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| 1985/86 |
| A complete change of players (under coach Carlo de Angelis), the most notable ones Balestro and Zanin. Saverio Garonzi dies tragically 18 May 1986, but the team go to play off with Bassano. They lose on a penalty shoot out in Brescia, but Bassano is condemned for bribing, and the Club is promoted to serie C2. The Under 18 win the Italian championship with coach Fausto Nosè. |
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| 1986/87 |
| Garonzi nephews, Bruno (Chairman) and Franco, inherit the Club. As a director joins Carlantonio Guglielmi. After 29 years, home ganmes move from Bottagisio to Verona stadium, Bentegodi. |
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| 1987/88 |
| De Angelis resigns, and new coach Pier Luigi Busatta hires Folli and Curti. Very good season until near the end, but no promotion. |
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| 1988/89 |
| Under new coach Gianni Bui, with new players Moretto and D?Angelo, a magnificent promotion is achieved. |
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| 1989/90 |
| Coach Gianni Bui strengthens the team, and the Coppa Italia semifinal is reached (But Lucchese win). The peak is an outstanding win 4-0 v Vicenza. |
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| 1990/91 |
| Luigi campedelli becomes Chairman. His first move is to call the Club ChievoVerona. Some players retire: captain Paolo Galli, Giovanni Sartori (who becomes assistano coach) and Gigi Perlina. Even if the team is strengthened, relegation is avoided only the last day. |
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| 1991/92 |
| De Angelis is the coach again. The season ends with Chievo 7th and winners of Coppa Disciplina (most correct team). Striker Riccardo Gori is best scorer in A group, Serie C1, with 13 goals. |
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| 1992/93 |
| Team pratically unchanged. Chairman Luigi campedelli dies by a heart attack the 15th September 1992.His elder son, Luca, takes his place. The final place is 7th. |
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| 1993/94 |
| Luca Campedelli, the youngest Chairmen in Italy, appoints Giovanni Sartori as Sports Director and Alberto Malesani as coach. The season (the first with 3 points for a win) has English style play offs. After a fantastic series (peak is win v Bologna in front of 13,000 ). The last match is in Carrara the 29 May, where Chievo pass from 1-0 down to 2-1 up and gain promotion to serie B. |
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| 1994/95 |
| Reinforced by many players, among which D?Anna and Zironelli, the team meet Juventus in a two leg Coppa Italia turn, draws 0-0 at home and lose 3-1 away. Relegation is avoided the penultimate day. First Verona derby ,12 December 1994, ends 1-1 in front of 30,000. Return match sees ChievoVerona win 3-1. Goalkeeper Zanin, strikers Gori and Curti leave the Club. |
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| 1995/96 |
| Young players Carparelli, Grabbi and Melis join the Club. Lazio win on penalty shoot out in Coppa Italia , while relegation is avoided only the last day. |
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| 1996/97 |
| Cerbone ,Lanna, Marazzina and Fiore join the team. The season is brilliant, promotion to serie a seems possible, but the final place is 6th. |
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| 1997/98 |
| New coach Silvio Baldini leads the team again near promotion. |
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| 1998/99 |
| Baldini (to Brescia) is substituted by Mimmo Caso, but poor results induce the board to call Lorenzo Balestro and Luciano Miani. A comfortable 11th place closes the season. |
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| 1999/2000 |
| The duo Balestro-Miani lead the team to 15th position, which means staying up. |
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| 2000/01 |
| Enter Luigi Del Neri, and the team, after a very brilliant season, obtains the historical promotion to Serie A, 2nd in the table with piacenza. Mathematical promotion is achieved 3 June 2001, beating Salernitana 2-0 in a full and exultant Bentegodi. |
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| 2001/02 |
| ChievoVerona becomes the football fairytale. Everybody talks about the fantastic result of this tiny quarter team. They play with no fear in front of the big Clubs. Tvs, radios and newspapers from all over the world send their journalists. And the initial surprise becomes an enduring reality: a fresh and attacking playing style who often pays, even though some negative results are clearly undeserved. It is the first season with a serie A Verona derby (lost the first undeservedly, won the second). Del Neri's team end 5th with 54 points after Juventus, Roma, Inter and Milan, conquering the access to Uefa Cup competition and just missing Champions League partecipations. |
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| 2002/03 |
| After the first, extraordinary season in serie A, ChievoVerona win a difficult challenge: they confirm to be one of the first teams in the Italian Championship. They are 7th in the final table and miss the qualification to Uefa Cup just losing the last unlucky match v Juventus. Anyway, it is another great season: that is confirmed by the 55 final points, one more in comparison with last year, and by the call of Perrotta and Legrottaglie in the National Team. Though the loss of important players such as Corradi, Manfredini and Marazzina and the arrival of new ones, ChievoVerona play in the same way: they're brave, always resolute to impose their game and to win. They conquer fans and supporters all over the world and attract the attention of national and international media, which follow their exploits with interesting and admiration. But nobody speaks more about "fairy-tale", as ChievoVerona has proved to be a reality: one of the most beautiful of Italian football. |
