Union Clodiense Chioggia Football Club, commonly known as Union Clodiense Chioggia, is an Italian association football club located in

Chioggia Chioggia (; , ; ) is a coastal town and (municipality) of the Metropolitan City of Venice in the Veneto region of northern Italy. Geography The town is located on a small island at the southern entrance to the Venetian Lagoon about sou ...

, 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 Serie C (), officially known as Serie C NOW for sponsorship purposes, 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 ...

, 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 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 ...

Serie D The Serie D () is the highest level of semi-professional football in Italy, and the fourth tier of the Italian national league system. It sits beneath the third and lowest fully professional league, Serie C, and feeds in to it through promotion ...

. 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

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 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 Superga air di ...

, 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 Ballarin arrived at Torino in 1947, the team in which his brother, Aldo Ballarin, played as a defender. Dino arrived from the ama ...

, played.

References

External links

* Football clubs in Italy Chioggia Association football clubs established in 2011 Football clubs in Veneto 2011 establishments in Italy {{Italy-footyclub-stub