S.S.C. Venezia
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| Full name | Venezia F.C. S.r.l. |
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| 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) |
| Ground |
Stadio Pierluigi Penzo, Sant'Elena, Venice, Italy |
| Capacity | 7,450 |
| Chairman | Joe Tacopina |
| Manager | Filippo Inzaghi |
| 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 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.
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.
The club was founded as Venezia Foot Ball Club on 14 December 1907, 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;. In 1919, the name was translated into Italian as Associazione Calcio Venezia.
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.
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.
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