Unione Sportiva Dilettantistica Novese is an Italian football club from Novi Ligure, Piedmont which plays in the Promozione. The club is best known for winning the 1921–22 Italian Football Championship.
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Full name | Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Novese | ||
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Founded | 1919 | ||
Ground | Stadio Costante Girardengo,[1] Novi Ligure | ||
Capacity | 3,500[1] | ||
Chairman | Arturo Frattoni | ||
Manager | Mattia Greco | ||
League | Prima Categoria | ||
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Novese is the only Italian football team that has won a scudetto without playing a single season in Serie A or Serie B.
History edit
Novese was founded in 1919 and entered Italian football history by winning the F.I.G.C. 1921–22 Italian Football Championship, a season when there were two cocurrent national leagues in Italian football: the Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio (FIGC) and the breakaway Confederazione Calcistica Italiana (CCI), who organised the 1921–22 Prima Divisione, which included the major clubs of Northern Italy at the time.[2][3]
Colors and badge edit
The team colors are white and light blue.
Honours edit
Domestic competitions edit
- Winners (1): 1921–22
Regional competitions edit
- Winners (2): 1920–21, 1953–54
- Winners (2): 1941–42, 1951–52
- Winners (2): 1997–98, 2003–04
- Coppa Italia Dilettanti Piemonte-Valle d'Aosta
- Winners (1): 2006–07
- Supercoppa Piemonte-Valle d'Aosta
- Winners (1): 2003–04
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b "Lo stadio". Site.NoveseCalcio.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on 19 September 2015. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
- ^ "La storia". Site.NoveseCalcio.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on 19 September 2015. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
- ^ Nolan, Kevin. "Calcios failed Pozzo project". These Football Times. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
External links edit
- (in Italian) Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 19 October 2015)
- (in Italian) History of US Novese at the comune di Città di Novi Ligure website at the Wayback Machine (archived 10 May 2006)