Bologna FC

Bologna Football Club 1909 is a football club from Italy, from the city of Bologna, in the Emilia-Romagna region. It has played in Serie A, the highest level of the Italian football league system, since the 2015-16 season. Its characteristic colors are red and blue, and the shirt features alternating vertical stripes of the same colors. Since 1927, the team has played its home matches at the Stadio Renato Dall'Ara, which was born as the Stadio Littoriale and was called the Stadio Comunale from the postwar period until 1983, and which can hold 36,462 spectators.

The club was founded on 3 October 1909 by Emilio Arnstein, went bankrupt in 1993 and was reconstituted as a company under its current name after reacquiring the rights and the sporting title of the previous association. With participation in 73 Serie A championships out of a total of 88 since it has been played as a single group, Bologna ranks ninth in the all-time table of the Italian top division, which takes total appearances in the championship into account; counting the 16 appearances in the top-category leagues before it was played as a single group, divided into Prima Categoria, Prima Divisione and Divisione Nazionale, Bologna has 89 appearances in the national top category in total. According to the Italian Football Federation, it is the club with the eighth-best sporting tradition in Italy.

The team has 7 Italian championship titles, three Coppa Italia titles (breaking a 51-year trophy drought in 2025) and one Coppa dell'Alta Italia. At the international level, Bologna was the first Italian club to win a continental trophy, the Central European Cup in 1932; it has 3 Mitropa Cups, an Italian record in the competition, and one Intertoto Cup. With its victory in the International Tournament of the 1937 Paris Universal Exposition, the squad established itself as one of the best teams on the continental European scene. Bologna holds the singular record of two league titles won in a deciding playoff final: one against Torino in 1929 and another against Inter Milan in 1964.