AS Acquachiara (''Associazione Sportiva Acquachiara'') is an Italian water polo club based in

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

. The team competed in the Serie A1 and plays its games in Felice Scandone pool.

History

Acquachiara was founded in 1998 and played for first time Serie A2 (South group), in the 2006–2007 season. In 2010–2011 the club finished in the top of the league regular season and won its first promotion to A1 beating in the final play off the ''Torino '81''. In 2014-15 season Acquachiara reached the

LEN Euro Cup The LEN Euro Cup is the second-tier European water polo club competition run by the Ligue Européenne de Natation for those clubs who did not qualify for the LEN Champions League. The cup was inaugurated in 1992. History Names of the competiti ...

double final against

Posillipo Posillipo (; nap, Pusilleco ) is an affluent residential quarter of Naples, southern Italy, located along the northern coast of the Gulf of Naples. From the 1st century BC the Bay of Naples witnessed the rise of villas constructed by elite Roma ...

and lost the title. The club has also a women's section that dispute the Serie A2.

Honours

Domestic

Italian League 2 * Winners (1): 2010-11

European

* ''Runners-up (1)'': 2014-15

External links

Official site
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