Stadio Omobono Tenni () is a football

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Treviso Treviso ( , ; vec, Trevixo) is a city and ''comune'' in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Treviso and the municipality has 84,669 inhabitants (as of September 2017). Some 3,000 live within the Veneti ...

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. It is currently the home of

Treviso F.B.C. 1993 Treviso Foot Ball Club 1993, commonly known as Treviso, is an Italian football club based in Treviso, Veneto, which competes in Eccellenza, the fifth tier of Italian football. ''Football Club Treviso'' was originally founded in 1909, while the ...

. The stadium was built in 1933 and holds 10,001. After the inauguration in 1933, a friendly match between Treviso F.B.C. and Udinese was held, which was followed by a friendly against the Italian National Team. In the 1940s and 1950s the capacity of the stadium was of 12,000 seats.

History

The stadium was named after

Omobono Tenni Tommaso Omobono Tenni (July 24, 1905 – June 30, 1948) was an Italian motorcycle road racer. Nicknamed The Black Devil, he was a multiple Italian Motor Cycle champion, who raced to 47 victories for Moto Guzzi from 1933 till 1948, the year he d ...

, a motorcycle road racer who lived in Treviso and fatally died in 1948 in Bern, Switzerland. On 24 January 1960, the stadium played host to a

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international between

and Australia. In front of a small crowd of just 3,105 the Kangaroos, playing the 37th and last game of their 1959–60 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France, defeated the home side 67–22 to complete a two-game sweep of the Italians to end the

Kangaroo Tour Kangaroo Tour is the name given to Australian national rugby league team tours of Great Britain and France, tours to New Zealand and the one-off tour to Papua New Guinea (1991). The first Kangaroo Tour was in 1908. Traditionally, Kangaroo Tours to ...

on a high note.1959-60 Kangaroo Tour - Italy vs Australia
/ref> The stadium was also temporary home to A.S. Cittadella for at least the

2008–09 Serie B The 2008–09 Serie B season was the seventy-seventh since its establishment. A total of 22 teams will contest the league, 15 of which will be returning from the 2007–08 season, four of which will have been promoted from Serie C1 (now Lega P ...

season, until their own stadium, Stadio Pier Cesare Tombolato, was renovated to meet

Serie B The Serie B (), currently named Serie 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 season. It had been ...

stadiums criteria. Stadium distance from: *Train Station: 3 km *Venice Marco Polo Airport: 25 km *Treviso S. Giuseppe Airport: 8 km *Center of Treviso: 0.5 km

References

External links

Stadium picture
Omobono Venue

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