Italy Serie B | 05/13 18:30 | 34 |
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W | 2-1 | |
Italy Serie B | 05/09 18:30 | 38 |
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D | 2-2 | |
Italy Serie B | 05/04 13:00 | 37 |
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D | 0-0 | |
Italy Serie B | 05/01 15:15 | 36 |
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W | 0-1 | |
Italy Serie B | 04/25 13:00 | 35 |
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L | 1-2 | |
Italy Serie B | 04/21 13:00 | 34 |
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- | PPT. | |
Italy Serie B | 04/12 13:00 | 33 |
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D | 1-1 | |
Italy Serie B | 04/05 13:00 | 32 |
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L | 1-2 | |
Italy Serie B | 03/28 19:30 | 31 |
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W | 0-1 | |
Italy Serie B | 03/15 14:00 | 30 |
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L | 2-1 | |
Italy Serie B | 03/08 18:30 | 29 |
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D | 1-1 | |
Italy Serie B | 03/02 14:00 | 28 |
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L | 1-0 |
Total | Home | Away | |
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Matches played | 45 | 23 | 22 |
Wins | 13 | 7 | 6 |
Draws | 18 | 10 | 8 |
Losses | 14 | 6 | 8 |
Goals for | 59 | 35 | 24 |
Goals against | 55 | 29 | 26 |
Clean sheets | 14 | 8 | 6 |
Failed to score | 11 | 5 | 6 |
Brescia Calcio, commonly referred to as Brescia (Italian pronunciation: [ˈbreʃʃa ˈkaltʃo]), was an Italian football club based in Brescia, Lombardy. The team last played in Serie B, the second tier of Italian football, and was set to compete in Serie C in the 2025–26 season due to financial issues. However, the club was dissolved following the scandal.
The club held the record for the total number of seasons (66) and consecutive seasons (18, from 1947–48 to 1964–65) in Serie B, which they 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 1993 Ballon d'Or winner Roberto Baggio, the club also qualified for the UEFA Intertoto Cup twice, reaching the final in 2001 but being eliminated on the away goals rule by Paris Saint-Germain. During this era, Pep Guardiola, former FC Barcelona captain and later a highly decorated manager, and Andrea Pirlo, a product of Brescia Calcio's youth sector who went on to win numerous trophies with AC Milan and Juventus, also played for the club.
The team's colours were blue and white. Its home ground was the 19,550-seater Stadio Mario Rigamonti. Brescia had a long-standing rivalry with Atalanta from nearby Bergamo.
The team was founded in 1911 as Brescia Football Club, joining the Terza Categoria division the same year. In 1913, Brescia was promoted to the First Division for the first time. Founding members of Serie A in 1929-30, Brescia would play there for six of the next seven seasons. The club have since fallen out of the top two divisions only three times: in 1938, when they spent a single season in Serie C; in 1982, when they spent three seasons there; and 2025, after a controversial administrative relegation for alleged financial infringements. As of 2025, only 11 Italian clubs have played fewer seasons outside the top two divisions of Lega Calcio than Brescia (four)[], and no club has spent more seasons in Serie B than Brescia (66).
Brescia won the Anglo-Italian Cup in 1994, the biggest achievement in their history to date. The club gained greater prominence in 2000 after signing former FIFA World Player of the Year Roberto Baggio, who led Brescia to a seventh-place finish in the 2000–01 season, thus qualifying for the UEFA Intertoto Cup. Brescia then reached the finals, where they lost to Paris Saint-Germain via the away goals rule, drawing 0-0 away in the first leg and 1-1 at home in the second leg. Baggio spent four years at Brescia before retiring in 2004, during which time Brescia became widely known as "Baggio's Brescia"[]. During Baggio's four-year spell with Brescia, the club recorded its longest stay in Serie A; in the very first season after Baggio's retirement (2004–05), Brescia were relegated on the final day. They returned after beating Torino 2-1 on aggregate in the 2009–10 . In the 2010–11 season, however, they were relegated back to Serie B. In the 2014–15 season, they were relegated to Lega Pro after finishing second from last. However, after Parma's declaration of bankruptcy and demotion to Serie D, Brescia was among the teams selected to replace them in Serie B. A new promotion to Serie A was secured in the 2018–19 season, with two games to spare, but the team got relegated in the next season.
In the 2024–25 season, Brescia avoided relegation places in Serie B by one point, yet they finished with a four-point deduction and subsequently declared bankruptcy after their president, Massimo Cellino, failed to settle approximately €3 million in debts. However, on 7 June 2025, Brescia announced that it would not participate in the 2025–26 Serie C season, due to ongoing financial strain.