Clodiense Società Sportiva Dilettantistica S.r.l. is an Italian association football club located in

Chioggia Chioggia (; vec, Cióxa , locally ; la, Clodia) is a coastal town and ''comune'' of the Metropolitan City of Venice in the Veneto region of northern Italy. Geography The town is situated on a small island at the southern entrance to the L ...

, Veneto. It plays in

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 ...

History

From A.S.D. Clodiense to Clodiense S.S.D.

The club was founded on 19 July 2011 as A.S.D. Clodiense after the merger of A.C. Chioggia Sottomarina and A.S.D. Sottomarina Lido. The club started to play in

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 ...

(the last league of ''A.S.D. Sottomarina Lido'') and gained promotion 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 ...

after just one season. In the summer 2012 it was renamed with the current name.

The origins

From Union Clodia Sottomarina F.B.C. to A.C. Chioggia Sottomarina

Union Clodia Sottomarina F.B.C. was founded in 1971, 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.Ultras Union Clodia Sottomarina
After many years in

Serie C The Serie C () is the third-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie B and Serie A. The Lega Italiana Calcio Professionistico (Lega Pro) is the governing body that runs the Serie C. The unification of the Lega Pro ...

, in 1977 the team was relegated to lower divisions. In 1989 the club changed its name to ''S.S.C. Chioggia Sottomarina'' and in 1995 to A.C. Chioggia Sottomarina and three years later, it was promoted from

. In the summer 2011 it does not join to the 2011-12 Serie D.

A.S.D. Sottomarina Lido

Sottomarina Lido was refounded in 2006 with the traditional colors black and green, restarting from Promozione Veneto acquiring the sports title of ''Fossò'' by businessman Ivano Boscolo Bielo. Thanks to the former executive of ''A.C. Chioggia Sottomarina'' for ten years, the football returned thus in the fraction of

after 35 years. In its last season it played in 2010–11 Eccellenza Veneto.

Colors and badge

Its colors 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 ...

, were 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

Official website
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