AC ChievoVerona
Full name | Associazione Calcio ChievoVerona S.r.l. | |||
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Nickname(s) | I Gialloblu (The Yellow and Blues) I Mussi Volanti ("The Flying Donkeys" in Venetian) Céo ("Chievo" in Venetian) Squadra della Diga (Dam Team) Clivensi | |||
Founded | 6 September 1929 10 May 2024 (refounded) | |||
Ground | Phoenix Arena, San Martino Buon Albergo[1] | |||
Capacity | 1,100 | |||
President | Sergio Pellissier | |||
Head coach | Alessandro Pontarollo | |||
League | Serie D Group B | |||
2023–24 | Serie D Group B, 9th of 20 (as FC Clivense) | |||
Website | Club website | |||
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Associazione Calcio ChievoVerona, commonly referred to as ChievoVerona or simply Chievo
In 2021, the club was excluded from professional football because of financial problems.[2][3] It restarted its activities in 2024, after FC Clivense's owner and former Chievo star Sergio Pellissier acquired the original ChievoVerona rights and renamed his club accordingly.
History
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Early years
The team was founded in 1929 by a small number of football fans from Chievo, a Verona frazione. Initially, the club was not officially affiliated to the Italian Football Federation (FIGC), but nonetheless played several amateur tournaments and friendly matches under the denomination O.N.D. Chievo, a title imposed by the fascist regime. The club's formal debut in an official league was on 8 November 1931. The team colours at the time were blue and white. Chievo disbanded in 1936, however, due to economic woes but returned to play in 1948 after World War II, being registered in the regional league of Seconda Divisione (Second Division). In 1957, the team moved to the field "Carlantonio Bottagisio", where they played until 1986. In 1959, after the restructuring of the football leagues, Chievo was admitted to play the Seconda Categoria (Second Category), a regional league placed next-to-last in the Italian football pyramid. That year, Chievo changed its name to Cardi Chievo after a new sponsor and was quickly promoted to the Prima Categoria, from which it experienced its first-ever relegation in 1962.
Series of promotions
In 1964, Luigi Campedelli, a businessman and owner of the Paluani company, was named the new Chievo chairman. Under Campedelli's presidency, Chievo climbed through the Italian football pyramid, reaching the Serie D after the 1974–75 season. Under the name "Paluani Chievo," the team was promoted to Serie C2 in 1986. Due to promotion, Chievo was forced to move to the Stadio Marcantonio Bentegodi, the main venue in Verona; another promotion to Serie C1 followed in 1989. In 1990, the team changed its name to its current one, "A.C. ChievoVerona."
In 1992, President Luigi Campedelli, who had returned at the helm of the club two years before, died of a heart attack, and his son
In 2000–01, Luigi Delneri was signed as coach and led Chievo, by virtue of its third-place finish in Serie B, to promotion to Serie A, the first time in team history that it had reached the top tier of Italian football.
Mussi Volanti (2001–2007)
In 2001–02, Chievo's Serie A debut season, the team was most critics' choice for an instant return to Serie B. However, they became the surprise team in the league, often playing spectacular and entertaining football and even leading the league for six consecutive weeks. The club finally ended the season with a highly respectable fifth-place finish, qualifying the team to play in the UEFA Cup. Chievo's impressive performance inspired a 2002 book about soccer economics titled "Fenomeno Chievo. Economia, costume, società" by Marco Vitale.[5]
In 2002–03, Chievo debuted at the European level but were eliminated in the first round by Red Star Belgrade. The team finished the Serie A season in seventh place, again proving itself one of the better Serie A teams. The 2003–04 season, the last with Delneri at the helm, saw Chievo finish ninth.
