USD Novese
Italian football club
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Unione Sportiva Dilettantistica Novese is an Italian football club from Novi Ligure, Piedmont which plays in the Promozione Piedmont-Aosta Valley (Girone D), the sixth tier of Italian football. The club is best known for winning the 1921–22 Italian Football Championship.
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| Full name | Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Novese | ||
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| Founded | 1919 | ||
| Ground | Stadio Costante Girardengo,[1] Novi Ligure | ||
| Capacity | 3,500[1] | ||
| Chairman | Arturo Frattoni | ||
| Manager | Arturo Merlo | ||
| League | Promozione Piedmont-Aosta Valley (Girone D) | ||
| 2025-26 Promozione | 11th of 16 | ||
| Website | http://www.novesecalcio.it/ | ||
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Novese is the only Italian football team that has won a scudetto without playing a single season in Serie A or Serie 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 (FIGC) and the breakaway Confederazione Calcistica Italiana (CCI), who organised the 1921–22 Prima Divisione, which included the major clubs of Northern Italy at the time.[2][3]
Colors and badge
The team colors are white and light blue.
Honours
Domestic competitions
- Winners (1): 1921–22
Regional competitions
- Winners (2): 1920–21, 1953–54
- Winners (2): 1941–42, 1951–52
- 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
