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14 Dec Venezia at 119: From a tavern in Corte dell'Orso to football's most stylish orange, black and green
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Venezia was founded on 14 December 1907, in a small tavern in the city of canals. On 14 December 2026 it turns 119 years old. And it reaches its birthday as Serie B champion, back in the top flight. Born in a tavern The club was born in the "Da Nane" tavern, in Corte dell'Orso, near Campo San Bortolomio. There the football sections of two gymnastic..
09 Dec Newcastle United: How an 1892 Vote Led to the Black and White Stripes
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How many clubs can say they were born from a vote on a name? On 9 December 1892 Newcastle East End was renamed Newcastle United, to show that the city's football had finally come together under one roof. 134 years have passed since then, and Newcastle have become synonymous with one of the simplest and strongest shirts in football: the black and wh..
08 Dec Nacional Madeira at 116: Black and white from day one, a stop on Ronaldo's road
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On 8 December 1910 a group of young men in Funchal, Madeira, founded the club we now know as Nacional. The island team in the middle of the Atlantic turns 116 years old on 8 December 2026. It is also the team that a Madeiran boy named Cristiano Ronaldo once played for. A group of friends at Campo do Brás The founders were young men from Funchal who..
08 Dec Deportivo de La Coruña: 120 years from the Sala Calvet to the blue and white of Riazor
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On 8 December 1906 the football team of a gym in A Coruña played its first match, and that day became Deportivo's birthday. On 8 December 2026 "Depor" turns 120 years old. And it celebrates where it belongs: back in La Liga. A fencing gym gives birth to a team Football came to A Coruña through José María Abalo, a young man who had studied in Englan..
03 Dec Torino at 120: The mystery of the granata colour
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Few shirts in the world have such a distinctive colour as Torino's. It is not red, it is not burgundy: it is granata. Behind it lie legends, a city split in two and one of the greatest tragedies in sport. A beer hall and a "revolution" Torino was born on 3 December 1906, in the Voigt beer hall on Via Pietro Micca in Turin. There FC Torinese merged ..
02 Dec Go Ahead Eagles at 124: From Be Quick to the eagle of Deventer
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On 2 December 1902, in Deventer in the east of the Netherlands, a team with an English name was born: Be Quick. Today we call it Go Ahead Eagles, and on 2 December 2026 it turns 124 years old. It is a club with four early league titles, a Cup that arrived after 92 years of waiting and one of the warmest grounds in the country. From Be Quick to Go A..
30 Nov Udinese: 130 Years, a White Star and the Little Zebras of Friuli
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Udinese date their history to 30 November 1896, when the Società Udinese di Ginnastica e Scherma, a gymnastics and fencing society, was founded in Udine. This year therefore marks 130 years. It is one of Italy's oldest clubs and one of the few that wear black and white with no connection at all to Turin. Its story takes in a royal exhibition match,..
29 Nov Barcelona: An Advert, Eleven Players and the Blaugrana Mystery
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A small advert in a sports newspaper and a meeting of eleven people in a gym were enough for Barcelona to be born. It was 29 November 1899, and the club founded that day turns 127 this year. Along the way it became the symbol of an entire region, yet it never lost the two colours it chose in its first steps. This is a story best told through the sh..
29 Nov Iraklis: Thessaloniki's Elder turns 118 in the colours of the flag
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On 29 November 1908, in a Thessaloniki still under Ottoman rule, a group of Greeks voted on the first statute of a purely Greek gymnastics club. That meeting gave birth to Iraklis, the club the city respectfully calls the "Elder". This year the blue and whites celebrate 118 years, and we look back at their story through their shirt. The Music Lover..
25 Nov Notts County at 164: The club that dressed Juventus
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When you see Juventus' black and white stripes, you think of Turin. And yet their story begins in an industrial city in England, home of Notts County. Their shirt is much more than a piece of clothing: it is a piece of the birth of football itself. The oldest professional club in the world Notts County celebrates 1862 as its founding year, based on..
25 Nov OFI: 101 years of black-and-white Crete, from Yedi Kule to the Cup in Volos
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On 25 November 1925 a group of athletes in Heraklion laid the foundations of a club that would become the footballing symbol of Crete. Omilos Filathlon Irakliou, better known as OFI, now enters its second century: it celebrates 101 years, just a few months after a Greek Cup it had waited almost four decades for. Here is its story, told through the ..
21 Nov Aston Villa at 152: A Scottish Lion in Claret and Blue
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Few clubs in the world can say they helped give birth to professional football itself. Aston Villa is one of them. The club was founded on 21 November 1874 in Birmingham and this year marks 152 years of history. It was one of the teams that set up the world's first league, it conquered Europe in 1982, and it wears one of the most classic colour com..
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