Vatican_City_Championship

Vatican City Championship

Vatican City Championship

Association football league in Vatican City

The Vatican City Championship (Italian: Campionato della Città del Vaticano) is the top men's association football league of Vatican City. Founded in 1972 as the Coppa Amicizia, teams are composed of workers representing various state departments.[2] Teams are permitted to field an outside player from Italian amateur teams to play as goalkeeper,[3] and players combine to form the Vatican City national team for rare friendly matches.[4] The Vatican football association, Federazione Vaticanese Giuoco Calcio, is not a member of FIFA[5] and is overseen by its president Domenico Regards as of May 2014.[4] All matches are played at the Associazione Sportivo La Salle complex in Western Rome, although the larger Campo Cardinale Francis Joseph Spellman served as home until recently.[6] The league has amateur status with matches and training taking place outside of work hours. Matches take place on Mondays and Tuesdays.[7] Equipment and uniforms are occasionally donated by organizations and benefactors[8] with deficits being covered by the Vatican government.[9] The league takes place between October and May each year with a two-month break in December and January.

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History

The first organized football took place in the Vatican in 1947 when a four-team league was staged. The final that year was contested between Pontifical Villas and Fabbrica di San Pietro.[10][11] The league was suspended shortly after creation because of fierce competitiveness. Only friendly matches were allowed for the next two decades until another league was reformed in 1966. Seven teams competed during the first season with employees of L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, claiming the first championship.[12] The current league was founded as the Coppa Amicizia, later renamed the Campionato della Citta Vaticano, by Sergio Valci who was former president of the FA and a Vatican healthcare employee until his death in 2012.[1]

A secondary cup known as the Coppa ACDV was created in 1985. It was renamed the Coppa Sergio Valci in 1994. The Vatican Supercoppa began in 2005 and sees the winner of the Campionato della Citta Vaticano face the Coppa ACDV winners.[2][12]

Teams in the 2019–20 season

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Champions

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Top scorers

Season Team Scorer Goals Ref.
1973–2006 Unknown
2007 Musei Vaticani Alessandro Quarta [13]
2008 Cirioni-Fortitudo Corrado Rossi [14]
2009–2010 Unknown
2011 Dirseco Armando Goxhaj 15 [15]
2012–2014 Unknown
2015 Musei Vaticani Alessandro Quarta 19 [16]
2016 Fortitudo 2007/Pantheon Flaviano Sperati 20 [17]
2017 DirTel Armando Goxhaj 22 [18]
2018 Fortitudo 2007 Flaviano Sperati 16 [19]
2019 Dirseco Santo Morabito 20 [20]

Notable former players and coaches

See also

References

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    "Copa Vaticana 2018-2019" (PDF) (in Italian). Sport in Vaticano. Retrieved 2 July 2019.

Footnotes

  1. [N 1]
    Later renamed Musei Vaticani
  2. [N 2]
    Later renamed Gendarmeria

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