FC Vado

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Vado

Full name	Football Club Vado
Founded	1913 1945 (reactivated)
Ground	Stadio Ferruccio Chittolina, Vado Ligure, Italy
Capacity	2,000[citation needed]
Chairman	Franco Tarabotto[citation needed]
Manager	Stefano Fresia[citation needed]
League	Serie D/A
2022–23	10th
Home colours Away colours

Vado Football Club 1913, better known as Vado, is an

The club plays in the Serie D championship and is best known for being the first team to win the Coppa Italia, in 1922 by beating Udinese in the final 1–0.^{[citation needed]}

History

On November 1, 1913, a group of members headed by Angelo Morixe agreed to establish a football club in the Savona area, the Vado Foot-Ball Club, with President Lino Pizzorno.^{[citation needed]} The social colors chosen for the association were red and blue^{[citation needed]}

The first pioneering^{[clarification needed]} club competitions were held in front of the Fumagalli factory and the old Vado Ligure railway station until the work for the Campo di Leo was completed.^{[citation needed]} Until 1919, the football activity of the club was linked to football events of various kinds, purely of a friendly nature; later, the team joined the FIGC and made its debut by participating in the regional Promozione, the second level of Italian football at the time.^{[citation needed]}

^[tone] In 1922, during the post-war period, the Ligurian company won the most important trophy in its history: the first edition of the Coppa Italia, beating Udinese 1–0 in the final, thanks to Felice Levratto's goal.^{[citation needed]} During this season, the team also won its own championship of competence, the Ligurian Promotion.^{[citation needed]}

Two years later, in 1924, Levratto participated in the Italian national team at the Paris Olympics.^{[citation needed]}

In 1925, Vado changed the playing field, moving to the Campo delle Traversine, which a few years later was renamed in the memory of Ferruccio Chittolina, goalkeeper of Vado, who died prematurely^{[vague][clarification needed]} in 1946 during an in-game accident while playing for Ligurian.^{[vague][clarification needed][citation needed]} From the second half of the 1920s until 1932, the Vado played in the Second Division, the third level, then the fourth of Italian football.^{[citation needed]} In 1932, he was rescued in the First Division.^{[vague][clarification needed][citation needed]} In 1935, with the new name of Associazione Calcio Vado, it failed to^[tone] gain admission to the new Serie C remaining in the First Division, and in the meantime, it was downgraded to the fourth level.^{[citation needed]} However, for the promotion in Serie C, only one year was expected, and remained there until 1940.^{[vague][clarification needed][citation needed]}

In 1940, Vado in fact^[tone] renounced to participate in the championship for serious economic problems;^{[vague][clarification needed]} in its place was a team of the Italian Youth of Littorio, which weaved^{[vague][clarification needed]} the athletes remaining in the city and enrolled in the First Division of Liguria the GIL of Vado for the 1940–41 season.^{[citation needed]} The team performed well^{[according to whom?]} in the championship, winning their group and finishing sixth in the final one.^{[vague][clarification needed][citation needed]} Then it disappeared, and only after the liberation from Nazi fascism the Vado Foot-Ball Club reconstituted in 1945.

In 1946, the team was officially admitted to Serie C, with the motivation of having been the winner of a national cup in the past, even though it reached only the fourth round of the First Division^{[citation needed]}

In 1967, the ground "Ferruccio Chittolina" was abandoned by the club that moved until 1978 in the Comunale di Quiliano.^{[vague][clarification needed][citation needed]} In 1976 the engineer Giovanni Ciarlo assumed the presidency of the Vado, and he himself^{[vague][clarification needed]} designed the new Ferruccio Chittolina Stadium, which, in 1978, became the new home of the Ligurian team's home matches.^{[citation needed]}

In 1992, after a friendly match with Udinese, the FIGC returned an exact copy of the trophy won 70 years ago, namely the Coppa Italia, which was sold for economic reasons in 1935 to the Vado club (in the meantime militant in Ligurian Excellence).^{[vague][clarification needed][citation needed]} disconnected from the club and correlated with the national war situation of the time. ^{[vague][clarification needed][citation needed]} The trophy is exhibited in Piazza Cavour in Vado Ligure, in the Banca Cassa Risparmio di Savona.^{[citation needed]}

Oscillations especially between sixth, fifth and fourth level championships mark the history of the club up to the present day.^{[citation needed]} In 2013-2014, the team celebrated its 100 years of activity, and on that occasion the Municipality dedicated a special exhibition to the club.^[1] In the sporting field,^{[vague][clarification needed]} the team again disputed^{[vague][clarification needed]} the Serie D (group A) after five seasons in which it was absent, committed to rescaling the levels^{[vague][clarification needed]} after the relegation of 2009 from Excellence to the Ligurian Promotion^{[citation needed]}

The team was promoted to Serie D for the 2019–20 Serie D season, and retained their league status despite finishing in the relegation zone after being readmitted for the 2020–21 Serie D season.^{[vague][clarification needed][citation needed]}

Stadium

Vado initially played its home games at the Campo di Leo, then moved to the new Campo delle Traversine in 1925, so called because it was built near the local train station, along the Genoa-Ventimiglia line^{[citation needed]} In 1978, the plant was named in memory of the Vadese goalkeeper Giuseppe "Ferruccio" Chittolina, who was seriously injured during Vado-Altarese match of 7 April 1946 and died in Savona a few days later.^{[citation needed]}

The stadium, which has been modernized several times,^[