Football Club Crotone is an Italian

Italy

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 football club based in Crotone

Crotone

Crotone is a city and comune in Calabria, southern Italy, on the Ionian Sea. Founded circa 710 BC as the Achaean colony of Croton , it was known as Cotrone from the Middle Ages until 1928, when its name was changed to the current one. In 1994 it became the capital of the newly established...

, Calabria

Calabria

Calabria , in antiquity known as Bruttium, is a region in southern Italy, south of Naples, located at the "toe" of the Italian Peninsula. The capital city of Calabria is Catanzaro....

. Founded in 1923, it currently plays in Serie B

Serie B

Serie B, currently named Serie bwin due to sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It is contested by 22 teams and organized by the Lega Serie B since July 2010, after the split of Lega Calcio that previously took care of both the...

, holding home games at Stadio Ezio Scida

Stadio Ezio Scida

Stadio Ezio Scida is a football stadium in Crotone, Italy. It is currently the home of F.C. Crotone. The stadium holds 9,631....

, which has a 9,631-seat capacity.
The first team from Crotone, Milone Crotone, was founded in 1923 and participated in several minor leagues including Prima Division (which later would be known as Serie C). Following World War II

World War II

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, a new club, Unione Sportiva Crotone replaced the previous one, playing seven seasons in Serie C.

In 1963 the club was relegated 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...

, but returned to the third division the following year, remanining there for fourteen consecutive seasons, missing promotion in 1977 when finishing third behind A.S. Bari

A.S. Bari

Associazione Sportiva Bari is an Italian football club founded in 1908, they are based in Bari, Apulia and plays in Serie B. The club have spent many seasons bouncing between the top two divisions in Italian football, Serie A and Serie B....

 and Paganese Calcio 1926

Paganese Calcio 1926

Paganese Calcio 1926 is an Italian association football club from Pagani, Campania.It currently plays in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione.-History:The club was founded in 1926....

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