Ilva Bagnolese was an
Italian football
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club from the
Bagnoli area of
Naples
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. The club is most noted for competing in the early
Italian Football Championship
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competitions during the 1920s, after that period they began to decline spending the 1940s in
Serie C
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.
The last season of Ilva Bagnolese was played out in
Serie D
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where they were relegated to
Prima Categoria
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. Instead of going through with the relegation they merged with
Ischia Isolaverde in 1960.
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Defunct football clubs in Italy
Football clubs in Naples
Association football clubs established in 1909
Association football clubs disestablished in 1960
Italian football First Division clubs
1909 establishments in Italy
1960 disestablishments in Italy
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