Associazione Calcio Rinascita Messina is the top football club in Messina and among the major ones in Sicily. It currently plays in Serie D. Its colors are yellow and red.
The club's history begun in 1900, when the club was founded under the denomination of Messina Football Club, and spanned until the most recent successes, with a total of four Serie A campaign, three of them being in the 2000s.
The club was refounded a number of times, more recently in 2009 as A.C. Rinascita Messina and has played in all the Italian professional leagues from Serie A, the first time as A.C. Riunite Messina to Serie C2 in different times, but also in amateur leagues Serie D and Eccellenza following the most recent club disbandment.
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