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Iconic Italian Football Club Goes Bankrupt and Faces Boot From League
- Hinckley Leicester Road FC, an 8th tier club, announced voluntary liquidation due to financial and operational challenges in June 2025.
- The club encountered escalating expenses, falling income, the withdrawal of main sponsors, and unsuccessful player recruitment, all of which rendered maintaining the senior first team financially unfeasible.
- After securing 10th place in the Northern Premier League’s Midland Division, the club chose to step down voluntarily, while the youth and development squads will remain active at Leicester Road Stadium.
- A new organization will be created to submit an application for entry back into the National League System, with the goal of reviving senior first team football under fresh management in the near future.
- The liquidation highlights challenges faced by semi-professional clubs amid difficult economic conditions but reprieves and a return to competition are expected.
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This is very bitter: the ex-club of star trainer Pep Guardiola is insolvent and after 114 years before the end. How it came about.
Historic Italian football club Brescia will cease to exist after 114 years, following the owner's decision not to repay a three million euro debt. Italian businessman Massimo Cellino has owned the Lombardy club since 2017. Previously, Cellino was also the owner of English team Leeds United, where he was known mainly for his unstable policies regarding coaches and problems with the judiciary. The 68-year-old had until Friday to pay part of the to…
Iconic Italian football club goes bankrupt and faces boot from league
ITALIAN football club Brescia is set to go extinct after 114 years having being declared bankrupt. The club – who started this season in Serie B – have failed to pay debts of more than £2.5million. GettyRoberto Baggio and Andrea Pirlo during their time with Brescia[/caption] GettyPep Guardiola, pictured here in 2001, also played for Brescia[/caption] Mario Balotelli had a year with the clubGetty Images - Getty As a result, they have been gone ba…
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.
Eight years ago Massimo Cellino was supposed to advance Brescia Calcio, but instead he drove the club to the abyss.
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