Società Sportiva Chieti Calcio is an
Italian association football club, based in
Chieti
Chieti (, ; , nap, label= Abruzzese, Chjïétë, ; gr, Θεάτη, Theátē; lat, Theate, ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Central Italy, east by northeast of Rome. It is the capital of the province of Chieti in the Abruzzo region. ...
, Abruzzo. Currently it plays in
Serie D
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.
History
Foundation
Chieti was founded in 1922 as Calcio Chieti with a capital of 50 cents. The First World War had just ended, the football came from the distant echo of the successes of
Pro Vercelli
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,
Novese,
Milan
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,
Inter
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,
Juventus
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, Genoa and so on. One day in the Villa Comunale, Nicola De Cesare tossed with some friends, the idea of forming a football team. It joined other people with the sum of £0.50 was paid the dues and was born RISS. The RISS played in the first few games against teams in the central Civitella military. The enthusiasm for sport was rising huge. Existed in the same year the Sport Club Chieti, who for many years not doing any sport, it was decided therefore to a large rise in Chieti association football. There was a meeting between the RISS, Novell and Sport Cub Chieti and Chieti was formed with the U. S. President Carlo Massangioli.
Chieti played 2005/2006 in
Serie C1/B
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Before the 1978â ...
, ending last-placed and being therefore relegated to Serie C2 for the next season. The team was however cancelled by the federation because of financial troubles.
Refoundation
A new club, named ''A.S.D. Chieti'', asked to be admitted to play
Promozione
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(7th level of Italian football), claiming
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Chieti gained promotion to
Serie D
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in 2008. Since
2010–11 season, S.S. Chieti Calcio plays in
Lega Pro Seconda Divisione
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.
In
2012–13
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, the team was playing at the fourth tier of Italian football, managing to get to the promotion playoffs, after securing a draw in the last matchday against
Arzanese. The goalscorer that sealed the qualification of the team to the playoffs was
Massimiliano Barbone
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, a defender
Colors and badge
The team's colours are green and black.
The choice of black and green Theatines date back to 1919, the year in which the first soccer team representing the City did not have their uniforms, so in lack of money to buy it was necessary to the seals of Venezia Calcio found in a crate from the Venice along with many other documents containing the registry office and more, transferred to Chieti to Edict of
King Vittorio Emanuele III to prevent the seizure by the
Austro-Hungarian
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troops in case of invasion of the Veneto after
Kobarid
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. The pennant team has undergone various tweaks over the years. Was recently identified by a crest style AC Milan, then under the leadership of President Antonio Buccilli, we moved to a more modern pennant depicting two strips (one black and one green) cross the words "DC 1922" i.e. Chieti Calcio 1922. In 2006, following the failure of the pennant 'ASD Chieti rudimentary style has been reinvented AS Roma. The last change was made in the summer of 2008 when the previous emblem was added to one side the 'Achilles' horse, symbol of the city of Chieti and just, therefore, also the local team.
Stadium
![Guido Angelini di Chieti](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Guido_Angelini_di_Chieti.jpg)
The stadium
Stadio Guido Angelini
Stadio Guido Angelini is a multi-use stadium in Chieti, Abruzzo, Italy. It is currently used mostly for football (soccer), football matches and is the home ground of S.S. Chieti Calcio.
History
The stadium, named after the historic president of ...
was designed in 1969 and became operational in May 1970 with a friendly Chieti-Milan arbitrated by the great Concetto Lo Bello, all with a frame of about 11,000 spectators. In the first 9 years of the stadium has been named "Marrucino".
Players
Notable players
*
Emiliano Di Marcantonio
;Italian internationals:
*
Enrico Chiesa
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A prolific goalscorer, Chiesa played for several Italian clubs throughout his career, and performed regularly in Serie A for over a decade, winning titles ...
*
Fabio Grosso
Fabio Grosso (; born 28 November 1977) is an Italian former professional footballer and current manager of Frosinone Calcio.
After playing for several smaller Italian clubs, such as Renato Curi, Chieti and Perugia, he made his breakthrough dur ...
(Italian World Cup Winner, spent three seasons from 1998 to 2001)
*
Fabio Quagliarella
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References
External links
Official Club Website
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Football clubs in Abruzzo
Chieti
Association football clubs established in 1922
Serie C clubs
1922 establishments in Italy