Rumori Calcio Tallinn

{{short description|Estonian football club}}

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| chairman = Angelo Palmeri

| ground = Kalevi Keskstaadion artificial turf

| capacity = 270{{cite web |title=Rumori Calcio Tallinn |url=https://jalgpall.ee/voistlused/team/3682 |website=Jalgpall.ee}}

| league = III liiga West

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Rumori Calcio is an Estonian football club based in Tallinn. Founded in 2015, the club is best known for being an international football team for expatriates living in Tallinn.

Since their founding, Rumori has had players of over 30 different nationalities play for the club.{{Cite web |title=Rumori Calcio |url=http://rumoricalcio.eu/ |access-date=2024-08-19 |website=Rumori Calcio |language=}} Rumori Calcio currently competes in the Western division of III liiga, and also has a reserve team that competes in IV liiga, managed by Gabriele Haddad, a former player of Rumori.{{Cite web |title=Võistkond |url=https://jalgpall.ee/voistlused/268/team/5193 |access-date=2025-03-14 |website=jalgpall.ee |language=et}}

History

Rumori Calcio was founded on 17 March 2015 in Hiiu Pub in Nõmme by Italians Angelo Palmeri and Samuele De Pizzol, Georgians Archil Chochia and Erekle Dzotsenidze and Turk Yenal Turan with the aim of providing an international environment through football to foreigners living in Tallinn.{{Cite web |title=Foundation – Rumori Calcio |url=http://rumoricalcio.eu/foundation/ |access-date=2024-08-18 |website=Rumori Calcio |language=}}

The club first began playing in the Estonian non-league Rahvaliiga, but entered IV liiga in the following year. Rumori made their debut in the Estonian league system by playing at the artificial turf ground next to Kalevi Keskstaadion and finished the 2016 IV liiga North/West division season in third place, thus earning promotion to III liiga. The club played in III liiga North division from 2017 until their relegation in 2020, were again promoted from IV liiga in 2021 and have since then competed in the Western division of III liiga.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=30 March 2022 |title=Rumori Calcio, la storia del club italiano in Estonia: «Tutto per amore...» |url=https://www.cronachedispogliatoio.it/rumori-calcio-italiani-estonia-storia/ |access-date= |website=Cronache di spogliatoio |language=it-IT}}

In 2022, Rumori Calcio was featured in a BBC article introducing the Estonian Cup.{{Cite news |last=Begley |first=Emlyn |date=30 June 2022 |title=Estonian Cup: Welcome to the tournament where anything goes |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/61808907 |access-date= |work=BBC Sport |language=en-GB}}

Stadium

Rumori Calcio uses the 270-capacity artificial turf ground adjacent to the Kalevi Keskstaadion as their home ground. The club's trainings during winter and early spring months take place at the Kotka indoor football hall.{{Cite web |title=Come to Train! – Rumori Calcio |url=http://rumoricalcio.eu/join-trainings/ |access-date=2024-08-19 |language=}}

Seasons and statistics

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!Season

!Division

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!width=30px|{{Tooltip|W|Won}}

!width=30px|{{Tooltip|D|Drawn}}

!width=30px|{{Tooltip|L|Lost}}

!width=30px|{{Tooltip|GF|Goals for}}

!width=30px|{{Tooltip|GA|Goals against}}

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!Top goalscorer

!width=90px|Cup

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|2016

IV liiga N/Wstyle="background:#DDFFDD;"|3rd1810354924+2533align="left" |{{flagicon|GER}} Christoph Puschmann (13)Fourth round
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|2017

rowspan="4" |III liiga N6th2211295848+1035align="left" |{{flagicon|GER}} Christoph Puschmann (17)Fourth round
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|2018

6th228774639+731align="left" |{{flagicon|EST}} Reber Gruzdev (19)Second round
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|2019

8th2282124847+126align="left" |{{flagicon|EST}} Valentin Bnatov (9)Second round
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|2020

bgcolor="#ffdddd"|11th2233163788–5112align="left" |{{flagicon|POL}} Tomasz Leszczyński
{{flagicon|EST}} Mihhail Katõhhin (8)
Second round
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|2021

IV liiga Nbgcolor="#DDFFDD"|3rd148333318+1527align="left" |{{flagicon|ALG}} Walid Remmas (8)Second round
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|2022

rowspan="2" |III liiga W7th2211387438+3636align="left" |{{flagicon|POL}} Tomasz Leszczyński (13)Second round
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|2023

5th1880103648–1224align="left" |{{flagicon|FRA}} Gregory Vivas (7)Second round

References