Official: Brescia excluded from professional football after 114 years | OneFootball

Brescia Calcio have been officially excluded from participating in the 2025-26 Serie C season, and now, for the first time in their 114-year history, the former Serie A will not be involved in professional competition.

Official: Brescia excluded from Serie C

The FIGC have confirmed in an official press release that Brescia have not been granted a license to compete in Serie C for the 2025-26 season.

Among the issues listed in the long FIGC press release on Thursday is the failure to pay debts of €1.1m to the league that had been due in January, and the failure to pay staff members including players, coaches and clubhouse staff for the months of March and April 2025 among various other financial and administrative shortcomings.

Massimo Cellino looks on during the Serie A match between against Udinese Calcio at Stadio Mario Rigamonti on February 9, 2020 in Italy. (Photo by Emilio Andreoli/Getty Images)

Brescia had been relegated from Serie B at the end of the 2024-25 season.

Though they had initially done enough for a spot in the relegation play-outs, Brescia were docked four points after the season had ended, sending them down in the relegation places, while Sampdoria were given a second chance of safety in the play-outs.

Much of the blame has been laid at the feet of owner Massimo Cellino, former patron of Cagliari and controversially, of Leeds United as well.

The situation is set to be the end of the road for Brescia Calcio in its current set-up, and if they are to re-start, it will now have to be from Serie D.

26 Sep 2001: Guardiola new signing for Italalian football club here shaking hands with president of Brescia, Corioni. DIGITAL IMAGE Mandatory Credit: Grazia Neri/ALLSPORT

Brescia had spent 23 years in the Italian top flight, and at the height of their powers, were graced by the likes of Roberto Baggio, Pep Guardiola, Gheorghe Hagi, Andrea Pirlo, Luca Toni and more recently, Sandro Tonali and Mario Balotelli.