Chrizia Affittacamere is only a five-minute drive from the Novese Calcio Sports Club, which currently plays in the Promozione category.
Founded in 2016, it intends to resume the history of the Unione Sportiva Novese created in 1919, and counts the 1921-1922 season's scudetto in its palmarès, making it one of only three teams expressing a non-provincial capital town to have won an Italian championship (the other two are Casale, also from the province of Alessandria, and Pro Vercelli, whose home town was part of the province of Novara from 1859 to 1927). It is also, together with Pro Vercelli, one of the two Italian football clubs that won the Scudetto as newly promoted to the top division.
Abandoning the top flight in 1924, in the following decades Novese (in the meantime dissolved and refounded several times) never managed to participate in the single-round Serie A and Serie B, playing mainly in the national and regional amateur divisions.
In September 2016, the club was ousted from the Piedmont-Valle d'Aosta Eccellenza championship by virtue of the team's failure to show up for the first four matches of the season: this cost the club (by then de facto inactive for months and on the verge of bankruptcy) its removal from the federal rolls. In its place the Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Settore Giovanile Novese was founded, which after a year of only basic activities changed its name to the current one and proposed itself as the continuation of the biancoceleste sports tradition, starting again from the bottom of the Italian soccer pyramid.
The team's social colors are light blue and white. The appearance of the main uniform has experienced various stylistic solutions over the years;
throughout its long history Novese has adopted 3 different coats of arms the first was a Swiss shield divided diagonally into two cantons, one blue and the other white. In the light blue canton was imprinted the USN monogram (an acronym for the company name), while in the white space appeared the red-and-white cross, the civic heraldic emblem of Novi Ligure. It was also adopted in 2019 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the club's first founding.
The historically longest-lived and most representative social coat of arms, adopted later, consisted of a blue ancile crossed by a white diagonal band with the company name inscribed in gold lettering; in the upper part appeared the red-and-white cross of Novi Ligure, while in the lower part was affixed the tricolor shield celebrating the only national title won by the club, accompanied by the year of the victory (1922). This emblem was also occasionally declined with some variations in the details: inversion of the colors of the cross (traditionally red on the outside and white in the heart), affixing of the year of foundation (1919) alongside the cross itself, as well as the adoption of lighter or lighter shades for the blue background.
In 2013, the emblem was totally redesigned: the result was a white-white Swiss party shield, containing on the left the city cross, on the right the company name (arranged vertically, in white characters), the year of foundation written in black within a white rectangle, the shield accompanied by the year of victory and a five-pointed golden star (alluding to the gold star for sporting merit granted to Novese by CONI in 1970)
The 2016 re-foundation coincided with the introduction of a new badge, with a palatial white-and-white background, with the company name placed at the head and in prominence the design of the Novi Ligure castle tower, bearing the city's heraldic coat of arms on one side and the municipal motto In Novitate Vivam (“I will live in progress”) on another.
STADIUM
Novese built its first field in about 6 months on the Piazza d'Armi, inaugurating it on Sunday, June 5, 1920,[39] hosting and beating Casale 4-0[40] at the “Stadium.”
The field was thereafter always referred to as the “Field of Arms Square” and used until the end of the 1931-1932 season, that is, as long as the team remained in operation. After that the city field remained at the disposal of the local teams of ULIC and the Forza e Virtù Gymnastics Society (1892) until it was dismantled.
After the football club was reconstituted under the new name “Dopolavoro Aziendale Ilva,” in 1938 the city fascio set up a new sports field at the steel mill, and that for this reason the sports facility was named “Dopolavoro Aziendale Ilva field.”[41]
The field changed its name in 1945 with the abolition of the designations imposed by the fascist regime by deleting the word “dopolavoro”: therefore, it became the “Ilva sports field.”[42] The name of the field was changed to “Ilva sports field.”[42 Only later, and until 1966, with the merger in 1961 of Acciaierie di Cornigliano with ILVA, was the field named “Italsider field.”
In 1966, due to the inadequacy of the old field for both the Serie D and the Prima Categoria championship to which Novese had just been relegated, the Municipality of Novi Ligure decided to build a new 110x65 sized facility in Viale della Rimembranza equipping it with a 7,500-seat grandstand and naming it “Stadio Comunale.” The new stadium was inaugurated on September 11, 1966, with the friendly Novese-Genoa De Martino 1-2 after the initially planned match with the Hungarians MTK Budapest had fizzled out.[43]
It was not until Costante Girardengo's death in 1978 that the city administration decided to call it by its current name.
In 2016, following the non-renewal of the concession with the municipality (owner of the facility), the team opted to relocate to the CentoGrigio sports field in Alessandria, which, however, was never adopted de facto as a home field, as the first team did not play any official matches there.
source: wikipedia
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