FC Vado

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.^[] The social colors chosen for the association were red and blue^[]

The first pioneering^[] 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.^[] 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.^[]

^[] 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.^[] During this season, the team also won its own championship of competence, the Ligurian Promotion.^[]

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

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^[][] in 1946 during an in-game accident while playing for Ligurian.^[][][] 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.^[] In 1932, he was rescued in the First Division.^[][][] In 1935, with the new name of Associazione Calcio Vado, it failed to^[] gain admission to the new Serie C remaining in the First Division, and in the meantime, it was downgraded to the fourth level.^[] However, for the promotion in Serie C, only one year was expected, and remained there until 1940.^[][][]

In 1940, Vado in fact^[] renounced to participate in the championship for serious economic problems;^[][] in its place was a team of the Italian Youth of Littorio, which weaved^[][] the athletes remaining in the city and enrolled in the First Division of Liguria the GIL of Vado for the 1940–41 season.^[] The team performed well^[] in the championship, winning their group and finishing sixth in the final one.^[][][] 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^[]

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

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).^[][][] disconnected from the club and correlated with the national war situation of the time. ^[][][] The trophy is exhibited in Piazza Cavour in Vado Ligure, in the Banca Cassa Risparmio di Savona.^[]

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

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.^[][][]