Venezia F.C.

Venezia

Full name

Venezia F.C. S.r.l.

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)

Dissolved

2005 (AC Venezia)
2009 (SSC Venezia)
2015 (FBC Unione Venezia)

Ground

Stadio Pierluigi Penzo,
Sant'Elena, Venice, Italy

Capacity

7,450

Chairman

Manager

League

Serie D, Girone C, 1st (promoted)

Home colours

Away colours

Venezia F.C., commonly referred to as "Venezia", is an Italian football club from Venice that is playing in Lega Pro, the Italian third division, in the 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. S.r.l.d., 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 is also the former Vice President and minority investor in A.S. Roma.

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

Squad

As of 10 August, 2016

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.		Position	Player
		GK	Davide Facchin
		GK	Guglielmo Vicario
		GK	Nicola Sambo

		DF	Paolo Pellicanò
		DF	Alessandro Malomo
		DF	Marco Modolo
		DF	Maurizio Domizzi
		DF	Francesco Cernuto
		DF	Luigi Luciani
		DF	Agostino Garofalo
		DF	Leonardo Galli
		DF	Ivano Baldanzeddu

		MF	Alex Pederzoli

No.		Position	Player
		MF	Evans Soligo
		MF	Vittorio Fabris
		MF	Leo Stulac
		MF	Simone Bentivoglio
		MF	Alberto Acquadro

		FW	Davide Marsura
		FW	Gianni Fabiano
		FW	Simone Basso
		FW	Loris Tortori
		FW	Álex Geijo
		FW	Nicola Ferrari
		FW	Francesco Virdis

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]

1963–64 Venezia with its historical black and green kit

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]

Old club logo from 1990 to 2005
Logo from 2005 to 2009
Logo from 2009 to 2015

Rivalries

Honours

Venezia receives the 1940–41 Coppa Italia

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

1 2 "La Storia del Venezia". Ombra.it. 24 June 2007.
↑ US lawyer Joe Tacopina buys Italian club Venezia
1 2 "Storia". Venezia Calcio. 24 June 2007.
↑ "Italian Ultras Scenedate=29 June 2007". View from the Terrace.
1 2 "SSC Venezia Information". ABCGoal.com. 24 June 2007.
↑ "Stemma Provincia di Venezia". Comuni-Italiani. 24 June 2007.
↑ "SSC Venezia". WeltFussballArchiv.com. 24 June 2007.
↑ "La presunta combine Genova-Venezia Preziosi: "Mai fatto quella chiamata"". Repubblica.it. 24 June 2007.
↑ http://en.soccerwiki.org/squad.php?clubid=132

External links

Venezia's official website

Serie D · 2015–16 clubs

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Football in Italy

Overview	National association League system List of clubs List of venues Records Scudetto Capocannoniere

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Atalanta Bari Biellese Casale La Dominante (Sampdoria forerunner) Fiorentina Fiumana Lecce Legnano Monfalcone (as Monfalconese) Novara Parma Pistoiese Prato Reggiana Spezia Venezia Verona

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