Calcio Chieti

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Chieti Calcio
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Basic data
Surname SSD Chieti Calcio
Seat Chieti
founding 1922
Colours black and green
president ItalianItalian Walter Bellia
Website chieticalcio.com
First soccer team
Head coach ItalianItalian Vincenzo Vivarini
Venue Stadio Guido Angelini
Places 12,750
league Lega Pro Seconda Divisione B
2011/12 4th Place
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Calcio Chieti (officially: SSD Chieti Calcio ) is an Italian football club from Chieti , a city in the Abruzzo region . The club colors are black and green. The club's stadium is the Stadio Guido Angelini in Chieti, with space for 12,750 spectators.

history

The club was founded in 1922 as Unione Sportiva Chieti and took part in regular league operations for the first time in the 1925/26 season. The team got into the Qualificazione Abruzzese in a division of the regional amateur camp and two years later qualified for the Promozione (Girone B). In 1931 the name of the club was changed and it now appeared as Società Sportiva Chieti . After Chieti was able to complete the Prima Divisione as a winner in the 1939/40 season, the associated promotion to Serie C succeeded in the following season . The club held until 1948 in Serie C and then rose again from the amateur league Promozione Interregional . The club spent most of the 1950s in the Promozione and in 1958, after six years, won the promotion for promotion to the third division. In the following years, Calcio Chieti proved a long-term consistency, so that the team played almost continuously in the third-highest league until 1980.

In 1982 the fall in the regional amateur leagues followed and five seasons later the return to the C2 series. Although the team was mostly placed in the lower ranks, Chieti managed to stay in the third and fourth highest Italian league for almost 20 years in a row. After the 2005/06 season, in which Chieti was relegated to the bottom of the table in Serie C1 on sporty path, the club was excluded from professional football due to its bankruptcy and then re-established as ASD Chieti . As a result, Chieti fell back to the sixth class Eccellenza Abruzzo and managed to return to the top of the Serie D within two years.

The 2008/09 season was finished fourth in the table of the Girone F, which Chieti with 55 points, however, 16 points behind the winner of the Girone F, FC Pro Vasto , and missed the return to professional football for the time being. A year later, as the winner of the Girone F, he was promoted to the fourth division, the Lega Pro Seconda Divisione , and returned to professional football.

The Abruzzo club took part in the Anglo-Italian Cup in 1979 and lost the final 2-1 to Sutton United .

Former players

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