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Iconic Italian Football Club Goes Bankrupt and Faces Boot From League

  • Hinckley Leicester Road FC announced voluntary liquidation due to severe financial challenges, with a phoenix club planned for the near future.
  • The club faced declining revenues, rising costs, loss of key sponsors, recruitment failures, and retirements, making senior first team operation unviable.
  • Although the team secured a strong 10th-place finish and ended the season as the leading form side in their league, the club opted for voluntary relegation to focus on restructuring efforts.
  • "Leicester Road Football Club Limited has been put into Voluntary Liquidation," but youth and development teams will continue playing at Leicester Road Stadium.
  • A new organization will be established to seek re-entry into the National League System, with the goal of reinstating top-level men's football under fresh management in the near future.
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Brescia Calcio has not achieved great success so far. For this, the Italian club looks at a long tradition – and stars who once played there. Now the club is threatened. There are payment problems. Fans demonstrate that the mayor wants to help.

·Dortmund, Germany
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Eight years ago Massimo Cellino was supposed to advance Brescia Calcio, but instead he drove the club to the abyss.

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Brescia Calcio, one of the Italian football traditions clubs, is located at the foot of the fall, after 114 years of existence. There have played, over time, more Romanian footballists, the team being driven, in two directions by Mircea Lucescu. The article reveals Brescia Romana! The former Gica Hagi and Mircea Lucescu club, almost 114 years after the existence!

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Italy's football club Brescia disappears from the scene after 114 years. Owner Massimo Cellino has decided not to pay a debt of EUR 3 million, which is why Brescia is no longer allowed to participate in Serie C. This is reported by Italian media. Brescia was in Serie A during 23 seasons, most recently in 2019/20. The best classification was 8th place (2000/01).Roberto Baggio, Alessandro Altobelli, Andrea Pirlo and Luca Toni wore the Lombard dres…

·Vienna, Austria
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Corriere Della Sera broke the news in Italy on Friday, June 6, 2025.
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