Siena

AC Siena are one of Italian football's great romantic stories, a Tuscan club from one of the world's most beautiful cities that spent almost a decade in Serie A during the 2000s and early 2010s before financial troubles brought it all crashing down. Competing in the top flight from 2003, and guided back to Serie A by a young Antonio Conte in 2011, Siena wore their distinctive black and white stripes on Italian football's biggest stage for years. The club was refounded as ACN Siena 1904 after the collapse of 2020, carrying on a tradition that stretches back to the city's sporting heritage of 1904. Founded in 1904, Siena FC SSD are based in Siena, Tuscany, and compete in the lower tiers of Italian football having been refounded in 2020 as ACN Siena 1904. They play at Stadio Artemio Franchi in Siena. The club are known as the Robur or I Bianconeri. Their home colours are black and white stripes, taken from the coat of arms of the city of Siena. Major achievements include sustained Serie A participation from 2003 to 2012. The black and white stripes of Siena are drawn directly from the medieval coat of arms of the city, giving this shirt a heritage that runs far deeper than football. The striped home shirt was a fixture in Serie A for nearly a decade, worn as the club from Tuscany held its own against Juventus, AC Milan, and Inter. The kits from the 2010 to 2011 Serie B title-winning season under Antonio Conte, and the subsequent Serie A campaigns, are the most treasured in the club's shirt history. Lotto were a prominent manufacturer for several of these Serie A-era kits, producing clean, distinctive black and white designs.