CS Lebowski
{{Short description|Italian football club}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}}
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|clubname = CS Lebowski
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|fullname = Centro Storico Lebowski
| nickname = Gli Ultimi Rimasti
|founded = 2010
|ground = La Trave{{Cite web|url=https://www.theflorentine.net/2023/10/31/centro-storico-lebowski-florence-fan-owned-football-club/|title=Centro Storico Lebowski: Florence's fan-owned football club|date=31 October 2023|language=en|access-date=11 March 2024}},
Florence, Italy
|capacity =
|chairman =
|manager = Alessio Miliani
|league = Promozione Toscana (Group B)
|season = 2023–24
|position = 6th
|website = https://cslebowski.it/
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Centro Storico Lebowski is a football club based in the city of Florence, Tuscany, in Italy. It currently plays in Promozione - Group B, the sixth tier of Italian football.{{Cite web |title=BBC World Service - World Football, CS Lebowski: The team inspired by The Dude |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03cct66/player |access-date=11 March 2024 |website=www.bbc.co.uk}}{{Cite web |date=9 December 2018 |title=From struggling football club to vital community hub: the story of CS Lebowski |url=https://thinkingcity.org/portfolio/from-struggling-football-club-to-vital-community-hub-the-story-of-cs-lebowski/ |access-date=11 March 2024 |website=thinking city // |language=en}}
History
On 26 November 2004, a small group of Italian high school students, who had grown tired of the mismanagement of ACF Fiorentina, began following a local amateur team called 'AC Lebowski' who were infamously unsuccessful. In one season they conceded 99 goals and were frequently bottom of the league. Initially confused by their new support, the team quickly accepted their new ultras group, who called themselves The Ultras Lebowski.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/the-gentleman-ultra/2015/nov/18/cs-big-lebowski-fans-football-club-the-dude|title=How CS Lebowski fans set up their own football club ... and honoured The Dude|newspaper=The Guardian |date=18 October 2015|language=en|access-date=11 March 2024 |last1=Beresford |first1=Chloe }}
In the summer of 2010, following the financial collapse of their beloved club, the former AC Lebowski ultras founded their own club which they called Centro Storico Lebowski, named in honor of the Piazza D'Azeglio where the club was born. The new team began playing in the Terza Categoria, the lowest level of the Italian football league system.{{Cite web |title=CS Lebowski Is A Club Inspired By The Dude. For $21, You Can Be An Owner. |url=https://the18.com/soccer-news/cs-lebowski-club-inspired-dude-21-you-can-be-owner |access-date=11 March 2024 |website=The18}}
Since then, the club has achieved three promotions and famously signed former Serie A midfielder Borja Valero after his contract with ACF Fiorentina was not renewed in 2021.{{Cite web|url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/soccer/arid-40702361.html|title=Italy's Small Lebowski aims to make a big statement for fan power|date=21 September 2021|language=en|access-date=8 March 2024}}
Season to season
| class="wikitable" |
| style="background:#f0f6fa;"
!Season !Tier !Division !Place !Cup |
| style="background:#BF8D5B;"|2010-11
!style="background:#BF8D5B;"|9 |style="background:#BF8D5B;"|III Category |style="background:#BF8D5B;"|7th |style="background:#efefef;"|First Round |
| style="background:#BF8D5B;"|2011-12
!style="background:#BF8D5B;"|9 |style="background:#BF8D5B;"|III Category |style="background:#BF8D5B;"|8th |style="background:#efefef;"|First Round |
| style="background:#BF8D5B;"|2012-13
!style="background:#BF8D5B;"|9 |style="background:#BF8D5B;"|III Category |style="background:#BF8D5B;"|{{tooltip|1st|promoted}} |style="background:#efefef;"| Winner |
| style="background:#FF7F00;"|2013-14
!style="background:#FF7F00;"|8 |style="background:#FF7F00;"|[[Seconda_Categoria|II Category]] |style="background:#FF7F00;"|{{tooltip|1st|promoted}} |style="background:#efefef;"| Round of 32 |
| style="background:#CECE1B;"|2014-15
!style="background:#CECE1B;"|7 |style="background:#CECE1B;"|I Category |style="background:#CECE1B;"|5th |style="background:#efefef;"|Round of 32 |
| style="background:#CECE1B;"|2015-16
!style="background:#CECE1B;"|7 |style="background:#CECE1B;"|I Category |style="background:#CECE1B;"|6th |style="background:#efefef;"|Round of 32 |
| style="background:#CECE1B;"|2016-17
!style="background:#CECE1B;"|7 |style="background:#CECE1B;"|I Category |style="background:#CECE1B;"|7th |style="background:#efefef;"|First Round |
| style="background:#CECE1B;"|2017-18
!style="background:#CECE1B;"|7 |style="background:#CECE1B;"|I Category |style="background:#CECE1B;"|{{tooltip|1st|promoted}} |style="background:#efefef;"|First Round |
| style="background:#25A8F9;"|2018-19
!style="background:#25A8F9;"|6 |style="background:#25A8F9;"|Promotion |style="background:#25A8F9;"|7th |style="background:#efefef;"| |
| style="background:#25A8F9;"|2019-20
!style="background:#25A8F9;"|6 |style="background:#25A8F9;"|Promotion |style="background:#25A8F9;"|3rd |style="background:#efefef;"| |
| style="background:#FFFFFF;"|2020-21
!style="background:#FFFFFF;" colspan="3"|DNP !style="background:#efefef;"| |
| style="background:#25A8F9;"|2021-22
!style="background:#25A8F9;"|6 |style="background:#25A8F9;"|Promotion |style="background:#25A8F9;"|10th |style="background:#efefef;"|First Round |
| style="background:#25A8F9;"|2022-23
!style="background:#25A8F9;"|6 |style="background:#25A8F9;"|Promotion |style="background:#25A8F9;"|7th |style="background:#efefef;"|First Round |
| style="background:#25A8F9;"|2023-24
!style="background:#25A8F9;"|6 |style="background:#25A8F9;"|Promotion |style="background:#25A8F9;"|6th |style="background:#efefef;"|Final |