Brescia Calcio
| Full name | Brescia Calcio S.p.A. | |||
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| Nicknames | Le Rondinelle (The Little Swallows) I Biancazzurri (The White and Blues) La Leonessa (The Lioness) | |||
| Founded | 17 July 1911 | |||
| Dissolved | 3 July 2025 | |||
| Ground | Stadio Mario Rigamonti | |||
| Capacity | 19,500 | |||
| 2024–25 | Serie B, 18th of 20 (relegated) | |||
| Website | bresciacalcio | |||
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Brescia Calcio, commonly referred to as Brescia (Italian pronunciation: [ˈbreʃʃa ˈkaltʃo]), was an Italian football club based in Brescia, Lombardy. The team last played in Serie B, the second tier of professional Italian football.
The club held the record for the total number of seasons (66) and consecutive seasons (18, from 1947–48 to 1964–65) in Serie B, which they won four times. Their best finish in Serie A came in the 2000–01 season when they placed eighth. At the beginning of the 21st century, led by 1993 Ballon d'Or winner Roberto Baggio, the club also qualified for the UEFA Intertoto Cup twice, reaching the final in 2001, but being eliminated on the away goals rule by Paris Saint-Germain. During this era, Pep Guardiola, former FC Barcelona captain and later a highly decorated manager, and Andrea Pirlo, a product of Brescia Calcio's youth sector who went on to win numerous trophies with AC Milan and Juventus, also played for the club.
The team's colours were blue and white. Its home ground was the 19,550-seater Stadio Mario Rigamonti. Brescia had a long-standing rivalry with Atalanta from nearby Bergamo.