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 a professional football club based in Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy, who compete in Serie A, the top tier of the Italian 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 | ||
2023–24 | Serie A, 4th of 20 | ||
Website | Club website | ||
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Founded in 1907, Atalanta holds the record for having played the most Serie A seasons (63) without being based in a regional capital and without having won the league title. Furthermore, the club also holds the record for most promotions to the Serie A[lower-alpha 1] and the joint-most Serie B titles, alongside Genoa.
Atalanta won the Coppa Italia in 1963 and the UEFA Europa League in 2023–24.[4] The club qualified for the UEFA Champions League four times, reaching the quarter-finals in 2020, and participated in six seasons of the UEFA Europa League (previously known as the UEFA Cup).[lower-alpha 2] Atalanta 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.[lower-alpha 3]
The club plays its home games at the Gewiss Stadium and its main kit colors are black and blue. Atalanta has a long-standing rivalry with nearby club Brescia.[5][6] The club is also famed for its youth academy, which has produced several notable talents who have played in the top leagues of Europe.[7]