LR Vicenza

L.R. Vicenza S.p.A. (acronym for Lanerossi Vicenza), better known as Vicenza or Lanerossi, is an Italian football club based in the city of Vicenza. It plays in Serie C, the third division of the Italian football league, but will play in Serie B in the 2026–27 season following promotion. Founded on 9 March 1902, as Associazione del Calcio in Vicenza, it is the oldest football club in north-eastern Italy as well as in the Triveneto and Veneto regions. It has competed in 30 Serie A seasons and is listed by the IFFHS as the 15 best Italian teams of the 20th century. Domestically, Vicenza won the Coppa Italia in 1996–1997 and the Italian Cup Serie C in 1981–1982 and 2022–2023, while its best result at international level is reaching the semi-final of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (1997–1998). It reached the final in the 1910–1911 First Division championship, where it was defeated by Pro Vercelli, and finished as runners-up Juventus in the 1977–1978 Serie A championship, in which it achieved the best result ever by a newly promoted club in the single-round era. The club was reformed in 2018, following Vicenza Calcio's bankruptcy, thanks to the moving and name change of Bassano Virtus (then owned by OTB Group) from Bassano to Vicenza. L.R Vicenza is now the heir, and de facto continuation, of the sporting tradition that began on 9 March 1902 with the founding of Associazione del Calcio in Vicenza which later became Lanerossi Vicenza from 1953 to 1989 and finally Vicenza Calcio, before going bankrupt in 2018.