S.S. Verbania Calcio

Verbania
Full name Società Sportiva Verbania Calcio
Nickname(s) Biancocerchiati (White-ringed)
Founded 1959
Ground Stadio Carlo Pedroli,
Verbania, Italy
(Capacity: 2,510[1])
Chairman Francesca Pangallo[2]
Manager Emiliano Bigica[3]
League Serie D
2010-11 Eccellenza, 2nd (Promoted)
Home colours
Away colours

Società Sportiva Verbania Calcio, shortened as Verbania, is an Italian association football club located in the town of Verbania, Piedmont.

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History

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]

Colors, badge and Stadium

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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