Brescia Calcio
| Full name | Brescia Calcio S.p.A. | |||
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| Nickname(s) | Le Rondinelle (The Little Swallows) I Biancazzurri (The White and Blues) La Leonessa (The Lioness) | |||
| Founded | 17th July 1911 | |||
| Ground | Stadio Mario Rigamonti | |||
| Capacity | 19,500 | |||
| Owner | Massimo Cellino | |||
| President | Massimo Cellino | |||
| Head coach | Rolando Maran | |||
| League | Serie B | |||
| 2023–24 | Serie B, 8th of 20 | |||
| Website | bresciacalcio | |||
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Brescia Calcio, commonly referred to as Brescia (Italian pronunciation: [ˈbreʃʃa ˈkaltʃo]), is an Italian football club based in Brescia, Lombardy. The team currently plays in Serie B, the second tier of Italian football, but will play in Serie C in 2025–26 due to financial controversies.
The club holds the record for total number of seasons (66) and consecutive seasons (18, from 1947–48 to 1964–65) in Serie B, which they have won four times. Their best finish in Serie A came in the 2000–01 season when they placed eighth. At the beginning of the 21st century, led by the 1993 Ballon d'Or winner Roberto Baggio, the club also qualified for the Intertoto Cup twice, reaching the final in 2001 but being defeated on away goals by Paris Saint-Germain. During this era, Pep Guardiola, former FC Barcelona captain and later a highly decorated manager, and Andrea Pirlo, product of the Brescia Calcio's young sector that won several trophies with AC Milan and Juventus in the next years, also played for the club.
The team's colours are blue and white. Its stadium is the 19,550-seater Stadio Mario Rigamonti. They have a long-standing rivalry with Atalanta from nearby Bergamo.