Novara Calcio
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| Surname | Novara Calcio 1908 | ||
| Seat | Novara | ||
| founding | 1908 | ||
| president |
 Carlo Accornero
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| Website | novaracalcio.com | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach |
Domenico Di Carlo
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| Venue | Stadio Silvio Piola | ||
| Places | 17,875 | ||
| league | Series C , Group A | ||
| 2018/19 | 9th place | ||
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Novara Calcio is an Italian football club , who in 1908 founded and is currently in the Series C plays the third highest league in Italian professional football.
history
Beginnings
In December 1908, the FAS (Football Association Studenti) , which was to become the core of Novara Calcio, was founded by eight 15- and 16-year-old students from Novara . In the Novara of those days there were a multitude of such small school and student clubs for football. In November 1912, the best players from these teams were asked to form a club called Novara Calcio and play in the Italian championship. On November 3, 1912 was the first game of Novara Calcio, against a predecessor club of the Torino Football Club was lost 2-1.
The following year Novara Calcio took part for the first time in the Italian football championship , but did not get beyond the preliminary round. The following championships were similar. After the founding of Serie A for the season 1929/30 first Novara played in the second-rate series B . In the 1936/37 season one was to be found for the first time in Serie A, but immediately rose again as the penultimate together with US Alessandria . This was followed by direct resurgence and in the 1938/39 season even relegation, while the US Livorno and FC Lucca had to relegate. In the following season, Novara reached ninth place in the table, but had to go back to Serie B in 1940/41 after they were only penultimate, tied with third-last Lazio Rome, which was able to save. This time Novara missed direct resurgence and played in Serie B until the outbreak of World War II .
During these years Novara Calcio formed the Piedmontese square together with Pro Vercelli , AS Casale and US Alessandria .
Excellence
After the war, the team played eight major league championships between 1948 and 1956. During this time, a player played for Novara Calcio, who was to go down in the history books of Italian football as the “Eagle of Vespucci”: Silvio Piola . He became world champion in 1938 and completed 34 games for the Italian national soccer team (30 goals). Piola played a total of over 300 times in Serie A, including for Juventus Turin and Lazio Rome . In 1947 he came to Novara Calcio, where he stayed until the end of his career and played 185 league games for Novara, in which he scored 86 goals. It was during this time that Novara's greatest league success came in eighth place in the 1951/52 season . In 1956, however, the relegation to Serie B followed by a penultimate place in Serie A, together with the last Pro Patria Calcio , five years later, in 1961, Novara even had to go into the third-class C1 series .
Between series B and C
In 1977 Novara celebrated another championship in Serie B, but the club had to relegate to Serie C1 due to financial irregularities. A little later, he was relegated to the C2 series . With this relegation began a two-decade long period of suffering for the club. In the 1995/96 season Novara Calcio came back to Serie C1, but the joy of this result did not last long, because in the following year the blue-whites were relegated to fourth division.
In the 2002/03 season Novara Calcio was able to rise again to Serie C1. In the 2009/10 season, the team reached the round of 16 in the Coppa Italia , where they failed at AC Milan , having previously defeated AS Pescina Valle del Giovenco , FC Modena , FC Parma and AC Siena . In the same season, Novara secured promotion to Serie B by taking first place in the Lega Pro Prima Divisione .
Brief return to Serie A
In the 2010/11 season Novara always played at the top and reached third place in the table behind AC Siena and Atalanta Bergamo at the end of all game days . This allowed you to take part in play-off games for promotion to Serie A, where you could win in the semifinals against Reggina Calcio and in the final met Calcio Padova , which in turn had eliminated AS Varese . After the first leg in Padua ended with a goalless draw, Novara Calcio won the second leg 2-0 and decided the promotion play-off for themselves. In the 2011/12 season , the club started again in Serie A for the first time in 55 years, but could only finish the season in penultimate place and accordingly rose again to Serie B. Due to involvement in the Italian football scandal of 2011 , Novara had to start the 2012/13 season with four penalty points. In the end, they finished fifth and only missed direct promotion in the playoffs, where they were defeated by FC Empoli 2: 5 on two legs in the semi-finals . At the end of the 2013/14 season Novara rose (after playoffs against Varese) in Serie C. There (Serie C, Group A) Novara was champion in the following season and rose again to Serie B.
successes
- Series B : 1926/27, 1937/38, 1947/48
- Series C : 1964/65, 1969/70, 2014/15
- Lega Pro Prima Divisione : 2009/10
- Series C2 : 1994/95
- Coppa Italia : finalist 1938/39
Former players
Former trainers
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Judgment of June 18, 2012, p. P. 79 ( Memento of the original from August 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Italian; PDF; 414 kB), accessed July 29, 2012
