Football Club Valdagno is an

Italian football Football ( it, calcio ) is the most popular sport in Italy. The Italy national football team is considered to be one of the best national teams in the world. They have won the FIFA World Cup four times (1934, 1938, 1982, 2006), trailing only ...

club based in

Valdagno Valdagno is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Vicenza, north-eastern Italy. The town was the birthplace of the textile manufacturing company Marzotto, and home to the Italian hotel chain " Jolly Hotels" Geography The town extends along t ...

Veneto Veneto (, ; vec, Vèneto ) or Venetia is one of the 20 regions of Italy. Its population is about five million, ranking fourth in Italy. The region's capital is Venice while the biggest city is Verona. Veneto was part of the Roman Empire unt ...

History

The first club was founded ad FC Pasubio in 1926 and became AC Valdagno in 1928. In 1933 it was bought by the textile manufacturers

Marzotto The Marzotto Group is an Italian textile manufacturer, based in Valdagno. Created in 1836 as the ''Lanificio Luigi Marzotto & Figli''. In 2005 Marzotto Group's textile business separated from Valentino Fashion Group. The Group manufactures wo ...

. It played in

Serie B The Serie B (), currently named Serie Balkrishna Industries, BKT for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It has been operating for over ninety years since the 1929–30 ...

during the ‘50s. In 1997 it started the first of many confusing fusions with many clubs, which led to a long list of bankruptcies.

Trissino-Valdagno

A secondary club was founded in 2012 after the merger between A.C.D. Trissino and A.C. Nuova Valdagno. The club was dissolved in 2014 after the merger with

S.S.D. Calcio Marano Società Sportiva Dilettantistica Calcio Marano was an Italian football club based in Marano Vicentino, Veneto. It played in Italy's Serie D. History Foundation The club was founded in 1951 as U.S. Juventina. In 1962 it changed its name to th ...

, founding F.C.D. Altovicentino.

Before the merger

Trissino

''A.C. Trissino'' was founded in 1924, later changing its name to ''A.C.D. Trissino'', with this name in the season 2011-12 won Eccellenza Veneto/A and so was promoted to

Serie D The Serie D () is the top level of semi-professional football in the country. The fourth tier of the Italian league system, the competition sits beneath the third professional league, Serie C. It is administered by the Lega Nazionale Dilettant ...

Nuova Valdagno

''Dopolavoro Aziendale Marzotto (DAM) Valdagno'' was founded in 1926, later changing its name to ''A.C. Marzotto'' (after the

firm, owner of the team at the time) and with this name spent 10 seasons in

. The club was later renamed ''A.C. Valdagno''. The side was refounded as ''A.C. Nuova Valdagno'' in 1998. In its last season, the team won

Promozione The Promozione (, "promotion") is the sixth level in the Italian football league system. Each individual league winner within the Promozione level progresses to their closest regional league in the Eccellenza level. Depending on each league's lo ...

and was promoted to

Eccellenza Veneto Eccellenza Veneto is the regional Eccellenza football division for clubs in Veneto, Italy. It is competed amongst 32 teams, in two different groups (A and B). The winners of the Groups are promoted to Serie D. The club who finishes second also hav ...

. In summer 2012 it sold its sports title of

Eccellenza The Eccellenza (, "excellence") is the fifth level (since 2014–15) of Italian football. It is a regional league, composed of 28 divisions divided geographically. All 20 regions are represented by at least one division except for Piedmont and Ao ...

to club A.S.D. Nuovo Calcio Grancona that was consequently renamed A.S.D. Boca Ascesa Val Liona.

FC

The current club was created in 2017 buying an

club from

Vicenza Vicenza ( , ; ) is a city in northeastern Italy. It is in the Veneto region at the northern base of the ''Monte Berico'', where it straddles the Bacchiglione River. Vicenza is approximately west of Venice and east of Milan. Vicenza is a th ...

Colors and badge

The team's colors are white and light blue.

References

External links

Official Site
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