A.C. Cantù G.S. San Paolo
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Associazione Calcio Cantù Gruppo Sportivo San Paolo Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica is an Italian association football club
Football in Italy
Football is the most popular sport in Italy. The Italian national football team has won the FIFA World Cup 4 times , trailing only Brazil . Italy's club sides have won 27 major European trophies, making them the most successful European nation in the subject of football...

, based in Cantù
Cantù
Cantù is a city and comune in the Province of Como, located at the center of the Brianza zone in Lombardy. It is the second largest city in Brianza.-History:...

, Lombardy. Cantù San Paolo currently plays in Serie D
Serie D
Serie D is the top level of the Italian non-professional football association called Lega Nazionale Dilettanti. The association represents over a million football players and thousands of football teams across Italy. Serie D ranks just below Lega Pro Seconda Divisione , and is thus considered the...

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Cantù San Paolo

A.C. Cantù G.S. San Paolo A.S.D. was founded in the summer 2000 with the merger between A.C. Cantù (founded in 1910 and playing in Seconda Categoria Lombardy
Seconda Categoria
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) and G.S. San Paolo (founded in 1985 and playing in Prima Categoria Lombardy
Prima Categoria
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). The team took part in the Prima Categoria
Prima Categoria
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 and its second attempt to conquer the Promozione
Promozione
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Mark Ronchetti grenade on the bench arrives which at the second attempt leads the team in Eccellenza
Eccellenza
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. The first vintage in the new category ends with a last-minute salvation: the player Brianza Como, with a goal almost at the end, does the play-off win against play-out Giana Erminio Gorgonzola. Stores a negative season that has never seen Cantù players, opens a new ambitious project, one for winning promotion to Serie D
Serie D
Serie D is the top level of the Italian non-professional football association called Lega Nazionale Dilettanti. The association represents over a million football players and thousands of football teams across Italy. Serie D ranks just below Lega Pro Seconda Divisione , and is thus considered the...

. The team is in form throughout the tournament but reached the top of the list in Merate, the Brianza can no longer win, falling into crisis. Dreams are broken in the regional final, won by 2-0 by the Voluntas Osio Sotto in Bergamo.

In the 2008-09 season Cantù San Paolo was promoted in Serie D by beating in national play-off final Fondi for 2-1.

A.C. Cantù

The origins of football in Cantù go back to 1910 when was founded Club Sportivo Canturino. Field of play and training was on the stage of Milan. After playing for three years with the teams at Como Ulice, is affiliated to the two dispute FIGC and the Quarta Divisione championship, gaining a second place in 1924-25 which earned him admission to the Terza Divisione for 1925-26.

Gets the best placement in the season 1926-27, finishing in second place with three points from Seregno, but suddenly stops the activity remaining idle for a season. In season 1928-29 under the name Dopolavoro Cantù burns all stages: in the space of three seasons come to play in Prima Categoria
Prima Categoria
Prima Categoria is the name of a level of football in Italy. It is considered to be the eighth level in the Italian football league system and is organized by the National Amateur League by the Regional Committees. Each individual league winner within the Prima Categoria level progresses to their...

 (1932-1933).

It retired at the end of the 1933-34 First Division championship for financial reasons, reappeared in the Lombardy regional championships with the return of young people after the end of the war in Ethiopia, affiliating with the new name of Associazione Calcio Cantù.
The years of Serie C

The forties are the golden era of football in the town in Brianza. The team on a regular grenade dispute the Serie C
Serie C
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, participating in the Cup three times in Italy. The best result was achieved in the domestic cup in the 1939-1940 season, when it was eliminated from Biellese to the third qualifying round after overcoming Codogno and Caratese.
The post-war period and the first failure

In 1960 the team, for economic failures, was forced to abandon the competitive activity.
The restart with F.C. Cantù

The following year he founded a new club, the Football Club Cantù, whose playing field is always on the green rectangle of Milan. The sailing team championships in the Prima Categoria
Prima Categoria
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 and Seconda Categoria
Seconda Categoria
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 (current leagues Promozione
Promozione
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 and Eccellenza
Eccellenza
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) for many years.
The arrival of Mobil Girgi and return to Serie D

In 1971, the Mobil Girgi company, engaged in the furnishing sector, took over the company who became F.C. Arredi Girgi Cantù' and paves the way for the return of Cantù to competitive football levels . In the season 1972-73 wins the Prima Categoria
Prima Categoria
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 and is promoted to Serie D
Serie D
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The first year of Serie D (1973-74) the Cantù finished 13th, with two points more than relegation places. The next year (season 1974-75) was fired from the championship duel with Pro Patria and freedom for promotion to Serie C
Serie C
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: finally the promotion was lost. Direct comparisons both ended in a draw, fatal to the team's 1-0 defeat Cantù was remedied on May 14 in Lodi in the recovery against the Fanfulla, which in fact gave mathematics chances to promotion for Cantù, before then separated by three points and with two matches to play. The following season was the last in Serie D: second lowest disappointing season and initiate the decline of society. The only positive of this disappointing season was the debut of a player who then wins the Scudetto with Inter shirt: Gianfranco Matteoli.
Decline

From that moment, because of the abandonment of the family Girgi for political conflicts, on the Cantù begins an inexorable decline that led it, in a few years, to the bottom, playing so many different leagues between the Prima Categoria
Prima Categoria
Prima Categoria is the name of a level of football in Italy. It is considered to be the eighth level in the Italian football league system and is organized by the National Amateur League by the Regional Committees. Each individual league winner within the Prima Categoria level progresses to their...

 and Seconda Categoria
Seconda Categoria
Seconda Categoria is the actual name of a level of football in Italy. It is considered to be the 9th level in the Italian football league system. Each individual league winner within the Seconda Categoria level progresses to their closest regional league in the Prima Categoria level...

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G.S. San Paolo

G.S. San Paolo was founded in 1985 and towards the end of the nineties even it surpasses the glorious city society of A.C. Cantù playing in Prima Categoria
Prima Categoria
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Current squad

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