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| 2003/04 |
| ChievoVerona celebrate 2nd May 2004 their first 100 games in serie A. Giancarlo Fiumi, General Secretary for 20 years, retires and leaves his place to Corrado Di Taranto. Another historical "goodbye" is the one by "Icio" D'Angelo who - after 13 seasons and more then 300 matches with ChievoVerona - stops playing and enters the technical staff. With 44 points ChievoVerona ends 9th in the table, saying goodbye to coach Del Neri who leaves his place to Mario Beretta. Barzagli and Sculli win the European Championship with Under 21 National Team. |
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| 2004/05 |
| After 6 matches of their 4th season in serie A, with the new coach Mario Beretta, ChievoVerona are 3rd in the table after Juventus and Milan. Two of the best games are the first of the season, at Bentegodi vs Inter (2-2) and the win 1-0 vs Lazio at Olimpico. Other very good performances are the ones vs Juventus and Milan, even though Chievo lose. At the beginning of the 2nd part of the season, because of a series of injuries, ChievoVerona are in a difficult position in the table. After losing vs Fiorentina at Bentegodi they are 3rd from the bottom, so the Club decides to sack Mario Beretta and to entrust the team to the Assistant Coach Maurizio D?Angelo, who played for 13 seasons with ChievoVerona. Defeating Siena and Bologna, Chievo conquer important points to get safe in serie A. The last match is played at Olimpico vs Roma: the final draw means staying up in serie A and Chievo can celebrate together with over 500 supporters coming from Verona. |
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| 2005/06 |
| Led by coach Giuseppe Pillon, ChievoVerona face their 5th consecutive season in serie A, with three new main sponsors such us Cattolica Assicurazioni, Gruppo Ferroli and Banco Popolare di Verona e Novara, who for the 1st time replace Paluani on Chievo?s jerseys. It?s a great season: the team gets 13 wins, 'frightening' the big Clubs ? they defeat Milan and draw vs Juve ? and remaining in the first 7 places of the table all the season long.
After getting safe in serie A 11 matchdays in advance, Chievo try to obtain another target: the qualification in Uefa Cup. Target which they reach ? for the 2nd time in the history of the Club after the 1st year in serie A with coach Del Neri ? just 90 minutes before the end of the season, thanks to the draw away at Lecce. Another satisfaction for the Club comes from the National Team: Sammarco, Scurto and Mantovani are called for the final tournament of Under 21 European Championship, while Semioli gets a place as 7th midfielder of the National Team which is about to play the World Championship in Germany. A wonderful season, another great joy for the supporters: for them, Chievo made another dream come true. |
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| 2006/07 |
| The 2006 / 07 season is the sixth consecutive season for ChievoVerona in the highest series.
Having qualified for the UEFA Cup, the Club finds itself, after the ?calciopoli? penalties of Juventus, Milan, Lazio and Fiorentina, able to compete straight for a place in Champions League, a wide eyed dream for ChievoVerona supporters.
But the yellow blue Club coached by Mister Pillon loses the chance to enter the round robin stage because of the elimination suffered after the preliminary 2 leg matches v Bulgaria?s Levski Sofia.
Very bitter also the double match v the Portuguese Sporting Braga in the first UEFA Cup round, since the elimination comes only after extra time!
It is now time for the Italian championship, and the beginning is dramatic: five defeats and one draw in the first six matches mean the sacking of Mister Pillon, a very hurting decision for the Club, considering the very good results obtained by the coach from Treviso the previous season.
As a substitute Luigi Del Neri, ?historical? ChievoVerona coach, the one who led the Club to Serie A for the first time, is back.
But a long series of injuries of important players and many defeats decided in the last parts of matches indicate that this is not a lucky season.
The central part of the season is marked by ups and downs, and the results are often not up to the team good performances, and the players, even after a series of wins in the last period, find themselves to to play for stay up in the very last match of the season.
The last chance is v Catania, on Bologna neutral ground, a real challenge between two clubs fighting to stay in Serie A.
A draw would be enough for ChievoVerona, but the final result says 2 ? 0 for Catania, nothwithstanding more than 3,000 yellow blue supporters present there.
So ChievoVerona, after six unforgettable seasons in Serie A, is back to Serie B.
Bitterness is great, but the hope is that this is only a see you soon... |
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| Lun: | Training | | | Mar: | Training | | | Mer: | Friendly match | | | Gio: | Training | | | Ven: | Training | | | Sab: | Match Chievo vs Vicenza | | | Dom: | | |
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