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The history of Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio covers over 110 years of Italian professional football club Atalanta BC, commonly referred to as Atalanta (or its nicknames, La Dea, the Orobici, and the Nerazzurri), from its founding in 1907 to the present day. Atalanta is based in Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy and has played its home matches at the Gewiss Stadium since 1928. It currently competes in Serie A, the top tier of the Italian football league system.
Atalanta was founded in 1907 by Liceo Classico Paolo Sarpi students in Bergamo and was named after the Greek mythological athlete of the same name. The club merged with another club also based in Bergamo in 1920, adopting its current name (Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio) and colors (black and blue) after this merger. Atalanta spent much of the 1920s and 1930s in the second division, reaching Serie A for the first time in 1937. The club then enjoyed nearly three decades in Serie A (1940–1969), only missing out in 1958–59. In the following years, the club experienced more movements between the top two divisions, even spending one season (1981–82) in the third division, though returned to the top tiers and qualified for several UEFA competitions—a European Cup Winners' Cup and two UEFA Cups—between 1987 and 1990 under coach Emiliano Mondonico. In the 1990s and 2000s, Atalanta again moved several times between Serie A and Serie B. The club was most recently promoted in 2011 and has been in Serie A for twelve consecutive seasons since then. Between 2017 and 2021, under coach Gian Piero Gasperini, the club enjoyed its best ever league finishes and participated in the UEFA Champions League.
As of the 2022–23 season, Atalanta has spent a total of 62 seasons in Serie A,[1] 28 seasons in Serie B (winning it five times),[2][a] and only one in Serie C.[3] Atalanta has spent the most seasons in the top flight of any Italian club not based in a regional capital; because of these consistent performances, as well as Serie B titles and performances in continental competitions, the club is sometimes called the Regina delle provinciali ("queen of the provincial clubs").[4][5] However, Atalanta has never won the Scudetto, and only has won one major trophy, the Coppa Italia in 1963. The club reached four more Coppa Italia finals since then, and was defeated in each of them, most recently in 2021. In continental competitions, Atalanta's best performances were a run to the semi-finals of the 1987–88 European Cup Winners' Cup (while the club was in Serie B), the quarter-finals of the 1990–91 UEFA Cup, the quarter-finals of the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League, and the quarter-finals of the 2021–22 UEFA Europa League.
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