Union Clodiense Chioggia Football Club, commonly known as Union Clodiense Chioggia, is an
Italian association football club located in
Chioggia, Veneto. It plays in .
History
Early years
The first incarnation of the current club was founded in 1971 as Union Clodia Sottomarina, when two teams from Chioggia, ''U.S. Sottomarina Lido'' (founded in 1959 and based in the ''frazione'' of
Sottomarina
Sottomarina is a small town on a peninsula which has the same name. It is a ''frazione'' of the comune of Chioggia, which is part of the Metropolitan City of Venice in the Veneto region in north-eastern Italy.
Geography
Sottomarina is a peninsula ...
) and ''Clodia'', were merged.
After many years in
Serie C, the team was relegated to lower divisions in 1977.
In 1989, the club changed its name to S.S.C. Chioggia Sottomarina and, in 1995, to A.C. Chioggia Sottomarina. Three years later, it was promoted from
Eccellenza Veneto to
Serie D.
In the summer of 2011, the club did not apply to participate in the
2011-12 Serie D due to financial issues. It successively merged with
Eccellenza Veneto rival crosstown club Sottomarina Lido to become A.S.D. Clodiense, winning promotion back to Serie D one year later.
In the summer of 2012, it was renamed Union Clodiense and adopted its current denomination in 2019.
In 2024, Union Clodiense Chioggia were crowned Serie D Group C champions, thus winning promotion to Serie C.
Players
Current squad
Colors and badge
Its colours are all-dark red, in reference to the
Grande Torino
The Grande Torino was the historic Italian football team of Torino Football Club in the 1940s, five-time champions of Italy, whose players were the backbone of the Italy national team and died on 4 May 1949 in the plane crash known as the Superg ...
, where two players born in Chioggia, brothers
Aldo and
Dino Ballarin
Dino Ballarin (23 September 1925 – 4 May 1949) was an Italian footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Club career
He arrived at Torino in 1947, the team in which his brother, Aldo Ballarin, played as a defender. Dino arrived from the amateurs n ...
, played.
References
External links
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Football clubs in Italy
Chioggia
Association football clubs established in 2011
Football clubs in Veneto
2011 establishments in Italy
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