Como 1907

Como 1907 (Italian pronunciation: [ˈkɔːmo]) is an Italian professional football club based in Como, Lombardy. The club competes in Serie A, the first tier of Italian football. Founded in 1907 as Como Foot-Ball Club, the side adopted royal blue as its colours, and has played its home matches at the 13,602-capacity Stadio Giuseppe Sinigaglia since 1928. They currently have the richest club owners in Italian football after Como was purchased by the Hartono brothers (Robert Budi Hartono and Michael Bambang Hartono) through Djarum Group on 2019. The club's minority shareholders include its current head coach, Cesc Fàbregas, and former footballer Thierry Henry. Como's first season in the top flight of Italian football was in the 1913–14 Prima Categoria, where they remained until relegation in 1922. The club played in the 1930–31 Prima Divisione, as Gedeon Eugen Lukács led a promotion to Serie B, where Como finished unbeaten in both the regular season and the play-offs of the Prima Divisione, scoring 90 goals in 32 matches and conceding only 24 goals. Como suffered consecutive relegations in the 2000s as a result of financial difficulties. In 2004, the club were declared bankrupt and excluded from participation in Italian professional football. They were immediately admitted to Serie D, the top level of non-professional football in Italy, where they spent three seasons before earning promotion back to Serie C2 in 2007. After a further bankruptcy in 2016, a new company re-founded the club in 2017 and was admitted to Serie D. Since being bought by the Hartono brothers, who were ranked the 64th and 66th richest men by Forbes in 2022 and the richest football club owners in Italy in 2024, the club returned to Serie B, and in 2024, for the first time in 21 years, was promoted to Serie A. They finished...