AC Perugia Calcio

Associazione Calcistica Perugia Calcio, usually called Perugia, is a professional association football club from Perugia, the capital of Umbria in Italy. It currently competes in Serie C Group B, the third division of Italian football. The club was founded in 1905 as Associazione Calcistica Perugia, folded in 2005, was re-founded the same year as Perugia Calcio, and dissolved again in 2010 before taking its present name. Perugia has played 13 seasons in Serie A, and its best placing was runner-up in 1978-79, when it became the first team under the round-robin format to finish a Serie A season without a defeat. It won the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 2003 and has appeared twice in the UEFA Cup. Its players are nicknamed biancorossi for the red and white kit and grifoni after the griffin that is the symbol of the city, and the club plays at the 28,000-capacity Stadio Renato Curi.