Full name | Società Sportiva Verbania Calcio | ||
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Nickname(s) | Biancocerchiati (White-ringed) | ||
Founded | 1959 | ||
Ground | Stadio Carlo Pedroli, Verbania, Italy (Capacity: 2,510[1]) |
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Chairman | Francesca Pangallo[2] | ||
Manager | Emiliano Bigica[3] | ||
League | Serie D | ||
2010-11 | Eccellenza, 2nd (Promoted) | ||
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Società Sportiva Verbania Calcio, shortened as Verbania, is an Italian association football club located in the town of Verbania, Piedmont.
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The club was founded in 1959 after the merging of Verbania Sportiva and Libertas Pallanza. Verbania Sportiva 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[4] to 1972-73.[5]
The clubs colour is white ringed by a blue-yellow-red strip and the club's home ground is the Stadio Carlo Pedroli.[1] One of the clubs most notable players is Maltese striker, Carmel Busuttil, who played over 100 times for Malta, and scored 23 international goals.
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