 2013.

History

Archaeological finds demonstrate the presence of Celtic settlement in the area before the arrival of the Romans. The latter built a castrum here and made it an important road hub. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the Lombards captured the town in the 6th century; they were followed by the Franks, who made Lecco the seat of a countship and, later, of a frontier Mark.