The
In
On 14 July 2006, the verdict in the scandal was made public. Juventus, Milan and Fiorentina, who had all initially qualified for the
On 16 October 2006, following a 1–0 defeat against
On 27 May 2007, the last match day of the 2006–07 Serie A season, Chievo was one of five teams in danger of falling into the last undecided relegation spot. Needing only a draw against
A year with the Cadetti (2007–08)
Chievo bounced back quickly from the disappointment of their relegation on the last matchday of 2006–07, searching for an immediate promotion back to the top flight. After the expected departure of several top-quality players, including
Back in Serie A (2008–2019)
In their first season back to the top flight, Chievo immediately struggled in the league, resulting in the dismissal of Iachini in November and his replacement with former Parma boss
Serie B years and league exclusion (2019–2021)
In July 2021, Chievo was expelled from Serie B for the 2021–22 season for being unable to prove its financial viability due to outstanding tax payments.[10] The club argued that there was an agreement in place during the COVID-19 pandemic that allowed them to spread the payments out over a longer period.[11] However, after three unsuccessful appeals, the decision to bar Chievo Verona from registering to Serie B was upheld, with Cosenza taking their place in Serie B.[12][13][14]
Clivense and Serie D restart (2021–current)
Over the next months following the club's exclusion, former captain Sergio Pellissier led the search for a new ownership group to allow a phoenix club to compete in Serie D under the Chievo name.[15] However, on 21 August, Pellissier announced in an Instagram post that no owners were found in time for the Serie D registration deadline.[16][17] The original Chievo club has in the meantime appealed to the Council of State against its exclusion and is currently registered in no division, albeit still with the right to apply for a spot in an amateur league of Veneto in the following weeks.[18] Campedelli eventually opted to keep the club alive as a youth team for the 2021–22 season,[2][3] while Pellissier decided instead to found a new club himself, which was admitted to Terza Categoria at the very bottom of the Italian football league system;[19] the club, originally named FC Chievo 2021, was then renamed to FC Clivense following a legal warning from AC ChievoVerona.[20]
On 10 May 2024, Sergio Pellissier and the owners of Clivense, by then in the Serie D league, successfully acquired the logo and naming rights of the original ChievoVerona club in an auction.[21] Later on 29 May, Clivense formally changed its denomination to AC ChievoVerona, thus becoming the legal heir to the original club, albeit maintaining white and blue as its colours.[22]
Retired numbers
- 30 left/right winger, 2001–2002 (posthumous)
- 31 Sergio Pellissier, left/right winger, 2000–2019 (retired in recognition of his career[23])
Notable players
Note: this list includes players that have reached international status.
- Francesco Acerbi
- Amauri
- Daniel Andersson
- Simone Barone
- Massimo Marazzina
- Andrea Barzagli
- Erjon Bogdani
- Oliver Bierhoff
- Valter Birsa
- Albano Bizzarri
- Michael Bradley
- Matteo Brighi
- Boštjan Cesar
- Bernardo Corradi
- Rinaldo Cruzado
- Dario Dainelli
- Boukary Dramé
- Mauro Esposito
- Marcelo Estigarribia
- Ivan Fatić
- Gelson Fernandes
- Giannis Fetfatzidis
- Stefano Fiore
- Alessandro Gamberini
- Massimo Gobbi
- Jonathan de Guzmán
- Përparim Hetemaj
- Bojan Jokić
- Radoslav Kirilov
- Kamil Kosowski
- Nicola Legrottaglie
- Christian Manfredini
- Jason Mayélé
- Stephen Makinwa
- John Mensah
- Victor Obinna
- Sergio Pellissier
- Simone Pepe
- Simone Perrotta
- Mauricio Pinilla
- Giampiero Pinzi
- Ivan Radovanović
- Flavio Roma
- Eugenio Corini
- Fredrik Risp
- Mamadou Samassa
- Nikos Spyropoulos
- Samir Ujkani
- Sauli Väisänen
- Martin Valjent
- Mario Yepes
Coaches
- Nicola Ciccolo (1974–78)
- Carlo De Angelis (1978–80), (1985–87)
- Gianni Bui (1988–91)
- Carlo De Angelis (1991–93)
- Alberto Malesani (1 Jun 1993–97)
- Silvio Baldini (Jul 1997–98)
- Domenico Caso (1 Jul 1998 – 14 Dec 1998)
- Luigi Delneri (1 Jul 2000 – 30 Jun 2004)
- Mario Beretta (15 Jun 2004 – 30 Jun 2005)
- Maurizio D'Angelo (2005)
- Giuseppe Pillon (1 Jul 2005 – 16 Oct 2006)
- Luigi Delneri (2006–07)
- Giuseppe Iachini (1 Jul 2007 – 3 Nov 2008)
- Domenico Di Carlo (4 Nov 2008 – 26 May 2010)
- Stefano Pioli (10 Jun 2010 – 2 Jun 2011)
- Domenico Di Carlo (9 Jun 2011 – 2 Oct 2012)
- Eugenio Corini (3 Oct 2012 – 30 Jun 2013)
- Giuseppe Sannino (1 Jul 2013 – 11 Nov 2013)
- Eugenio Corini (12 Nov 2013 – 19 Oct 2014)
- Rolando Maran (19 Oct 2014 – 29 Apr 2018)
- Lorenzo D'Anna (29 Apr 2018 – 9 Oct 2018)
- Gian Piero Ventura (10 Oct 2018 – 13 Nov 2018)
- Domenico Di Carlo (13 Nov 2018 – 1 Jun 2019)
- Michele Marcolini (4 Jul 2019 – 1 Dec 2020)
- Alfredo Aglietti (2 Dec 2020 – 1 Jul 2021)
- Marco Zaffaroni (2 Jul 2021 – 4 Aug 2021)
Colours and badge
The club's original colours were blue and white and not the current blue and yellow. The club's historic nickname is Gialloblu (from the club colours of yellow and blue), sharing it with the more famous local rivals Hellas Verona. Local supporters often call the club Ceo, which is Venetian for Chievo. The club is also sometimes referred to as the I Mussi Volanti ("The Flying Donkeys" in the Verona dialect of
The current club crest represents Cangrande I della Scala, a medieval lord of Verona.
