Venezia F.C.

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Venezia
File:Venezia F.C.jpg
Full name Venezia F.C. Srld
Nickname(s) Arancioneroverdi (Orange-Black-Greens)
Lagunari (Lagoonal Ones)
Leoni Alati (Winged Lions)
Founded 1907 (as Venezia Foot Ball Club)
2005 (as SSC Venezia)
2009 (as FBC Unione Venezia)
2015 (as Venezia FC srld)
Dissolved 2005 (AC Venezia)
2009 (SSC Venezia)
2015 (FBC Unione Venezia)
Ground Stadio Pierluigi Penzo,
Sant'Elena, Italy
Ground Capacity 7,450
Chairman Joe Tacopina
Manager Giancarlo Favarin
League Lega Pro
2015-16 Serie D, Girone C, 1st (promoted)

Venezia F.C., commonly referred to as "Venezia", is an Italian football club from Venice that will be playing in Lega Pro, the Italian third division, in the upcoming 2016-17 season.

Founded by a merger in 1907, Venezia have spent a large part of their history in Serie A and Serie B, the top two divisions in Italy.

Venezia won the Coppa Italia in 1941.

Stadium

Venezia's current home stadium, the Pierluigi Penzo, is the second-oldest stadium in Italy (the oldest being Genoa's Stadio Luigi Ferraris), and is primarily reached by boat or by foot.

History

The club was founded as Venezia Foot Ball Club on 14 December 1907,[1] by members of two local sports clubs coming together; Palestra Marziale and Costantino Reyer. It was originally based at Campo San Bartolomeo in the city of Venice. Fifteen men including the first president Davide Fano were involved in the club's founding;.[1] In 1919, the name was translated into Italian as Associazione Calcio Venezia.

A closeup of Valentino Mazzola.

The most notable trophy success in Venezia's history is winning the Coppa Italia during the 1940–41 season. The Cup-winning Venezia team included some of the players who went on to form the Torino F.C. side of the 1940s who died in the Superga air disaster in 1949, such as Ezio Loik and Valentino Mazzola.

In 1941–42, Venezia earned its highest ever Serie A position, finishing in third place in the league.

A.C. Venezia 1907

In the summer 1990, the club was renamed "Associazione Calcio Venezia 1907".

Venezia has spent the majority of its history in Serie A and Serie B, Italy's two top divisions. The club was last relegated from Serie A in 2002. This last season in Serie A began a period of decline for the club. Frustrated with the team and the inability to agree on plans for a larger stadium with the local council, then president Maurizio Zamparini decided to purchase U.S. Città di Palermo, and he took with him a large portion of the squad.

Álvaro Recoba played for Venezia.

Notable recent former players include Álvaro Recoba, Filippo Maniero and Christian Vieri.

In 2005 the club was relegated to Serie B and declared insolvent because of bankruptcy.

S.S.C. Venezia

In the summer 2005 the club was refounded as Società Sportiva Calcio Venezia and was admitted in Serie C2 due to Lodo Petrucci.

At the end of the 2008–09 Lega Pro Prima Divisione season, the club was declared bankrupt.

Foot Ball Club Unione Venezia

After the club's second bankruptcy, the club was re-founded as "Foot Ball Club Unione Venezia", and was admitted to Serie D – the top level non-professional league in Italian football.

in 2011-12, Venezia won the Scudetto Dilettanti.

Venezia Football Club

After the club's third bankruptcy, the club was re-founded as "Venezia F.C. Srld", and was admitted to Serie D for the 2015-16 season.

In October 2015, New York lawyer Joe Tacopina and a group of American investors announced the purchase of Venezia.[2] Tacopina was previously the president of Bologna and a minority investor in A.S. Roma.[citation needed]

In Tacopina's first season, Venezia earned promotion to Lega Pro.

Notable former players

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See also: Category: F.B.C. Unione Venezia players

Colours, badge and nicknames

Venezia's original kit.

Originally Venezia's colours were blue and red and the shirt features halves in those colours, the kit was very similar to that of Genoa.[3] However just a year after the club founded, it changed colours to black and green in 1908.[3]

Much later, in 1987 when the club merged with a local side Associazione Calcio Mestre from Mestre who wore orange and black,[4] orange would also become one of Venezia's official colours, giving them the nickname arancioneroverdi ("orange-black-greens").[5] Venezia's colours and kit are very distinctive; the shirt, shorts and socks are usually black with the shirt having a green and orange trim.

The symbol of the Venetian club is a winged-lion, commonly mistaken for a griffin. The golden winged-lion is the official symbol carries by the city of province of Venice;[6] the symbol has led to one of the club's most popular nicknames in the form of leoni alati ("winged-lions").[5]

As the club has been renamed numerous times during its history, the badge has also changed several times; the most common one features the golden winged lion, along with the green and orange club colours with a golden border.[7] As the city of Venice is situated on the Venetian Lagoon, the club is also nicknamed lagunari ("Lagoonal ones").[8]

  • VeneziaOldBadge.png
    Old club logo from 1990 to 2005
  • SSCVenezia.png
    Logo from 2005 to 2009
  • F.B.C. Unione Venezia.png
    Logo from 2009 to 2015

Rivalries

Honours

Coppa Italia:

  • Winners (1): 1940–41

Serie B:

  • Champions (2): 1960–61; 1965–66
  • Runners-up (3): 1938–39; 1948–49; 1997–98
  • Promoted (1): 2000–01

Serie C / Serie C1:

  • Champions (2): 1935–36; 1955–56
  • Runners-up (1): 1990–91

Serie C2:

  • Champions (1): 2005–06
  • Runners-up (1): 1987–88

Serie D:

  • Scudetto Dilettanti: Winners 1: 2011-12
  • Winners (2): 1982–83, 2011-12
  • Runners-up (1): 1978–79

References

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  2. ↑ US lawyer Joe Tacopina buys Italian club Venezia
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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  9. ↑ http://en.soccerwiki.org/squad.php?clubid=132

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