Unione Sportiva Dilettantistica Novese is an Italian football club from

Novi Ligure Novi Ligure (; , ; , ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) north of Genoa, in the province of Alessandria, in the Italian region of Piedmont. The town produces food, iron, steel, and textiles. It is an important junction for both road and railroad ...

Piedmont Piedmont ( ; ; ) is one of the 20 regions of Italy, located in the northwest Italy, Northwest of the country. It borders the Liguria region to the south, the Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna regions to the east, and the Aosta Valley region to the ...

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 ...

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

scudetto The ''scudetto'' (; Italian for 'little shield') is a decoration having the colors of the flag of Italy which is sewn onto the jersey of the Italian sports clubs that won the highest level championship of their respective sport in the previous ...

without playing a single season in

Serie A The Serie A (), officially known as Serie A Enilive in Italy and Serie A Made in Italy abroad for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Italy and the highest tier of the Italian football league system. Establish ...

Serie B The Serie B (), officially known as 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 b ...

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 (, ; FIGC ), known colloquially as (), is the governing body of football in Italy. It is based in Rome and the technical department is in Coverciano, Florence. It manages and coordinates the Italian football l ...

'' (FIGC) and the breakaway ''Confederazione Calcistica Italiana'' (CCI), who organised the

1921–22 Prima Divisione The 1921-22 Prima Divisione was the equal twenty-first edition of the Italian Football Championship. In a highly political season of Italian football, to rival the Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio (FIGC) organised 1921-22 Prima Categoria, It ...

, 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 :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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