Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio is an Italian football club based in Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy. The club plays in Serie A, having gained promotion from Serie B in 2010–11. Club won the Coppa Italia in 1963 and reached the Cup Winners’ Cup semi-final in 1988, when it was still competing in Serie B. They reached the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League in 2017.
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Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio is an Italian football club based in Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy. The club plays in Serie A, having gained promotion from Serie B in 2010–11. Founded in 1907 by Swiss students in the gym of the liceo classico, Atalanta play in blue-and-black vertically striped shirts, black shorts and black socks. Club is nicknamed La Dea, the Nerazzurri and the Orobici. Club won the Coppa Italia in 1963 and reached the Cup Winners’ Cup semi-final in 1988, when it was still competing in Serie B. They reached the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League in 2017. The team did not participate in any European competitions between 1991 and 2017, although it turned down the opportunity to play in the Intertoto Cup in 2001 after finishing in third place in the Serie A table. They have a long-standing rivalry with nearby club Brescia. Welsh club Merthyr Tydfil caused an upset in the 1987–88 European Cup winners’ Cup, beating AtAlanta 2–1 in the first leg of their first round match at Penydarren Park. After winning the second leg 2–0, the club went on to reach the semi-finals, but in second leg Bergamo lost to Mechelen of Belgium, becoming one of only two teams in the history of the competition to reach penultimate round while playing their football outside the national top flight league.
Oddly enough, only the only other team to do so is Merthry Tyd Fil, who play in Cardiff City’s countryman’s countrymen at Cardiff City City Stadium. The current club is the result of a merger between atalanta and a third team called Bergamascas. The first, black and white coloured, and the second, wearing a blue and white shirt, merged in 1920 as Atalantas Bergamasas 1907. The name is taken from the female athlete of Greek mythology. Atalante joined the Italian league in 1929, but was relegated immediately. After a change of ownership, in 2011, At alanta immediately came back to Serie A – where it has been ever since. In terms of titles the club has won little; their sole major silverware is the 1963 Coppa italia. They managed to repeat the same achievements the following season, and reach the same feat only bettered in 2017, when they finished 3rd in the league. They were relegated in 1987, 1994, 1998, 2003, 2005 and 2010, but were promoted again in 2011. In 2013, they won the Italian Serie B title, and were promoted back to the top flight in 2014. They are one of the few Italian clubs not based in a regional capital.
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