Atalanta BC
Football club in Bergamo, Italy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio, commonly referred to as Atalanta, is an Italian professional football club based in Bergamo, Lombardy, that competes in the Serie A, the top tier of the Italian football league system.
Full name | Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio S.p.A. | ||
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Nickname(s) | La Dea (The Goddess) Gli Orobici (The Orobics) I Nerazzurri (The Black and Blues) | ||
Founded | 17 October 1907; 116 years ago (1907-10-17) as SBG Atalanta 30 March 1920; 104 years ago (1920-03-30) as Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio | ||
Ground | Gewiss Stadium | ||
Capacity | 24,950[1] | ||
Owner | La Dea S.r.l. (86%) (Stephen Pagliuca and others 55%; Antonio Percassi 45%)[2] Others (14%) | ||
President[3] | Antonio Percassi | ||
Manager | Gian Piero Gasperini | ||
League | Serie A | ||
2022–23 | Serie A, 5th of 20 | ||
Website | Club website | ||
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Atalanta was founded in 1907 by Liceo Classico Paolo Sarpi students and is nicknamed La Dea, the Nerazzurri and the Orobici. The club plays in blue-and-black vertically striped shirts, black shorts and black socks. The club plays its home matches at the 21,747-seater Gewiss Stadium. In Italy, Atalanta is sometimes called Regina delle provinciali (queen of the provincial clubs) to mark the fact that the club is the most consistent among Italian clubs not based in a regional capital, having played 62 seasons in Serie A, 28 in Serie B, and only one in Serie C. Atalanta has a long-standing rivalry with nearby club Brescia.[4][5]
The club is also famed for its youth academy, which has produced several notable talents who have played in the top leagues of Europe.[6]
Atalanta won the Coppa Italia in 1963 and the UEFA Europa League in 2023–24.[7] The club also reached the semi-finals of the Cup Winners' Cup in 1988, when it was competing in Serie B. This is still the joint-best performance ever by a non-first division club in a major UEFA competition (together with Cardiff City). Atalanta also participated in six seasons of the UEFA Europa League (previously known as the UEFA Cup),[lower-alpha 1] and has additionally qualified for the UEFA Champions League four times, reaching the quarter-finals in 2020.