Albignasego Calcio
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Albignasego Calcio was an Italian
Italy
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 football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 club located in Albignasego
Albignasego
Albignasego is a comune in the Province of Padua in the Italian region Veneto, located about 35 km west of Venice and about 7 km south of Padua...

, Veneto
Veneto
Veneto is one of the 20 regions of Italy. Its population is about 5 million, ranking 5th in Italy.Veneto had been for more than a millennium an independent state, the Republic of Venice, until it was eventually annexed by Italy in 1866 after brief Austrian and French rule...

. It last played 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...

. It has set a record in Italian football as it has been promoted 5 times in 5 years: this means they've always won their championship for the last 5 years. In Summer 2010 the club merged with A.S. San Paolo, a Promozione
Promozione
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 club based in Padua
Padua
Padua is a city and comune in the Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Padua and the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua's population is 212,500 . The city is sometimes included, with Venice and Treviso, in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area, having...

, and moved to the city to form Calcio San Paolo Padova
Calcio San Paolo Padova
Calcio San Paolo Padova is an Italian association football, the second football team of the city of Padua, Veneto.-History and achievements:The club moved from Promozione to Serie D after a merger with Albignasego Calcio, to form the current club.Its first official football match in Serie D has...

, thus disappearing from the Italian football panorama.

In the meanwhile, CUS Calcio Padova (the University of Padua
University of Padua
The University of Padua is a premier Italian university located in the city of Padua, Italy. The University of Padua was founded in 1222 as a school of law and was one of the most prominent universities in early modern Europe. It is among the earliest universities of the world and the second...

's football club) moved to Albignasego and changed their denomination to Universitaria Albignasego Calcio, also acknowledging Albignasego Calcio's history.

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