Società Sportiva Verbania Calcio, shortened as Verbania, is an Italian association football club located in the town of

Verbania Verbania (, , ) is the most populous ''comune'' (municipality) and the capital city of the province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Piedmont region of northwest Italy. It is situated on the shore of Lake Maggiore, about north-west of Milan and a ...

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. Currently 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

The club was founded in 1959 after the merging of Libertas Pallanza and Verbania Sportiva that was founded in 1947 and played the season, 1947–48, 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 ...

, the third level of Italian football. The new club spent the majority of its history in the semi-professional and regional levels of Italian Football, in

and

Eccellenza The Eccellenza (, "excellence") is the fifth level (since 2014–15) of Italian football. It is a regional league, composed of 28 divisions divided geographically. All 20 regions are represented by at least one division except for Piedmont and ...

; but in the early period of its history, it played 7 seasons in

(currently

Lega Pro Prima Divisione Lega Pro Prima Divisione was the third highest football league in Italy. It consisted of 33 teams, divided geographically into two divisions of 16 and 17 teams for group A and B respectively. Until 2008 it was known as Serie C1. Before the 1978 ...

), from 1966–67 to 1972–73. In 2006 the sports title was transferred from A.S.D. Verbania Calcio to A.S.D. Amici del Verbania, which the former was liquidated. In the season 2011–12 it was promoted from Eccellenza Piedmont and Aosta Valley/A to

Colors, badge and stadium

The club's colour is white ringed by a blue-yellow-red strip and the club's home ground is the ''Stadio Carlo Pedroli''.Stadium's infos at Verbania Calcio website
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Notable players

One of the club's most notable players is Maltese striker,

Carmel Busuttil Carmel Busuttil (born 29 February 1964), nicknamed "Il-Bużu", is a Maltese former professional footballer who played as a striker. Regarded as one of the best Maltese players of all time, he began his career with his hometown club Rabat Ajax ...

, who played over 100 times for

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, and scored 23 international goals.

Honours

Eccellenza Piedmont and Aosta Valley 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 1: 2011–12 * Coccarda Coppa Italia

Regional Coppa Italia Piedmont and Aosta Valley: **Winners 1: 2011–12

Notes and references

External links

Verbania Calcio official website
Football clubs in Piedmont and Aosta Valley Sport in Verbania Association football clubs established in 1959 Serie C clubs 1959 establishments in Italy {{Italy-footyclub-stub