Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Nuova Igea Virtus is an Italian association football club, based in

Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto (; Sicilian language, Sicilian: ''Baccialona Pizzaottu'') is a town and ''comune'' of about 50,000 inhabitants in the north coast of Sicily, Italy, from Messina towards Palermo. It belongs to the Metropolitan City ...

, Sicily. Currently it plays in

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 ...

History

From Igea Virtus to F.C. Igea Virtus Barcellona

The club was founded in 1946 as ''Igea Virtus'' and refounded in 1964 as Associazione Sportiva Nuova Igea'', ''and changed to Football Club Igea Virtus Barcellona in 1993 after the merger with ''Barcellona''. In July 2010 the club folded after the relegation from

Lega Pro Seconda Divisione Serie C2 was the fourth highest football league in Italy, the lowest with a professional status. History Before the 1978–79 season, there were only three professional football leagues in Italy, the third being Serie C. The league menaging ...

A.S.D. Igea Virtus Barcellona

In the summer of 2011, the club was refounded as Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Igea Virtus Barcellona after the merger between the teams of ''Giovanile Calcio Igea'' and that of Taormina ''Trappitello'' (acquiring its sports title of Prima Categoria Sicily) getting the immediate promotion to Promozione Sicily. The club also won the Coppa Sicily of Prima Categoria.

2019 refoundation

After the folding of the original club in 2019, it was refounded once again, through a relocation from nearby Terme Vigliatore of a

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 ...

team to Barcellona, under the new denomination of ''A.S.D. Igea 1946''. Under this new structure, the club was promoted back to Eccellenza in 2020. After changing its denomination to A.S.D. Nuova Igea Virtus, the club won promotion to

in 2023.

Colors and badge

The team's colors are yellow and red.

Stadium

The club, more predominantly known as Igea or Barcellona, plays at the Stadio Carlo D'Alcontres.

References

External links

Official website
Football clubs in Italy Football clubs in Sicily Association football clubs established in 1946 Serie C clubs Serie D clubs 1946 establishments in Italy {{Sicily-stub