Bellinzona (football club)

Bellinzona ( Italian. Bellinzona ) is a Swiss football club located in Bellinzona . The club was founded in 1904 and won the Swiss championship in 1948 . Now playing in the third league of Switzerland.

Bellinzona
Complete title	Associazione Calcio Bellinzona
Nicknames	Pomegranate
Based	1904
Stadium	Stadio Comunale Bellinzona
Capacity	6,000
The president	Paolo Rilietti
Main coach	Luigi Tirapelle
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Competition	First League Promotion
2017/18	1st in the Swiss First League
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Bellinzona is located in the Italian-speaking region, so the clubs of the Italian Serie A are leased to a team of young players to gain gaming experience.

Bellinzona won the right to play in the Swiss Super League after defeating St. Gallen with a score of 5-2 on the sum of two matches in the playoffs for a ticket to the Super League in the 2007/08 season. Bellinzona played in the big leagues in the 2008/09 season for the first time since the 1989/90 season. As the team played in the 2007/08 Swiss Cup final, it won the right to compete in the UEFA Cup 2008/09 , where the team first defeated Armenian “ Ararat ”, and in the second qualifying round - Ukrainian “ Dnepr ”, the confrontation with which ended 4-4. “Bellinzona” went further by the rules of the goal on the road , but in the very first round she lost to “ Galatasaray ” with a total score of 4: 6.

After three seasons in the Swiss football elite, Bellinzona lost in the butt matches to the Geneva Servette 2: 3 in the sum of two matches, and she spends the 2011/12 championship in the Challenge League .

At the end of the 2012/13 season, the club ranked second in the Challenge League and was deprived of seven points due to financial irregularities. In addition, the Swiss Football League in June 2013 deprived the club of a license to play in the Challenge League for the next season, so the team left the division.

In August 2013, after the bankruptcy procedure, the club was liquidated. He returned to Swiss football in 2014, in four years he managed to rise to the third division, starting from the sixth.