SS Verbania Calcio

Verbania
Full nameAssociazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Verbania Calcio 1959
NicknameBiancocerchiati (White-ringed)
Founded1959; 67 years ago (1959) as, Società Sportiva Verbania Calcio (merged)
1972; 54 years ago (1972) as, Associazione Sportiva Verbania
1973; 53 years ago (1973) as, Associazione Sportiva Verbania Calcio
2003; 23 years ago (2003) as, Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Calcio Verbania
2006; 20 years ago (2006) as, Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Amici del Verbania (refounded)
2008; 18 years ago (2008) as, Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Calcio Verbania
2011; 15 years ago (2011) as, Società Sportiva Dilettantistica Verbania Calcio 1959
2016; 10 years ago (2016) as, Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Calcio Verbania (takeover)
2017; 9 years ago (2017) as, Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Città di Verbania
2026; 0 years ago (2026) as, Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Verbania Calcio 1959 (takeover)
GroundStadio Carlo Pedroli,
Verbania, Italy
Capacity3,000
ChairmanDaniele Barbone
ManagerDavide Tabozzi
LeagueSeconda Categoria
2019–20Serie D/A, 17th (relegated)

Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Verbania Calcio 1959, shortened as Verbania, is an Italian association football club located in the town of Verbania, Piedmont. It currently plays in Seconda Categoria.

History

The club was founded in 1959 after the merging of Libertas Pallanza and Verbania Sportiva that was founded in 1947 and played the season, 1947–48, in Serie C, the third level of Italian football.

The new club spent the majority of its history in the semi-professional and regional levels of Italian Football, in Serie D and Eccellenza; but in the early period of its history, it played 7 seasons in Serie C (currently Lega Pro Prima Divisione), from 1966–67 to 1972–73.

In 2006 the sports title was transferred from A.S.D. Verbania Calcio to A.S.D. Amici del Verbania, which the former was liquidated.

In the season 2011–12 it was promoted from Eccellenza Piedmont and Aosta Valley/A to Serie D.

Colors, badge and stadium

The club's colour is white ringed by a blue-yellow-red strip and the club's home ground is the Stadio Carlo Pedroli.

Notable players

One of the club's most notable players is Maltese striker, Carmel Busuttil, who played over 100 times for Malta, and scored 23 international goals.

Honours

Notes and references

  1. ↑ (in Italian) Organizational chart of Verbania Calcio
  2. ↑ "COMUNICATO UFFICIALE N. 25 (2006–07)" (PDF) (in Italian). FIGC. 1 August 2006. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
  3. ↑ (in Italian) Stadium's infos at Verbania Calcio website