Unione Sportiva Dilettantistica Novese is an

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club from

Novi Ligure Novi Ligure (; lij, Nêuve ; pms, Neuvi ) is a city and ''comune'' north of Genoa, in the Piedmont region of the province of Alessandria of northwest Italy. The town produces food, iron, steel, and textiles. It is an important junction for both ...

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which plays in the

Promozione The Promozione (, "promotion") is the sixth level in the Italian football league system. Each individual league winner within the Promozione level progresses to their closest regional league in the Eccellenza level. Depending on each league's lo ...

. The club is best known for winning the 1921–22 Italian Football Championship. Novese is the only Italian football team that has won a

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without playing a single season in

Serie A The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Coppa ...

Serie B The Serie B (), currently named Serie Balkrishna Industries, BKT for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It has been operating for over ninety years since the 1929–30 ...

History

Novese was founded in 1919 and entered Italian football history by winning the F.I.G.C. 1921–22 Italian Football Championship, a season when there were two cocurrent national leagues in Italian football: the ''

Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio The Italian Football Federation ( it, Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio; FIGC), known colloquially as ''Federcalcio'', is the governing body of football in Italy. It is based in Rome and the technical department is in Coverciano, Florence. It ...

'' (FIGC) and the breakaway ''Confederazione Calcistica Italiana'' (CCI), who organised the 1921–22 Prima Divisione, which included the major clubs of Northern Italy at the time.

Colors and badge

The team colors are white and light blue.

Honours

Domestic competitions

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:Winners (1): 1921–22

Regional competitions

:Winners (2): 1920–21, 1953–54 *

Prima Divisione Prima Divisione (''First Division'') was the name of the first level of the Italian Football Championship from 1921 to 1926. The competition was initially founded in opposition to the FIGC by the richest clubs of Northern Italy, which disagreed the ...

:Winners (2): 1941–42, 1951–52 *

Eccellenza Piemonte-Valle d'Aosta Eccellenza Piedmont-Aosta Valley ( it, Eccellenza Piemonte-Valle d'Aosta) is the regional Eccellenza football division for clubs in the regions of Piedmont and Aosta Valley, Italy. It is competed amongst 36 teams, in two different groups (A and B) ...

:Winners (2): 1997–98, 2003–04 *Coppa Italia Dilettanti Piemonte-Valle d'Aosta :Winners (1): 2006–07 *Supercoppa Piemonte-Valle d'Aosta :Winners (1): 2003–04

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* * Football clubs in Italy Football clubs in Piedmont and Aosta Valley Novi Ligure Association football clubs established in 1919 Italian football First Division clubs Serie A winning clubs 1919 establishments in Italy {{Italy-footyclub-stub