Fans
The Clivense fan base has a few groups within it, but the best known are the Northside 94, a group of fans born in 1994, with the exclusion of ChievoVerona in 2021 the Northside have given full support and support to Sergio Pellissier's Clivense.
Stadium
ChievoVerona, for years, shared the Stadio Marcantonio Bentegodi stadium with rival team Hellas Verona. With the exclusion of Chievo Verona and the birth of Clivense, then returned to its original name in 2024, the team moved to the Stadio Comunale (Phoenix Arena for sponsorship reasons), located in San Martino Buon Albergo.
Honours
- Serie B
- Winners: 2007–08
- Serie C1
- Winners: 1993–94 (group A)
- Serie C2
- Winners: 1988–89 (group B)
- Serie D
- Winners: 1985–86 (group C)
In Europe
UEFA Champions League
Season | Round | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
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2006–07 | Third qualifying round | Levski Sofia | 2–2 | 0–2 | 2–4 |
UEFA Cup
Season | Round | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
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2002–03 | First round | Red Star Belgrade | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–2 |
2006–07 | First round | Braga | 2–1 (a.e.t) | 0–2 | 2–3 |
References
- ^ "Stadio Clivense S.M." Tuttocampo. Retrieved 1 June 2024.
- ^ a b "Il Chievo di Campedelli non si arrende: avanti con le giovanili e diffida alla società di Pellissier". Il Gazzettino. 14 September 2021. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
- ^ a b "Chievo, Campedelli: "Il settore giovanile continua, presto ci daranno ragione: diffidiamo chiunque a usare il nome Chievo"". Triveneto Goal. 14 September 2021. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
- ^ "Calcio Debate: The Fairytale Story of the Flying Donkeys of Verona – Goal.com". 23 April 2009.
- ISBN 9788876443183– via Google Books.
- ^ "LA SQUADRA AFFIDATA A DOMENICO DI CARLO. OGGI ALLE 14 LA PRESENTAZIONE" (in Italian). AC Chievo Verona. 4 November 2008. Archived from the original on 2 March 2009. Retrieved 4 November 2008.
- ^ "Chievo get three-point deduction". Football Italia. London: Tiro Media. 13 September 2018.
- ^ "Football fraud: Serie A club Chievo deducted three points, fined for false accounting". today.rtl.lu. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
- ^ "Chievo Verona vs. Napoli – Football Match Report – April 14, 2019 – ESPN". ESPN. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
- ^ Carlino, il Resto del (3 August 2021). "Chievo Verona escluso da serie B, Tar Lazio respinge il ricorso per "debiti fiscali"". il Resto del Carlino (in Italian). Archived from the original on 21 August 2021. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
- ^ "Chievo Verona await final Serie B appeal – Football Italia". Retrieved 21 August 2021.
- ^ "Comunicato Ufficiale". Chievo Verona. 8 July 2021. Archived from the original on 21 August 2021. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
- ^ "Comunicato Ufficiale: depositato il ricorso al TAR del Lazio". Chievo Verona. 30 July 2021. Archived from the original on 21 August 2021. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
- ^ "Comunicato Ufficiale: depositato il ricorso al Consiglio di Stato". Chievo Verona. 5 August 2021. Archived from the original on 21 August 2021. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
- ^ "Fc Chievo 1929: Pellissier scalda i motori?".
- ^ Sergio Pellissier [@sergio_pellissier] (21 August 2021). "Oggi purtroppo è conclusa la storia di quella società che mi ha dato tantissimo" [Unfortunately, the story of that club that has given me so much has ended today] (in Italian). Retrieved 21 August 2021 – via Instagram.
- ^ Carlino, il Resto del (21 August 2021). "Chievo Verona, termine scaduto, l'ex attaccante Pellissier: "Il giorno più triste"". il Resto del Carlino (in Italian). Retrieved 21 August 2021.
- ^ "Dalla Promozione alla Terza anche con Campedelli" (in Italian). L'Arena. 23 August 2021. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
- ^ "Pellissier ce l'ha fatta: il Chievo riparte dalla Terza Categoria" (in Italian). Calcio e Finanza. 3 September 2021. Archived from the original on 16 October 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
- ^ "Chievo, Pellissier cambia nome alla squadra: si chiamerà FC Clivense" (in Italian). Calcio e Finanza. 15 September 2021. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
- ^ "Torna il Chievo Verona: la Clivense di Pellissier acquista lo storico marchio" (in Italian). 10 May 2024. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
- ^ "Clivense addio, il club di Pellissier torna al vecchio nome. E sceglie i colori" (in Italian). 29 May 2024. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
- ^ "Pellissier e l'addio al calcio: "Chiuso un ciclo dopo 19 anni". Il Chievo ritira la maglia". Retrieved 24 July 2019.
- ^ Paul, Edd (10 July 2014). "Chievo: Fairytale of the Flying Donkeys". Late Tackle. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
External links
- Official website. Archived 23 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine.